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At a recent American Society of Plasticulture and Greenhouse Conference in Tucson, AZ, comments after seeing
a 10,000 strawberry plant greenhouse with a vertical hydroponic
system:"
Good show, very impressive!" Retired Professor from Cornell University"
This is something to get excited about!" Extension Educator in Maryland"
I want to display one of your vertical gardens in our upcoming open house." Research Extension Professor atthe U. of New Hampshire
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This system has to replace certain types of conventional agriculture!" Conference attendee"
Just think what you could do in a larger greenhouse with better environmental control!" Grower in California"
This was a pleasant surprise. The most exciting part of the greenhouse tour!" Conference attendee on the tour."
The vertical system will make many other hydroponic systems obsolete!" Hydroponic distributor from Canada"
Just think what this system will do for the "U Pick" operations in the East!" Conference attendeeAnd from the owner of the greenhouse:
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I made many mistakes, but I am very excited. I have put very little effort into it but it has great potential! I sellfor $24.00 per flat ($2.00/pint) and my cost is minimal. No labor, no packaging, so shipping, and very few
losses. I want to sell hobby units and expand into lettuce and herbs!
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I can’t wait for the next season to apply all I have learned this year. I’m turning away too many customers!"Grower in Florida with a 28,000 plant ‘U Pick’ operation
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I want to put up ‘Pick Your Own’ operations all over Florida, in fact, all over the U.S.!" Customer"
This is my second year growing outdoors with the system. Last year I wasn’t convinced- this year I am! I amgoing to expand as soon as possible
" Grower in Florida"
The vertical growing system is one of the most practical and economical hydroponic growing systems we have evertested in our 17 year history. That’s why we chose to put it on display in our greenhouse!
" Nutritionist atWalt Disney World, Epcot- "Living with the Land"
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So far I have produced 5 times as many Ivy cuttings as previously in our standard hanging basket system!"Foliage plant grower in Apopka
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I have never seen a fern tree like that! It’s got to be eight feet tall and four feet across? I want to grow them thatway commercially!
" Boston fern grower in Apopka"
I have been growing New Guinea impatiens all my life and I’ve never seen a tower of flowering impatiens likethat!
" Visitor to our Epcot Flower and Garden display"
I wish I had thought of that, it’s so simple and so practical!" Nurseryman at the Florida Nurseryman’sAssociation show in Orlando
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I am going to change my whole basil production system to vertical." Herb grower in Florida"
I had to see it to believe it. Do you realize what you have here?!" Tomato grower in south Florida"
The ladies fight over our strawberries at the market. We sell ours in 2 hours every Saturday morning!" Growerin Iowa
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We now use straight organic coconut fiber for all our strawberries. The taste is incredible!" Grower in Montana"
Tim, you have to come see my strawberry plants in your vertical growing system, and bring your camera!!"Grower in Texas
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Your portable garden idea for reselling strawberry plants is a super idea. This will help us realize much moreprofit and we can use the idea for other plants as well!
" Grower in North Carolina"
What a fantastic idea! It will change the way we grow lettuce and strawberries in the Middle East. When I sawthe article in the American Vegetable Grower I said it had to be Tim Carpenter to come up with this type of
product!
" Grower in the United Arab EmiratesThese types of comment are common when hobbyists, researchers and commercial growers see the vertical
growing system for the first time. One school teacher commented that "
this has to be the system for teachingpurposes
".A commercial lettuce and tomato grower said "
I have tried every system for lettuce and herbs—this beats themall. It is so easy to set up and costs less than any other system I’ve tried. I now grow over a dozen different types of
lettuce and herbs in the same greenhouse. I can harvest one stack or 10 stacks at a time!
"From a researcher at the USDA lab in West Virginia, "
the vertical growing system works very well for filteringtrout effluent while supplying an organic nutrient for strawberries, lettuce and herbs!
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The above types of comments are common. No other hydroponic system is so easy to sell. In fact, it sells itself,mostly by referral
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