Replies to post #366 on Alterras Systems Inc (fka ASIUQ)

[asinus asinum fricat]

Hi Dave the rave
Looks a good system but the picture is painted different on every page. a 40ft container with one third taken up by water tanks in the first picture. Then you show a picture of 11 set of trays and no water tanks. Which is the right system.
If trays are seven high in a container then the height is 96 ins so from the floor upwards this gives 13 ins height between layers so with the plant in the tray unless the plant is at the bottom of the tray you have not much room for planting or harvest. You say racks four high for germination but I understood that you had plants closer for germination than when planted out, with four racks high and only one how can you grow enough plants for the system.
So if I wanted to grow a head of lettuce to 8oz what would the spacing be and how many plants per system. Where and how do I germinate , what media do I grow in, How do I plant and harvest is this inside the container.

[asinus asinum fricat]

I have tried searching for Aqualogix and no luck so quite how you "Came across it " so one again assumes this is your own site or someone that you know. This system is no Different to many others, Including the terrasphere system a standing racking system that is irragated.We could put the VertiCrop into a container.The worring thing for me is the post from Mendicht about Dan Caiger Smith getting made redundant and others WHY who is doing work on the system now is Mr David Dicks one of these if so why has no announcment been made ? If this is so then we either need someone new onboard very quick but again someone new may not have done anything with Vertical or indoor growing.

But the point I was making was that Graham worked for Valcent and helped to design / redesign or at least helped in the installation of the VertiCrop at the Zoo. According to write ups and internet search on Graham and Valcent/ Micro herbs ect it all points to someone who knows growing and he worked for us and people credited him for a lot of the work on the VertiCrop. He also designed the Alphacrop system for Valcent, and according to his site he has other systems availeable so he must one assumes know his stuff, and then for some reason he left.
The referance to Verticalgrowing.co.uk was the one that he was looking for investors to build a system inside a warehouse. I was not thinking of investing any money or anything like that, I was thinking if we Valcent offered him a VertiCrop to install then it may be a win situation for both parties. First it would get a proffesional grower using one of our systems and secondly he could "improve , automate or whatever" our system needed. The publicity that Graham attracts is all positive news and press releases and lets face it Valcent need something.
This board is for Valcent shareholders to chat and swap views not a board to try and raise finance for companies. My View is that Valcent need something and he may bring it unless Bradford/ Fane have something up there sleves that they are not telling us about yet.