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Nate Storey: Hey, this is Nate Storey with Bright Agrotech and today I’m gonna talk
about spacing plants in your ZipGrow towers. So a lot of folks have questions about, uh,
what the spacing is, uh, in ZipGrow towers for your various plants. So what I typically
recommend is basically just crop spacing, okay. So, uh, whatever the … Or standard
crop spacing. Whatever the seed, uh, whatever the seed packet tells you to space, that's
what I would recommend spacing. So for bok choy, most of the time, it’s about six inches,
right. So, uh, these seedlings will space out at
six inches and, um, you know, we’ll end up with, uh, around eight, nine, maybe 10
plants per tower and that’s fairly standard across the board. So, just about, um, most
– most crops, whether they’re greens or herbs, most crops will like that six-inch
spacing. So that's really what I would recommend, um, for these types of crops. Um, basil, we
usually do six to eight inches and, uh, there’s a lot of other crops, uh, that we’ll go
a little bit wider on if they’re kind of big and bulky. But, by in large, that six-inch
spacing works quite well. So at the end of the day, spacing in ZipGrow
towers is really pretty simple. Just follow the directions on the packet for a row. But
the thing to keep in mind is that, you know, your larger statured crops, if you’re gonna
let em get really big, you want to space em out a little bit more. You wanna be a little
bit more generous with your spacing because they’re gonna get really big. And if they
get really big and they’re spaced really tightly they’re gonna shade each other out.
So thing like, say, bok choy, which will easily grow a two or a three pound head if we let
it, um, if we’re growing it to that size we’re gonna space it out maybe eight inches
or maybe 10 inches between plants. Because otherwise you end up with a big head
that's kind of crunched and shaded out this little bitty head beneath it or beside it.
Um, same thing with basil, same thing with a lot of other crops that have the potential
to get pretty large. So, think carefully about what your goals are for the crop. You know,
do I want to let this get really big? Am I gonna sale a full size 10 inch head of lettuce
or am I just gonna grow out a little petite, you know, four to six inch head of lettuce?
Um, it’s totally up to you but kind of how you space it then just depends entirely on
what your goals for your crops are. You know, planting towers is fast and simple
and they’re really productive. So, if you’re not happy with how you space a certain crop
the first time around you can always come back to it down the road and the next time
you crop you can try spacing them tighter or spacing them further apart if you want.
Um, there's a lot of flexibility. There's no right or a wrong way to do it, it’s just
totally an issue of what you want to do with your towers and what you want to be growing,
um, and what – to what size. So, um, please check out, uh, the vertical
food blog for more information on this subject. And, uh, we also have, uh, quite a few resources
on our website, brightagrotech.com. We’re gonna try and get more resources up there
in the future to help people with issues like this.