A first basil crop trial was conducted within the 'field lab vertical farming' in the Netherlands

A first crop trial has been carried out within the 'Fieldlab Vertical Farming'. A cultivation comparison was made between the production in a cell in the new Vertical Farm of Wageningen University Research in Bleiswijk with a cell at Delphy, also in Bleiswijk. The test was carried out with basil cv 'Edwina' on 13 centimeter pots. The differences turned out to be large. The cells are set with exactly the same light and climate settings and the cultivation is done according to the same recipes. After 4 weeks of cultivation, there were clear differences between the plants from the different cells, including in length and color. The challenge is to find the factors responsible for the differences found. To this end, the data collected with the various sensors is further analyzed. ...