Horticulture Heating & Chilling

Benefits

Temperature control is critical for the well being of plants, increased growth and thus an increase in produce and profit. However, root zone temperature, space temperature, hydroponics, Hydronics, ventilation, air circulation and water temperature are all critical areas that farms need to consider when assessing any particular solution.

Effects of Temperature

Temperature is an important and potentially limiting factor in growing plants in any hydroponic or NFT System.

• Low Root Temperatures can hamper water and Nutrient uptake by roots.
• High Root Temperatures can unduly stress plants and damage root systems.
• Highly variable root zone temperatures severely stress plants. Even more than just a cold or hot root zone. Because of this, it is more important to control root zone temperatures.
• Ideal Temperatures do vary from plant to plant. It is important to research your plant being grown, before engaging a temperature control system.
• Water temperatures around 22^oC to 26^oC  are a relatively safe guide and will have amazing benefits – shorten germination times and speed up the growth of seedlings.

After understanding your plant’s requirements, a Toyesi Trident Farm Fresh heat pump solution truly can assist you in creating the optimum growth temperatures with huge potential plant growth and yields.

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Cool Season Vegetables:

Grow best when temperatures are between 10-20 degrees Celsius or even lower. They include broad beans, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, onions, peas, spinach and turnips.

Intermediate Season Vegetables:

These are best between temperatures of 15-25 degrees. Include beetroot, carrot, parsnip, celery, leek, lettuce, radish and silverbeet.

Warm Season vegetables:

Are grown best when temperatures are above 20 degrees C. Include: Beans, capsicum, eggplant, potato, sweet corn, sweet potato, tomato and cucurbits (including cucumbers, zucchini and pumpkins etc.)

So to extend the seasons is to control or mimic the temperature and light conditions of the seasons that the plants grow best in. Heating the roots, and controlling ambient temperatures is one of the best ways to achieve this.

Why Toyesi

Toyesi’s Trident Farm Fresh smart heat pumps are designed to manage true reverse-cycle temperature control so that you can meet the needs of plant root health and ideal optimum temperatures.

• Australian designed & Australian made since 1989.
• Easy to operate, economical to run & serviceable for life.
• Built-in Sydney, but designed so that your local specialist can install, maintain and service our equipment keeping down-times to a minimum.
• Preset temperatures – set and forget and the heat pump does the rest.
• Readily available local parts meaning NO long waits for overseas parts to arrive.
• We work with industry specialists to ensure a turnkey solution where possible.
• We listen, we learn we improve with you and for you.

PCVER and other Transthermal Energy Management Solutions

The PCVER System can be used as a stand-alone system within smaller greenhouses or stacked with other systems or other PCVER systems. The advantage of stacking the Toyesi PCVER system is that it will reduce the overall heating requirements of the greenhouse and reduce wasted ventilated heat energy, captured for later use.

The PCVER Greenhouse System has several key functions and options.

• Horticultural designed heat pump
• Dehumidification
• Clean condensate water for reuse
• Improved ventilation and airflow
• Energy capture, storage and recovery
• Green option and Energy savings – lower footprint
• Temperature control
• Hydroponic water temperature control
• Disease susceptibility reduction
• Reduce overall running cost
• Optional Benefits – Root zone heating, floor heating, hydroponic heating, Radiant space heating, Aquaponic water heating and cooling

So if you have a project where you think we can help, feel free to drop a line or follow the links below to find out more.