Growing Romaine Vertical Hydroponics
5 weeks of growth with our romaine lettuce 🥬 These where propagated for 3 weeks and then put into the hydroponic system 2 weeks ago💧
u/DanishVerticalFarmer — 9 days ago
r/verticalfarming
Our greenhouse became a homelab: ESP32 control loop, AI planner on Gemma4 and vLLM (proxmox), public telemetry
My son and I have been building Verdify, a real greenhouse control/telemetry project in Colorado.
The homelab angle:
- ESP32 firmware owns the equipment control loop
- telemetry is collected and scored
- dashboards expose climate/resource state
- an AI planning layer running locally on Gemma4 (proxmox host, vLLM) proposes bounded tunables above the controller
- a dispatcher validates/clamps those tunables
- the site publishes plans, scorecards, costs, failures, and known limits
The AI does not flip relays. It proposes parameters. Firmware controls the equipment.
The practical goal is to keep the greenhouse closer to plant requirements while using water, electricity, and gas more intelligently.
Project: https://verdify.ai/
GitHub: https://github.com/jrvallery/verdify
Video overview: https://youtu.be/deMuvwIcYLk
u/jvallery — 12 days ago