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🎄 🟢 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 🔴 🎄 Step.ag team wishes you happy holidays and a Happy 2025! Growing together is the only way forward! #Step #StepbyStep #Happy #New #Year #2025

🌿 De-leafing and its importance🌿 De-leafing is an important parameter that needs to be finetuned according to #Radiation levels ☀️ and #Plant development stage 🍅 ! By de-leafing optimally: 🎯 Fruit temperature increases, decreasing the harvest time 🎯 Decreasing the risk of disease pressure Step.ag #Step #StepbyStep #PlantBalance #Deleafing #Diseasepressure #Harvesttime

Our Sweet Pepper update: From 🟩 to 🟨 ! During the darkest 🌒 period of the year, our crops are growing optimally. Sweet peppers (#Capsicum) break their color from green to yellow. The labor force is fully prepared to harvest the fruits on time, even if the light is limited during this time of the year. Tip ‼️ Keep an open canopy to direct sunlight to accelerate fruit ripening and therefore harvest. Step.ag #Step #StepbyStep #SweetPeppers #Capsicum #Color #Green #Yellow #Harvest

🙏 1️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 🙏 We at Step.ag would like to thank you for supporting us in reaching the 1000 followers. Our passion for Controlled Environment Agriculture #CEA and most importantly supporting greenhouses around the globe to be more #profitable and more #sustainable resulted in this idea. Main goal ⁉️ Support and raise awareness about the latest #CEA and #Horticulture insights. 🍅🥒🫑🍆 🥬 🍓 Up to the next milestone 🥂 #Step #Stepbystep #CEA #Horticulture #Tomato #Cucumber #BellPeppers #Eggplants #Lettuce #DataDrivenGrowing

🍅 Fruit cracking: How to anticipate ❔❕ Fruit #cracking is a common issue influencing fruit quality and production. How can we decrease the number of fruits susceptible to cracking? 1️⃣ Check frequently the nutrition recipe 🧬 , since calcium needs to be enough to be able to create strong cells 2️⃣ Ensure #plantactivity 💨 to keep #transpiration and hence water and nutrient uptake optimal 3️⃣ Adjust irrigation 💧 to avoid #root #pressure 🗜️ These 3 tips would be sufficient to ensure high-quality fruit production! Step.ag #Step #Stepbystep #FruitCracking #Quality #Tomatoes #Production #Nutrition #Transpiration #Irrigation

🫑 Sweet pepper: follow-up update🌱 During the previous week, we shared the first content focusing on sweet pepper (#Capsicum) production. As mentioned the main #tip for optimum production and #PlantBalance is the proper distribution of sugars 🟩. To achieve this, fruit pruning ✂️ is essential. After following this strategy is visible that fruit quality is excellent next to plant growth and development. You want to know more? Let us know about your challenges in the comments below 👇 . Step.ag #Step #StepbyStep #SweetPepper #Capsicum #PlantBalance #Thrivingcrop #Trustthenumbers #DataDrivenGrowing

🫑 Sweet peppers 🫑 Here is an update for the beginning of the season on our sweet pepper plants (#Capsicum #annuum). Sweet pepper plants are directly connected and heavily affected by the assimilate balance. Some varieties can be self-regulating their plant load, hence aborting when assimilates #sugars ⬜ are not sufficient while others cannot. A miscalculation of assimilates can lead to #fruit #abortion 🚮 , resulting in production loss. An essential tip, is to remove flowers in the beginning of the season, to establish an optimal #balance ⚖️ for your plants, roots and fruits! Step.ag #StepbyStep #Step #SweetPepper #Capsicum #Assimilates #Tip #Flowers #PlantBalance

🫗 The "law of the minimum" 🫗 In the previous posts, we have discussed the essence of collecting #Climate 🌡️ , #Irrigation 💧 , and #Nutrient 🧪 #Data 🔢 . This needs to be taken into account in accordance with the law of the minimum! Shortly, this law, founded during the 19th century, explains that if one parameter is limited (for example, #Potassium (K)), even if the rest of the elements are being provided into the plant in #optimum levels, still the process of #Photosynthesis ☀️ will be limited. The conclusion of this post is to always keep an eye in all parameters in order to manage and optimize your #PlantBalance 🌱 ! Step.ag #Step #StepbyStep #LimitingFactor #Climate #Irrigation #Nutrition #DataDrivenGrowing

🌱 Our plants are thriving 🫡 Focusing on #PlantBalance, at the beginning of the season, our main priority was establishing an excellent #root system that would support the plants for the complete crop cycle. Now, it's the time to focus more and more on plants and their balance. By establishing the optimal #climate conditions we manage to maximize #Photosynthesis. These factors are: 1)Temperature🌡️ 2) Humidity💧 3) Light💡 4) CO2🟩 The following steps are to understand the plant's #needs and react accordingly. For now, we'll let them thrive under the ☀️ sunny conditions! #Step #StepbyStep #Photosynthesis #PlantBalance #Climate #Temperature #Humidity #Light #CO2

☀️ Do you measure light? if yes, what is the unit that you use ❓ The most important factor accelerating #Photosynthesis 🟩 is light. Light can be measured using different units. Some of them are: 1) #Lux (lx) or #Lumen (lm) 2) #Radiation (Watt/m2) or #Radiation sum (Joules/cm2) 3) #Photosynthetic #Active #Radiation (#PAR) (micromoles/m2.s) In the photo below you can see the main differences between the different light sources in the #wavelength (200 to 900 nm). Using a #PAR sensor you can measure the light between 400 to 700 nm, which is the light that plants 🪴 use for photosynthesis. #Step #StepbyStep #Photosynthesis #Light #Radiation #PAR #Wavelength #DataDrivenGrowing