Fertigation Scheduling

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Optimizing Irrigation and Fertigation Scheduling with Leaf VPD Monitoring

What’s Leaf Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD)?
Leaf VPD is essential for understanding how plants manage water and nutrient intake, measuring the difference between the moisture inside the leaf and the surrounding air. Maintaining the right VPD helps ensure that your plants lose just the right amount of water through transpiration, creating an optimal balance for nutrient and water uptake during both irrigation and fertigation. By actively monitoring VPD, you can time these applications more precisely, improving the efficiency of nutrient delivery and ensuring plants are neither over- nor under-watered. This approach promotes strong, resilient growth, helping your crops reach their full potential.
How is Leaf VPD Measured?
Our sensors provide real-time leaf VPD data, making it easy to see when your plants are in their ideal moisture zone. The system continuously monitors air temperature and humidity, calculating VPD and alerting you when conditions are right or if adjustments are needed. With this information, you can time your irrigation and fertigation applications precisely, ensuring your plants receive water and nutrients when they can best absorb them.
How Can the Data Help You Make Decisions?
Leaf VPD monitoring is a powerful tool for optimizing irrigation and fertigation schedules. When VPD is in the ideal range—typically between 0.3 and 1.2 kPa, depending on temperature—plants are more receptive to both water and nutrients. By maintaining VPD within this range, you ensure plants are taking in just the right amount of moisture, maximizing the effectiveness of irrigation and nutrient delivery through fertigation. This targeted approach reduces waste, boosts nutrient uptake, and supports healthier growth, leading to better yields and more efficient resource use.
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What Are the Sensors Needed?
To effectively monitor Leaf VPD for irrigation and fertigation, growers should use the following sensors:

Leaf Wetness Sensors
This sensor tracks moisture on the leaf surface, helping you understand when your plants are stressed or out of balance.
Air Temperature and Humidity Sensors
This sensor continuously measures air temperature and humidity, providing the data needed to calculate VPD in real time.
What's Included in Your Subscription:
Our service offers everything you need for precise, dependable data and successful crop management. Start with our basic package at $8.99 per sensor/connection, including:

  • Dashboard Access with Advanced Analytics: Enjoy seamless access to your personalized dashboard designed for your specific crop, featuring advanced analytics that simplify data interpretation and provide valuable insights into your irrigation, nutrient management, and crop health.
  • Data Accuracy and Reliability: We manage and protect your data to ensure it remains accurate and reliable, providing you with the essential insights needed to support your crop goals and make informed decisions.
  • Customer Service: Our dedicated team is here to provide guidance and answer any questions you may have throughout the season. We’re committed to ensuring you have the assistance you need, so you can focus on your crops.

    • For additional support, you can enhance your subscription with these add-ons:

  • Training and Support ($10/month): Receive comprehensive training and ongoing assistance, including 1-on-1 personalized weekly meetings. This support helps you understand and effectively use data, adopt better data practices overall, and maximize the value of our system, empowering you to make informed decisions for your crops.
  • Sensor Repair and Replacement Service ($16/month): Our proactive monitoring ensures that any faulty sensors are quickly repaired or replaced. With our Sensor Repair and Replacement add-on, your sensors are insured, guaranteeing optimal performance and high uptime. If any issues arise, we’ll handle repairs or replacements promptly, ensuring a continuous flow of critical data for effective crop management.

With these flexible subscription options, you can begin with our basic package and expand with these add-ons as needed—allowing you to focus on what matters most: your crops.