Avocado Grower Solutions

For the panels and replanting units – there is really no competition out there.

If you’ve visited us in the past year, you’ve likely seen our experiment in action. We purchased 70 Opti-Harvest chambers for the 2022 growing season to see what they could do for our vines. We compared the performance of these chambers with blue ‘Grow Tubes” that capture and concentrate blue light and with our control section without any chambers. We quickly saw what the right kind of light can do for vine growth. By optimizing photosynthesis of the vines, our crops with the Opti-Harvest chambers showed 50% more vine growth than the controls. In addition to increasing vine yield, we noted an increase in disease and pest resistance.

I don’t want to call it an instant vine, but they have a vine that is well on its way to having the permanent parts in place, the structure that’s going to be enhanced by diameter growth, that day. And that’s remarkable. That’s fast. That’s cost savings right there.