An automatic houseplant watering device allowing the rate of water flow or nutrient solution flow, the duration of irrigation, the time of irrigation and the number of irrigations per day to be adjusted by the user. A programmable timer controls a solenoid valve which connects a reservoir to a water distributor. The gravity outflow of water or nutrient solution is transferred from the water distributor to the planters by small size hoses. The rate of water flow or nutrient solution flow to the planters can be adjusted using small valves attached to the end of hoses. A float control valve is used on the upper part of the reservoir to supply water to the reservoir.

A mushroom growing appliance includes a cabinet, a grow chamber defined within the cabinet, a water reservoir positioned within the grow chamber for receiving water, and a liquid droplet assembly fluidly coupled to the water reservoir for selectively generating a liquid mist from the water stored in the water reservoir.

A pot for cultivating a plant, including a planting area and a root guide channel extending between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and configured to guide the development of roots downstream of the planting area, said channel being accessible to the roots of a plant planted in the planting area, the channel winding around a guideline and making more than one revolution around said guideline between the inlet and the outlet.

A control space operating system. The system includes a control space with one or more data source zones and a control space manager. The control space manager can collect data and control different variables across different data source zones in order to determine optimal policies and conditions for data source growth and generation.

An irrigation assembly includes a main manifold having a main channel for conveying fluid and branch irrigation lines stemming from the main manifold. Each irrigation line conveys fluid from the main channel, and includes openings for emitting the fluid. A tower conveyance system includes a track for carrying double-sided grow towers, and a reversing mechanism for receiving the towers at a return end, and repositioning the towers so that a leading edge of the towers received by the reversing mechanism becomes a trailing edge when the reversing mechanism moves the towers to a forward end.

A control space operating system The system includes a control space with one or more data source zones and a control space manager. The control space manager can collect data and control different variables across different data source zones in order to determine optimal policies and conditions for data source growth and generation.

Systems and methods for irrigating a target (e.g., soil) are provided. An equilibrium for system liquid out and system air in may be achieved until an absorber mechanism of the system gets wet and transitions for blocking the flow of air through a gas conduit of the system and into an accumulation space of the system, such that there may no longer be an equilibrium and pressure down on the liquid may no longer be applied, such that a liquid outlet valve of the system may close and stop dispensing liquid from the accumulation space of the system.

A hydroponic growing method and systems includes receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors disposed about or around the growing system and comparing the sensor data against standard operating data protocols for operating conditions within the growing system. The growing method and system further detects if an operational risk exists based on the comparison of the sensor data and if the operational safety risk is detected, modify at least one of the plurality of growing components. The growing system may include a cabinet structure along with one or more processing devices.

A rotatable, electric powered self-contained vertical plant housing and watering apparatus including an elongated plant-housing tower having a closed first end, a second end, a hollow interior, and a plurality of removable plant plug-supporting cups extending outward from a sidewall of the tower, a water column supported within the hollow interior of the tower in a fixed condition and running from proximal to the first end to the second end of the tower, a self-contained water basin connected to the second end of the tower and supporting the tower in a rotatably upright condition, a water pump located within the basin and pushing fluid within the basin up the water column for fluid distribution within the tower, and a motor driving a rotation of tower about the water column to provide all sides of the tower with equal sun and shade time.

A plant watering system (10) includes: a plurality of containers (12) for containing plant growing medium and plants (20); a conduit (16) defining an outlet ((18) for, in use, conveying water along the conduit and discharging water via the conduit outlet; a regulator (22) for regulating the flow of water along the conduit; a scale (14) associated with one of the containers for determining the weight of the associated container; a controller (24) that controls the regulator, thereby to vary the flow of water along the conduit in response to the container weight determined by the scale; and means for moving the conduit outlet across the plurality of containers, in use to provide water to the plurality of containers.