The Biotron has 25 air conditioned Greenhouse rooms that are about 3 meters by 4 meters in size. These rooms are capable of maintaining a temperature with less than one degree of variation. Because the rooms are air conditioned instead of ventilated, we can operate them at elevated carbon dioxide levels, and can prevent the release of pathogens and pests such as gypsy moth. Each of the rooms has RO water available, and the Biotron staff will supply half-strength Hoagland solution for use in the automatic watering system. In addition, most of the rooms have supplemental lighting from high pressure sodium lamps.
The picture shows Arvid Lekies, our greenhouse manager, working in one of the rooms.
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