Multi-Variety Optimisation Enabled by Plant Feedback: FromBoer used Gardin's real-time photosynthesis sensors to fine-tune nutrient (EC) strategies across ten different lettuce varieties—something previously impossible without direct physiological insights from the plants themselves.
LED Strategy Redesign Saves €4,000/ha Annually: By using Gardin to monitor photosynthetic stress in response to lighting, FromBoer optimised their LED start-up strategy, reducing crop stress and cutting energy costs by €4,000 per hectare while improving productivity.
A New Era of Plant-Driven Growing: FromBoer's transition to plant-driven cultivation—using Gardin's insights to guide decisions—has led to faster responses, improved climate control, and higher yields, setting a new standard for precision horticulture.
4 Weeks Early Warning Indicates 5x ROI for Gardin Alerts
Early Detection Prevents Losses: Gardin's chlorophyll fluorescence sensors detect physiological stress up to 30 days before visual symptoms appear, enabling growers to take timely, low-cost corrective actions that preserve crop yield and quality.
Proven ROI in Production Conditions: In a Dutch strawberry trial, Gardin predicted a major decline in Class-1 fruit quality four weeks in advance, delivering a 5x return and payback in under 10 days.
Scalable Across Crops and Systems: Gardin's technology is crop-agnostic and greenhouse-ready, providing growers with a quantitative, automated platform to optimise cultivation, reduce waste, and maximise premium-grade output.
Light Stress Caused 10% Productivity Loss: During a high-light trial in April 2025, De Peelkroon opted for a no-shading strategy against Gardin's recommendations. While traditional indicators suggested strong plant performance, Gardin's sensor data revealed chronic light stress, reducing photosynthetic efficiency, impairing night-time recovery, and resulting in a 6% yield reduction over the month.
Real-Time Plant Feedback Exposed Strategy Risk: Gardin's chlorophyll fluorescence sensor provided early warnings of photosynthetic decline — insights that traditional climate metrics missed. When shading was reintroduced, plant health and night-time recovery improved, confirming that plant-centric feedback is essential for climate control decisions.
Data-Driven Shading Strategy Protects Yield: Modelling showed that limiting PPFD to 900 µmol/m²/s with shading would have increased total assimilate production, even in high-light conditions. Gardin's autonomous system empowers growers to move beyond short-term visual cues and make smarter, long-term decisions to maximise yield and protect crop quality.
Gardin Insights Deliver 14x ROI and 15% Yield Increase
15% Yield Increase During Winter Production: Gardin enabled Nature Fresh Farms to identify and resolve key inefficiencies in their strawberry greenhouses — optimising lighting strategies, correcting humidity deficits, and improving photosynthesis, resulting in a 12g/plant gain and 15% overall yield increase.
Real-Time Crop Steering Using Photosynthesis Data: By validating strong correlations between Gardin's photosynthesis metrics and plant productivity traits (e.g. fruit weight, leaf size, truss count), NFF used Gardin as a real-time proxy for yield efficiency to test and refine cultivation strategies.
Fast ROI and Reduced Operating Costs: Strategic changes informed by Gardin led to energy savings over 10% delivering a rapid return on investment within a single season.
Breakthrough in Remote Plant Feedback: Gardin enabled Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) to remotely monitor real-time photosynthetic efficiency inside vertical farms — critical in environments where human access is disruptive and traditional monitoring is infeasible. This plant-centric insight closed the gap between climate inputs and biological response, transforming recipe optimisation from guesswork into a data-driven process.
40% Yield Gains: Across basil, lettuce, and pak choi, Gardin-guided optimisation improved crop yields by 30 - 40% and significantly increased energy productivity (biomass per unit of electricity).
Novel Optimisation: Gardin's Bayesian learning approach reduced recipe development time from months to weeks, balancing maximum yield with commercial constraints such as height and quality. This unlocked a scalable, repeatable model for precision cultivation with strong return on investment.
Smart water savings: By integrating Gardin's phenotyping technology, Bayer developed optimised irrigation strategies that reduced water use by 25% compared to traditional schedules.
Maintained productivity: Despite using 25% less water, crops under optimised irrigation under drought achieved the same yield as well-watered controls and 15% higher yield compared to the equivalent drought treatment, demonstrating the effectiveness of sensor-guided water management.
Stress detection in action: The use of chlorophyll fluorescence enabled early detection of drought stress, allowing proactive adjustments before irreversible damage, avoiding the yield loss seen in drought-stressed plots.
