
Everyone can design a farm for a specific plant mix and get valuable growing tips for each plant.

















Give Ceres 10 seconds to update your unit system.

Water temperature and light duration affect plant growth. Set these parameters.
Growlight duration can be set from 6 to 18 hours daily. Ceres computes the plant additional growth rate and therefore decrease the area and number of plants required in your farm. It is recommended to give the plants at least 6 hours of dark per day for cell regeneration.
Water temperature significantly affects plant growth. While air temperature may fluctuate by over 10°C in a day, water temperature changes by only 1°C. Measure the temperature in a nearby large pond or swimming pool to determine this average. The optimum water temperature for lettuce is 15°C and 21°C (60°F and 70°F), with 18°C to 20°C (65°F to 68°F) being ideal. Maintaining this range ensures high dissolved oxygen levels, prevents root rot, and prevents fowering.

Define the farm length (FL) and width (FW).
Adjust:
• The width of your growbeds (GBW)
• The width of the growing board (GAW)
• The width of the walkways between lines (WW)
• The width of the side walkways (SW)
• The width of the walkways at the end of the lines (EW)
Ceres advises the suitable number and length of the lines, and provides the growing area.


Ceres offers a selection of over 50 plants grouped into five families.
Ceres also gives you detailed information related to growing each plant in aquaponics.
Batch small plants include:
• Lettuce: batavia, butterhead, green coral,red coral, green oak, red oak, cos/romaine, frilice, and iceberg,
• vegetables: baby kan lan, pak choy, cabbage, and morning glory
Uo to six different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Germination and nursery efficiency are proposed but can be adjusted.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.

Continous small plants include rocket arugula, mizuna, spinach, and watercress.
Up to three different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
The growing plan includes a non productive vegetative period and a productive period.
New plants are prepared an put in the farm while the older plant is still producing, but for some plants there may be a non-productive transition period.

Cooking herbs include chives, parsley, rosemary, mint, thyme, and sage.
Up to four different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.

Midsize plants include chili, bell pepper, kale, celery, basil, coriander, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, okra, and edamame.
Up to three different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
The growing plan includes a non productive vegetative period and a productive period.
New plants are prepared an put in the farm while the older plant is still producing, but for some plants there may be a non-productive transition period.

Tall plants include cherry tomato, tomato, cucumber, bitter gourd, squash, eggplant, green beans, pumpkin, melon, watermelon, cannabis vegetative, and cannabis flowering
Up to three different plants can be added to the production schedule.
Enter the required quantities for each selected plant
Adjust the suggested sales price for your market.
Ceres computes the growth plan, the required growing area, and the revenue associated to each plant.
The growing plan includes a non productive vegetative period and a productive period.
New plants are prepared an put in the farm while the older plant is still producing, but for some plants there may be a non-productive transition period.

Ceres provides detailed aquaponics process information for each plant.

With the Area-to-Crop module, the allocated and remaining area available information are displayed before each plant section.

Select the farm width (FW).
Adjust:
• The width of your growbeds (GBW)
• The width of the growing board (GAW)
• The width of the walkways between lines (WW)
• The width of the side walkways (SW)
• The width of the walkways at the end of the lines (EW)
Ceres advises the number of lines, line length, and farm length..
Adjust the walkway width between lines for optimal side walkway width.


Ceres computes the mineral requirements for each of your selected crops and advises on mineral requirements for your farm. The minerals released by the fish food is also computed.
Ceres suggests additional supplements if needed.

Ceres computes the fish food and fish requirements, and propose a number and size of fish tank. You can adjust these paramaters, as well as the fish tank height. The water level is 20cm below the top of the fish tank.
Ceres provides the fish weight per tank.
Assuming you have 4 fish tanks, you will harvest in the “big fish” tank as necessary during a quarter of the fish lifetime. Then you will replace the fish in this tank with small fingerlings. The next tank becomes you “harvesting tank.
Ceres recommends a feeding rate per tank, based on the fish age, and therefore food consumption.
Ceres will give you an alarm if the quantity of fish per tank is too high.

To maintain an continous production, you will seed weekly.
Ceres provides the optimum seeding plan for you desired production.

Ceres finally computes a summary of your farm monthly plant and fish production, and associated revenue.


