Creating rows when manually planted

[jimcowan]

Hi all. I have been looking for a solution to a situation that I would not call critical, but more “nice to have”. I have a Genesis 1.5 that I purchased about 4 years ago. Love it and use it extensively. Similar to others who have reported some issues with having the Farmbot plant smaller seeds (lettuce in this case), I have resorted to manually planting rows of lettuce on defined coordinates (Row #1 runs from X=200, Y=50 to X=200, Y=1200…Row #2 X=400, T=50 to X=400, Y=1200, etc). I have a watering routing set up that waters in rows and that is woking well for me. What I would like to be able to do is tell the Farmbot what I have planted and where (Row #1 is Buttercrunch leaf lettuce, Row #2 is Oak leaf lettuce, etc…). This way I can track the age of the crop by row and make sure that Farmbot does not try to identify some of my lettuce as weeds!..Again, this is not a make or break thing for me, but would be very helpful (especially if I could plant and identify 2 different varieties in the same row. Partial row each.). I am not giving up on planing individual seeds with FB, but I don’t see the point if I have to watch it plant each seed so this method works for me at this point. Would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions. Regards, Jim

[jsimmonds]

Hi @jimcowan
In the Web App Farm Designer Points tab, Add Point menu, you could use Add Grid or Row to match your actual manual plant layout, then add new Point Group(s) to eventually hold your different lettuce types.
After that use a small piece of Lua code to iterate over each of those new Point Groups to change pointer_type from GenericPointer to Plant and then add the desired plant attributes.

Edit: I have not tried this and the FB Web App Release Notes which describe the Grid planting Feature would be the best first reference

Edit: @jimcowan as usuaI I missed the obvious
Go to Plants → + → choose your OpenFarm plant → <press>  [+ GRID] button