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Artificial Tree: temporary support for vegetation establishment.

In 2020, I launched the Artificial Tree as my own idea and began developing it as a startup.

The starting question was how dry, degraded land could receive water delivery, shade and pioneer planting at the same time. The early concept combined a tree-shaped support structure with a water reservoir, planting pockets, a shading crown and a technology intended to be removable later.

Home-built prototypes, plant-growing trials and startup work.

The project did not remain a presentation: physical structures, plant-growing experiments, hand drawings and 3D models were produced.

Documented trials included lettuce, mint, beans, peas and courgette. Materials prepared for the Start Programme and demo day gave the idea a business and social direction. These trials show that individual elements were physically built; they do not yet prove the water efficiency of the complete system in controlled arid field conditions.

Seedie: a business built around hydroponic systems.

When the Artificial Tree startup did not take off, I did not abandon the goal. In 2023, I opened Seedie, a shop selling hydroponic systems.

The plan was to raise development capital through my own commercial work. Seedie offered home and multi-level hydroponic systems, grow lighting, nutrients and real working plant-growing installations.

The shop gave me direct experience of what happens when an environmental idea meets real users: what people understand, what they can operate at home, and which systems become too complex or expensive.

Photo archive: Seedie – My shop · Google Drive ↗

Less machinery, nature-compatible materials and smaller, measurable units.

The current plans no longer aim to leave a permanent steel-and-plastic tower in the landscape. Every component should be justified, testable and, where possible, removable or compatible with the intended environmental end state.

Each version responds to weaknesses in the previous one. V2 clarified passive water delivery and shading. V3 separated construction from biological treatment. V4 narrowed the focus to Hungary’s Homokhátság and simplified the geometry into a low regeneration island that one person could install.

Evidence boundary: V2–V4 are currently engineering and ecological hypotheses. They are not validated regeneration technologies without water-release, freeze–thaw, material-safety and controlled field tests.