Your plants deserve more than a windowsill.

'Red Rubin' basil grown on a windowsill: leaves mostly green with purple veinsWindow light≈100 PPFD
'Red Rubin' basil grown under the TerraSens light: leaves deep purpleTerraSens light≈500 PPFD
Specimen 01 · Ocimum basilicum 'Red Rubin'Day 38

TerraSens is a grow light for indoor plants: five times the light of a windowsill, without the purple glare of typical grow lamps. Designed and made in Croatia.

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The light comes from specially selected LEDs: deep red plus warm-white full spectrum. PPFD (photosynthetic photon flux density) measures how much of the light plants use for photosynthesis actually reaches the leaf, in µmol per m² per second. Measured at leaf height with the Photone app.

Same cultivar. Same pot. The light did this.

Hypothesis 01

'Red Rubin' basil only shows its deep purple under strong light. We're testing whether the selected LEDs and their arrangement in TerraSens deliver enough of it, on a kitchen shelf, with no greenhouse.

Next result

02'Purple Ball' basil

First lampsQ1 2027

Grow tests · in progress

Three plants that can't fake the right light.

We picked plants that show straight away when the light is wrong. Every test result is published here.

  1. 01
    'Red Rubin' basil under the TerraSens light

    'Red Rubin' basil

    Ocimum basilicum 'Red Rubin'

    Turns deep purple only with enough light. At ≈100 PPFD it stays green with purple veins; at ≈500 it goes dark.

    Result published

    Read result 01 →
  2. 02
    Coming soonPhoto with the result

    'Purple Ball' basil

    Ocimum basilicum 'Purple Ball'

    Grows as a tight purple globe. Under weak light it stretches, falls apart and loses its colour.

    Sown 9/23/2026

    Result · mid-November

  3. 03
    Coming soonPhoto with the result

    'Prairie Fire' chili

    Capsicum annuum 'Prairie Fire'

    Needs a lot of light to set fruit indoors. Our hardest test.

    Result · December

The idea behind TerraSens

European, from the beech down to the soil.

TerraSens is not an import with a logo stuck on it. The lamp is designed, milled and assembled in Croatia, inside the European Union.

Every material is chosen twice: once for how it performs, once for what it leaves behind. Certified beech, a linseed-oil finish with no solvents, milled aluminium instead of moulded plastic, organic soil and organic feed for the plants we test on.

Certification is part of the design, not paperwork added at the end. That is the whole point: European design, European manufacturing, and an origin you can check for every part of it.

Bill of origin

Beech

European beech from controlled, sustainably managed forestry.

Finish

Rubio Monocoat, linseed-oil based: no solvents, 0% VOC.

Heatsink

Milled and anodised aluminium, sourced in Croatia. Not moulded plastic.

Soil

BioBizz — organic, no synthetic additives.

Feed

Organic fertiliser only.

Made in

Designed, machined and assembled in Croatia, EU.

Standards this build targets
  • EU

    Designed and manufactured in the European Union.

  • CE

    Conformity assessment before the first unit ships.

  • RoHS

    RoHS

    Electronics without restricted substances.

  • PEFC

    PEFC

    Beech from a PEFC-certified chain of custody.

These are the standards the design is built to. The signed declarations follow before the first lamps ship.

Grow tests

Follow every test, from seed to result.

The first lamps arrive in Q1 2027. Followers see the design first and get the result of every test: one email per test.

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