PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cultivation apparatus and a cultivation method in which a burden of managing cultivation plants is made small, and an artificial error is hardly caused.SOLUTION: A cultivation apparatus (2) comprises: an image analysis part (22) which determines whether or not cultivation plants (23) is in a prescribed growth state or worse than the prescribed growth state on the basis of a detection result of an image sensor (17) and a main control part (18) which controls a growth environment forming apparatus so as to perform growth acceleration control in the case of the prescribed growth state and perform growth assistance control in the case where the growth state is worse than the prescribed growth state.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2COPYRIGHT: (C)2017,JPO&INPIT【課題】栽培植物の管理の負担が小さく、かつ人為的なミスが生じ難くする。【解決手段】栽培装置(2)は、画像センサ(17)の検出結果に基づき、栽培植物(23)が規定の生育状態か規定の生育状態よりも劣る状態かを判定する画像解析部(22)、規定の生育状態の場合に、生長促進制御を行い、規定の生育状態よりも劣る場合に、生長補助制御を行うように生育環境形成装置を制御する主制御部(18)を備える。【選択図】図2
