Articles

Field notes from the grow room and the model.

What we're learning while instrumenting commercial cultivation — written for operators, head growers and the people who sign off on the numbers.

Environment6 min

VPD drift is a scheduling problem, not a sensor problem

Most rooms don't lose control because the equipment failed. They lose it because nobody was watching the hour the load changed. Here's how to catch it a day early.

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Yield8 min

Why the same strain gives you two different harvests

Genetics get the credit and the blame. In practice, most of the variance we measure traces back to three controllable inputs — and none of them is the cultivar.

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Quality5 min

Turning 'this one's fire' into a specification

Master growers can pick the top batch by feel. Scoring structure, density and terpene expression makes that judgement repeatable across rooms and crews.

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Compliance4 min

Compliance should be a by-product, not a project

If your compliance record is reconstructed at the end of the week, it's a liability. When capture happens at the task, the audit trail writes itself.

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Operations7 min

The real cost of a clipboard

We timed data capture across four facilities. The paper wasn't the expensive part — the decisions made without it were.

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AI9 min

What a per-farm model actually learns

A general cannabis model knows the average. Your model knows your rooms, your genetics, your crew and your water. That difference is the whole product.

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