Good for them, I guess. I can't shake the feeling that much of this research will be locked up by patents though. I would be surprised if not - it's how they pay for this stuff.
The, "anecdotal bullshit", comment seemed a bit touchy. Jealous maybe? Just because the experiment was conducted in a, "basement", doesn't make it anecdotal. The best growers and breeders have been at this a long time now. So many hybrids out there. The best of them are quite familiar - sought after even and it took a lot of work to get them just right. I think it would also surprise them to see one of these so called basements. So far as it seems, the old folks are doing very well against these would be giants.
...if they were smarter still, they would bring them in. I'd like to see what the old school people could do with one of these multimillion dollar setups.
Oh well, they'll figure it out too. I'll be there, mason jars ready, when they do.
Well, who knows what the youngsters will come up with... some of it could be good, perhaps. At least one thing is certain for me, so far: these new LEDs are great! Less cost for the same amount of light, significantly longer lifetime, no cycle time (instant on, instant off), and with the fluorescent tube style the heat output is so negligable you could hold your bare skin against it for hours and never burn anything at all - yet the light is there nevertheless, and the plants just love it. Truly a major advance in plant growth technology, that's for sure.
Yeah, it's definitely going to be interesting to see what innovations are going to happen after July 2018. Aside from LED lighting, I think plant monitoring systems using things like Raspberry Pi and Arduino - or even premade boxes with a proprietary app - are going to become a lot more common at the consumer level. As for the universities and the big commercial side, watch the chem labs for R&D on extracts. A bunch of LPs are making massive expansions, and I would wager that the majority that sungrown cannabis is going into extract production for edibles and concentrates,and that only higher grade flowers will continue to be grown under lights.
Making a big deal about publishing papers in journals seems to be the "pics or it didn't happen" of the science community. I hope we don't wind up seeing a lot of high speed reinventions of the wheel in the short term.
If the guys that have been doing it forever have clean enough records that would be a great idea. If you have been busted in the last 5 or 10 years you can't even trim for an LP. They are making the industry much too hard to get into.
They are making the industry much too hard to get into.
Just wait until the big thirty-fold 'recreational' market increase comes through next summer - then they'll start negotiating with some temp agencies, likely. Because they're going to have to do something to meet the huge increase in production, that's for sure.
Does the same kind of restriction apply to consultants? Hopefully some of the better ones out there have had a chance to get involved with the legal market. I wonder about the breeding side of things. From the outside it looks like the LPs are more concerned about mass producing commercial clone lines more than anything else.
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Good for them, I guess. I can't shake the feeling that much of this research will be locked up by patents though. I would be surprised if not - it's how they pay for this stuff.
The, "anecdotal bullshit", comment seemed a bit touchy. Jealous maybe? Just because the experiment was conducted in a, "basement", doesn't make it anecdotal. The best growers and breeders have been at this a long time now. So many hybrids out there. The best of them are quite familiar - sought after even and it took a lot of work to get them just right. I think it would also surprise them to see one of these so called basements. So far as it seems, the old folks are doing very well against these would be giants.
...if they were smarter still, they would bring them in. I'd like to see what the old school people could do with one of these multimillion dollar setups.
Oh well, they'll figure it out too. I'll be there, mason jars ready, when they do.
There goes our competitive edge.... :-\
Hah! Sorry man. For what it's worth, if the back doors stay open, I'll stay right where I am. It's nice back here. Such lovely gardens.
Well, who knows what the youngsters will come up with... some of it could be good, perhaps. At least one thing is certain for me, so far: these new LEDs are great! Less cost for the same amount of light, significantly longer lifetime, no cycle time (instant on, instant off), and with the fluorescent tube style the heat output is so negligable you could hold your bare skin against it for hours and never burn anything at all - yet the light is there nevertheless, and the plants just love it. Truly a major advance in plant growth technology, that's for sure.
Yeah, it's definitely going to be interesting to see what innovations are going to happen after July 2018. Aside from LED lighting, I think plant monitoring systems using things like Raspberry Pi and Arduino - or even premade boxes with a proprietary app - are going to become a lot more common at the consumer level. As for the universities and the big commercial side, watch the chem labs for R&D on extracts. A bunch of LPs are making massive expansions, and I would wager that the majority that sungrown cannabis is going into extract production for edibles and concentrates,and that only higher grade flowers will continue to be grown under lights.
Making a big deal about publishing papers in journals seems to be the "pics or it didn't happen" of the science community. I hope we don't wind up seeing a lot of high speed reinventions of the wheel in the short term.
If the guys that have been doing it forever have clean enough records that would be a great idea. If you have been busted in the last 5 or 10 years you can't even trim for an LP. They are making the industry much too hard to get into.
Just wait until the big thirty-fold 'recreational' market increase comes through next summer - then they'll start negotiating with some temp agencies, likely. Because they're going to have to do something to meet the huge increase in production, that's for sure.
Training people with no exsperince because it is illegal to hire exsperienced people.
As far as they'd ever give a damn? As long as Health Canada doesn't shut them down, it doesn't have to make sense - only dollars.
Don't worry - I'm pretty sure they'll be looking. Just hang on with the temp agencies, and keep waiting.
Does the same kind of restriction apply to consultants? Hopefully some of the better ones out there have had a chance to get involved with the legal market. I wonder about the breeding side of things. From the outside it looks like the LPs are more concerned about mass producing commercial clone lines more than anything else.
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