Welcome back to Office Hours Live! This week, we dove into the power of data and how it shapes modern cultivation. From dialing in nutrient management and fine-tuning environmental parameters, to adapting practices for indoor vs. outdoor grows, our conversation was all about enhancing plant health and maximizing yields. We took a deep look at root zone management—because, let’s face it, happy roots mean happy plants!
Here are some of our favorite quotes from the week:
Hot takes on carbon-based nutrients and CO2
“I guess if you have low CO2 levels, it might be a really great way to get those carbon molecules to the plant. However, when we are in supplemented CO2 areas, we're typically getting enough carbon from the environment. It's easy for the plant to access that. When we're at 1,200 or 1,000 ppm or more, there's way more than sufficient CO2 molecules available. So if get a carbon based nutrient, you’re probably just buying something you don't need. You’re already getting it from carbon supplements in the environment.”
— Seth
“One thing to really consider about your feed is that, you know, there are ideal and unideal temperature zones for your feed EC solution. If you keep, you know, your solution in a space that's really warm, for example, you're going to have less dissolved oxygen in that solution before it gets fed to your plants. That is something to watch and ideally, I mean, personally, I like to keep mine down around 65 or so if I can help it in terms of my feed temperature.”
— Cian
“There's two sides to this coin. Obviously we do see advantageous mutations in certain types of plants that overcome more difficult situations. That being said, we also do see advantageous effects of breeding crops in their production environments as well. A lot of times if we end up breeding in a different environment, we see a significantly different response than we would in the production environment that that genetic is intended to be sold and produced in. So I don't know that there is a right answer for this one.
— Jason