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In this segment of the cultivation education series, Adam Jacques and Zacariah L. Hildenbrand delve into croptober and the complexities that arise with outdoor, hybrid, and indoor cannabis cultivation.

A look at how some cultivation methods are used to increase plant canopy penetrationfor indoor cannabis cultivation, increasing crop size while enhancing cannabinoid, terpene, and flavonoid production.

In continuation of our cultivation education series, Adam Jacques and Zacariah L. Hildenbrand, get to the root of the issue of experiencing an HLVd infestation and if anything can be done to salvage your crops.

This article emphasizes anthocyanin production in cannabis cultivation, focusing on how cultivators can leverage environmental conditions and advanced lighting technologies to enhance plant health, aesthetic qualities, and phytochemical content.

This article provides insights on the latest findings from academic researchers exploring the impacts of emerging technology on hemp grown for cannabidiol (CBD).

In this article, we dive deeper into the physical, cellular, and molecular adaptions that plants demonstrate in response to light intensity and spectrum.

How can greenhouse cultivators improve profitability by installing high-efficiency heating systems to reduce energy costs?

This column reviews a study published by cannabis industry design and construction professionals and describes the impact of energy regulations affecting heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system selection in cannabis production facilities.

This article provides insights into the opportunities involving the genetic modification of cannabis.

This column expresses how cannabis facilities that invest in RCx projects can enhance equipment reliability and worker safety, improve conditions for plant growth and development, increase canopy yields, and reduce maintenance costs.

A look at what epigenetics means, how other plant industries have used or studied them, and how that can be applied to cannabis to improve yields, plant genetics, and solve plant illness.

Casey Houweling, the inventor of the semi-closed greenhouse, explains how this greenhouse concept came about, the challenges he’s had developing it, and the potential it holds for the future of the cannabis industry.

Learn how having a firm understanding of how you plan to use your facility, what power options are available, and strong partners can guide you to the best solution which is critical to your bottom line.

When it comes to cannabis cultivation, growers have their own methods on how to get the best products from their plants. Through using different soils, irrigation practices, lighting, and other approaches, each item plays an important role in how the plant matures. In this interview, David Cohen, CEO of Fluence, discusses the rise in LED lighting methods and how it can be the best tool for the industry.

Learn about the diverse kinds of support cannabis growers can get from utilities and efficiency programs for efficient lighting, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), and controls approaches.

Learn how to bring efficiency concepts together to create circular cannabis systems.

Learn about the value of monitoring environmental conditions, how software platforms can analyze data and offer insights, and the ways growers can use data to optimize plant health and vitality.

Learn about the four major steps of integrated pest management (IPM) programs: setting action thresholds; monitoring and identification, prevention, and control; the various control methodologies; and how climate control systems both enable indoor cannabis cultivation and can manage pests like mold and mildew.

Learn about the major choices of substrate, their benefits and disadvantages, the ways watering volume and frequency are affected by substrate choice, and more.

Learn the ways light energy from different parts of the action spectrum can affect plant expression, harvest structure, and quality characteristics and how light-emitting diode light fixtures can be controlled to modulate light intensity and spectral distribution to produce different effects.

Learn the ways cannabis cultivation uses water as a resource, how to measure and benchmark the key performance indicators (KPIs) for water efficiency and productivity, and the benefits of monitoring, quantifying, and ranking KPIs for water.

Understand what information to gather for cultivation operations, which KPIs are important, and how to interpret a performance benchmark.

Learn tips about monitoring environmental conditions to further improve yields.

Let’s explore some options for growth substrates that are essential to the health of your plants.

Use the techniques described here to pass the state tests and ensure safe cannabis for consumers.

Here we identify the main sources of disease that could impact grow operations and best practices for clean cannabis.

Driven by the need to save energy and reduce operational costs, indoor growers are turning to alternative means of illuminating their cannabis crop. In more and more indoor grows, high-intensity discharge lamps (HIDs) are being swapped out for light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

A look at energy consumption in the cannabis industry and suggestions on how cultivator’s can reduce those costs.