For our final session of 2024 the team dressed up in their holiday best and got right to Q&A – covering everything from whether Z-terps are taking over and the challenges of balancing market trends with introducing new favorites to the world, to dialing in veg and gen strategies, using tech to grow knowledge, and so much more!
Team AROYA thanks you all so much for supporting the podcast! Enjoy these choice quotes, and see you in 2025!
“A good metric is going to be how much light penetration you're seeing, right? So under canopy lighting levels. And for me, the best way to know what that is is looking at a percentage of what we're getting on top of our canopy. If you're not using under canopy lighting, we're going to see that number typically decrease until we're. We've gotten down to the lowest part of the canopy. As far as what the ideal number for that is going to be really dependent on their strain, unfortunately.” – Jason
“So with generative, we're reaching water content, trying to hold out till the next day, going for a 22-23 hour dryback. With vegetative, we're pulsing it more throughout the day…The plants respond in different ways. Mainly though, what they're responding to is those number of irrigations you're putting on while keeping it in an acceptable saturation zone. So the whole goal is to be able to drive a particular strategy at any point in the plant's life cycle that you want to be able to apply it.” – Seth
“Most of us have security cameras in these rooms anyways….Typically it's not going to take any more hardware, just get it set up. So one of your security cameras, most of the time they're IP cameras, it's piped into a feed that you can just do a time-lapse photography. If you can watch a whole grow cycle in two or three minutes, it's going to give you the ability to make some very visual comparisons without putting a lot of labor forward into journaling or documentation type of stuff.” – Jason