Live with The Connect in Sacramento!

The Office Hours team hit the road for their second-ever in-person broadcast! Jason, Seth, Kaisha, and producer Chris headed down to SacTown to join our friends The Connect to cultivate conversation – and the growmies came through! From the relationship between EC and runoff, to the ins and outs of why the TEROS ONE is such a game-changer, to key takeaways from a bad harvest, and much more, it was the ultimate community event and we were thrilled to be there!

A few of our favorite quotes from the night:

TEROS ONE vs TEROS 12

“The real big advantage of it is that TEROS ONE is going to be more accurate, and this is going to be especially important when we get into lower water content. So when we see water contents in that less than 20% range, sometimes less than 25% range, every once in a while, we'll see those ECs start to really climb up. And some of that's basically a side effect of the TEROS 12 just trying to basically estimate what those eECs are. It's still been the best sensor on the market for the time being. And like most people that are very determined, the best keeps getting better.” 

– Jason

Using EC To Estimate Runoff

“I think the first place to start there for me usually is making sure that I'm hydrating my media properly and getting a good runoff reading. If I'm putting water on really quickly just to try to get some liquid to go through the media, I'm not letting that homogenize in the substrate and I'm not letting any pH buffering happen, any real nutrient exchange. So everything's just channeling through at that point. So it's going to be more representative of my feed than what's in the EC of the block. “ 

– Seth

Learning From A Bad Harvest

“Don't beat yourself up unless you don't put the work in to figure out what your mistake was. If you put the work in to figure out your mistake, it was a learning opportunity. And, yeah, it probably cost you, but now you know how to avoid that next time. Maybe it's something in your facility you need to upgrade so that it could be more reliable. Your life can be more stable. Maybe it's a decision that you made that you know you probably won't make again.” 

– Jason