Author: Eric Klamer
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Three Questions I Asked My Software This Morning. Total Cost: $4.13.
Three questions from my own grow: an IPM lookup, a yield review, and a two-week work schedule. The $4.13 describes those AI requests, not the subscription price.
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How Tight Is Your Equipment Control? The Hidden Cost of Temperature Swings in Commercial Flower Rooms
You check your controller. It reads 78°F. Everything looks fine. But that 78°F is a snapshot. Over the last 24 hours, your room told a different story. Your AC cycled on and off hundreds of times. Each cycle pushed the room through a 4-8°F swing. Your lights cut at midnight and the temperature crashed 10°F…
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METRC Is for the State. Growgoyle Is for You.
I’ve onboarded a lot of cannabis growers at this point. And there’s a moment that keeps repeating. I’ll ask something simple: “When did you flip this room?” And there’s a pause. Then they open METRC. Two separate commercial operators did this in the same week. Both running real facilities with real teams, both experienced, both…
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Cannabis Batch Analysis: What Your Harvest Data Is Trying to Tell You
Every commercial cannabis harvest ends the same way. The room gets chopped, the plants get hung, the dry weight gets recorded. And then the next run starts. Maybe there’s a quick conversation: “That one was pretty good” or “Room 3 was light this time.” The number gets written down somewhere. And that’s it. The 30-minute…
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Cannabis VPD Chart: The Complete Guide to Vapor Pressure Deficit
If you’re managing a commercial grow room by relative humidity alone, you’re flying with half the instrument panel dark. Relative humidity tells you about the air. VPD tells you about the plant. VPD combines temperature and humidity into a measure of evaporative demand. For a quick starting point, established veg often sits around 0.8–1.2 kPa…
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Cannabis Climate Control: The Complete Guide to Grow Room Environment
Your genetics don’t change between runs. Your nutrients don’t change between runs. Your lights don’t change between runs. But your yields do. The variable almost every time? Environment. Climate control isn’t a checkbox on a facility build-out list. It’s the single biggest factor separating a 2.5 lb/light average from a 3.5 lb/light average. And the…
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Cannabis Post-Harvest Optimization: The Complete Guide to Drying, Trimming, and Preserving Quality
Every cannabis operation obsesses over flower. Genetics, environment, nutrients, training, light intensity. All of it matters. But here’s what the data consistently shows: the two weeks after harvest are where 10 to 20% of your crop’s value can quietly disappear. Overdried flower. Sloppy trim. Inconsistent cure. These aren’t dramatic blowups. They’re slow leaks that show…
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Michigan Cannabis Market Q3 2026: Prices, Licenses, and What Operators Need to Know
July 2026 Michigan adult-use sales reached $270.54 million. See the CRA retail-price and license data, Treasury’s Q3 wholesale benchmark, and what each number means for cultivators.
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Cannabis Grow Room Optimization: The 5 KPIs That Actually Matter
Review five commercial grow KPIs: yield per light, cost per pound, consistency, canopy fill, and labor hours. Find the next question worth investigating.
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Cannabis Batch Tracking: From Spreadsheets to AI Analysis
Keep the state record accurate, then build the operating record your team needs: crop timing, work, observations, and harvest results you can compare.