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Travis Higginbotham is the new Director of Cultivation Support for Fluence. Prior to working at Fluence, he worked at a state of the art environmentally controlled greenhouse covering 50 acres where he was the head of research and development. They grew annual and perennial crops for big-box retailers supplying the NE united states. His focus was on rearing beneficial insects, IPM protocols, disease testing, and trialing new genetics from around the world. He recently received his Master's in Horticulture from Virginia Tech. This resulted in equipping irrigation booms with lights for photoperiodic flowering applications to a controlled environment which propagated...

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Our guests this week are Travis Williams and Travis Higginbotham. Travis Williams has spent the last decade in the high-tech industry focusing on better forms of efficiency, sustainability, and productivity via clean-energy, embedded technology, and most recently, controlled environment agriculture. He joined Fluence (then BML Horticulture) in 2015 and has helped shape the company’s product lineup, research, customer service, and overall brand to help growers navigate the challenging and complex world of horticulture lighting to realize improvements in crop production, sustainability, and profits through LED technology.   Travis Higginbotham is the new director of Cultivation Support for Fluence. Prior to...

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What is the future of cannabis cultivation? Jaya Palmer and I explore some of the latest advancements in the industry around lighting technology, photo biology, organic certification, genetic drift in cannabis, predatory insects, as well as what is going on with some of the largest cannabis companies in North America.   Show Notes: Correction - Tim Wilson (former guest on the podcast) holds the claim to being the first cannabis supplier with Certified Organic produce in Canada dating back to 1997 when supplying the BC Compassion Club. He had a certified organic farm that grew several medicinal herb species, one of...

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David Bernard Perron is the Head Grower and Agrologist at the Whistler Medical Marijuana Corporation in Canada. They are the only fully certified organic licensed producer in North America. David has a Master of Science in Plant Sciences and drops a ton of knowledge and experience in this podcast! Transcript Tad: Welcome to the Cannabis Cultivation and Science podcast, I'm your host Tad Hussey of KIS Organics, this is the podcast where we discuss the cutting edge of organic growing from a science-based perspective and draw on top experts from around the industry to share their wisdom and knowledge. Our...

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