Medical Cannabis Equipment Manufacturer Launches the “iPad of Pot”
GrowOp Technology, the nation’s first medical marijuana-friendly hydroponics manufacturing company, announced today that it has officially launched its line of hi-tech digital environmental controllers for indoor and urban agriculture.
Oakland, CA (PRWEB) December 02, 2011
GrowOp Technology, the nation’s first medical marijuana-friendly hydroponics manufacturing company, announced today that it has officially launched its line of hi-tech digital environmental controllers for indoor and urban agriculture.
“Managing a large scale indoor cultivation effort is a time consuming and tedious process, fraught with significant opportunities for error. Automation is a core focus for GrowOp and our tools help significantly increase productivity and yields while reducing the margin for error,” said Derek Peterson, CEO and founder of GrowOp Tech.
GrowOp’s Lineup includes everything needed to manage large scale indoor farms from its ‘Chrono’ timers to its crown jewel the ‘Atmos D1’. These devices are designed to streamline indoor cultivation by automating and monitoring most of the key components associated with indoor gardening. Simply plug into your computer via a USB cable and program your temperature, C02 and other settings according to your personal specifications.
These systems are completely customizable to control everything from humidity levels, lighting sequences, and C02 levels with absolute precision utilizing patented infrared/NDIR technology.
“As more cultivation moves indoors urban farmers need a new set of tools to regulate and manage these operations. The global population is growing exponentially forcing us to seek out and adopt alternative methods for food production. Indoor, vertical, and greenhouse cultivation are potential answers to many of our existing agricultural limitations, and the development of technologies like these are paramount in its success,” suggests Russell Winnett, COO and lead design engineer of GrowOp Tech.
These controllers, combined with the high-tech indoor hydro and aeroponic systems that GrowOp manufactures are poised to become the plows and tractors of this new paradigm of cultivation technology.
“Farming is going both urban as well as vertical and tools like these are going to be the staples of this new city-centric approach to agriculture,” said Peterson.
GrowOp Technology is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary “The Marijuana Gold Rush” premiering on December 2nd.
About GrowOp
GrowOp Technology is the first honest hydroponics manufacturer, distributing products that line the shelves of retailers across the US, Canada and Europe. GrowOp was the original manufacturer of the large-scale mobile hydroponic grow rooms, the “Big Bud” and “little Bud”.
For more information, please visit http://www.growopltd.com
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GrowOp Technology Ltd
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Medical Cannabis Equipment Manufacturer Launches the “iPad of Pot”
GrowOp Technology, the nation’s first medical marijuana-friendly hydroponics manufacturing company, announced today that it has officially launched its line of hi-tech digital environmental controllers for indoor and urban agriculture.
Oakland, CA (PRWEB) December 02, 2011
GrowOp Technology, the nation’s first medical marijuana-friendly hydroponics manufacturing company, announced today that it has officially launched its line of hi-tech digital environmental controllers for indoor and urban agriculture.
“Managing a large scale indoor cultivation effort is a time consuming and tedious process, fraught with significant opportunities for error. Automation is a core focus for GrowOp and our tools help significantly increase productivity and yields while reducing the margin for error,” said Derek Peterson, CEO and founder of GrowOp Tech.
GrowOp’s Lineup includes everything needed to manage large scale indoor farms from its ‘Chrono’ timers to its crown jewel the ‘Atmos D1’. These devices are designed to streamline indoor cultivation by automating and monitoring most of the key components associated with indoor gardening. Simply plug into your computer via a USB cable and program your temperature, C02 and other settings according to your personal specifications.
These systems are completely customizable to control everything from humidity levels, lighting sequences, and C02 levels with absolute precision utilizing patented infrared/NDIR technology.
“As more cultivation moves indoors urban farmers need a new set of tools to regulate and manage these operations. The global population is growing exponentially forcing us to seek out and adopt alternative methods for food production. Indoor, vertical, and greenhouse cultivation are potential answers to many of our existing agricultural limitations, and the development of technologies like these are paramount in its success,” suggests Russell Winnett, COO and lead design engineer of GrowOp Tech.
These controllers, combined with the high-tech indoor hydro and aeroponic systems that GrowOp manufactures are poised to become the plows and tractors of this new paradigm of cultivation technology.
“Farming is going both urban as well as vertical and tools like these are going to be the staples of this new city-centric approach to agriculture,” said Peterson.
GrowOp Technology is featured in National Geographic’s new documentary “The Marijuana Gold Rush” premiering on December 2nd.
About GrowOp
GrowOp Technology is the first honest hydroponics manufacturer, distributing products that line the shelves of retailers across the US, Canada and Europe. GrowOp was the original manufacturer of the large-scale mobile hydroponic grow rooms, the “Big Bud” and “little Bud”.
For more information, please visit http://www.growopltd.com
Media Relations:
855-447-6967 ext 1
media(at)growopltd(dot)com
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derek Peterson
GrowOp Technology Ltd
855-447-6967
Email Information
Rihanna grows her own?????
- By Stacey King, Sep 22, 2011
That’s the only explanation we can think of for pop megastar Rihanna‘s decision to appear on the front cover of a magazine aimed at hydroponics enthusiasts.
Rosebud magazine has an interview with the smoking (hot) singer in its current issue – in which she discusses what sort of flower she would be if she were a bloom (a “rebel flower”, in case you wondered).
If you don’t know what hydroponics is – it involves growing plants using mineral solutions instead of soil – and is often conducted secretively in confined spaces such as lofts and cupboards.
Yes, we are talking about growing weed, in case you still hadn’t got it.
And Rihanna isn’t the first star to appear on the front of the rather specialist magazine. Brad Pitt (a man known to have enjoyed a toke or three in the past) has been a previous cover star too.
There was no word on whether Ri-Ri got any green for doing the interview however.
NORML Womens Alliance Appreciates a New Approach to Advertising
Hi Everyone,
I thought I’d share something with you that made me smile. In the upcoming issue of High Times, you’ll find an advertisement from Grow-Op Technology Ltd. with this tagline “While most companies use fancy graphics and scantily clad women to push their products… recent studies show that 9 out of 10 hydroponic buyers prefer cute puppies.” (their bolds) And pictured is an adorable Golden Retriever puppy. The ad is attached if you’d like to see it.
I’m glad that advertisers are using humor (and dogs) to push product, it shows more creativity. And I’m glad that a business has chosen to comment on the sexism in the marijuana industry—hopefully this ad will get a lot of notice and further more discussions about this issue. I have a background in design and advertising, and when I see companies using sex to sell marijuana, it strikes me as lazy. There’s much better ways to market products in this industry, and I am glad we are seeing an example of it now.
If you are unhappy with the portrayal of women in advertisements or the costumes at tradeshows, please reach out to the companies who commissioned the ads or hired the models and let them know. Many businesses are responsive to customer complaints. Likewise, if you enjoyed the Grow-Op Tech “puppy” ad, reach out and let them know—I’d be happy to see more puppies in the pages of HT!
Thank you,
Elise McDonough
West Coast Design & Production Director at HIGH TIMES
THANK YOU ELISE FOR RECOGNIZING HOW WE ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THE INDUSTRY!!!!!!
Oakland to host nation’s 1st marijuana street fair
Oakland to host nation’s 1st marijuana street fair
Matthai Kuruvila, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, September 2, 2011
Oakland – Oakland has stayed at the forefront of the cannabis legalization movement, with advocates and city government working hand in hand for more than 15 years.
Now, folks will finally get the chance to light up outside City Hall. Legally, that is.
A cannabis street fair touted as the first in the nation is set for this weekend, featuring speakers, music, booths and vendors. But perhaps the most unusual attraction will be the “215 area,” a designated spot directly in front of City Hall where those with a valid medical cannabis card will be able to ingest, smoke or vaporize their pot. There will be devices to help folks make their own hash, a marijuana derivative. The open-air lounge, so to speak, is believed to be the first of its kind in the country.
The “215″ in the name is a reference to Proposition 215, the 1996 state ballot measure that legalized personal use of medical marijuana.
“Patients need to take their medicine when they need to,” said Kim Cue, a Berkeley resident who is chief executive of the International Cannabis & Hemp Expo, which starts Saturday at noon. “Being a patient myself, that’s something that’s mandatory.”
In the years since voters approved Prop. 215, Oakland has increasingly found itself at the forefront of a fight to test the limits of the law. The city is believed by Oakland’s elected officials and cannabis activists to be the first in the nation to license dispensaries. A battle with the federal government involving an early cannabis-buying cooperative in Oakland went to the Supreme Court in 2001 – which the dispensary lost. City voters in 2004 passed Measure Z, making possession of small amounts of pot the lowest priority for police. Underground pot clubs have been operating ever since. In 2009, Oakland voters passed a measure to tax and regulate cannabis businesses – the first such tax in the country.
The city also has an array of cannabis-related businesses, particularly in a section of downtown known as Oaksterdam. The city’s pot identity is something the expo’s promoters, as well as locals, want to tout.
“Oakland needs to be the tourist destination for cannabis,” said Salwa Ibrahim, who handles government relations for Oaksterdam University, which trains students for the industry. “We felt like a street fair for the cannabis industry would help solidify that.”
The university alone has some 2,000 students a year, more than half of whom come from out of state. The cannabis expo has been held the past two years at the Cow Palace, but a state moratorium on drug use in state facilities nixed a return, Cue said.
Oakland’s two-day event will close off the area bounded by Broadway, Clay Street, 14th Street and 16th Street, including Frank Ogawa Plaza. Only adults will be allowed inside, and there will be a single point of entry, Ibrahim said. Tickets start at $20. Organizers expect at least 20,000 people.
For Richard Lee, the founder of Oaksterdam University and the owner of one of the city’s four dispensaries, the street fair represents a bit of a milestone.
From a time when marijuana use was on the fringe of society just a decade ago, it’s moved to the mainstream. Politicians no longer fear being associated with it.
“It shows that Oakland sees that cannabis can be taxed and regulated and incorporated into the rest of society,” Lee said. “We’re just one of many battlegrounds in a very big war.”
E-mail Matthai Kuruvila at mkuruvila@sfchronicle.com.
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The CannaBoom!
State Rep. Kelly Alexander, D-Mecklenburg, recently introduced a bill (H 577) that would, if passed, allow physicians in North Carolina to recommend medical marijuana to their very sick and debilitated patients, if the physician thinks it is the best course of treatment.
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