🤖 Substrate Reactivity, Deciphering EC Readings, and Real Time Monitoring, with Jason and... | Otter.ai

🤖 Substrate Reactivity, Deciphering EC Readings, and Real Time Monitoring, with Jason and...

Jordan River1h 9min

Jordan River

00:00

Greetings cultivators worldwide at Jordan River here, back again like a good dry back today, we've got two brand new guests on the line. Seth and Jason are here from aroya and the Office Hours podcast, very excited to talk to these two. They were nice enough to send me a kit and heard their show. Heard that they had some great education to offer, so I thought I'd bring him on growcast for a nice appearance. I know you're gonna love today's episode. We get into a lot of different stuff before we get into that, though. Shout out to AC infinity. We got some changes over at AC infinity that I got to talk to you guys about code growcast One five. Now, historically, that's gotten you a different discount depending on what you're buying. Well, I got some really good news for you folks. Grow cast one five is now 15% off AC infinity.com, across the board. So you're gonna get 15% off on everything, plus free shipping on items over $99 if your cart total is over 99 bucks, you pay nothing for shipping, and it's 15% off with code growcast One five across the board. Now they're trying to get people to go directly to the AC infinity site. So they're offering that free shipping. They're offering that 15% discount with growcast One five. Now here's the other thing, if you want to get it off of Amazon, growcast one five will still work over there. It might be a smaller discount, but now that one also travels over to Amazon, which you can get a full 15% off, plus free shipping on orders over $99 at AC infinity.com with code growcast, get your grow temp kit, get your grow tents, your grow lights, the best fans in the game. They got pots, they got scissors, they got sunglasses and garden sleeves. Growcast one five saves you 15% across the board, and get that free shipping. Shout out to AC infinity, making the best gear in the game. And now I bring people directly to the site with a 15% off code. So thank you to AC infinity. Enjoy that code, guys. That's 15% off across the board. Grow cast one five at AC infinity.com. It's time to go, re up. Go grab another 10 and get that free shipping. Get that 15% off. Thank you to AC infinity, all right, everyone, let's get into it with Jason and Seth, thanks for listening. Enjoy the show. Hello, podcast listeners, you are now listening to grow cast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in again today, before we get started, as always, I urge you to share this show. Send growcast to a friend, send this show to a grower, or turn a smoker onto growing. It's the best thing to do to help us on our mission of overgrow. Make sure you're subscribed growcastpodcast.com that's where you can find all the things, the membership, the seeds, the classes, it's all there and a special thank you to the members who make this whole thing possible. Today we are back on the line with a couple of new guests, very excited to speak to Jason and Seth from aroya. Today, I just got my hands on an aroya kit. We're going to talk all things monitoring, different medium types. We're talking about EC and pH, all the fun stuff. But let me introduce my first time guests. Seth and Jason are both here. What's up, guys? Thank you for coming on

Unknown Speaker

03:00

the show. Thanks for having

Jordan River

03:02

us. Jordan, it's great to be on here. Definitely listen to your show for a few years. I appreciate it. I love what you guys are doing. I got my aroya Go Kit. This thing is awesome, and it provides a lot of insights into my grow. So I had to reach out to you guys and see how we could collab on some content. Aroya.io is the website. You guys also have a podcast, office hours, live. You do a lot of good Instagram content. I recommend to follow over there to all the folks who are listening, some good clips that I see coming out of that Instagram account. But for the listeners, why don't you guys talk about your background, your intro into cultivation, and then what brought you to aroya and the show,

Speaker 1

03:40

yeah, I'll get this started here. So at a college, I started doing, uh, electronics manufacturing, and ended up at a grow facility doing compliance, automation, security type stuff, and really fell in love with the production side and been hobby farmer for quite a few years now, and ended up just really getting deep into using technology to better understand plant biology. And was lucky enough that we had a local Growth Facility doing greenhouses, and those greenhouses took quite a bit of control automation in order to get to a proficient level, we're up here in the Northwest, where climate is variable. You can have cold mornings with hot, hot medium days. And being able to set up dynamic parameters for that was, was one of the things that brought me in love with cultivating. And obviously, as I was using sensors to dive deep into proficiency of growing, I stumbled upon the 12 at the time is the GS three sensor started working with the meter group, which ironically was, was a local company as well, and got on board with them, proposed the ARoy project, and then did about two years of travel research, developing what Roy would be today. I. I think the rest is history. If you know the background on the company, we've obviously spent the last whatever, six years now, helping cannabis growers, specifically, as well as traditional ag growers utilize sensor technology, so looking at what's going on in a substrate, what's going on in the environment. And I think today, we're getting close to 1000 clients with over 50,000 sensors in the field on just aroya itself. And that's amazing. So it's been a great journey. And think we're just gonna keep pushing the bar higher and higher as far as the potential of the genetics that are available,

Jordan River

05:37

so cool, so kind of born out of the meter group. And you're right along with there the formation of aroya. What about you? Seth, where did you come into the picture? I moved in the Northwest

Speaker 2

05:47

back in 2010 and I actually worked in plant breeding for about six years with a private company, and then with University of Idaho, actually for a few years, managing research greenhouses, research plots and working with plant breeders to breed many varieties of peas, garbanzo beans, wheat and Triticale. That's cool. So little different path, and some of us get into it. Yeah, yeah. I went back to school for horticulture, looking for a career, going down the plant breeding path, and then I actually ended up working at the same farm that Jason worked at. I'll be on a little later timeline, because while I was gone back to school, the greenhouse operation popped up. I knew a few people who worked there and had the opportunity to do an internship out there, and then just decided to stay on for a few years afterward, while I was working for the university, doing extension studies on wheat, just basic agronomy stuff looking at like protein content and things. We actually spent a lot of time deploying and using meter group remote sensing technology to figure out climate conditions, micro climates across the area we live on, called the Palouse, which has rolling hills. So there's a lot of fun things to look at there, but that's that was my introduction to meter group sensors and using that. So the whole time that I was growing cannabis and Eastern Washington, running greenhouse operations is actually kind of fun, going from, you know, always being a little bit budget limited in the research setting to being able to spend some money on the greenhouses and make things nicer. Yeah, baby. But yeah, that whole time I was always watching, you know, the meter group job board, essentially, because I was a company I worked with. It was, AG, tech, you know, possible career path for me. This job popped up. And then on the interview I saw Jason, it's like, Oh, hey, it's great, good to see you again. Small and then, yeah, that was 2021, and I've been with the company ever since. So I missed out a little bit on the early dev but came in once they finally had this beautiful platform to work with, which I love, hey, I love it. I'll say the scrolling graph literally replaces a job I used to spend at least a month a year on just converting spreadsheets to CSVs and figuring out how to present it to people in a visual way that's understandable, right? Well,

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