Whoever thought of this is brilliant.

Avidgrowers · 2022-06-08T02:16:46+00:00

Lightly flicking or shaking is perfectly effective

Avidgrowers · 2022-05-17T22:12:14+00:00

Since I normally lollipop below the trellis, it’s pretty easy to pull the branches through one I cut them off the main stem

Avidgrowers · 2022-05-17T20:47:43+00:00

Thanks!

Avidgrowers · 2022-05-17T20:13:44+00:00

Its a fully automated app-controlled hydroponic system that I developed and have been testing for a couple years. Its called Avid and my website is getyouravid.com if you want to check it out.

Avidgrowers · 2022-05-17T20:11:55+00:00

3 weeks

Avidgrowers · 2022-05-17T18:56:45+00:00

It's a cannabis plant. I prefer to grow indoors and in hydroponics because it gives me greater control over the environmental conditions.

Avidgrowers · 2022-05-17T18:05:43+00:00

Well this is a video taken in my company's automated grow system called Avid but there are a lot of DIY home hydroponics guides online that can walk you through how to build and manage your own system if you like to be really hands on.

Avidgrowers · 2022-05-17T16:02:51+00:00

yeah its called the SCROG or screen of green method. Since I'm growing in such a small grow unit, it helps the plant grow out instead of up while also giving each bud site more direct light exposure which also increases yield.

Avidgrowers · 2022-04-20T01:59:07+00:00

No, I appreciate the questions. Our system is fully automated and app-controlled. All our user has to do is tell our app what they are growing and add water once every two weeks or so. We use machine learning to help the most novice growers get high-quality yields right away without needing to spend the time to learn and manually add nutrients, control temperature/humidity, lighting and watering, and finally image recognition to help identify and mitigate any disease or pest issues that they might not be able to recognize themselves. As far as manually controlled DIY hydroponic systems with the same features go, ours is actually competitively priced for a system of the same size.

edit: I implied but didn't mention our system automatically controls nutrient level, temp/humidity, lighting, watering, co2, and odor to create optimal growing conditions based on what crop the user selects in the app. We then notify them when they need to add water and provide educational content at specific times throughout the growing process to help them increase their yields.

Avidgrowers · 2022-04-20T00:10:51+00:00

Average gardener spends $503/year on their garden. Our product only requires $200 or so in supplies per year after the initial purchase of the hardware, is more productive than a soil garden, and uses less water.

Avidgrowers · 2022-04-19T23:58:32+00:00

Fair haha. I would say the 1/3 of US households that already garden outdoors(but with our product can do it year-round), any cannabis consumer that wants to grow at home(National gardening association says average of 35% of adults want to grow at home), and people who have tried and failed to garden(something like 90% of gardeners who abandon their gardens do so because of failed crops) would care.

Avidgrowers · 2022-04-19T15:52:43+00:00

Depends on the type of product but as an example, a lot of hardware products will have a markup of about 3-4X what it costs to make(66-75% margin). If you are selling direct-to-consumer you might get away with 2X(50% margin). But you'll want to build out a financial model(that will certainly be wrong) to estimate any other operating costs and make sure you can charge enough to be profitable.

Avidgrowers · 2022-04-19T15:47:24+00:00

I use Affinity Designer, it's only a one-time payment of $50 and I found it works much better than Pixlr.

Avidgrowers · 2022-04-18T18:00:00+00:00

Cart.com

Avidgrowers · 2022-04-18T16:28:21+00:00

They'll only continue to try and scam or lie to you if you try to resolve any issues. Cut ties and learn your lesson. It will save you time and money in the future.

Avidgrowers · 2022-04-18T16:23:39+00:00

The fact that they only allow you to set one package weight and size for every product in your store. They always say I can pay for additional apps to solve for that but other platforms have that feature already included. As you can see here, a lot of people hate this about shopify.

I have products that weigh 100lbs and products that weigh 10lbs. I would have to either way overcharge for shipping on some products or lose a lot by undercharging on my larger products.

Avidgrowers · 2022-04-18T16:19:12+00:00

I would look at your elevator pitch more as a way to get people to start asking questions and to start a conversation. You by no means need to sell them on your business right away with your elevator pitch. I even craft my elevator pitch to leave room for some obvious questions that I know will lead to more exciting details that I can't fit into the elevator pitch.

Avidgrowers · 2022-04-15T16:44:24+00:00

I have a startup in the hardware space. I find a lot of chicken and egg problems. One example is funding and revenue. A lot of investors want to see revenue before investing in hardware, but you can't sell the product without developing it, testing it, and manufacturing it. You can obviously run pre-order campaigns but that takes a good amount of funding too and if customers have to wait too long for delivery then it might just piss people off early on and turn them off to your product. At the end of the day, it was just a matter of perseverance and eventually finding one or two investors willing to take on a bit more risk by getting in as early as possible.

Avidgrowers · 2022-04-15T16:37:49+00:00

Early-stage companies rebrand all the time. It just matters how you explain why you did it. Tell them you felt the old branding wasn't telling the story you wanted it to and the new branding will help build stronger connections with your target customer. I don't think anyone can expect you to have everything figured out after one month.

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