Cannabis Cultivation and AI
Growers can use robotic AI to monitor plant health
Regarding cannabis, AI benefits the industry in exciting new ways. When legalization arrived, suppliers faced multiple challenges at every point of the supply chain, driving customers back to the black market. AI-based solutions are now helping the cannabis industry at every level, especially when it comes to crop production.
Growing plants takes time and patience and spawns extensive amounts of data, which can be used later to set determined parameters by which the following crops will grow. Custom-designed automation can track growth rates through the vegetative state and forecast growers' yield productions by as much as a month in advance with exceptional accuracy.
Besides cultivation, AI positively impacts the agricultural industry, which has traditionally languished in adopting innovative technologies. Growing companies can use robotic AI to monitor plant health. In contrast, others use AI to perform routine maintenance in their greenhouses. They can automatically control everything, including light, humidity, temperature and pH levels, predetermined by hundreds of data variables for their crops, making better use of natural resources and repeating the process.
AI advancements in commercial growth operations streamline production and keep costs low. Still, even when all aspects of the environment are managed technologically, it's always best to equip for every eventuality.
Sick plants are every commercial grower's nightmare, which is why companies are labouring to create a specialized database for cannabis diagnosis. The software compares images of suffering and healthy plants in the database by uploading photos of ill and healthy plants. Whilst small in scale, it's a tool that, in theory, will become more accurate as people use it.
Ever wonder what a privately designed strain of cannabis could do for you? Open-source drug discovery may be the key to growing custom plants. The AI ''budtender'' is being developed to do just that. Scientists can uncover new strains of cannabis based on different compound effects and chemical families using AI. By cultivating to exact specifications, cannabis can be grown that is capable of treating unique conditions and symptoms. Depending on best-seller strains, growers can cultivate uniform crops for significant benefits.
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