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J. Chandler is Vice President of Cultivation Technologies at urban-gro. urban-gro is based in Lafayette, CO and serves the commercial Cannabis industry with lighting, cultivation and pest management product solutions. He is talks about how he got involved in organic horticulture and how urban-gro helps large-scale commercial Cannabis production facilities. J. Chandler – Cultivation Technologies and Integrated Pest Management I went to Texas A&M University for Horticulture. I thought I wanted to be a landscaper, an organic landscaper for large, fine homes in Texas. I took a vegetable production course and fell in love with producing food, producing it organically. From there I started managing food farms from about 2003 to 2013, I was managing large scale, certified organic food production. I am extremely passionate about making large-scale horticultural facilities extremely efficient. For fifteen years, I grew large-scale certified organic produce outside in fields, (inaudible), subsurface drip, in a greenhouse, precision drip, like what we do. I’m extremely passionate about creating sustainable, large-scale horticultural production facilities. My role at urban-gro is to help large clients deal with pests legally and effectively. Also, designing irrigation systems, helping customers get the nutrient solution that they want out to the plants when they want it, how they want it. Everything is custom designed, integrated pest management programs, irrigation systems, we don’t have a “one size fits all” approach at urban-gro. I formed it to help licensed cultivators to deal with the looming regulations that have been coming down from the state, and states all over the country. So that people can focus on cultivating the plant, and I can help them with the integrated pest management. There’s no reason, for me, I love managing pests, its incredibly interesting. The cultivation facility that you’ve spent millions of dollars on to be able to create the perfect environment for growing cannabis is also a very nice environment for all those pests who like to eat cannabis. Its very important to start early and plan ahead to prevent pest infestations. At urban-gro we monitor the constantly shifting regulatory environment in every state, so that you stay in compliance with pesticide issues. There’s no reason that pest management should be that big of a challenge for anybody in this industry. I know that they are greatly restricting pesticides and its different in each State, but there are products that work, there are systems that work; its all about finding what works right for you and that’s what we do at urban-gro. There’s really nothing less efficient than a pump-up sprayer or a spray that you can buy at Home Depot. When I go into grows and I see whole fleets of backpack sprayers on the wall my eyes roll, because this can replace ten of those prayers, if not more. If you’re growing large-scale cannabis you want the right tool for the job. When it comes to spraying, our sprayers are the heaviest duty and the finest in the industry. This is all American made, a (inaudible) pump, a (inaudible) motor, heavy duty dense welds. What I’ve noticed in the cannabis industry is that people are not that nice to their equipment. Having a heavy duty machine that will work for you day in and day out is extremely crucial. This tank holds 35 gallons, but we have them that goes down to as small as 25 gallons, as large as 100 to 200 gallons, with multiple reals. These are fully customizable; just like everything in Urban Gro, we come out, we evaluate your grow and we figure out what the best fit is. If we need to make it custom for you, if you need something special, not a problem.