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GUELPH — Marijuana has been grown in a clandestine manner by a great many growers for a long time.
Despite that, an optimal way of cultivating the plant to boost its medicinal properties has not be found, says a University of Guelph plant scientist who is leading the charge to perfect pot growing.
Mike Dixon and his research team in the University of Guelph's controlled environmental system research facility and program, has received $210,000 from Ontario Centres of Excellence. The money will fund the application of new irrigation technology to medical cannabis growing. It's a process by which small sensors are strapped to the stem of a plant and hooked up to a wireless data logger that measures the water status of the plant every 15 minutes.
But that is just one component of ongoing work being done by Dixon on cannabis.
The work is in partnership with Napanee-based ABcann...
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