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CANNA CONSULTING

ever in history has so much been said conditions. We call this methodology play when Cannaconsulting started
by so many who know so little....." Biophilic Cultivation. collaborating with Cravo, a manufacturer
NThis statement pretty much sums of retractable roof greenhouse systems
up the state of the emerging Cannabis Biophilic cultivation extrapolates from Canada, to deliver a complete
industry in South Africa. It is a quagmire cultivation principles from nature itself. We biophilic cultivation environment. The
of half-truths, misinformation, outright lies think of it as using a technology that comes Cravo retractable roof technology allows
and rumors. A wasteland frequented by from 3.5 billion years of research and us to reap the full benefits of outdoor
searchers for truth scouring the hallowed development with an unlimited budget. cultivation, i.e high photosynthetic active
halls of Google for a trustworthy fact or Interestingly, the use of these natural radiation (PAR) on the leaf surface and
two to equip them somehow to run the principles translates directly to a sound natural ventilation with the benefits of
gauntlet known as "grow your own". economical model as well. This can be greenhouse cultivation (protection from
attributed to the highly efficient manner frost, rain, hail, and wind, as well as the
A major contributing factor to this in which nature applies the minimum ability to raise humidity) when needed.
dismal state of affairs is that most of amount of energy to get the maximum
the information out there hails from amount of yield. Biophilic cultivation This complete Biophilic cultivation method
the informal sector where cultivators mimics this principle by focusing on now forms the core of Cannaconsulting's
developed methodologies under cultivating soil microbiology that supplies service offerings. It was packaged with
prohibition that are simply not valid in the plants with nutrients rather than on a set of services that are required to
new paradigm for various reasons. High inputting large amounts of commercial enable a successful grow. These are
tech, indoor setups are not economically fertiliser. In addition to making sure that SAHPRA compliance, financial modeling
viable at scale, and broad acre outdoor our plants receive the correct nutrients in and off-take brokering, all offered by
setups might scale economically, but the right amounts at the right moment, the our respective partners chosen for their
carry huge risk in terms of crop loss to soil microbiology also interacts with the expertise in those particular fields.
environmental damage. Greenhouses plant's epigenitics to activate the plant's
might appear to offer the best of both higher immune pathways that otherwise Cannaconsulting is currently active in the
worlds but were developed to grow crops remain dormant and as such, Biophilic assembly of almost 40 hectares of Biophilic
in cold places. When used in Southern cultivation not only reduces fertiliser cannabis operations in Southern Africa for
Africa, they create more problems needs but also weens the cultivator off corporate clients, all of whom interrogated
than they solve - problems that require of pesticide dependency. The final piece our cultivation methods and financial
constant, expensive remediation. of the puzzle was recently brought into models and found them to be feasible. LSA

As professional cultivators under
prohibition, Cannaconsulting's founders
spent decades grappling with the
variables that have to align for a successful
Cannabis harvest. Having experimented
with the entire spectrum of growing
methodologies ranging from indoor
hydroponics, soil-less and soil based
mediums in greenhouses, to large
outdoor fields in areas where the climate
constituted the least risk, we ended up
developing a growing methodology
uniquely suited to Southern African

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