Web-based Gardening App

[vbp]

Hello everyone,

Long time lurker. I just wanted to share the new gardening app my company just released.

Cannalogy - Grow Good Cannabis

It is totally free, full-featured, and, we think, easier to use and more helpful than anything else out there.

Sincere apologies if this is considered spam. I think this site is applicable to anyone who does grow logs here or just wants a low-hassle way of keeping track of stuff. We're not selling anything and there are no forums on our site.

regards,
vbp

vbp Reviewed by vbp on 03-16-2011. Web-based Gardening App Hello everyone, Long time lurker. I just wanted to share the new gardening app my company just released. Cannalogy - Grow Good Cannabis It is totally free, full-featured, and, we think, easier to use and more helpful than anything else out there. Sincere apologies if this is considered spam. I think this site is applicable to anyone who does grow logs here or just wants a low-hassle way of keeping track of stuff. We're not selling anything and there are no forums on our site. Rating: 5

[vbp]

I've got a little feedback about the site from forum users. To clarify, you choose what resources are visible to everyone else. You can quickly update the privacy on all of your resources from your account dashboard or per resource from their edit page. 256-bit SSL is default when you register/login.

[emilya]

Hello everyone,

Long time lurker. I just wanted to share the new gardening app my company just released.

Cannalogy - Grow Good Cannabis

It is totally free, full-featured, and, we think, easier to use and more helpful than anything else out there.

Sincere apologies if this is considered spam. I think this site is applicable to anyone who does grow logs here or just wants a low-hassle way of keeping track of stuff. We're not selling anything and there are no forums on our site.

regards,
vbp

Interesting idea V... I know people who would jump on that because everything they do is on their computers. For keeping track of my grow rooms personally, I use a paper school assignment calendar and log everything I do in there as I am doing it. Most of the time I would consider myself a computerized gal, but for me there is nothing better than a paper calendar that you can stare at for a while to see trends, make notes and drawings as needed and carry along with me as I work. Kudos to you though on your site... if it helps you and others to be more organized, then it is a success! :thumbsup:

Emmie

[vbp]

Hey Emmie,

Thanks for the feedback. I know a lot of growers who use notebooks to track their info and wouldn't give them up for anything. But, yeah, as you noted, people are beginning to see the benefits of digital tracking. Not only is something like this good for collaboration, such as breeding projects, collectives, or general assistance, but as a community I think medical growers have an opportunity to be one of the first horticultural groups to use new technology to effect available genetics and organized information about those genetics. Notebooks are helpful to the individual grower, but compile a bunch of those notebooks together, and, as a group, you'll be able to get statistically significant data about methods and results. Basically, we're trying to add a structured element to what people already do in their grow logs on forums.

vbp

[emilya]

Hey Emmie,

Thanks for the feedback. I know a lot of growers who use notebooks to track their info and wouldn't give them up for anything. But, yeah, as you noted, people are beginning to see the benefits of digital tracking. Not only is something like this good for collaboration, such as breeding projects, collectives, or general assistance, but as a community I think medical growers have an opportunity to be one of the first horticultural groups to use new technology to effect available genetics and organized information about those genetics. Notebooks are helpful to the individual grower, but compile a bunch of those notebooks together, and, as a group, you'll be able to get statistically significant data about methods and results. Basically, we're trying to add a structured element to what people already do in their grow logs on forums.

vbp

Definitely a commendable goal, but this is pretty much what we are already doing here in this forum. This is an amazing place with a lot of growers providing input who have been doing this for most of their adult lives. Its staggering to think about the years of experience represented by the growers in this forum. One person will think they see a trend and will discuss it. Others will say, hey... that sounds feasible and then they experiment with it. Some of the larger operations can take an idea and try it on a large scale against a control group, others do it over and over again in their own grow rooms, experimenting until things are adjusted again or dis-proven. Many of those doing this pioneering work have 40, 50 and more years experience growing this medicine and these experiments happen all the time here.

You also have to consider how secretive most of us are about the details of our operations. That along with the inherent distrust of computers most of the "experienced" crowd has, is going to make it very difficult for you do get a good sampling of data on your site for quite a long time, especially since you are talking about sharing data.

Don't get me wrong, I think its a commendable idea and one that with a team of statisticians helping to compile data, over the years it could turn into a valuable research tool. The problem is numbers. As an economist and a statistician I understand that the population base here on the forum with its years of experience and world wide diversity can probably answer any question brought before it. The sample pool of raw data as represented by almost 2 million threads is incredibly rich and many of the growers on here are true experts in this field, without question. It would be years of data gathering before any database developed regarding our grow experience came even close to being able to provide the knowledge and ability to adapt that we have here.

So it seems to me, that as useful a tool as your site could be to someone needing that sort of resource, training the experts to all to work together within the confines of your web space is going to be hard. At least here at Cann.com we have managed to get a few of them house trained and have good luck getting them to respond to our questions. I do wish you luck trying to teach them how to use the structured environment you have provided there. It's worth a try! Maybe they will seek you out if you answer the WIIFM question for them.

Emmie

[vbp]

Couldn't agree more about the amount of expertise on forums. And yes, getting enough users and data to compile stats is quite an undertaking (why site-wide stats don't currently exist). From a techy point of view, however, forums are only harnessing part of that available expertise. With slightly more structure I do believe the ease of finding and sharing that expertise will be shifted dramatically. This 'structure' that I'm talking about is very general. After reviewing the heavy clients available out there now, our main goal was provide a tool that allows people to keep their own methods of tracking (from notebooks for example) but to put it in a system that applies to many. So far example, the structured elements include what state your plants are in (I think we can all agree that cannabis goes through a couple diffrent growing phases), what strain (eventually we'll track phenos), what were their origins (seed, clone, unknown), mother plants, how often they've been watered (and with what), lighting timing, supply categories (nutes, environment, containers etc). I think with a little experimentation, you'll find the confines of our webspace are much more flexible than pen and paper.

In terms of the suspicion of computers, yes that is a reality. However, no more a reality than it is here. Email addresses are optional at registration, IPs are not logged with user accounts, and SSL encrypts the traffic. I encourage you to check out the help section on user accounts and privacy Cannalogy - Grow Good Cannabis. Again, it is a users choice to make any of their resource public or private (ie, share your nutrient supplies but maybe not your active plants, or keep active plants private but completed plants public)

The WIIFM question will vary depending on the grower. We're very proud of our app design, in that, to get the benefits of any of the functionality, you only need to use what you want.

-A personal grower might be forgetful about manual watering (or any scheduled event for that matter)
-A personal grower who uses a notebook might want to be able to sort data (such as your hottest day on record in the garden, or plants by yield, or basically any number data you can think of)
-Breeders might want their experiments available to customers
-Customers might want their experiments available to Breeders
-Product developers (I'm looking at you LED people) might want to give fact based tests of products without adding or having to sift through commentary. (and have them easily sorted and organized)

Forums are a fantastic place to exchange ideas and find people (I learned how to grow on forums) but the benefits of an object oriented application for research should not be underestimated.

Just my 2 cents. I really appreciate all the feedback we've received from folks.