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Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home
#22277078 - 09/22/15 11:57 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Marijuana is a sticky subject. Twenty-three states (and D.C) have legalized some form of medical use, but possession, growth and distribution are still illegal in the majority of the United States.
However, as is the case with most new industries, slow regulation hasn’t stopped innovation.
Leaf, a TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 Battlefield company, is leading the revolution with its automated “Plug N’ Plant” home growing system. Leaf’s device is a 4′ x 2′ box that will fit two plants, which will yield between 4-5 ounces of weed.

However, Leaf is much more than just a mini grow house. The system will monitor everything that your plants need to grow, including light, ventilation, nutrient levels and pH of the soil.
The system will also react to these measurements, meaning that if it senses that your plants are low on nutrients it can dispense more, or if it needs more light it can automatically brighten the environment. Users can also control these variables manually, effectively creating their own grow “recipes.”
This is all controlled from Leaf’s iPhone app, which will also serve as a social network for users to exchange recipes and share videos of their plants.
To do this, Leaf has incorporated a built-in HD camera, which will automatically create time lapses and even let users access a live stream of their (or their friends’) grow.
Leaf has received a strategic investment from Advanced Nutrients, a major player in the cannabis nutrient space. The company will be supplying Leaf with nutrients that they will put inside individual, disposable pods, allowing nutrients to be replaced like an ink cartridge in a printer.

However, this technology comes at a cost. The device will retail for $1,499, which makes it much more expensive than simply growing your plant in the ground. However, the company says that the machine will technically pay for itself after just a few months, as the “retail value” of 4-5 ounces (one growth cycle) is around $1,200.
Additionally, each grow will cost about $150 in nutrient cartridges and carbon filter refills. However, co-founder and CEO Yoni Ofir said that eventually the company hopes to drop the price of the actual device and generate its primary revenue from refills (à la Keurig).
Today, the company is opening up preorders of its device. Leaf will be available to users with a medicinal card in any of the 23 states that allow medical marijuana, as well as in the four states where marijuana is currently legal.
Customers can put down a $100 deposit to be the first to receive a Leaf when it ships in summer 2016.
Pretty interesting, too bad it will cost so much.
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: musiclover420]
#22277339 - 09/23/15 02:30 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Sounds pretty damn bomb. I'd buy it if I could. Hope the price drops to something decently reasonable though.
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: Achillita]
#22277455 - 09/23/15 04:53 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pretty sweet. I just hate how they make it so you have to keep giving them money through buying new carts each grow. Why couldnt they make them so you could refill yourself? Like with anything else, greedy son of bitches.
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: Mental Taco]
#22277462 - 09/23/15 04:57 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's probably because it requires special cartridges and chemicals for the hydroponics. This was obviously made for people who don't know exactly what they need(or don't wanna learn) about the nutrients required.
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: Achillita]
#22277506 - 09/23/15 05:43 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Damn life keeps getting easier for those lucky fucks in the medical states. They can already grow weed or buy it from a store anytime and now they don't even have to lift a finger to grow it.
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: musiclover420]
#22277828 - 09/23/15 08:46 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Awesome, someone stole my idea to the fucking letter.
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: Nemo_Hoes]
#22279944 - 09/23/15 06:03 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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weed's is a pretty hardy plant, i'd be interested in it if it was silent when the doors were closed though
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: musiclover420]
#22282135 - 09/24/15 04:35 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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How lazy do you have to be to spent $1.5k on this? With that kind of money you can set up a decent sized room with 1000 watt lights... If you are that lazy just buy your weed.
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: fapjack]
#22282211 - 09/24/15 06:02 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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1.5K for a decent sized room? More like 10-15K for a well set up decent sized room...
I am sure you could do it for less but nice setups take a lot of money. "Leaf" is definitely taxed but as it says in the article, use it to grow 5~ ounces and sell them and bam, you made your money back almost I would never buy one unless I had a ton of money and was curious, which I am. But I am not rich 
Anyways the whole point of it is to be able to grow your own very easily... If people just wanted to buy weed they would
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: musiclover420]
#22282526 - 09/24/15 08:13 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Most commercial "weed lockers" are even more expensive, and probably nowhere near as good. This looks awesome
....if you have the money for one of these. Its probably similar to the whole mushy grow kit thing, but this looks like a very good grow kit (like if you found a mono that waters itself, has fanning and ventilation, no need for anything at all external. And substrate control - too little moisture? Weight not right? Bacteria detected? Automatic watering. FAE too low? Auto air exchange when needed, maybe a way to bottom-water and let the water out conveniently, etc)
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: Fractal420]
#22284124 - 09/24/15 02:05 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah it is pretty sweet, I really dig the whole "recipe" idea too...
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: musiclover420]
#22284542 - 09/24/15 03:47 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I love the future.
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: Peachette]
#22284680 - 09/24/15 04:20 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I concur 
I can't wait for quantum computers
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: musiclover420]
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musiclover420 said: 1.5K for a decent sized room? More like 10-15K for a well set up decent sized room...
I am sure you could do it for less but nice setups take a lot of money. "Leaf" is definitely taxed but as it says in the article, use it to grow 5~ ounces and sell them and bam, you made your money back almost I would never buy one unless I had a ton of money and was curious, which I am. But I am not rich 
Anyways the whole point of it is to be able to grow your own very easily... If people just wanted to buy weed they would 
What the hell are you spending $15k on? You can get 2 1000 watt light set ups with bulbs and ballasts for under a grand. Mylar isn't that expensive, a few timers, a couple power strips, a couple of fans and you are good to go. You can spend more money and get more shit, but it isn't needed. I've seen people do 3 pounds in a cycle grow ops that cost under $1500 to set up. If you don't mind using miracle grow, soil and energy are really your only significant cost. People love to bitch about miracle grow, but it works great and it's cheap. No one notices either.
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: fapjack]
#22285561 - 09/24/15 06:57 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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doesn't "miracle" grow have some fertilizer in it that gets stuck to tobbacco and causes radiation cancer?
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: Konyap]
#22285921 - 09/24/15 08:17 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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You cook the veggies you eat that are grown with the same types of fertilizer. I mean if you want to go all organic go ahead, but I don't see how there is much difference.
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: fapjack]
#22286737 - 09/25/15 12:25 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Lights, fans, air filters, ballasts, wood to actually build the grow room, materials to seal in the grow room.
Then you have to buy all the soil for the whole cycle, depending on the size of room and pots that alone can be a couple hundred + a cycle.
Then there is fertilizers, you can use miracle grow but that is ghetto. Quality fertilizers are not cheap and will be another couple hundred for the cycle.
2 lights sounds like a small room, I am used to seeing 4-8 at least. With a quality ballast for each light. A nice air filter is not cheap either, then you have to actually buy and connect tubing to set up proper airflow. Depending on your climate/ time of year you may need heating or cooling devices to maintain optimal growth.
One plant can need a ton of stakes to keep upright once things get chunky, big pots are not cheap either. That all comes to mind and I am sure I missed stuff.
I never said you couldn't grow for cheaper, hell outdoor can be free but a quality room is easily 10-15K
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: fapjack]
#22287506 - 09/25/15 08:29 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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fapjack said: How lazy do you have to be to spent $1.5k on this? With that kind of money you can set up a decent sized room with 1000 watt lights... If you are that lazy just buy your weed.
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: P-O]
#22288855 - 09/25/15 03:15 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Another person misses the point.
Not everyone has the time to set up their own room.
Things like this will make it easy for anyone to grow their own weed.
If they wanted to just buy weed that is what people would do.
Anyways this growbox will have many features a cheap grow room would lack
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Re: Leaf Is A “Plug N’ Plant” Box To Automatically Grow Pot In Your Home [Re: musiclover420]
#22288951 - 09/25/15 03:35 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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In my day we had the Phototron...and we LIKED it!
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