Welcome to the Cannabis Welcome to the Cannabis Cultivation and Science Podcast. I'm your host, Tad Hussey of Kiss Organics.

This is the podcast where we discuss the cutting edge of organic growing from a science-based

perspective and drawn top experts from around the industry to share their wisdom and knowledge.

You know, it's about time that I did a podcast focus just on lighting. This is not a topic that

I'm all that strong on, so it was great to sit down with

some experts in the field and get to ask some questions to learn more. My guest this week are

Travis Williams and Travis Higginbotham. Yes, two Travis's, so it's a little tricky to tell

them apart, but between the two of them, we get to hear about very different aspects of the

lighting industry. Travis Williams is the director of brand

marketing and fluent bioengineering. He is passionate about clean energy, sustainability, and

controlled environment agriculture. His job allows him to help growers navigate the challenging

and complex world of horticultural lighting to realize improvements in crop production, sustainability,

and profits through LED technology.

Travis Higginbotham is the new director of cultivation support for Fluence.

Prior to working at Fluence, he worked at a state-of-the-art, environmentally controlled greenhouse

covering 50 acres where he was the head of research and development.

They grew annual and perennial crops for big box retailer supplying the northeast United

States.

His focus was on rearing beneficial insects, IPM protocols, disease testing, and trialling

new genetics from around the world.

He recently received his master's in horticulture from Virginia Tech, where he did some

work around LED research in regards to

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