A decade in development, dozens of cultivars and two generations of our own grow system. Every set point (and setback), every dose, every harvest has taught us something, and all of it is built into Kija Grow.
Kija Grow isn't a theory of cultivation. It's a system we built by hand, rely on every day to drive results, and are still developing today.
Our team has spent almost a decade developing the Kija Grow system: from lab testing to our first state-licensed medical facility in 2018, sun-grown research in Kennebunk, and smart-device automation at our “Dojo” test grow in Buffalo, NY. Our next project, commercial scale in Barbados, is targeted to launch in 2027.
The first build. An existing commercial building, fitted out from one open room into two flower rooms, a veg room, and an irrigation room running Kija Grow v1, our own inline fertigation system. Approved by the Sanford Planning Board in February 2018 and run for four years.
The same season, in the ground. A fenced and gated plot taken from planting out to full-size plants in late-season flower. Sun-grown data to set beside the indoor rooms.
A 20×30′ research hoop house, designed and built by hand on a gravel pad: timber end walls glazed in polycarbonate, pots on grid pallets and a drip line to every plant. Our first real lesson in growing under the sun with a controlled root zone.
On the same site, a C1D1-rated extraction lab, the hazardous-location class for flammable solvents. Flower in, finished extract and filled cartridges out: the full chain from plant to product.
Where Kija Grow v2 was born. The fixed injectors of v1 were replaced with our own Arduino-powered smart devices: a tank and valve controller, a four-channel dosing pump, and root-zone and canopy sensors, all driven by a dashboard with automations for every stage of the crop. We also ran pheno hunts here.
The next chapter. The Dojo system at commercial scale: a dual-frame light-deprivation flower house and a mother and veg house, powered by solar, run on an off-grid control network, with a grow model for every strain.
Kija Grow is the software, the hardware and the grow models, designed together, and tested under real-world grow conditions.
Soil moisture by strain, temperature and humidity by zone, and tank levels, all live. Automations run each stage of the crop: refill, mix, feed and water, on schedule and to set point.
Our own smart devices. A tank and valve controller keeps the reservoir full, a four-channel peristaltic unit precision-doses each nutrient, and probes at the root zone and canopy provide real-time data.
Each strain gets its own model: the VPD pattern, EC and NPK by week, dryback targets and defoliation. The system drives irrigation, dosing and climate to match it.
The Kija v2 system, built out at commercial scale: a light-dep flower house, a mother/veg house, and a processing container. It runs on its own internal signal network, so control never depends on the internet or an outside service.
Top-shelf flower, grown with precision.
We're building in Barbados and looking for partners and investors to grow with us. Whether you want to be part of the project or just learn more about Kija, get in touch. We reply to every message ourselves.