Using Gemini requires digital photos of trichromes. Hand held devices sell for under $30. Open Gemini and press the + button on android phones to add photos. Then the AI will analyze and tell you harvest window details based on percentage of clear, cloudy and amber. It is easy to od. AI can also be used in all stages.
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@Growmoredank is working on something too.
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Testing my Ai training suite now; to takes a user from photos to ai. Once I get all of my Ai apps models trained and exported…it will be available on GitHub free.
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I just use a magnifier
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That works, but digital handheld micros are cheaper than a jewelers loop all day. And Gemini comes free with any pc or Goggle phone. No guess work either. I have no tried Chat GPT or Gronk, but bet they work too without any training.
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Interested in that! Keep us posted!
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One thing about the Google or other web ai…I personally do not live in a legal state.
Submitting my photos to a corporate server that tracks my IP address, Mac address, and who knows what else just doesn’t make me comfortable.
My app is on the phone, no servers. If you want to contribute please feel free to send me pics. The larger the dataset of images the better it’s accuracy. Feel free to check my app thread for contact details.
The link is from the start of when I began working with Ai… it’s a learning experience..
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I dont use a jewelers loop. I have my iphone and a magnifier
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This is all good! Why not take advantage of new tech. I was using promix mc with 50 percent perlite until AI suggested promix hp. This stuff is great!
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I’m right there with you Dude. Totally will look at the link you provided.
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Don’t take this wrong, but some of us old heads simply don’t care about that kind of technology, no offense to those who like it. I’ve learned to read the plants and lots of trial and error, just don’t depend on a machine or computer. I’m just old and country as hell, personally never even owned a video game, stayed out in the woods all time.
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My completely unsolicited thoughts about AI is that we should use it just like any other tool we have, as a reference point, not 100% dead nuts on it but not exactly just bro science either, but it can only give us what information it has been programmed with so its diagnostic capabilities are limited to that. If its something complex It can tell us a list of probabilities of what might be wrong and corrective action needed to fix it but again is limited to its programming. Human intuition and foresight is a hard thing to replicate and while they are dangerously close they are still not exactly there, just yet, I don’t think. But using it as a guide, I’d say use any advantage you can get, maybe just test it a little first before jumping all in. Just my thoughts​
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Yup, I am old. I will never use phone AI to tell me when to harvest or even for issues during the grow. I have NON Artificial Intelligence. We call it Common Sense. 
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Good enough. But many post on this site with photos asking, “Is this ready?” This is a solution for them where they don’t have to trust third party or wait, The AI is very accurate too.
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Most that are asking if their buds are ready have never grown so i can see this technology helping at first. After some experience it comes down to each person’s preference and other’s opinions no longer matter.
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But Dizzy, being here in the forum isn’t only about growing our weed and asking each other questions about whatever issue we may be having that day. It about friendship. But before we were friends we came for help and advice. So it’s like if we stop asking each other questions and answering each others questions and welcoming to newcomers as we were welcomed and as we welcomed you too, then we are betraying the very things that brought us together to start with. I may be totally off base with my next sentence-and let me know if so. I would think a young one such as yourself, who went through covid probably as a student on some level, and was forced to spend your most pivotal years alone except for your closest family who at that age were likely the last people you wanted to be cooped up with, did all your schooling and your socializing on-line, would totally get the meaning of the friendships we build in on-line places like this forum. But anyway, I’m high and rambling. My point is that being here isn’t about people asking the same questions all the time. Questions that can partially be answered by AI, it’s about comraderie.
Also, I will say that I have tested out gemini, and he talks too darn much. Lol! Man, he never shuts up. Frfr.
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AI is a tool for me. Not a companion.
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AI is a tool that actually grades the bud based on trichromes and appearance. The AI has 1000s of photos available to compare. The tool will only get better being able to look at a clear close up of a bud and tell strain, etc. Who can do that?
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I’ve messed with ai and cannabis growing. Its useless. It tells you whatever you want to hear, and if youre new and nervous about your grow you will kill it by following ai advice. Its probably like this because so much of the internet is just wrong about whats wrong with their plants.
For example, if I show an ai a picture of a plant 20 mins before lights out the ai will likely tell me its over watered or too cold, or getting too much light because all of those environmental changes result in nearly identical looking plants.
You can “argue” with the ai to get it to come to the correct conclusion but that requires you to know whats wrong in advance and makes the ai pointless.
All of that being said, my experience is with LLMs. Maybe a different kind of AI like the medical imaging AI could do a better job, but someone has to build it first.
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I understand it can be more accurate than the human eye. My question would be what is the basis of the grading scale? Some prefer 50/50 amber/cloudy. Some like more amber yet. Ive harvested plants that had little to no amber because i wanted that batch to be a speedy/energetic high. There comes a point where you know what you need to do to get to your end goal and you know more about your situation than ai. Like i said, probably a great tool for people with less experience.
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