Image if you had a device to scan your hemp to determine not only the sex of your plants, but CBD and THC content too.

If this sounds like a game changer to you, then be prepared for the game to change.

New Orleans-based Mariposa Technology’s PAMAP does just that. It will not only sex your plants, but can give you accurate information on your cannabinoid levels, as well as other useful data for your growing operation.

PAMAP is short for “predictive analytical modeling application for plants” and was designed by Mariposa Technology to help with some of the common pain points in floral hemp production: sexing and testing.

This week on the Hemp Podcast, we talk to Mariposa Technology co-founder and CEO John Roberts and COO Michael Dalle Molle, who explain the new technology.

PAMAP is a handheld device that uses an agilent resolve spectrometer that shoots a laser to excite the molecules in a hemp plant, creating a molecular fingerprint.

“And when you have that structural knowledge of the living plant,” Roberts said, “then you can make all types of determinations about its health and other characteristics and chemical makeup.”

The device has implications for other ag sectors beyond the cannabis plant, but hemp was a logical place for the company to start.

“We really wanted to focus on hemp because we see the pain points in the hemp industry as being the most significant and, to be quite honest, the most easily fixed by our device,” Dalle Molle said.

Mariposa Technology https://mariposatechnology.com/

Molecules article referenced in interview: Non-Invasive and Confirmatory Differentiation of Hermaphrodite from Both Male and Female Cannabis Plants Using a Hand-Held Raman Spectrometer https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/15/4978

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