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Pete Porter

Pete has spent the last nine years experimenting with automated indoor growing systems, starting with a single NFT hydroponic setup in his garage and expanding to a multi-rack aeroponic room with custom sensor arrays and dosing pumps. He focuses primarily on nutrient delivery automation, grow light scheduling, and the integration of microcontroller platforms like Arduino and Raspberry Pi into closed-loop climate control. His reviews are driven by a frustration with marketing claims that rarely survive contact with actual grow cycles, so he runs every system through at least one full crop before writing a word. Pete grows leafy greens, herbs, and dwarf tomato varieties year-round in Portland, Oregon, and treats each new piece of equipment as a technical problem worth solving honestly.