Missouri Startup Targets Growing Market — Including Legal Marijuana

For more than a year, the three entrepreneurs behind Hummingbird Technologies have been working to perfect a device to take the guesswork out of growing plants.

The result of that effort is Nectar, a system that its creators say provides the ideal environment for gardening, albeit on a small scale.

Nectar is 4 feet tall, 18 inches wide and 20 inches long, and can easily fit in a kitchen. It does not require soil or water, but uses a nutrient solution that can be purchased online or in gardening shops. The enclosure is controlled by a smartphone application that allows users to adjust humidity, pH levels, temperature and lighting based on the type of plant being grown.

As they developed the first prototype, the three men behind Hummingbird — Tejash Patel, 27, Marin Assaliyski, 28, and Danny Varghese, 28 — saw a broad potential market for the device....

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