Plant Growth Technologies, Inc. was formed as a California corporation in September of 2017, and has its offices and manufacturing facilities located in Gardena, CA. It represents a merger of the IP, trade secret, and knowhow from Pelka & Associates, Inc. and Hydro Racks. PGT designs, fabricates, and markets proprietary augmented plant growth technologies such as LED lighting products for horticultural illumination, structural elements for plant growth racks and Hydro-Riser for optimized plant root growth and irrigation.
The philosophy upon which the Company has been founded rests on a simple premise. During the 1849 gold rush in California, the people who consistently made the most money were not the miners, but rather the people who sold the hardware to the miners, in terms of shovels, tents, Levi’s, etc. This is the purpose of PGT, to sell the hardware and not the sizzle as California undergoes its new gold rush for horticultural products. Near term the immediate market is to the cannabis growers in California and throughout the world, but just as important in the midterm, is the growth of a variety of in-door agricultural products, which can now be produced cost effectively because LED lighting consumes only 33% of the power of the previous artificial illumination means.