Allan Gardiner

Allan Gardiner was born in the Niagara region and worked for more than half his life on family farms. Working on his family farms with apples, pears, cherry, strawberries, raspberries, soybeans, and grapes is where he gained valuable practical hands-on knowledge of a broad range of pests and diseases related to the cultivation of large scale commercial crops. His knowledge stems from spider mites all the way to fungi gnats and root rot, and at the age of eighteen, Gardiner began to experiment with the cultivation of marijuana.

With his hands-on experience and his expertise, he took the knowledge he gained and began to apply different techniques to improve the quality or cannabis and improve the overall yield of individual marijuana strains. Over the past 26 years, Gardiner has continued to do research on over 100 strains of marijuana, encompassing everything from their strengths and weaknesses as well as taking into consideration their place of origin and genetic makeup.

Then, ten years ago, he was approached by a friend who had been in a motocross accident who had been trying desperately to find a solution to his pain in order to replace his regiment of opiate pain killers. After long consideration, Gardiner decided to take on the opportunity to do research as a designated grower under the old MMAR without the fear of legal repercussions. Then, after working with his friend for some time, he managed to find a strain of marijuana that worked for his friend that also helped him quit his opiate medication completely.

Since that success, he has worked with a multitude of medical patients to help alleviate chronic pain, anxiety, and even nausea related to chemotherapy patients as well as greatly improving the quality of the lives they lived both personally and with their own families. These are the core reasons why Gardiner has continued to research the use of marijuana. His hope is to pass along this knowledge to help everyday people get back the lives they used to enjoy.

Allan Gardiner is a Mechanical Engineering Technologist that graduated from Niagara College. He specialized in HVAC, Environmental Controls, and Building Management Systems, and his projects have included St. Josephs’ Hospital laboratory upgrades, McMaster University Nuclear Power Medical Isotopes Upgrades, Queenston Lewiston Customs Building, and the Brock University Biomedical Research Facility. Through these projects, Gardiner has taken key purification and mechanical aspects of laboratory, hospital and biomedical research HVAC systems and configured them to create an environmentally-sound space for the propagation of medical marijuana.

Once the environment was designed, Gardiner began to focus on the medium where the marijuana was to be cultivated and experimented, such as the soil (organics), a soilless mixture, coco (ground coconut husks), flood and drain tables, hydroponic dripper systems, and aeroponics. After years of personal research trials and collecting data from them, Gardiner then set out to design aeroponic systems that could cultivate the quickest and most reliable quality marijuana that could be produced as well as repeated. Not only would this increase overall yield, but it would also reduce the cost of overall production, ensuring the least amount of environmental contaminants and conforming to the most stringent standards of Health Canada’s Tests for public sale.

Four years ago, Gardiner began consulting for various medical marijuana producers registered in Canada and the US, and is currently working with them to maximize production and eliminate pests and disease. It is through this unique set of circumstances over a matter of decades that Gardiner has positioned himself to be the foremost expert within this area. With his experience in mechanical systems, agricultural practices, and related mass production techniques, it has allowed him to craft uniquely tailored systems for each client to best suit their needs and costs.

Due to the demand for such experience, Gardiner is launching Gardiner Medical Solutions and will offer consulting for construction of facilities, strain selection, cultivation techniques, fertilizer selection, disease, and pest control. This will enable Gardiner to combine his skills as a project manager, a mechanical technologist in design, and a master grower to reach more companies and patients to achieve their ambitions of becoming leaders in this industry and producing the highest quality marijuana possible.