good call, not just you, I was thinking the same thing.
I think having permanent high pressure aeroponic production is the future for sure. You can have varying experiments with nutrients and environmental conditions to optimize production - bottom line, aeroponics can offer faster growth and increased yields. The system waters and feeds the plants automatically - no soil to work with, no pots, no mixing, no drainage - no waste.
The nutrient solution is simply recycled and adjusted, added to and reused - LED lighting is crucial - while you are bringing down your materials and labor costs, you bring the lighting in a lot closer to the plant using cooler LED lighting, energy efficient. I would think the goal would be to make a system of veg boxes and flower boxes - couple transfer for the life of the plant. Aeroponics would be a great system large scale, essentially computer controlled envirmental control systems could handle everything from the watering, feeding, lighting, humidity and air temp, and CO2 levels - enclosed systems producing cannabis with minimal human intervention between stage transfers.
Hoping to see a big push into this type of production for the future - getting this right will enable us to build the ultimate production platform - may cost a lot up front but they will be low operational cost cannabis producing machines with multiple environmental controls to optimize