Trees can be grown three times faster thanks to the biotech.

Phytelligence, a biotech spun out of Washington State University, has developed technology that makes plants and trees grow up to three times faster, all while conserving water and cutting down the need for pesticides.

The company has recently shipped its first order of 1,000 raspberry plants to Washington-based Northwest Plant Company, and will deliver another 50,000 to them in August. The technology can produce up to 250,000 plants from one single plant within a year. This constitutes a huge increase…