On the heels of Santa Rosa, California’s outdoor cannabis harvest, we’re hearing more about the ways indoor cannabis farming is negatively impacting our environment. This year, a policy paper was released entitled, “Regulating Pot to Save the Polar Bear: Energy and Climate Impacts of the Marijuana Industry,” detailing how indoor farming is impacting climate. You can read the ... Read More
The Future of Cannabis Production: 5 Obstacles of Industrial Scale Operations
Commercial growers of cannabis are rapidly discovering that the maturing market is having a tremendous impact on their cost of doing business. Since cannabis growing is a highly regulated market and is experiencing an explosive growth of new demand, commercial growers are finding that they must work much more intelligently to stay profitable in the marketplace. Here are five ... Read More
Cannabis Retail Store Facing Suit over Pesticide Use
Pesticide use during cannabis cultivation has led LivWell to face a consumer lawsuit. LivWell currently stands as one of Colorado’s biggest cannabis cultivation and retail businesses. Depending on the outcome of the suit, this may be the first instance where a cannabis production company has been held accountable for pesticide use. Brandan Flores and Brandie Larrabee filed ... Read More
Your Cannabis Plants Need Fresh Air Too!
Marijuana plants are very sensitive to the environment in which they are grown, and unless the ideal growing environment is provided, the plants are very likely to be of poor quality when they reach maturity, or they may even fail altogether. Growers raising their marijuana plants in cannabis greenhouses are not exempt from the problems that poor weather might cause for plants ... Read More
Marijuana Tissue Culturing 101
First off, let’s start with what tissue culturing is not: tissue culturing is not genetic modification. Rather, it is a biotechnological technique to propagate clonally identical plants from a “mother plant”. While many strategies exist for propagating plants, only tissue culturing allows the grower to propagate genetically identical, disease- and pest-free clones of a ... Read More
