Day 6 - Cannabis World Summit
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Joery Van Berkel from Royal Queen Seeds
Jake Hiltz from Jake's Fertilizer
RD from Socal Seed Collective
Bonus: Ed from Ed's TNT
Joery Van Berkel from Royal Queen Seeds
Joery Van Berkel - Royal Queen Seeds - RoyalQueenSeeds.com
Royal Queen Seeds have been helpful with a few things involving this Summit, and Joery from RQS kindly accepted our request to share information about growing marijuana for all of you. Living in the Netherlands he is allowed to grow several plants outdoors, so he has experience to share from, though admittedly less experience with indoor growing due to local laws, but being from such a reputable seed company of course he knows a thing or two about that too. You can tell from how he speaks that he is passionate about cannabis, and is a recreational connoisseur of the fine award winning strains RQS & Amsterdam has to offer. The focus of this interview is to educate people new to growing cannabis on several methods of how to do it. Keep in mind that the discussion is about growing for those people legally allowed to grow for personal use. We discuss seed strain selection so that you grow a variety that will suit your needs & desires, growing indoors, outdoors, and even discuss the harvest time, to know how to chop your plant & to cure your buds. Literally everything you need to know to go from seed to smoke, however, even though Joery introduces you to a bunch of topics you should Google those subjects to learn even more about each aspect in greater depth.
Jake Hiltz from Jake's Fertilizer
Jake Hiltz - 30 Years of VLRMF - JakesFertilizer.com
Jake has been a horticulturalist for most of his life, with a full three decades of growing cannabis experience. You could say that this man knows a thing or two about growing fantastic plants, but one thing you'll quickly notice during this interview is his humbleness and his passion for helping people. He shares his wisdom freely and has even created a series of excellent videos teaching how to grow cannabis, and it is all available for free on his website (we highly recommend you view them). We discuss fertilizer use, mainly for the benefit of new personal growers, but even larger more experienced growers will find some nuggets of interest. What is refreshing is that Jake freely shared his knowledge and frankly discussed fertilizers WITHOUT any hyping of his own products or bad-mouthing others, though with respect to him I will mention here that his products only use the highest quality ingredients and he tweaked the formulation, from this decades of trial & error, so that his ferts are specifically tailored for the needs of cannabis plants. Our conversation drifts through discussing different topics pertaining to fertilizer use, such as how to use various kinds, organic vs artificial, radioactivity, impurities & fillers, hempy buckets, soil, nutrient deficiencies & burns, as well as other subjects while taking some interesting tangents throughout. If you are looking for specific "how to" information to use fertilizers then definetely check out the quality videos he produced and placed for free on his website, but if you are interested in gleaning some deeper insights then take the time to enjoy this conversation. How often do you have the opportunity to learn from someone who has been growing for so long? Hardly ever, so enjoy, and you'll also then understand what VLRMF means too.
RD from SoCal Seed Collective
RD - SoCal Seed Collective - SoCalSeedCo.com
One of the main heads from the SoCal Seed Collective, he offered to speak about the intentional hermi breeding of female cannabis plants, though the focus of the interview drifted somewhat. Interspersed through the interview are nuggets of information to be gathered to learn how to deliberately force a female cannabis plant to become a hermaphrodite producing male pollen flowers. Why would you want to do that? Well, first of all, that is how seed manufacturers produce the feminized seeds they sell, and so virtually all seeds planted will result in female plants that will grow into bud producing plants. The male plants are generally discarded by most growers as soon as gender is determined because they don't produce the medicinal buds, and thus with regular seeds 50% of seeds produce males, thus wasting valuable time & energy growing useless plants. As discussed, this is also a way to preserve the genetics of a clone only strain, but an alternative method discussed is to use the male pollen from another strain, and then breeding the offspring back to the clone for a few generations until approximately 99% of the genetics is from the original clone (Google how the Cinderella 99 strain was created to understand this cubing process further). He goes on to explain how the seed strains available from them are exception, though only available to people within California, but does mention a few foreign seed banks that carry some of their strains. If you grow cannabis, and are interested in such methods, then be sure to give this a listen to.
Bonus: Ed from Ed's TNT
Bonus Interview - Ed's TnT - EdsTnT.com
Ed sent us a lovely wooden dugout and a sample of his other fine wood pipes, one-hitters & MFLB stems, which were used to show nice pieces in the article about smoking & ingestion methods produced for this Summit. He produces outstanding quality wooden dugouts that are worthy of collecting, great for ladies who want exquisit dugouts that accessorize well with their outfits & purses, and for the gentlemen who enjoy the finer things. In this very short interview he talks a bit about how he makes these unique pieces, and provides more information about them. If you smoke on the go, and are the type of person who takes pride in your equipment, then be sure to listen to this brief interview and to look over the many exotic wood choices available on his website.
