charlie crebs

Congratulations you've made it to flowering! Harvest is right around the corner. Time to get your dry room in order. In episode 30: I got to have a conversation with Cory Russell about the cannabis industry and setting up your dry room for success.

Setting up your dry room for success is a step not to skip or cut corners.  You've worked your ass off to get to this point. Believe me there is nothing worse than spending 6 months growing just to have dry weed that smells like hay.

There are a lot of gems intwined in a conversation between two dudes in the cannabis industry. But I hope you find our past successes and failures and learn from them. I know I learned a TON!

Special shout out to Tad Hussey the podcast host of: Cannabis Cultivation & Science. Thank you for leading the way and creating such an informative podcast. Thank you!

Resources:
Resinate Radio
Cannabis Cultivation & Science Podcast

In Episode 28: I had a great conversation with Joshua Mezher about taking care of our favorite plant cannabis. He gives a lot of amazing history of the plant and great advice. But as usual we always get to the same point of "less is more and don't over water".

Biggest take away for me: Remove the lower large water fan leaves.  Use string or garden ties to extend the lower branches and put some pressure on the branch without breaking the branch. It will let the branch reach for more light and along with removing fan leaves which allows more air flow.

Thanks for your time Joshua!

RESOURCES:

Personal Grow Website
MUST WATCH INFORMERCIAL | A Pot for Pot

In Episode 27: I had a sparkly conversation with Johanna Silver. Her background at Sunset magazine and her approach to gardening was fantastic. She was clear to make a point that it's just another plant. To use her own words: "It's fine. If it all goes wrong, you just do it again next year. The definition of a gardener is not someone who gets it. Right. It's like, if you screw it up and you still keep going, then congratulations. You're a gardener. You know, like that's, that's all, that's all it is. You just, you have a passion for the process. It sort of doesn't even matter what the final outcome is."

BUT there is one specific outlier to the cannabis plant. SEXING: also known as Sensimilla which means “without seeds”. The term was coined in the 1970s on the west coast to describe seedless cannabis flowers that come from unfertilized female plants, specifically used to imply a high-THC-potency product. Sexing your plants to determine male from female is an integral step in producing seedless high cannabinoid plants. Males can be stored  in a closed environment for breeding. BUT...if this is your first year lets focus on growing healthy females. 

Johanna shared the difference between male and female. Luckily it is very similar to human anatomy. The Male has pollen sacks that are in a ball shape. Caution: your plants in their earlier weeks may all look like they are female. It takes time for the plant to reach the human  equivalent of puberty. 

Hope you enjoy this fantastic conversation with Johanna!

Listen in on ClubHouse in the Personal Plant room to our Live Q&A with Johanna Silver on Wednesday August 4th @ 3pm. 

In Episode 26: I had my first return guest Daniel Enking of Everflux Technologies. Daniel has made his mission to educate people about growing cannabis. He was nice enough to share knowledge learned from legends. It was very clear that living soil and supporting healthy plants was the best way to keep pest infestation at bay.

While you hone your skills keeping your plants healthy. Here are some predatory bugs that will help keep your pests at bay: Praying Mantis, Green Lacewing, Assassin Bugs, Beneficial Nematodes. To buy and learn more check out Arbico Organics.

Biggest Take Away:

1. Diversity: Starting with Living Soil and adding diversity such as Compost Tea, BioFlux will add immense amount of microbiology to your soil.
2. Balance: Making sure everything from Water, Light, and Soil is as balanced as possible.

Resources:
Everflux Technologies
Arbico Organics

In today's Collaboration Series: Personal Grow, Lecture 105 we have Chiah Rodriques of Arcanna Flowers. Get out your notepads and get ready cause Chiah is coming in hot with TONS of gems.

Join us next Wednesday July 7th at 3pm on Clubhouse for our Discussion 105 with Chiah. Until then have a wonderful and safe 4th of July everyone!

RESOURCES/LINKS

Arcanna Flowers
Terravesco

In Lecture 102: I had the pleasure of speaking with Emily Gogol of Grow It From Home a Cannabis/Hemp Nursery located in Oregon. We covered how hardy this plant cannabis is, they don't call it weed for no reason. It doesn't take someone with a masters degree or be a "Master Grower". Having good genetics, a full sun location in your backyard and some good soil and you are set for success. 

Be sure to join us for the discussion next Wednesday May 26th @ 3pm PT on Clubhouse. Don't have an invitation to Clubhouse? No problem! This link is an invitation to join Clubhouse. All we ask is you try to join our Clubhouse room when you have the time. 


RESOURCES
Clubhouse Invitation Link: https://www.joinclubhouse.com/join/know-grow-create/mk8135np

Emily Gogol

Grow It From Home

In Episode 20: I finally get to know my co-host of Personal Grow a lot better. Peoples path to finding cannabis are so uniquely different. But for some reason we find ourselves correlating at a almost unbelievable rate.

Haley is a wealth of knowledge with an inquisitive approach. I look forward to growing and learning from her on our collaborative series: Personal Grow. Our series will follow our cannabis season from May to October. Giving you weekly tips and tricks on Wednesday's at 3pm Pacific. Join Us!

PERSONAL GROW

Episode 18: Strap in and get ready for take off with Aussies Medicinal Cannabis Patient #1, future spaceman, the myth, the legend Irish Wick. Listen to a mans journey of struggle, despair, near death moments and worst of them all pharmaceutical addiction. His struggle is real, and what is happening to our health care industry globally is appalling. Like any legend he has transformed himself and researched a better way with cannabis. Come hear what true determination for a better life sounds like. You're a legend Irish!

Topics Covered:
-Cannabis use to quit pharmaceuticals.
-Endocannabinoid Deficiencies.
-Mother Milk: "Milk High"
-CBD rich Eggs
-Australia Cannabis Medicine Shortages
-Dear Moon Project

Resources & Links:
- Keep It Medicinal : Instagram, You Tube
- CBD Headquarters Emporium
-dearMoon Project
-Tommy Chong

On Episode 17: I had the pleasure of finally chatting one on one with my fellow cannabis tribe members Devika Maskey. This maven of the industry has created and executed some of the best cannabis events and products in the California marketplace. Even more beautiful is her integrity and dedication to sustainability with all of her endeavors. It was a pleasure to spend an hour with a fellow clubhouse comrade and talk all things cannabis!

Come join us while we look at the beautiful synergy between:
Wine & Weed | Cultivar & Terroir | Culinary & Chemovar

Links/Resources:

Devika Maskey

OMURA

TSO Sonoma 

Join me on Episode 15 when I get to catch up with Martin Lee : Co-Founder & Director of Project CBD. I had the honor of working with Martin in 2017 and always enjoyed our conversations and captivated whenever I heard him speak. His team at Project CBD collaborated with Reader's Digest to write "The Essential Guide to CBD: Everything You Need to Know About What It Helps, Where to Buy, And How to Take It" available now!

Martin Lee is a wealth of knowledge and a master wordsmith in his books:
1985 – Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD, and the Sixties Rebellion
1990 – Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media 
1997 – The Beast Reawakens: Fascism's Resurgence
2012 – Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana – Medical, Recreational, and Scientific

His journey led him to co-creating Project CBD in 2009 with fellow journalists who had been covering the medical marijuana story—the science, the movement and the industry. They felt that the reintroduction of CBD-rich cannabis into the grassroots supply merited special attention. The serendipitous reappearance of whole plant CBD in Northern California in 2009 has given doctors and patients a unique opportunity to evaluate the effects of cannabidiol. Project CBD updates doctors and patients on developments in cannabis science, therapeutics and political economy.


MY NOTES & RESOURCES

Community building botanical 

Bottom line CBD helps people, but not intrinsically psychoactive, 

Plays a role in the drug addiction, accelerated because of help with addiction. 

Bring people into the fold because of cbd rich,

Community building factor of cannabis, protect from big business, 

2013 Dr. Sanjay Gupta can world found out they didn’t have to smoke or get high. 

2009 Project CBD started giving thousands of clones, then shifted to what products should be made with cbd, 2017/2018 farm bill. Unregulated, hemp, cbd is responsible for making that happen. 

CBD raises levels of endogenies cannabinoids, help with endogenous cannabinoid tone, that they last longer hang around longer, and do their thing longer, maintain homeostasis, scientific consensus their is a dissfunction in ECS, modulating the ECS

Type 1 High THC:LOW CBD 

Type 2  Balanced 1:1 THC:CBD

Type 3 High CBD: LOW THC

Harlequin first released wade laughter, squat indica, pink and purple, effective cbd plant type 2

Womans collective stinky purple: wasn’t a type 2, measure 10:1 cbd:thc

Episode 14: I had the pleasure speaking with Nick Ciufo. He plays beautifully between Cannabis and Mushrooms. We first go into the growing practices of TAO Gardens. I was stoked to see the use of Blumat and custom living soil from Build a Soil  in his indoor grow. Nick is nice enough to share knowledge learned about Fungus and the difference between Functional Mushrooms and Medicinal Psilocybin  Mushrooms. 

TAO Gardens
 
Hyphae Wellness

Cannapress Cannajuice

Build a Soil

Blumat USA Certified Retailer Sustainable Village

Gary Farrell Winemaker