Scaling From 500 Clones A Week to 100k Clones a Month at 'GlassHouse Farms' (Podcast Episode 10)

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03/03/21 • 59 min

Canna Cribs Podcast

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Table of Contents

0:00 Opening

1:53 Catching up w/ Graham since Episode 1

14:24 Cloning at GlassHouse Farms

18:46 Cannabis Compliance

27:01 Tom's Tumbler Batch Machine for Post-Harvest (Python 400)

27:50 Sustainability & Philosophy

35:13 200 Acre Outdoor Hemp Farm

40:33 Future of Cannabis Cultivation in California

48:50 Protecting your Eyes with Method Seven

50:04 Canna Cribs Experience

57:22 Cultivars & R&D at GlassHouse Farms

Questions and Topics in this interview:

-What brought you to the cannabis space?

-Any major changes at Glass House since your episode?

-Are you working with any other breeders?

-In your episode you mentioned you were taking about 500 clones a week, has that increased since my team was there?

-Let’s talk about compliance, in your episode you mentioned that Glass House is at “the forefront of compliant cannabis.” What did that mean at the time?

-You mentioned in your episode that GlassHouse is committed to Sustainable Resource Management, is that throughout the entire process?

-Glass House is obviously a reference to your greenhouse grow style. What are the advantages to growing in a greenhouse over indoor and outdoor grows?

-What did you think about your Canna Cribs experience?

-What would you say to the hand-trim purists?

-We didn’t really talk about extracts when we were at Glass House, but you did mention people were “lining up for” your trim. Is this still the case?

-What were you most excited about showing off in your episode?

-What is your favorite thing about Glass House?

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Table of Contents

0:00 Opening

1:53 Catching up w/ Graham since Episode 1

14:24 Cloning at GlassHouse Farms

18:46 Cannabis Compliance

27:01 Tom's Tumbler Batch Machine for Post-Harvest (Python 400)

27:50 Sustainability & Philosophy

35:13 200 Acre Outdoor Hemp Farm

40:33 Future of Cannabis Cultivation in California

48:50 Protecting your Eyes with Method Seven

50:04 Canna Cribs Experience

57:22 Cultivars & R&D at GlassHouse Farms

Questions and Topics in this interview:

-What brought you to the cannabis space?

-Any major changes at Glass House since your episode?

-Are you working with any other breeders?

-In your episode you mentioned you were taking about 500 clones a week, has that increased since my team was there?

-Let’s talk about compliance, in your episode you mentioned that Glass House is at “the forefront of compliant cannabis.” What did that mean at the time?

-You mentioned in your episode that GlassHouse is committed to Sustainable Resource Management, is that throughout the entire process?

-Glass House is obviously a reference to your greenhouse grow style. What are the advantages to growing in a greenhouse over indoor and outdoor grows?

-What did you think about your Canna Cribs experience?

-What would you say to the hand-trim purists?

-We didn’t really talk about extracts when we were at Glass House, but you did mention people were “lining up for” your trim. Is this still the case?

-What were you most excited about showing off in your episode?

-What is your favorite thing about Glass House?

Previous Episode

Social Equity in Cannabis: Kevin Ahaesy @ ECO Cannabis (Canna Cribs Podcast E9)

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Table of Contents

0:00 Opening

2:14 Kevin Ahaesy Background

9:20 ECO Cannabis Business Model

23:48 Social Equity Mission & Program

32:58 Companies & Mentorship

41:18 ECO Cannabis Hiring Process

48:14 Advice from Kevin Ahaesy

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Questions and Topics in this interview:

Tell us about your background and what led you to the cannabis space?

-Tell us about your company, ECO, and your role over there?

-You were a captain of the University of CA Berkeley water polo team, do you still play for fun?

-Do you think athletic governing boards (college and pro) should penalize athletes for cannabis use?

-ECO is a vertically integrated company, where you incubate eight (8) social equity businesses at your Oakland, CA cannabis campus. How involved are you in the day to day for each business?

-What makes ECO so special?

-I’d like to know a little more about your mission as a “social equity” company. Can you explain what that is?

-Tell us more about mentorship at ECO Cannabis?

-I love your name and the play on “ecosystem,” because that’s exactly what you’ve created in the city of Oakland, right? Can you tell us how that works?

-What inspired your mission?

-What percentage of your workforce are people with prior convictions?

-What are the biggest hurdles you faced in developing a business model that puts a premium on social equity?

-Is there a downside to the model? Costs related to working with Oakland companies versus dealing with professionals outside the city?

-A lot of our listeners are growers or other people who’d like to get involved in cannabis professionally, what’s your advice?

-What’s next for you and ECO?

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Next Episode

Cannabis Tissue Culture Master Class w/ Dr. Sma Zobayed at Segra International (Podcast Episode 11)

Table of Content

0:00 Opening

1:40 Background on Dr. Sma Zobayed

8:41 Responsibilities at Segra International

16:40 Day-To-Day for Dr. Sma Zobayed

30:28 History of Tissue Culture

37:43 Why Tissue Culture?

43:48 Packaging with Green Vault Systems

44:33 Disease Resistance with Tissue Culture

49:29 Plant Count using Tissue Culture

58:03 Differences Between Cuttings from Tissue Culture

1:03:09 Packaging ROI with Precision Batch by Green Vault Systems

1:04:34 The Future of Tissue Culture

1:11:13 Future Expansion/Projects at Segra International

Questions and Topics in this interview:

-Hello, please tell us a bit about yourself

-Let’s talk about your role as “Chief Tissue Culture Officer” at Segra Intl. -

You’re THE expert in tissue culture - what is it? Same as “micropropagation?”

-More and more cannabis growers are turning to tissue culture, what’s the advantage of tissue culture in a commercial grow?

-It seems like a lot of the cannabis enthusiasts I talk to are a bit wary of science and call anything not “naturally” grown “frankenweed”

-What are your predictions for the future of tissue culture in the cannabis space?

-Do you have any new projects or plans you can tell us about?

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