In the spirit of this, my guest this week is Matthew Butters. I met Matthew when he emailed me and we started corresponding. I went to tour his facility, which is about 2.5 hours away from me, and after the tour I decided I wanted to have him on the podcast. Matthew serves as the Director of Cultivation at Smokey Point Productions and Waypointe Ventures, a prominent i502 operation in Washington. Leveraging his expertise in cannabis cultivation, he has a rich history of successfully developing and leading cultivation teams in various settings worldwide. Matthew is driven by a commitment to achieving sustainable production of top-tier cannabis on a commercial scale, reflecting his passion for excellence in the industry. Now on to the show!
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Articles on plastic, stainless steel and glass used in the cannabis industry:
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Victoria has a lifelong interest in studying the interactions between microbes and their surrounding environment. She earned her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Michigan before moving to Dartmouth College to further her studies with postdoctoral research. As Chief Science Officer of Imio, Victoria has led the development and production of multiple microbial products that replace harmful chemicals and enable healthier, more productive cultivation of plants.
Charles started Imio to dedicate his career to helping people, plants and our planet. After graduating from Dartmouth College, he began his career at Morgan Stanley where he focused on the technology sector. He moved on from finance to join a NYC based software startup where he gained valuable insight into scaling companies and teams. As CEO of IMIO, Charles manages Business Development and Operations, as the company works to unlock plant productivity and restore our planet through the power of nature.
If you would like to try Root, you can check out the product page here
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So in the spirit of this new idea, I’ll be releasing some shorter podcasts on here that will just be me, talking on a particular topic or answering listener submitted questions that I think are really interesting and deserve to be shared. Some of the topics I know I’d like to cover already are mycorrhizal fungi, the use of teas in cultivation like nutrient teas or compost teas, how water impacts cultivation, “no till” in soilless media, science-based metrics for growing cannabis, and much more.
This is all going to be additional content, and won’t take away from what we are already doing with the podcast. I promise that all the guest interviews I do outside of KIS Organics will continue to be free to access on the podcast, that’s really important to us and part of our mission to share and provide science-based education.
You can check out the full podcast on our Patreon Channel: https://www.patreon.com/kisorganics
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Steve Cantwell was born in Long Beach, CA. He began training in martial arts at a young age and developed a passion for combat sports. In 2005, Cantwell made his professional MMA debut and quickly gained attention for his aggressive fighting style and well-rounded skills. He amassed an impressive record in regional promotions, which led to his signing with the UFC in 2008.
In recent years, Cantwell has focused on his entrepreneurial endeavors, particularly in the cannabis industry. He founded Green Life Productions (GLP) in 2014, a prominent Las Vegas-based cannabis cultivation company. GLP is known for its organic and sustainable approach to cannabis cultivation, producing high-quality cannabis.
Cantwell's involvement with GLP has allowed him to combine his passion for entrepreneurship with his interest in health and wellness. His contributions to the company reflect his ongoing dedication to promoting sustainable and responsible practices within the cannabis industry. Now on to the show!
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Steve Cantwell was born in Long Beach, CA. He began training in martial arts at a young age and developed a passion for combat sports. In 2005, Cantwell made his professional MMA debut and quickly gained attention for his aggressive fighting style and well-rounded skills. He amassed an impressive record in regional promotions, which led to his signing with the UFC in 2008.
In recent years, Cantwell has focused on his entrepreneurial endeavors, particularly in the cannabis industry. He founded Green Life Productions (GLP) in 2014, a prominent Las Vegas-based cannabis cultivation company. GLP is known for its organic and sustainable approach to cannabis cultivation, producing high-quality cannabis.
Cantwell's involvement with GLP has allowed him to combine his passion for entrepreneurship with his interest in health and wellness. His contributions to the company reflect his ongoing dedication to promoting sustainable and responsible practices within the cannabis industry. Now on to the show!
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This week’s show is a bit different, as we get a lot of the same questions at KIS Organics and thought it would be fun to do a show covering a lot of the most common ones. Now on to the show!
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My guest this week is Dr. Nicole Gauthier. She is a Professor and Extension specialist at the University of Kentucky. Her program focuses on disease management of specialty crops, including hemp. In her Extension role, she develops educational and outreach programs to help growers manage disease through identification, understanding of pathosystems, and integration of management strategies. Her research program focuses on a range of hemp diseases, including Fusarium head blight. Dr. Gauthier earned her BS in Horticulture Science and her PhD in Plant Pathology from Louisiana State University. She joined the UK College of Agriculture in 2011 and began working with industrial hemp in 2014.
Access her resources at https://plantpathology.ca.uky.edu/extension/publications#HEMP and https://www.youtube.com/@NicoleGauthier/videos
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Growing Up Blue:
Cari is a Terp & a Blue Hen -- She received her Ph.D. in Plant Sciences (2004), M.S in Agronomy (2000) from the Univ. of Maryland and her B.S. in Biology from the Univ. of Delaware (1997).
Her Research:
She grew up with blue hands – her first job was fertilizing her grandparents’ flowers in their backyard when she was 8. You can hear her speak at many industry events and may even see some of the articles and chapters she has published through the years. And lastly, she is passionate about passing on horticulture to the next generation by her involvement with a wonderful non-profit called Seed Your Future.
Honors and Awards:
Forty Under Forty Young Industry Professional Award. Greenhouse Grower. Class of 2014
The Leland E. Scott Award. Outstanding Graduate Student in Horticulture. University of Maryland, 2004
FIRST in Floriculture: NGMA: National Greenhouse Management Association Scholarship, 2003
New Phytologist, Bursary scholarship, 2002
Women in Agronomy, American Society of Agronomy, 2000
Professional Societies and Other Memberships:
Seed Your Future: National leadership cabnate
Stakeholder: OptimIA (Optimizing Indoor Agriculture) is a USDA-supported
AAPFCO – Amer. Assoc. of Plant Food Control Officials – Industry Liaison
Board of Directors American Hort. The American Horticultural Industry Association 2013-present
Pennsylvania Flower Growers: Grower Advisory Council 2004 - present
Longwood Gardens: Advisory Committee 2011 - present
Executive Committee member– OFA: The association of Horticultural Professionals 2012
Board Member – OFA: The association of Horticultural Professionals 2011 –2012
Generation Next Committee Member 2008-2013; Ohio Florist Association
Ohio Florist Association
American Society of Horticultural Science
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NOTE: There were some corrections to the podcast that were discovered after recording. Around the 20 minute mark, the nitrogen rate should be 200 ppm and when Patrick references 50 ppm of phosphorus, he meant to say 50 ppm of magnesium. You can refer to the actual paper in the links below to verify the rates and information.
My guests this week are 2 awesome cannabis researchers, Paul Cockson and Patrick Veazie. Paul has been on the podcast before on episode 59 talking about his paper on cannabis deficiencies. Be sure to check out that episode if you haven’t already and also this is a good one to go to the podcast page at kisorganics.com, just click on the learn tab then podcast. I will have links to all the papers so you can follow along as well as a link to their new website that shares all their research in one central location, it’s a great resource.
Paul has been working in the hemp world as a researcher since 2018, and in plant science research since 2016. He has a background in horticulture, agroecology, and floriculture from his time at NC State. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD at the University of Kentucky working with industrial hemp. Paul's primary research focuses on rhizosphere management and brings strengths in plant mineral fertility, plant hormones and growth regulators, substrate research, general diagnostics, and greenhouse and growth chamber expertise. In addition to a strong greenhouse background, Paul is also literate in field level agronomic processes. Paul's passion is for mentorship and sharing the research process with undergraduate students. When not doing research, Paul and his dog (Groot) can be found hiking in local, state, and national parks.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-cockson-10575647/
Email: paul.cockson@uky.edu
Patrick Veazie has been working in the hemp world as a researcher since 2019, and as a plant science researcher since 2018. He has a background in horticulture and floriculture from his time as an undergraduate researcher at NC State. Currently, he is pursuing his M.S. at North Carolina State and is focusing on greenhouse substrates for Cannabis and other floriculture crops. Patrick's primary research focuses on plant mineral fertility, substrate research, and general diagnostics.
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/patrick-veazie-a80360211
Email: phveazie@ncsu.edu
Research website mentioned on the podcast: https://sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/e-gro-cannabis
UKY Hemp Resources:
https://hemp.ca.uky.edu/
https://www.uky.edu/ccd/production/crop-resources/gffof/hemp
http://www.rs.uky.edu/regulatory/hpt/
KYDA Hemp Resources:
https://www.kyagr.com/marketing/hemp-pilot.html
Was super excited to talk to them about some of their latest published research on cannabis and hemp. Now on to the show!
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Jeff is an extremely respected and popular national garden writer. He is the former president of the Garden Writers of America,
Jeff has been a good friend now for over a decade and is a wonderful advocate for organic gardening, compost teas, and the microbes in our soil. Thanks for coming on the show Jeff!
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Paul has been working in the hemp world as a researcher since 2018, and in plant science research since 2016. He has a background in horticulture, agroecology, and floriculture from his time at NC State. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD at the University of Kentucky working with industrial hemp. Paul's primary research focuses on rhizosphere management and brings strengths in plant mineral fertility, plant hormones and growth regulators, substrate research, general diagnostics, and greenhouse and growth chamber expertise. In addition to a strong greenhouse background, Paul is also literate in field level agronomic processes. Paul's passion is for mentorship and sharing the research process with undergraduate students. When not doing research, Paul and his dog (Groot) can be found hiking in local, state, and national parks.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-cockson-10575647/
Email: paul.cockson@uky.edu
Patrick Veazie has been working in the hemp world as a researcher since 2019, and as a plant science researcher since 2018. He has a background in horticulture and floriculture from his time as an undergraduate researcher at NC State. Currently, he is pursuing his M.S. at North Carolina State and is focusing on greenhouse substrates for Cannabis and other floriculture crops. Patrick's primary research focuses on plant mineral fertility, substrate research, and general diagnostics.
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/patrick-veazie-a80360211
Email: phveazie@ncsu.edu
Research website mentioned on the podcast: https://sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/e-gro-cannabis
UKY Hemp Resources:
https://hemp.ca.uky.edu/
https://www.uky.edu/ccd/production/crop-resources/gffof/hemp
http://www.rs.uky.edu/regulatory/hpt/
KYDA Hemp Resources:
https://www.kyagr.com/marketing/hemp-pilot.html
Was super excited to talk to them about some of their latest published research on cannabis and hemp. Now on to the show!
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Some of her other scientific publications are a compilation of the existing genomic tools available for Cannabis research that was featured in Science, and the maternally inherited genomes (chloroplast and mitochondria). Vergara has authored these publications along with collaborators from the private sector in the Cannabis industry as well as academics from several institutions worldwide. Through AGF, Vergara educates the public about science, data analysis, statistics, evolutionary biology, and genomics.
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Monique is a botanist with a background in plant diversity and evolution. She is the director of the University of Vermont Cannabis Science and Medicine and Plant Biology Certificate programs, director of the Medical Cannabis Center for Research and Education, and co-director of the cannabis pharmacology course at the University of Vermont Medical School. She is also Co-Founder of the CASE Institute, a plant-based pharmaceutical research enterprise. Dr. McHenry completed her Bachelors and Master’s of Science at the University of Colorado and her Ph.D. at the University of Vermont. Now on to the show!
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When I first started the podcast, I didn’t really know if anyone would tune in to listen. As of writing this introduction, we are almost at 2 million unique downloads of the podcast since we launched. I’m grateful to all the folks who have reached out and shared their success stories or how something they learned on the podcast improved their growing, that’s really what this is all about.
Since the beginning I’ve avoided ads and sponsors because I wanted to keep the podcast accessible and free. If you want to support us, please consider going to kis organics.com and checking out our growing list of products ranging from soils and amendments to beneficial insects or reach out for any consulting needs. That’s what allows us to keep the podcast going. Anyway, enough on that….let’s get on with the show!
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I’m very excited to announce that in conjunction with this podcast release, KIS Organics has partnered with BioBee to offer their wide array of beneficial insects through our website and will be shipping direct from insectary so as to ensure optimal viability of insects upon arrival.
In today’s podcast we discuss the many pests we see in cannabis and what some good management options are utilizing beneficial predatory insects. Now on to the show!
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Dr. Zellner received her Doctorate ifrom the University of Toledo in 2012 where she trained in molecular and cellular biology, focusing on the role of silicon in plant defense responses. Upon graduation, she pursued a four-year postdoctoral position with the USDA-ARS, where she continued studying the role of silicon in alleviating both abiotic and biotic stress in tomato and tobacco. Her current studies are to design standard methods for quantifying the uptake of silicon from fertilizer material in addition to identifying uptake mechanisms for silicon in model species and testing for similar pathways in other crops.
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He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (Psychology), and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, before residencies in Pediatrics in Phoenix, Arizona and in Child and Adult Neurology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He was a clinical neurologist in Missoula, Montana for 20 years in a practice with a strong chronic pain component. In 1995, he pursued a 3-month sabbatical doing ethnobotanical research with the Machiguenga people in Parque Nacional del Manu, Peru.
He has held faculty appointments in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Montana, in Medicine at the University of Washington, and as visiting professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Harvard University, and Johns Hopkins University.
He has also published numerous book chapters, and over fifty articles in neurology, pain management, cannabis, and ethnobotany. His research interests have included correlations of historical uses of cannabis to modern pharmacological mechanisms, phytopharmaceutical treatment of migraine and chronic pain, herbal synergy and phytocannabinoid/terpenoid, serotonergic and vanilloid interactions.He has consulted or lectured on these topics in 39 US states and Canadian provinces and 39 countries.
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