I didn’t see this coming!

ACRES of weed, people.
It’s hard to fathom how fantastic it is... standing in the middle of it, and it’s rows of cannabis pretty much as far as you can see.


The farm is still a commute... about 1 hr 15 min. But it’s a decent drive, for the most part. I don’t know how long I’ll end up staying there for but I can prob manage the distance until I settle into a long term position and I’ll be able to buy a house closer if I want to.

While I don’t know anything specifically about tomatillos, cannabis is still essentially just a plant and not particularly unique in a lot of ways. We most often compare growing cannabis at scale to growing tomatoes, poinsettias and potted chrysanthemums.

Most cannabis grown for consumption is photoperiodc, which means it requires the length of darkness it is exposed to at night to determine whether it will remain in a vegetative growth stage or flip to producing flowers (the weed we consume is flower bud).

Growing at scale is challenging, not only to simply manage the work, but to figure out proper watering patterns, how closely or well spaced the plants are kept, how to make sure there aren’t light leaks that will disrupt the growth patterns... making sure the plants have no insects or powdery mildew in them. Stuff like that becomes far more complicated when growing, say for example at 200,000 sq ft greenhouse facility vs four plants in your backyard or basement.

A lot of these challenges are the same as other industrial greenhouse growers face — potted mums need a blackout period and light leaks can ruin a crop, insects and disease are a pressure for any grower — but the inability to use pretty much all pesticides, for example, makes managing cannabis a bit more difficult.