🧑🌾Cannabis Labor, Large Scale Cultivation Challenges, Grow Lights, and More, with Dr. MJ Coco
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4.7 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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*This episode dropped 4/11/22, there was a distribution issue that has since been resolved!*
The one and only Dr. MJ Coco from www.cocoforcannabis.com swings by the podcast for another informative episode just in time for Educational April! Today the good doctor is educating us on the challenges of scaling up a cannabis grow. The challenges that a gardener faces when scaling up from a small home tent grow to a large scale facility are numerous and complex. Dr. Coco dives deep into maybe the biggest difference: labor. This leads to a huge conversation about agricultural labor, and how the cannabis industry tends to operate when it comes to setting up grows and implementing folks to run them. The boys also talks about materials, and the cost differences in certain grow strategies- like replacing your grow medium, or switching nutrient lines. Dr. Coco also, of course, discusses grow lights- focusing on the future of the technology and what we can expect from light manufacturers in the coming years...
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings cultivators from around the world. Jordan River here with more growcast. Here when you need me, |
| 0:05.8 | reliably. Today we have the great Dr. Coco back on the line. You know Dr. Coco. You love Dr. Coco. It's |
| 0:12.5 | educational April. Today we are educating ourselves on scaling up the process of scaling up your garden |
| 0:18.5 | and what that means. The differences between these large grows and small grows, the limitations. We get into things like labor cost, you know, |
| 0:26.2 | material cost, how they differ, experimentation. It's a really cool episode and you know we talk |
| 0:30.3 | lights. Before we get into it, though, with Dr. Coco, shout out, speaking of lights, shout out to |
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