Welcome to the Cannabis Welcome to the Cannabis Cultivation and Science Podcast. I'm your host, Tad Hussey of Kiss Organics. This is the podcast where we discuss

the cutting edge of growing from a science-based perspective and drawn top experts from around the industry to share their wisdom and knowledge.

As you probably already know, very little research exists on cannabis and much of it is not shared openly.

I was so excited to see these papers and doctoral

thesis from my next guest. You may wish to check out the publications prior to listening to this

podcast or if you want to read them after, you can go to the podcast page. Go to wwwkisorgans.com

and click on podcast on the top of the page. And while you're there, don't forget to

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as well. My guest this week is Darren Kaplan. Darren is a horticultural scientist and the director

of plant science at Flower in Colonna, BC, that's spelled F-L-O-W-R.

He was the first person in North America to earn a PhD with research focused on cannabis

production.

Dr. Kaplan has written and published several peer-reviewed articles on cannabis production,

focusing on irrigation, growing media, fertilization, and propagation.

He has testified on cannabis production before the

Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and has provided expert commentary

on cannabis for a variety of media outlets, including CBC, Nature, and Rolling Stone magazine.

Now on to the show. Hi, Darren. Thanks for coming on the show today.

Hi, thanks for having me.

Yeah, why don't we start off giving listeners a little bit of your background and how you got into,

well, essentially cannabis research in your PhD?

Yeah, so I've kind of always been interested in plant science and horticulture specifically. I studied environmental science and undergrad and when I was looking for

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