🐛Thai Cannabis, IPMO, and Soil Microbiology, with Potent Ponics

Jordan River52min

Jordan River

00:00

Greetings cultivators worldwide. Jordan River here back with more grow cast straight out of the super lab today. Good friend of the show, potent ponics is back. That's right. He's back from Thailand. He's on the line with us, little bit of a choppy connection. Please forgive us, but Steve is doing traveling, and he's got a lot of great stuff to update us on, including incoming Thai genetics for the community. Oh, it's wonderful, as well as his work in Thailand, dealing with different indigenous microorganisms coming back to the states and more. It's an amazing episode. I know you're gonna love it before we jump into it with Steve, though, shout out to mighty hydro. That's right, our choice partner in the San Diego, California area, we love mighty hydro. Get what you need. If you're a grower from mighty hydro, they've got an amazing selection, a knowledgeable staff, and they support community. We're always doing classes down there at mighty hydro San Diego. We really appreciate that team. And listen a lot of these stores. They just don't care about the community. They don't care about this stuff. And when we call them up to do classes, can't even get someone to answer. I've been hung up on. But not at mighty hydro, they support education for local home growers. It's tough out there in California right now, so you've got to support the real ones. And we want to give a big thank you to mighty hydro for always hosting us. Recently did Pesta Palooza down there. It was credible and huge, thank you to our partners in San Diego. If you're in the SoCal area, hit up mighty hydro for all your growing needs. We support them. They support the community, and we want to make sure that we vote with our dollar. Thank you to mighty hydro and stay tuned to everybody for next year's Tour of classes. Okay, let's get into it with Steve raisner, thank you for listening and enjoy the show. Hello, podcast listeners, you are now listening to grow cast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in again today. Before we get started, as always, I urge you to share this show. Turn someone on to growing turn someone on growcast. It's the best way that you can help us out. And of course, see everything we're doing@growcastpodcast.com you can join up our membership. We'd love to see you in there, our seeds, our classes, it's all there, everybody. Thank you for your support. Today, we have a good friend of mine back on the show. Been a minute since he's been on the main podcast. Here, he's made a few growcast TV appearances for the members, but back stateside from his work overseas, we have potent ponics himself. Steve raisner is on the line. What's up? Steve, how you doing? Man, I'm doing well. How you doing? Good? Good man. Thank you for coming back on the show. You've been an International Man of Mystery for some time now, but you're back stateside. So can you update the Grow cast audience? Just a brief overview of what you've been up to in your Thailand travels, and what brings you

Speaker 1

02:48

back here? Sure, yeah, finished up my first six month contract out there in Thailand, and then spent a couple months working for a couple of other cool people out there. And then around the time of the elections there, my dad had to have some surgery, so it made sense to come back and kind of wait to see how the new landscape was looking after the election. And so far, it's not looking super great. It looks like the new new government's not very cannabis friendly and wanting to kind of crack down on a lot. I know a couple of people that have been raided and other things like that in the last, let's say, a month and a half. So it's not been, not been like it was when I was there. It's certainly a different climate now, for sure. And man, you're kind of seeing a lot of the more corporate powers to be. You know that we're very upset about how things kind of became legalized suddenly, kind of clawing back some of their control of the market.

Jordan River

03:41

Man, I was so excited to see that part of the world have legislative change like that. It was totally out of left field. You know, Southeast Asia traditionally so strict when it comes to psychoactives and drug use. But here you go. A few years later, it seems like there's already trouble. That's a shame. I hope that the industry continues, and I hope that they're able to regain some of that. How did it feel to be over there during that time? Man? Like, let's just say that it does get worse and worse and kind of go back to normal. You were there, like ground floor during this insane moment in cannabis history. Did you feel that gravity over there? Yeah.

Speaker 1

04:16

I mean, it's certainly, like a flash in the pan moment, kind of like, I don't know if you remember the summer of legalization in 2004 Canada had a similar thing where they had temporarily legalized weed for about a year, um, before, kind of cracking down again. This kind of reminds me of that in a lot of ways, where not that it's like illegal. You can still buy weed everywhere in Thailand, but they're cracking down on the businesses, and they want to squeeze it down to a lot fewer players than there are in the market right now. And they're not really, you know, they want to move everything back to medical only and everything else, and make everything you'll have a card system and all this other stuff that, like, just makes no sense at this point. You've already had it legalized. Like, just let it go. It's not called. Problems. You know, you want to do something that's going to help Thailand do something about the alcohol problem. You know that there's a huge, huge problem with Lao cow and stuff like that, that would do far more good as far as saving lives in Thailand than worrying about cannabis. So

Jordan River

05:14

true, but, but you're saying from a kind of smokers perspective, or a tourist perspective, it's still prevalent over there right now.

Speaker 1

05:20

Oh yeah, if you're a tourist and you just want to go smoke weed on the beach and Phuket, you can totally still do that. It's just a matter of it's more on the commercial back end than it is on the front end. But I do really think in the next in the near future, they might require some kind of medical card, but because the industry is basically being completely supported by tourism right now. I kind of don't see them not making a, you know, tourist medical cards type situation for right for those that may need one, one

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