🐘Battling Elephants and Hippos, the State of the Cannabis Genepool, and IPM Talk, with Steve Raisner | Otter.ai

🐘Battling Elephants and Hippos, the State of the Cannabis Genepool, and IPM Talk, with Steve Raisner

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Jordan River

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Greetings growers from around the world. Jordan River here back at you with more grow cast delivered at the perfect pH today we have Steve raisner back on the line. Potent pons is here to talk about his recent adventures and travels. We talk about the release of the philos seed line. For those of you who've been listening to the show for a long time, it is a very interesting callback. Steve discusses a little bit of that with us before moving into IPM and controlling pests, as well as some of his incredible travels around the world consulting for all sorts of different cultivators. It's a really strong episode. I know you're gonna love it before we jump in, though. Shout out to AC infinity, my favorite grow gear manufacturers, AC infinity.com, always use code grow. Cast one five, grab yourself a new tent, a new light, grab yourself a grow kit. Expand that grow room, get that veg tent going so you can do some staggered runs. Code grow, cast one five, works on all the products at AC infinity and the Grow kits, which come with everything you need to get started growing. Of course, AC infinity makes amazing durable tents. They make the best oscillating and inline fans in the game. They make grow lights. They make grow pots. They got scissors. They got protective eyewear. Everything you need is at AC infinity.com, and code grow cast one, five is the code you use to save everybody. You're helping us keep our lights on here, and you're supporting an awesome company, our partners, AC infinity. We've been with them for years and years now. I remember discovering them when they just had the cloud line. They're in line fans, and now they have all these goodies, from the cloud Ray oscillator to the cloud forge humidifier, find it all always use code, grow, cast one, five, and thank you. AC infinity, acinfinity.com. All right, let's get into it with Steve. 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 a grower on to grow cast, or turn a smoker onto growing. It's the best thing you can do to help us on our mission of overgrow. Make sure you're subscribed wherever you're listening to this. We're on Spotify. We're at growcast podcast.com we're everywhere. Hit, follow, hit, subscribe and check out growcast podcast.com. For all the stuff, membership, seeds, classes, it's all there. Special. Thank you to the members for making this show possible. All right, everyone, we are back again with aquaponics expert, IPM expert, microbe expert, and my good friend, potent ponics is here. What's going on? Steve, how are you doing?

Speaker 1

02:34

Hey, man, thanks for having me. It's been a minute. It's always fun to be on your show. Yeah, welcome

Jordan River

02:40

back to grow cast, man, let's catch up with you know what's been going on? What you've been up to since we last spoke? I know you've been traveling consulting. You got a new aquaponics production thing going on with vegetables. Talk to me about what you've been doing,

Speaker 1

02:53

yeah, working on some projects in Texas for a bit. It was big facility down there. I was doing some consulting on did some work for a group in Minnesota that was really fun, working with them, and, yeah, just kind of doing a bit of consulting here and there at the moment, and then working on trying to get our shop open, which seems like a never ending bureaucracy bullshit in Tennessee, but I think we're, we're just about there, so We'll have that up and running here before too long, with our nice, little hemp shop been working on that, and then have a little converting, and currently working on converting an old trout farm into a food production space. We'll be doing three to 4000 heads of lettuce on that. So that'll be another great way to kind of get stuff up and running and have a little cool little project to work on too, and we'll sell those shop here once we get open in the next few weeks. But, you know, going through all the inspections and SOPs and all that fun stuff for a place that's doing production in the back and in foods, food in the front is a little bit trickier than just doing a dispo or just doing a, you know, a cafe on its own. So take a little bit longer. That's

Jordan River

04:04

cool, though. Man, that is rewarding. I'm sure it's a pain in the ass to get it up and running, but yeah, are you doing that out of like, like a pond on the property, or something like that, or do you have fish that you're raising? How does that

Speaker 1

04:15

work? So there's a neighbor that does raises a bunch of different types of local fish for pond stocking, and they were no longer doing trout. He wanted to convert that into something else. So we talked about it, and we're converting over. It's a long raceway. It's like 130 foot raceways that are concrete, and they're about seven feet deep. So we'll convert those into the raceways for the lettuce, and then we'll have the fish up on the side in a separate side tank with the with the filtration system, so we can mineralize all that waste and grow the vegetables with that. And then, you know, we have the hemp farm, which is much closer to where I live, which isn't that far that we're also doing just some soil production of some THCA. And CBD and that kind of stuff. Neat,

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