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🧬Pressing CBG Cultivars, Ancillary Cannabinoids, and Extraction Tech, with CBG Gurus | Otter.ai

🧬Pressing CBG Cultivars, Ancillary Cannabinoids, and Extraction Tech, with CBG Gurus

Jordan River57min

Jordan River

00:00

Greetings, listeners worldwide. Jordan River here back with more grow cast, a full spectrum podcast today we have a brand new guest. That's right. We have CBG gurus joining us. They are working out in the East Coast, working on ancillary cannabinoid breeding. We're going to talk about hemp, CBG, CBD, and making extraction from different types of these different type of ratio cultivars. So very excited. I know you're gonna love today's episode before we jump into it, though, shout out to AC infinity. That's right. Acinity.com, code grow, cast one five, now saves 15% across the board. At AC infinity, they're trying to send you to their directly to their website now, and we are encouraging you to use code grow. Cast one five, you'll save 15% no matter what you buy. And orders $99 or more, get free shipping. So go straight to acinity.com use that code grow. Cast one five to get yourself a new Grow Tent kit. AC Infinity has everything you need to succeed. They've got great build quality. They've been making fans for a long time, best fans in the game, and now you can save 15% on all of their awesome items with code grow. Cast one five, once again, it's AC infinity.com. Use code grow cast one five for 15% off, free shipping on orders $99 or more, and if you're still ordering on Amazon, use code growcast for 5% off there. Thank you to AC infinity, and thank you guys for using our codes, it supports AC infinity, it supports us, and we appreciate you helping keep the lights on. All right, everyone, let's get into it with CBG gurus. 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 grow around to grow cast, spread the show really helps us out. Or turn a smoker into a grower by convincing them to pop their first seeds. The best way you can help us in our mission of overgrow. Make sure you're subscribed. Go to growcast podcast.com there you will find everything, the seeds, the classes, the membership huge. Thank you to the members for making this whole thing possible. Be sure to check it out. Today, we're back on the line. We have a brand new guest on grow cast, very excited to talk to this individual about ancillary cannabinoids. You know, we hear a lot about testing revealing different types of cannabinoids that play into our very nuanced cannabis experience, things like CBG, things like THC, V these ancillary cannabinoids, they can have a huge medicinal effect, and there's so much to go over when it comes to cultivating them and processing them. That's exactly what we're going to talk about today with our guest from the CBG gurus. He's the co founder and CEO. Sean is with us from CBG gurus. What's up, Sean, how you doing?

Speaker 1

02:44

I'm doing great man, out here on the deck overlooking the field on this beautiful day in Connecticut. So really excited to talk to you, and, you know, tell everybody a little bit about what it is we're doing here. How you been? How you doing?

Jordan River

02:56

I'm doing great. Doing very well. Since we last spoke, you know, we did a pre interview, and I was very interested in the work that you're doing Sean, before we get into like CBG as a compound, and working with it and turning it into hash and rosin and this sort of stuff. Why don't you give the audience a bit of a introduction on yourself, what brought you into cannabis, and then what brought you from the cannabis world in general, specifically to CBG and ancillary cannabinoids,

Speaker 1

03:21

sure thing. So I have been pretty passionate about cannabis for quite a while. I actually started my college career trying to pursue pre med, and I was a division one athlete, so I had to stop my use for a little while, and then I really wanted to just focus on school more. So I, you know, stopped being an athlete, focused on school. And, you know, some Google ads showed me a program for a medicinal plant chemistry major at Northern Michigan University, a new program. So I applied there on a whim, happened to get in, moved across the country, never had been to the Midwest or the Upper Peninsula, but, you know, just kind of took a deep dive in that regard. That probably was the first step to really devoting my life to cannabis as a career. And then when I was up in Michigan, I learned quite a lot. I kind of got taken under the wing of a long time caregiver who really taught me how to grow, and then I learned about, you know, science aspect of it. While I was in school, made some great connections. And after school, I really kind of had the option to do maybe more or less whatever I wanted. You know, really young field there in Michigan still at the time 2021, so But I decided to move back to Connecticut, where I was, you know, raised here in harwinton, Connecticut, and our house here sits on 13 acres. We've got probably, like four to seven that are really cultivatable. And we're right now farming about half an acre to an acre. Story of outdoor poly culture, mixed cannabis and produce. Wow,

Jordan River

05:04

that sounds incredible. Man, what a story. There's a lot that I want to drill down on there, but I'll make this short and sweet. First of all, going into the kind of academia side and learning that, what did you find? The difference was in the knowledge that you learned from the academic side versus working with someone like a caregiver on a cultivation did they both come in handy? Were they different flavors? Tell me about that

Speaker 1

05:31

definitely both come in handy. I kind of like to think about it like in school, I was trained to be a scientist, and then, you know, my homie taught me, like how to how to start to run a grow, at least, you know, how to work with the plants and take care of the plants. Because in school, I mean, it was a lot of classes. We did a lot of things, but the degree was really focused on training us how to use the analytical instruments. So I was, you know, trained on like an HPLC, running different types of potency and terpene testing. Oh, really. But we did like birch bark extraction, and, you know, pulled the betulin out of birch bark and then ran that through the HPLC and tested, you know, for those compounds. So I think that's what the degree was really focused on, is like training us to run these instruments, which a lot of college students don't get the experience or exposure to, and it's a really valuable skill if you're trying to work in a lab. But just having the the degree and the experience kind of around that type of, you know, learning environment and those type of people, I think, really opened our opportunities to a lot of different things. I mean, I've got a lot of friends who are like, got on the ground floor of some grows out in Michigan. I've got friends working in labs kind of really all across the board so but I think the classes trained me to kind of be a scientist and work like a scientist and think like a scientist, and run experiments and have good documenting skills and all that stuff. And then, you know, getting my hands on plants, obviously, was super valuable in school. We couldn't work with phc cannabis, but we actually were allowed to work with like CBD and CBG genetics, like for our senior thesis project. I don't know if they run it any differently now, but we were individualized and more or we had one partner, and we were more or less able to kind of choose, like, you know, what we wanted to do. So actually grew some hemp plants for my senior thesis project in school, in the lab, which was a little bit chaotic. I think a lot of other kids also trying to grow things. But definitely a learning experience nonetheless. And it was fun to, you know, have that experience well, in college, definitely really unique opportunity.

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