⚗️Quality Humic Acids vs Ineffective Forms, Oklahoma Cannabis Shutdowns, Breeding, and More, with Brandon Rust | Otter.ai

⚗️Quality Humic Acids vs Ineffective Forms, Oklahoma Cannabis Shutdowns, Breeding, and More, with Brandon Rust

Jordan River1h 8min

Jordan River

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Greetings cultivators worldwide at Jordan River here back with more grow cast like humic acid for your ears. Today we have Brandon rust back on the line. It's great episode. We talk about the breeding work that he's been doing. We talk about old school strains, we talk about humic fertilizers, and, of course, the craziness that's going on in Oklahoma. Brandon's fired up for this one. I know you guys are gonna love this episode, but before we jump into it, shout out to AC infinity, baby. AC infinity.com. Code growcast One five to get your savings and keep the lights on here at growcast, we appreciate your support, and we love AC infinity. They make the best grow tents around extra thick poles. They've got nice, durable, thick siding. Now they have the new side ports. People have been asking for those in AC infinity list. And plus, they've got everything else you need to grow. They've got lights and pots and fans, and they're oscillating fans the cloud Ray system. Check out their humidifiers. The cloud Forge. How nice is your humidifier? Maybe it's time to replace that. The Cloud rays are my favorite oscillators on the market, and of course, their cloud Line series, what they got it all started with all those years ago when we were partners with AC infinity, all they made were those inline fans, and they're the best in the game. So shout out to the entire AC infinity suite. They've got everything you need to get growing from fans to tents to lights. Code growcast One five works at AC infinity.com. You support us, and you're getting some badass, durable grow gear while you're doing it. So thank you to all you listeners using code grow cast, one, five, and thank you to AC infinity. All right, let's get into it with Brandon. Thank you for listening and enjoy the show. Hello, podcast listeners who are now listening to grow cast, I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to and I want to thank you for tuning in again today. Before we get started as always, I urge you to share this show. Share this show. Tell someone about growcast, turn someone on to growing it's how you can help us out on our mission of overgrow. And check out everything we're doing at growcast podcast.com There you'll find the seeds, the events, the classes, the Membership Special. Thank you to all the members who make this community possible. I could not do this without you. Today, we've got a return guest, good friend of the show. He's busy at work with Bokashi earthworks, doing breeding stuff, activism workout in Oklahoma, all sorts of interesting business we're going to discuss today. Brandon rust, from Bokashi earthworks, is back on the line. What's up? Brandon, how are you doing?

Speaker 1

02:22

What is going on? Jordan, what's going on? To all your listeners, thanks for having me back on. It's always a pleasure to catch up with old friends. So yeah, buddy. Well, you're

Jordan River

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back there in Oklahoma. Man, I made a little bit of an escape. I know it's been, it's been dumping snow back there, which presents challenges, but growers are having much worse challenges than just snowfall right now in Oklahoma, do you want to talk a little bit about the, pardon my language, but about the fuckery that's been going on as far as really sticking it to these cannabis businesses and putting them out of business, very, very corruptly.

Speaker 1

02:59

So fuckery is always afoot when it comes to government on any level, whether it's local, state or federal, national. It seems that the goal is always control, control, control. I don't just, I just don't like the way that Omma, which is the the organization that oversees licensing in Oklahoma, has actively started a war to take out Canvas businesses. It's very unfortunate, and a lot of people are losing their jobs, they're losing their life savings, they're losing their farms. And there's a lot of different issues, so overtax and over regulation, more implementation of things that need to be done. One of them was a $50,000 bond. Geez, there's so if you don't get a $50,000 insurance bond, you're not allowed to operate. And here's the thing, when we're talking about small businesses, a lot of these people are operating, operating with razor, thin margins. These are, like, family owned and operated. You know, the people who are, you know, cultivating the weed, are counting pavement and selling the weed, and they're doing, running these businesses entirely themselves, and so just small increases in fines and revenues and this and that could be a potentially the straw that breaks the proverbial camels back, right? And in this situation, there's that bond, but also there's something called a certificate of compliance, right? Which you you were able to start up a business in Oklahoma, and they don't enforce a certificate of compliance. There's only four counties that that do that in the whole state, and it's because Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and then these other two there. Where everywhere else is rural, right? And so coding and zoning offices don't it don't exist. And a good example for this is, if I was to buy a piece of property out in the country and I wanted to build, you know, foundation and put a house up, I don't need to go pull permits. I don't need to go get in fact, I couldn't pull permits because there's no coding enforcement zoning offices in those rural

Jordan River

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areas, right? It's all unincorporated Oklahoma.

Speaker 1

05:28

It's and essentially, you know, people have businesses, whether it's a restaurant or a gas station, a veterinary clinic, people are running and operating legal businesses in the state. And so what's happened is, you know, there's 1000s, 1000s and 1000s of businesses that are operating in areas of the state that aren't necessarily, that aren't, you know, populated like Oklahoma City and Tulsa. It's not like that, right? So these people are trying to become compliant for the regulations that they're saying, hey, everybody now has to have a COO, but they know that they can't get one, or it's extremely difficult, because the legislators know that those offices don't exist. And so they take these different strategic ways that they can eliminate people out of out of the playing field. You know,

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