From seed selection to slow cure — how we grow cannabis worth growing.
Most of the cannabis on the market today is produced indoors under high-pressure sodium or LED lights, in inert media flushed with synthetic nutrients on tight 8-week cycles. It produces a lot of high-THC flower fast. It also produces a fairly narrow profile of terpenes, leaves a heavy carbon footprint, and tends to taste flat.
We do something else. test grows in real sunlight, in living soil, on a calendar dictated by the seasons. The flower we produce takes longer, costs more to grow, and at peak season we have a harder time keeping up with demand — but it’s the cannabis we’d want to smoke.
"You can’t hide bad genetics behind good lighting, and you can’t fake terpenes that the plant didn’t make. We just try to give the plant what it actually wants and stay out of its way."
Every harvest follows the same disciplined process. No shortcuts.
Each season we run a phenohunt — growing out 30+ phenotypes of a cultivar to identify the single mother plant with the best terpene profile, structure, and resilience. Only that mother goes into production.
Our beds are amended over winter with composts, cover crops, kelp, and beneficial microbes. By spring the soil is alive — not a sterile substrate but a working ecosystem.
Clones from the selected mother are vegged in greenhouses, hardened off, and transplanted into the field once nighttime temperatures stabilize.
As days shorten the plants enter flower naturally. We rely on integrated pest management — predator insects, neem, and a careful eye — rather than systemic pesticides.
Plants are cut by hand at the moment trichomes shift from clear to cloudy and a small fraction begin to amber. Timing matters: the difference between a good and great cut can be 48 hours.
Whole plants hang in climate-controlled rooms at 60°F and 60% RH for 14–21 days. This is the single most under-respected step in cannabis — and the one we obsess over most.
Trimmed by hand, never machined. Bucked flower goes into glass for at least two more weeks of cure, burped daily, before any of it is graded for sale.
Every batch is tested by an accredited third-party lab for cannabinoids, terpenes, residual solvents, pesticides, heavy metals, and microbials. The Certificate of Analysis is published on each strain page.
Honesty about practice matters more than marketing language. Here is what is not in our flower:
Our terpene library breaks down what those numbers on the label actually mean — and our sustainability page covers how we close the loop on water, energy, and waste.