Now that marijuana is set to be legal in Colorado, the next step is to grow some.
Denver Relief, one of the oldest dispensaries in Colorado, are the experts you want to hear from on this.
Their strain OG-18 won the top prize in the Cannabis Cup for medical hybrids.
They've even started a consultant side-business with the goal to advise people new to the industry on how to start their own marijuana business.
Needless to say, Denver Relief is the firm to talk to if you want to find out how to grow cannabis for a living.
We spoke to Nick Hice, the chief grower at Denver Relief, and he told us the process, the challenges, and the tricks you need to know to grow outstanding marijuana. Of course, it's probably not legal in your state to do this, so just enjoy this for educational and informational purposes.
The first room is your nursery, where plants younger than two months old start to grow. The young plants are down the center, while the "mother" plants are on the walls.
Don't grow from seeds, grow from cuttings from healthy, adult mother plants. When you grow from seeds, you get both male plants and female plants. Male plants must be eradicated, or else your marijuana flowers will have seeds, which reduces the quality and sale price.
To grow a new plant, you first cut any health branch off of a mother plant. You strip some of the lower leaves off, dip it in a rooting hormone, stick it in a media, and within 2 weeks the plant will have healthy roots and can be re-plotted.
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