Preventing and Eliminating Hop Latent Viroid from Cannabis with Zamir Punja, PhD

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VIDEO VERSION AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE Dr. Zamir Punja is a Professor of Plant Biotechnology at Simon Fraser University in Canada. His research interests include the etiology and management of plant diseases on vegetable and horticultural crops, and the applications of plant biotechnology for disease management. Since 2018, his work has shifted to researching cannabis, where his group has described a …

Fighting Costly Plant Pathogens with Michael Straumietis

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If you grow or consume cannabis, you’ve benefited from something Michael Straumietis has done. A grower since 1983, Michael’s mission is to make cannabis an acceptable and everyday part of healing humanity. In 1999, he founded Advanced Nutrients and launched the world’s first and only complete cannabis growing system that Hits the Shift and optimizes all phases of the vegetative …

Commercial Cannabis Cultivation Challenges with Collin Palmer

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Collin Palmer is the Chief Experience Officer at Vessel Life Science. He has been obsessed with growing cannabis since he started growing in his backyard at 15 years old. Since then he has consulted with many cannabis companies in a variety of areas including genetic selection, lab optimization, product development, branding, and more. Over the past several years he has …