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Does having a green thumb help when starting a marijuana farm?

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/29/2015 - 08:00

By Caroline Zelonka

Yes. For a new marijuana business, your grower is akin to your technical co-founder. And it's not just your random green thumb—it's a marijuana-specific thumb. Marijuana cultivation has a very short history as a legitimate pursuit. Sure, there are people who have been growing large crops illegally for years and many more smaller, quasi-legal operations in Amsterdam and select other locations. But there is no LinkedIn for pot farmers; the best you can do is Craigslist, maybe through High Times or specialty organizations.

Since its roots are in the illegal world, experienced growers are, by default, experienced criminals. Sourcing expertise in illegal matters is tricky and ripe with misinformation.

If growing plants is also tricky, growing crops is even harder. Sure, there are fertilizers and pesticides on the market, published light-and-dark schedules you can follow, reproducible cloning methods, and the like. But at the end of the day, this isn't...

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2015/04/24/does_having_a_green_thumb_help_when_starting_a_marijuana_farm.html

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