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The thought of California-grown cannabis rightfully brings romantic visions of massive outdoor farm areas nestled in between forests and trees, but today\u2019s reality means that some of the state\u2019s best weed is now grown in the indoor comfort of suburbia.<\/p>\n
Tucked behind the San Fernando Valley\u2019s housing sprawl just over the hills from Los Angeles, hidden in the middle of an unassuming business office district, lies an ordinary warehouse that produces extraordinary cannabis. This massive 40,000-square-foot grow is home to Terraform Genetics, a family owned and operated facility, producing not only some of the most remarkable boutique strains available in Southern California, but qualitatively, it\u2019s some of the very best cannabis available in the US.<\/p>\n
The workhorse behind Terraform is Brett K, a longtime cultivator whose genetics gained notoriety through a partnership with one of the first Los Angeles pre-interim control ordinance (ICO) dispensaries, WHTC Treatment Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe try to be very selective in what\u2019s going into jars and obviously the whole cultivation process from the beginning\u2014how we\u2019re managing these plants through the process and really cleaning them up and just showing them love,\u201d Brett says. \u201cPut love in, get love out.\u201d<\/p>\n On a normal day, Brett tends to each of several grow rooms sectioned by specific life cycles. Despite the different stages, many of them bear similar hot and humid surroundings. \u201cWe run it like the equator for the first weeks: 75 percent humidity, 85 degrees,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n Despite Southern California\u2019s idyllic balmy weather, Mother Nature remains unpredictable at times. It\u2019s why Brett prefers the control of an indoor grow rather than the unforeseen variables of sungrown flowers. Modern tech also allows him to monitor every plant with a camera system; plus, he can maintain optimal conditions with a few simple clicks on a tablet.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to keep that environment on point,\u201d Brett says. \u201cNo matter what the weather\u2019s like outside, you have to have what you need in here.\u201d<\/p>\n The brand\u2019s latest customer favorites include Terra Herer (his own version of the classic Jack Herer), White Truffle and their best-selling strain of 2021, Terra Mints.<\/p>\n Black Gummy is a particular strain rising to the top of many lists. This pheno of O.M.F.G. (Runtz x Red Pop) has a lip-smacking balance of gassy and fruity tones, matched with kind waves of euphoria brought on by more than 30 percent THC.<\/p>\n Yet another crucial Terraform offering, Blucifer, is Brett\u2019s take on the classic Blue Dream strain, which could be seen as the impetus for Terraform\u2019s beginnings.<\/p>\n More than a decade ago, Brett\u2019s version of Blue Dream captivated the senses of Yana B., owner of the popular WHTC Dispensary located just minutes away from Universal Studios. The cut was so impressive, Yana invited Brett to grow his flowers directly from WHTC as a pre-ICO Prop D dispensary.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s where we started terraforming Terraform,\u201d Brett says. \u201cThere was a little bathroom upstairs, and that\u2019s where I had all the male plants and did all the breeding projects.\u201d<\/p>\n The partnership began with a small six-light operation running on the dispensary\u2019s top floor, and it eventually blossomed into Terraform and its current home base.<\/p>\n Yana\u2019s medical dispensary background means that she always holds her patient\u2019s best intentions in regard. It\u2019s the reason why half of the partnership brings a well-known secret ingredient to the growth process. \u201cLove,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s just like raising children. They say children are your biggest investment, and what you put in them is what you get out. Well, I think it\u2019s the same with flowers. These are living plants, and they feel you, they feel your energy. I really think it all starts with the seed and that you show love.\u201d<\/p>\n The love theme now determines a number of different strategies employed by the company. As a response to a disruption of business at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Terraform one-eighth ounce jars are now packaged at a generous 4.2 grams compared to the 3.5 grams standard.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen COVID started, it was, like, \u2018let\u2019s give the community more love.\u2019 Because we obviously need money to survive, to last, to build,\u201d Yana says.<\/p>\n Terraform\u2019s transparent relationship with the customer has produced a program never before seen in legal cultivation: Genetic Development.<\/p>\n \u201cGenetic Development is special,\u201d Brett says. \u201cI love it, the team loves it\u2014we want to bring it to the menu. But before we do that, we want to put it out to the consumer. The market dictates it, so let\u2019s have the market be involved in that process as well.\u201d<\/p>\n Specific strains marked as such contain a QR code linking consumers to the \u201cTerraPortal,\u201d where they can critique said strains. The overall response has been overwhelmingly positive, especially with Black Gummy and White Truffle which both graduated from the program with remarkable praise.<\/p>\n In this adult-use era, Terraform\u2019s newfound facilities are quite impressive, but they literally have more room to grow, with at least five more theater-sized rooms being prepared to cultivate luxury-quality indoor cannabis.<\/p>\n \u201cI was always into Total Recall,<\/em>\u201d Brett says. \u201cI love that movie, terraforming Mars and this and that. I was thinking that\u2019s cool because that\u2019s basically what we\u2019re doing. You\u2019re creating the environment. Whatever\u2019s going to happen in that room, you have control of that. Terraform is like shaping a world to be habitable, whether it\u2019s human beings on Mars, or cannabis in a room.\u201d<\/p>\n This story was originally published in the\u00a0print edition<\/a>\u00a0of Cannabis Now.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Earth Shattering: Terraform Genetics Thrives Indoors<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The thought of California-grown cannabis rightfully brings romantic visions of massive outdoor farm areas nestled in between forests and trees, but today\u2019s reality means that some of the state\u2019s best weed is now grown in the indoor comfort of suburbia. Tucked behind the San Fernando Valley\u2019s housing sprawl just overContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":56679,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16404,804,3877,16405,50,1380,85,16145,16406,16407,16408],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56680,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56678\/revisions\/56680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/TerraformGrow.jpg\")
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