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World Breeders, a cannabis seed company with who is making good on its promise to export seeds worldwide, has three founders, and it\u2019s taken them all to shape the trajectory they have now\u2014from working in cannabis on the \u201cunderground side,\u201d as co-director Gorka Cid Luaces says, to an enterprise with operations on three continents and the momentum to fulfill their ambitions.<\/p>\n
Jon Urriola Rementeria\u2014responsible for seed development, genetics and research\u2014was growing tomatoes for Spanish supermarkets before he switched to hierba<\/em> with the emergence of the first \u201ccannabis associations\u201d in the Pa\u00eds Vasco, Spain\u2019s northeast Basque Country. Leandro Garc\u00eda Rodriguez handles client and concept development, while Cid Luaces is responsible for overall management of the company. Garc\u00eda Rodriguez is originally from Seville, while Rementeria and Cid Luaces are native to the Basque Country.<\/p>\n Rementeria and Cid Luaces first came together in GreenFarm \u00c9ibar, which was among the first cannabis associations in Euskadi, as the Pa\u00eds Vasco is known in the Basque language. They produced flower for the association in a mixed greenhouse and outdoor operation, with the local police informed.<\/p>\n \u201cThe experience with GreenFarm marked our entry into the cannabis industry,\u201d Cid says. \u201cIt was a highly rewarding stage, yet also one filled with tension. Working constantly on the edge of legality takes a heavy psychological toll.\u201d<\/p>\n GreenFarm was a member organization of the Federation of Cannabis User Associations of Euskadi (EUSFAC) which coordinates rules and standards for a sector operating in a kind of legal gray area. These regulations allowed private cultivation for the associations but limited members to two grams per day, to be consumed on club premises. Several associations closed during the pandemic in 2020, as these restrictions became untenable, and the sector never fully recovered. Associations continue to thrive in the regions of Catalonia and Andalusia, but regional authorities in Pa\u00eds Vasco cracked down, with some clubs busted and herb confiscated.<\/p>\n The GreenFarm veterans moved into the commercial space, anticipating an expanding market for the recreational side as policy in several European countries liberalized. World Breeders<\/a> was registered as a seed company in the Czech Republic in 2019, though they had already been working with third partner Garc\u00eda Rodriguez from Medical Weed Sevilla, one of the first associations in Andalusia\u2019s southern region, for some time with different companies.<\/p>\n Seeking a suitable country for production, the trio settled on the rising industry player of Colombia. Cannabis had been decriminalized there since 1994 and medical marijuana was legalized in December 2015 by decree of then-president Juan Manuel Santos<\/a>\u2014who would the following year win the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating peace with the guerillas. Along with the historic peace deal in 2016, Colombia\u2019s Congress that year approved commercial cannabis cultivation under government license.<\/p>\n \u201cWe knew we wanted to continue working in the cannabis industry\u2014it\u2019s our passion, and our professional path,\u201d Cid says. \u201cBut we were equally clear that we wanted to do it within a fully legal framework. Colombia offered the chance to operate under official licenses, with a transparent regulatory environment and the ability to develop genetics and production at scale, without legal uncertainty. That\u2019s why we took the leap and established our operations there.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2020, World Breeders set up its mixed indoor\/greenhouse production facility in Antioquia in the northwest region of the country. Their first greenhouses were in Guarne, a charming mountain town in the Andes. Production began in January 2021 and licensed export of seed to Spain began that year.<\/p>\n The seed stock they\u2019d been working with initially had difficulties adjusting to higher altitude and new, more acidic soil and water conditions. Operations later moved to Eb\u00e9jico, on the outskirts of the Medell\u00edn metropolitan area, where the altitude is lower and the climate warmer.<\/p>\n Conditions here, as it turns out, are exceptional. The light offers perfect photoperiods: about 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness per day. And the altitude of some 1,400 meters above sea level, Cid describes as \u201cideal for complex terpene profiles.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOver the years, we have dedicated ourselves to selecting and developing our own genetics with meticulous attention to details,\u201d their website boasts.<\/p>\n The company, a seed bank marketing its genetic creations to specialty growers, currently offers nine strains, with names including Clementine Slush, Fizzy Gum and Pink Truffle. Cid takes pride in the descriptive accuracy of these appellations. \u201cIf we say it tastes like clementine, it really tastes like clementine,\u201d he assures.<\/p>\n A recent addition is La Hokuzan, developed in cooperation with Barcelona-based Hidden Group Genetics. The Catalan group had bred its own indica-heavy hybrid Hokuzai, which World Breeders crossed with their own Fizzy Gum for a more \u201csparkling and fruity\u201d feel.<\/p>\n Just coming online is Pilot, developed in conjunction with Spanish rapper JC Reyes, combining his favorite traits\u2014a three-way cross of Pink Watermelon x Jokerz x WB Bubba.<\/p>\n World Breeders is also currently working with growers in the Rif Mountains of Morocco to develop a line of triploid seeds. Triploid strains have three sets of chromosomes, as opposed to the traditional diploid varieties with two sets\u2014one from each parent plant. They typically don\u2019t collect pollen and therefore don\u2019t produce seeds. (Most of the bananas we eat are triploid, as well as seedless watermelons.) This is important for cannabis, because a female plant that doesn\u2019t get fertilized will keep secreting resin indefinitely throughout the growing season, even if there are male plants in the vicinity. A triploid line could be a breakthrough for the centuries-old tradition of hashish production in the Rif, and a boon to growers everywhere.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re confident that this new line will mark a before-and-after in the genetic development of cannabis, positioning World Breeders as a benchmark for innovation and quality in the sector,\u201d Cid predicts.<\/p>\n But expanding markets in Europe represent the real opportunity on the imminent horizon, Cid says, pointing to recent moves toward permitting adult-use cultivation in Portugal and Germany. \u201cWhat began as a dream of the World Breeders team is now a consolidated reality,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n This story was originally published in issue 52 of the\u00a0print edition<\/a>\u00a0of Cannabis Now.<\/em><\/p>\n The post From Spain, The Planet Awaits<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
World Breeders, a cannabis seed company with who is making good on its promise to export seeds worldwide, has three founders, and it\u2019s taken them all to shape the trajectory they have now\u2014from working in cannabis on the \u201cunderground side,\u201d as co-director Gorka Cid Luaces says, to an enterprise withContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":85084,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,917,490,19669,85,19631,19670,19671,11700,3422,491,19672],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85083"}],"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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85085,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85083\/revisions\/85085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"World](\"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WorldBreedersSeeds.jpeg\")
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