Ryan Douglas
Cannabis cultivation businesses can buffer themselves against fluctuating wholesale flower prices by producing and selling young plants.
Seedlings, tissue-culture plantlets and rooted cuttings (clones) are all considered young plants.
There is an increasing need for trusted suppliers of vegetative plant material in the cannabis industry, but few companies have seized the opportunity to meet this demand.
Crop contamination and production bottlenecks
Cultivators that outsource their propagation free up more space for flowering plants, and they eliminate the two most significant risks of in-house propagation programs: crop contamination and production bottlenecks.
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Young-plant suppliers can also be a source of trusted starter plants for companies launching new cultivation programs.
The longer a plant stays in production, the more likely it is to get attacked by something.
Stock plants – or moms – can become infected with plant-damaging insects, diseases or viruses.
Once this happens, growers unwittingly
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