The growers behind Khalifa Kush in Nevada, Illinois and California on choosing cuts, fighting invisible mold, killing the guru ego and why chasing THC numbers flattens flavor.
F1 seed, triploids, genomic testing and gene editing are reshaping cannabis breeding. Jorge Cervantes and three co-authors explain what each tool does, what it still can’t prove and who controls the genetic library.
Grow guides say vegetative plants want 500 to 800 PPFD. Outdoors, plants vegetate in summer sun at nearly twice that and thrive. Ed Rosenthal ran two casual experiments to see which side the plants agree with.
After pathogens took out an entire cycle, Kyle Kushman combined his tents into one 20-by-10 room, went back to living soil and hand watering, and wired the whole environment to a phone app. This is the build, product by product.
Words and photographs by Matías Nicolás Cardozo, Matca Films. A year on the road with a camera, from a hemp field in the Mallorcan interior
At Edun’s facility in Parachute, Colorado, Jimmy and Michelle Brinkerhoff grow cannabis with Korean Natural Farming: living soil beds layered like the earth itself, microbe tea brewed on site, aloe for moisture and six ducks that handle the pests.
From a Humboldt homestead his parents built fifty years ago to a father-son extraction brand in Southern Oregon to a 20-acre farm in Biddeford, Maine, three growers explain why they left the bottles behind and started building soil instead.
What cannabis is teaching us about pesticides and modern agriculture.
Durango Organics founder Jonny Radding shares cultivation and business lessons from nearly 15 years in Colorado cannabis, from scaling operations to building consistency.
Fresh frozen holds the flower at the moment of harvest, keeping much of the terpene profile and color that curing takes away. Benjamin Lind of Humboldt Seed Company, Jeff Wirt and Dan Michaels of Jaunty, and Federico Vázquez of The Dab Club explain the trichome trifecta that decides which genetics can handle it, why the cold chain is a barrier almost nobody clears, and what a hash library actually is.
There is no registry for strain names, no copyright and no authority to appeal to. James Loud, Jorge Cervantes, Kyle Kushman, Denise Yacar, Ramiro Gopar and Sergio Puerta explain who earns the right to name a plant, why the mother’s name comes first, how Jack Herer got its name, and why reputation is the only enforcement mechanism the culture has ever had.
Someone bought fifteen cannabis products off Denver shelves and sent them to a lab. Two came back legal. On average the labels claimed 34.2% more THC than the products held. A Spanish engineer who has spent sixteen years scanning flower explains why the incentive to inflate runs through every link in the chain, why California calculates that fixing it costs four times what consumers would gain, and what would actually break the loop.
The growers behind Khalifa Kush in Nevada, Illinois and California on choosing cuts, fighting invisible mold, killing the guru ego and why chasing THC numbers flattens flavor.
F1 seed, triploids, genomic testing and gene editing are reshaping cannabis breeding. Jorge Cervantes and three co-authors explain what each tool does, what it still can’t prove and who controls the genetic library.
Grow guides say vegetative plants want 500 to 800 PPFD. Outdoors, plants vegetate in summer sun at nearly twice that and thrive. Ed Rosenthal ran two casual experiments to see which side the plants agree with.
After pathogens took out an entire cycle, Kyle Kushman combined his tents into one 20-by-10 room, went back to living soil and hand watering, and wired the whole environment to a phone app. This is the build, product by product.
Words and photographs by Matías Nicolás Cardozo, Matca Films. A year on the road with a camera, from a hemp field in the Mallorcan interior to an EU-GMP room outside Lisbon to a living soil grow in the Swiss Alps in October. This article originally appeared in High Times’ Spring/Summer 2026 print edition. Get yours here. This year pulled me across Europe
At Edun’s facility in Parachute, Colorado, Jimmy and Michelle Brinkerhoff grow cannabis with Korean Natural Farming: living soil beds layered like the earth itself, microbe tea brewed on site, aloe for moisture and six ducks that handle the pests.
From a Humboldt homestead his parents built fifty years ago to a father-son extraction brand in Southern Oregon to a 20-acre farm in Biddeford, Maine, three growers explain why they left the bottles behind and started building soil instead.
What cannabis is teaching us about pesticides and modern agriculture.
Durango Organics founder Jonny Radding shares cultivation and business lessons from nearly 15 years in Colorado cannabis, from scaling operations to building consistency.
Fresh frozen holds the flower at the moment of harvest, keeping much of the terpene profile and color that curing takes away. Benjamin Lind of Humboldt Seed Company, Jeff Wirt and Dan Michaels of Jaunty, and Federico Vázquez of The Dab Club explain the trichome trifecta that decides which genetics can handle it, why the cold chain is a barrier almost nobody clears, and what a hash library actually is.
There is no registry for strain names, no copyright and no authority to appeal to. James Loud, Jorge Cervantes, Kyle Kushman, Denise Yacar, Ramiro Gopar and Sergio Puerta explain who earns the right to name a plant, why the mother’s name comes first, how Jack Herer got its name, and why reputation is the only enforcement mechanism the culture has ever had.
Someone bought fifteen cannabis products off Denver shelves and sent them to a lab. Two came back legal. On average the labels claimed 34.2% more THC than the products held. A Spanish engineer who has spent sixteen years scanning flower explains why the incentive to inflate runs through every link in the chain, why California calculates that fixing it costs four times what consumers would gain, and what would actually break the loop.
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