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Hello everyone and welcome back to the show.
I'm back after a little break.
I was forced to take care of my illness.
So this year in twenty twenty three is the year of taking care of my wellness.
So don't take care of my wellness.
I'm going to be forced to take care of my illness again.
And I don't want that.
So we got a great episode here for you with Mike Walsh from Greece.
He explains how the product increases yields, terps, trichome production and leads to better rosin, yields and flavor.
So let's get into it.
Welcome to the show.
I am Little Farmer.
The show is Reaper the Reaper.
I'm here at Area 420 with Matt Brainstrap.
He's put a little thing together where we invited Greece down here.
Mike is the owner and founder of Greece.
He's down here to tell us a little bit about his product today.
And we talked a little bit about where he's from and why he came out to Colorado.
So could you tell the listeners out there where you're from, Mike?
Yeah, like, thank you so much for having me out.
You guys have a really beautiful setup out here.
Like just walking into like the train car, seeing all the mountains and everything.
It's pretty surreal.
You're right in the center of the smack dab in the center of the San Luis Valley.
No, just thank you so much for having me out.
I love talking about our products and kind of talking about some of the new technology that we're trying to bring to the table.
And it seems like you guys have like a really amazing community that you're building out here.
A while back when I was cruising through, just handing out some samples to over there at Colorado Hydroponics at the Moffitt store and like cruising around on just my early run.
I had stopped over at the Hot Springs up the road and met someone that was actually involved in like the community up here and like started to just learn about it.
And I had seen a video over at Colorado Hydroponics and Salida as well.
So it seems like you're doing a really good job, like really putting something special together out here.
And thanks for inviting me out to be a part of it.
Yeah, hey, anytime, man, we appreciate it. We appreciate Grease coming out.
Same thing with Refer the Reefer podcast continuing to upload content.
And I really look forward to hearing what you have to say today, kind of learning a little bit more about the product that you have here to offer as well as what it can do to kind of help us here on the commercial scene a little bit across this entire subdivision.
Yeah, for sure. And like you were asking me a little bit just like before we went live, like about some of my history and stuff.
Yeah, like I studied horticulture at Colorado State University was fortunate enough to do that and have a good kind of like background in horticulture, specifically I was studying floriculture.
So it was nice because it was more like it was really growing plants on a large scale, specifically greenhouse management.
And that's one reason I like your guys set up out here too because there is so much greenhouse and so much area under glass or plastic.
And so I have a lot of expertise there. And then when I left college, I started, you know, I had a little extra cash from from learning how to grow and kind of being in the scene and everything.
And I actually ended up starting an organic farm and like a CSA and everything. And we did we had 3.1 acres, we grew like 300 to 400 different varieties, all different stuff and so that was like a really good learning experience and we did it all organic.
And then with my foundation of more on kind of the chemical side, and then going full organic right out out of that and having to make that transition was like a really good learning experience for me and I feel like I've been able to kind of bring some knowledge
and those backgrounds into into all my cannabis expertise and and been able to like share and kind of guide a lot of people in the right direction. I'm working at hydro stores for a really long time, and then ultimately going into kind of like product development and doing actually
helping create kind of the mammoth P product. And that was really, really excellent. Excellent opportunity for me and like great experience, because I was able to help them with like the formulation and then also do all the initial testing, do like the research on
cannabis because the, the farm bill had passed, you know, in 2013, that kind of allowed people to start to research hemp. So right away I started a company called healthy hemp research.
And because I just was like, wow, this is amazing. It's, it's almost like what's happening right now with psilocybin and with like psychedelics it's like, it had like just kind of become decriminalized or legalized type of type of thing.
Now with the farm bill was even more legitimate so it was really nice to kind of start a company build a hemp grow, start experimenting with high CBD, then all that kind of coincided with the product development with mammoth so I was able to do the initial testing
and even get a paper published in the Journal of horticulture on the effects of basically mammoth P a bio stimulant on hemp on cannabis sativa.
So, and this was 2017 so that was really really cool. And, again, just felt like extremely fortunate to work with a great team there at mammoth and one of the guys is even like a Nobel laureate, he has even like a Nobel Prize for his work that he has like published in nature
so just a very special experience.
I ended up leaving that to start a shop a small store in northern Colorado, started my own hydroponics store.
Really enjoyed that experience and we still have that to this day. And the thing is, that's what helped me cultivate Greece and the whole mentality like we were speaking out before we're truly like a win win win, where we're trying to go out and support
the stores because we see them as a valuable part of the community, you know it's like one of those things where so much knowledge goes into this plant that they're, they help spread that knowledge and help spread new ideas and over time weed out things that
don't necessarily work and they're putting a lot of hard work and holding those inventories and like maintaining stuff so that we can like get it when we need it and and when work with us I think they're valuable asset.
We're doing kind of like a win win win thing where it's good for us good for the stores and good for the grower on our pricing structure. And we're trying to right now, go out and reach all the stores and get it down to the shelves, and then beyond next year,
we're going to be doing more vendor days, more things like this as much as we can as much outreach and push as we can but the main thing with all these products, and the truth for any growers that it has to work, and they have to see the proof for themselves
and see it actually the effect of the on the on the plant for themselves. So, my goal is to get it into the people's hands that work at the stores.
So that they can use the products like it.
See the results be able to share the results share how to use it confidently. And then that's kind of the model that's like working really well it's kind of just now taking off which is awesome, but we're having a lot of success in like Montana, Oklahoma,
Colorado,
and we're just working we just did a trip all the way out to the East Coast. So that was really fun and like, really awesome to, to actually, like, make it all the way home, which was one of a goal of mine like I'm from Maryland.
So I was able to for business, go around do some great trips some great travels around, particularly Virginia is blowing up right now. They just did a really good thing with some of their laws. So like they're, there's a lot more interest a lot of shops,
good quality shops popping up there. And it's just fun to see it's really fun to like, take this evolution. And now all of a sudden have the entire country because when I was with mammoth being kind of like their first employee.
We started in Colorado so I was like the Colorado sales rep. So it's been nice to kind of branch out and really see like the different markets and when was that that was about 2000.
You think 18 ish. Nice. Yeah, somewhere in that in that range.
And let's see. It was. Yeah, it's just been nice to travel all around and and see how like going to some of these other markets is like genuinely like stepping into a time machine, compared to Colorado and everything.
So it's, it's really cool and really interesting for sure. Yeah, so Colorado is a really hard market to get on to your local support local I have actually picked up a sample at the hydroponic shop in Frisco.
The hydro hydro shack Kim great person so if you're in that area, so my county, make sure you stop in. She's awesome person. She gave me a sample of the grease I think it was green.
And it's a cannabinoid booster, which uses endocannabinoids to boost the endocannabinoids. Exactly. And the green is one of our best ones for for IPM as well.
So it's just that all of the grease products are all of our cannabinoid boosters are really good as well doubling as an IPM which just happens to be really nice because the compounds in the grease are also the, really the immune supportive compounds.
So, sure enough, it ends up helping and fighting off insects and fungus and bad bacteria and pests and even viruses things like that.
So, and it also keeps the environment clean like it's one of the few products that you could actually spray. And, and it will also keep.
It will also even like have an effect to clean the environment and your tables you know things like that, that it also hits.
Sweet. We're going to take a mini break here and go to commercial but we'll be right back with a little bit more information about all the products and the ins and outs of what you got available on the shelves.
Sweet. Thanks. All right, cool.
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And welcome back everyone. I'm here with Mike from the company Grease and Matt Brainstrap from Area 420. And we were talking about Grease and the new products he has available.
Like I said, I am only familiar with the green and the green label is an endocannabinoid booster, or no, a cannabinoid booster from cannabinoids, right?
Exactly. Could you explain that? Yeah, the idea is to use the power of the plant back on itself. And it's a really radically simple idea, but it's to basically harness the precursor compounds and the building blocks of the resin and the terpenes themselves and apply them back on the plant from a totally organic source.
So the idea is to have an option where you're using the plant back on itself and not adding any other foreign oils or enzymes or things like that, which obviously work, but it's just in a purist sense, it is kind of nice to be able to stay completely true to the plant.
And then the extractors really like that because it's not messing with the consistency of the extract. And like they can really tell you know batch to batch if there's any type of like contamination or something that basically changes the way it runs and moves.
So that's a huge benefit. And then just increasing the overall health of the plant while it's growing, and then it's going to translate to your numbers increasing in the end, but literally like you can go into a plant into a room that you've been treating with grease, even just as a drench, and you can literally like smell the difference from your plants because they're going to be producing more terpenes and volatizing better.
And what it does is it's, it's providing those building blocks. And there's even like 50,000 different building blocks. So what we've done is we've broken it down by strain, because sure enough, the different strains have different sets of them.
And the better you can apply that set and align it with what you're growing, the better the response is going to be, they're all going to work. And like the green and the gold are probably the two most common ones because the green seems to be even a little bit more even better as a pesticide.
So if people have pests or any pest pressure, it just helps even that much more. And then the gold is our hybrid. So it works across the board, generally, and it's also the one that most people are introduced to and have really good success with.
But then, once people get into the line, we sure enough we found that we have made one for specifically indica, sativa, and even a finishing formula, because we found that if you have indica leaning strains or sativa leaning strains, it can literally increase the return as much as like 20-25% more to apply that specific set on.
And if it aligns better, and you can even layer them, which is really cool. And the grease is more of a premium product, but it's increasing exactly what you want. And there's no other company out there that's really specifically targeting cannabinoids and then also as a plus terpenes also.
And then we can actually kind of back it up with results and the numbers, you can see it in the numbers that yes, you are getting a return on this for sure. Not only from the healthier plant the whole time, from a little bit easier growing, and then a safer option to spray from a PPE standpoint.
But it's really nice because you actually get that return in the end. With the new products, what we did is we had to shift with the market because grease is more of a premium product and we had these other ones in development, and we wanted to launch them now because it is just like time for the market, where some people are really like pinching and watching their budget, which is completely understandable.
So what we did is we came out with some very high quality products that mimic or exceed some other products out there in the market. So what we have is we have a one called bison brew, and it's a bison compost. It's one of the best compost teas I've ever brewed.
And like I said, I ran an organic farm for three and a half years, so I've done a ton of brewing specifically and experimented with a lot of different things and the bison, it's fungal dominant already.
And all the research out of Canada and Israel basically shows that cannabis is a lot like a fruit crop, like an orchard, it likes a fungal dominated mycorrhizae and our rhizosphere and a fungal dominated basically soil or cocoa.
So what that does is it reintroduces all that biodiversity, specifically the fungal diversity. It's even up to like 28% by weight fungal spores. So it's almost like you're putting a mycorrhizae product directly on and then it brews up incredibly well.
So all it is is that it's the bison compost that we've composted. So bison waste that we've composted for two years at altitude. So this farm is 10,000 feet in elevation, and it's up in a beautiful like pristine valley where they have a thousand acre paddocks to turn the bison out on.
And the idea is see bison, they forage over a much wider range and a much larger biodiversity than say like cattle, and they actually end up having a 30% more microbes, indigenous microorganisms in their compost.
And then with our composting process, which is all compost alliance certified and everything, it just did an incredible job and you can even almost see little bits of like wood and all that because the bison are almost like elk where they'll eat more like shrubs and woody species too.
So they have a lot of lignin derived humic acid and fulvic acid. It's a 111 for your NPK, and then it's got loaded with like calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, all your trace, and then most, and a ton of silica, and more importantly, all the biology associated with it too.
So the biology to mine and make that stuff actually bioavailable, so it could not even be from the bison source. It could be from the fertilizer that's already sitting there right there in your soil, but it's not actually being bioavailable.
So you lay down that compost tea, and I'm not kidding, like literally I've seen like five and six inches of growth like the next day.
It will really release that much, at least three or four, it will release that much energy and all of a sudden the plant can just shoot up in growth because it has all of a sudden all these requirements are being met.
The other two new products are the alpha grease and the blue.
The alpha grease is basically like going to be similar to it. It's a tricanthinol product. So it's an alfalfa extract, and it's going to be similar to like a mammoth pea but without the microbes, or like a can of boost without the fertilizer, or like, for example, Green Planet Massive.
They reformulated it so it doesn't have the tricanthinol anymore. Products like that, it's going to be helping replace, and then the best part is it's coming in at like less than half the price.
So for everyone right now that's a little bit more price conscious, what we've done is we've have the same technology, organic source of tricanthinol, bottled in a ready to go form.
But the thing is, it's going to take an extra day or two to absorb, because basically what happens already with your, with your tricanthinol is, it's, it's a pretty big structure as from a molecular standpoint.
So it takes the microbes and the soil organisms to break it down and actually spoon feed it to the plant in a form that it's bioavailable.
Now it's, it's all the way effective all the way down to like the parts per billion. So that's how you're able to use such a small amount of it, but it does have to be in the right format.
So we put it in the right format and then your soil bacteria or rhizosphere bacteria even in, even in a hydroponic situation is going to break that down and actually make the tricanthinol available in a way that the plant prefers.
And that's the most natural way for it to to be up taken and as opposed to like synthetic sources and things like that, where it can be really expensive and hard to like hit the exact number.
So that's a very exciting product.
Then the other one's called the blue, and it's actually our least expensive you can get a bottle of it for like $20 at the store.
It's also very concentrated. What it is is it's super unique. It's a blue green algae extract called phycocyanin. Again, in a liquid bioavailable, like ready to go form form so you don't have to mess with it and it can be kind of like a tough compound to work with.
But the interesting thing of it is like cyanobacteria evolved three and a half billion years ago, and they were the first mechanism organism to evolve like a photosynthetic apparatus really efficiently, at least that we know of.
And essentially it's, they're still out there flourishing today. And, and the, the blue. It is the pigment that's necessary for photosynthesis.
And then, you know, plants basically evolved right up out of and with these algae, and they have the same mechanism. So it's, it's, and they even have the same pigment in their light harvesting apparatus.
So it's similar to the grease, where this is a complex compound that takes a lot of energy for the plant to make on its own. So we're supplementing that compound for not too, not too much money here, but it's also, but then it's really increasing plant growth because the cool thing about the phycocyanin is, imagine the plants harvesting these photons.
Imagine an upside down umbrella, the phycocyanin is like the out outer part it's like the widest part. So the more that you can push that out, the more photons you're able to capture.
And then the interest and the phycocyanin is doing that and it's funneling the energy actually to the activation center where the plants, creating essentially like the carbon and cleaving the carbon and actually harvesting the energy.
And the crazy thing is, it's not only helping it absorb more, but it can even help the system, the mechanism can close up and it can diffract the light too. If it's getting too much like a light stress.
So what it's doing is it's really helping with lights with all stresses but particularly light stress, both too little and too much it'll up regulate and down regulate the system.
And what we're seeing is, it's also a precursor to some of the purpling. So if you've got a strain that tends to go more purple.
Not only is our grease purple label. Excellent for that, but then the the blue is going to help too because it's a it's a building block compound of the purple as well and the anthocyanins, things like that of that nature.
So just a really fun product you're going to basically see the plants grow faster in veg. And then the cool thing in flower it's actually relieving pressure on the DNA and on like the genetic level to as the plants growing and there's mutations happening.
And it's one of the compounds it's an antioxidant compound that will actually reduce those mutations, and it can help them. That's another reason why it helps the plant grow faster, because it's dealing with those mutations faster essentially really cool, interesting
technology and the crazy thing. You guys are going to love this. Some of the top scientists in the world. They've been asked you know, what does phycocyanin do for plants and they're like, we don't know.
You're leading.
It's common for the cannabis industry, I don't think we get enough credit for blazing the trails with some with with agricultural science you know we're constantly pushing it and we're so in tune with our plants that a lot of products are actually discovered,
and the efficacy is kind of proven through the cannabis industry, and we're kind of leading the charge with that too or what we're trying to do is we're trying to not.
Thanks, we're trying to not
lie to people.
Essentially we're trying to basically be we're trying to basically tell people more exactly what is this technology, why is it working, and we don't care about the regist, the registration as much there's ways to creative ways to get around that we care about if it works
and if it's clean because the proof is in the pudding. You know what I mean everyone's getting tested they know if these products are clean. Everyone's getting tested and they know if the products are even working to these days which is awesome so like, we've got people going from
you know 22 to 25% THC 19 to 23.
We've got people going from eight to 13% on saving some of their strains in all lose media applications then so I'm a mystery.
So, I'm assuming, living soil organic applications hydroponics.
Yeah, and that's one super nice thing about our formulation is it works well plays friendly with all your microbes and things like that.
Because, yes, there's alcohol in our product but it's on such a small enough level it's diluted so much that it's no more than a natural ferment would be when you apply it. And then the for your hydro guys they love it because it's sterile, so it doesn't
throw off their communities. So like I've got a really great story really quick before we have to jump off. Well, actually, we got to take a break right now, and we'll jump back we'll come into your story and we'll actually go into the application rates and timing
of these products so when people do buy it, they know when to apply it to get the maximum effects from the products okay sweet. Awesome. We'll be right back folks. Thanks.
And thanks for tuning in everyone again. I'd like to give a couple shout outs to my boy Kyle McAlpin, thanks for sending in some feedback says day 75 super appreciative of all the support you gave me in the beginning to get it up and going,
and I've asked for a better intro. You're welcome Kyle thanks for being such a attentive listener.
Also, I'd like to give a shout out to my man Davey below down in Australia, the podcast that's going international, he reads hey mate, just discovered your podcast when the start of my journey really enjoyed the discussions and insight.
Thanks for the guidance and the good drives from Australia. Cheers mate.
Thanks, Davey. Keep tuning in a lot of good information coming this year, and back to the show.
And welcome back everyone. We're here with Mike from Greece and Matt Brainstrap from area 420. He hooked it all up for us.
Mike was going to tell us a story. He was talking about how there's little trace amounts of alcohol in the product and how it was a funny story with the hydroponic, and I cut him off.
Sure, sure. Thanks. Um, no for sure it was a just kind of interesting story like related to the alpha Greece.
Basically, after I finished working with mammoth P, one of the reps came up to me and said that in the R&D facility, they had a pretty big R&D facility, and they sterilized mammoth, and then they actually ran the sterilized versus mammoth P, and the sterilized one
actually did better. And this was really surprising and kind of validating for me, just to know that, sure enough, the efficacy of the product seems to be from the trichanthinol in a pre digested form, and not necessarily from the microbes.
So, and at least according to their trial.
So I was very excited by that and then that's essentially one, one of the things one of the reasons that stimulated me to come up with the alpha Greece, because all it is is the alfalfa extract without the microbes, a sterile version, and basically it's providing that same thing
that same technology of the trichanthinol that directly increases yield, because it turns on about, it turns on a lot more genes, and that translates to increasing, it turns on the flowering genes, almost even before the plant goes into flower.
So it's, it's, that's one that you want to put in about two weeks before you flip, and then carry it into the flowering process. It will, the alpha Greece is going to drive the flowering process quite a bit by turning on those genes, and just increasing the overall uptake to
you were talking about hormone levels were able or mess with the hormone levels and allow certain certain ones I can't remember off top my head, could you repeat that again. Yeah, of course, difficulties and kind of cut you off there.
Yeah, and it is it is a hormonal product and the hormones work on like the parts per million even parts per billion so that's what's so interesting about them is a, and it's an organic source of the trichanthinol from alfalfa and alfalfa is known to flower, basically
all not all season long but it's a very aggressive flowering plant. So that's why it has naturally high levels of this. And then, um, it's even a compound that's very safe it's found in beeswax because the bees are able to accumulate it basically out of the alfalfa and
it's a very dangerous flowers and stuff too. And hormones drive all the growth in the plant, really at the end of the day, they are basically like the switch that's getting turned on to push the growth, and you've got you know like auctions for the roots,
and you've got gibberellic acids for the shoots cytokinins for the roots and also for the, the thickness of the stems and things like that, your lateral branching and basically trichanthinol is is one of those but specifically more for flowering and that's why it's
a powerful technology to be turning those genes on and like really getting the plant amped up and ready to transition into flower and then also to just keep pushing the process hard.
So we're seeing about 1520% increase in overall yield with that product, and you're going to want to use it at half a mil per gallon through about week, four to six.
And people also like to use it all the way up to flush. I personally think that since it is such a strong hormone, it can kind of push the fox tailing and induce fox tailing on some more sensitive strains, particularly your more sativa dominant strains.
So that's something to watch out for and that's a reason why I cut it out around weeks like four or five, just because it also kind of has done its job at that point and it has most of the, it's, it's basically driven the uptake and push most of the
development and it'll actually stay in the plant and keep working for a few weeks after. So that's another reason to that you can kind of cut it out then.
And, and what's really unique is since it's all sterile you can even spray it. So that's unlike you know mammoth.
And there's another, there's other products that it's similar to like, for example, can a boost. I personally think that can a boost probably has a trikantinol in it, I'm not sure about that.
It's a nice product to be. And then also like for example Green Planet Massive, they used to have trikantinol in there is they actually reformulated it without it. So it's a really nice product to kind of fit that technology and then it's also a lot less expensive.
So it's a really nice product for people to get into the blue. It's a unique product because what it is is, it's basically going to increase your growth rate. So it's definitely more for veg, but it seems to help if you carry it through flower as well,
and it's going to reduce stress on the genetic level on the DNA level. Again, it's going to deal with a lot of like mutations and things like that that might have that might happen. The antioxidant qualities of it.
It will go around and it'll actually similar to how it can kind of like grab free radicals out of our body, it does the same thing within the plant and reduces mutations.
It can be faster growth and veg, and it can even reduce stress to the point where if some plants were maybe going to harm, it can even pull that back and and keep them true.
And on that one you go half a mil per gallon. You can also spray it as well because it is sterile.
And it's a, you're going to want to use that pretty much all the way up to flush, especially if you have a strain that is more purple dominant, because that blue pigment is also a precursor of the purpling and that purple pigment and it can create kind of a deeper, nice darker purple.
The grease, all of our colors of the grease, the all five products they work on all the same as far as the ratio. So the amount that you add, it's half a mil per gallon.
And those products, veg to flour, it's, you're going to see the most benefit in flour, but you'd be surprised how much benefit you see in overall health and in cloning speed even using it in clone, because the compounds in the grease are immune building
compounds, all cannabis derived, and that's going to basically help the plant defend itself in veg and it and specifically in clone, because when you take a clone off of the plant, about 60 to 70% of the immune system is actually in the roots.
So all of a sudden it's working overdrive to just protect itself, because it doesn't have that energy coming up and from the immune support from the root system. So when you spray the plant like every day with grease, we're seeing like half the rooting time, which is really
remarkable and very impressive too, because I've seen that like the strongest, the stronger a plant and the stronger a flowering round is, it can almost be traced all the way back to like the vigor of that clone and how well it started.
It's like the beginning is almost like the most important part of the enterprise. That's not 100% true, but it really is pretty true and like we just got done walking through a garden.
Yeah, so that was Astronomics. Shout out Aaron and Sarah. Aaron was amazing over there at Astronomics.
And for him to be all you know DWC and hydro, there's very few products that he could use that actually feel safe to be adding to a hydro system.
But luckily, our liquids are actually kind of some of those things that would be safe to use and then spraying the grease is going to give him a nice twofer where he not only has an increase in the resin and the terpenes, but it's also going to defend against
various PM in, you know, anything nasty that could be creeping up and just possibly going on so as a good preventative is a good preventative exactly so it's just like one of those things.
Really nice. So I asked you earlier, just because of Aaron, his reservoir he talked on our podcast earlier about, he could lower his inputs, because of his system, it's more bioavailable.
Yep. And I asked you a little bit ago before we had our difficulty. Your ratio is the same all across the board if it's cocoa, if it's a pro mix if it's a hydroponics or if it's a living soil right you dilute this the same for all these mediums.
Yeah, and when I remember what I was my I lost my train of thought there. Um, like, Aaron he uses tissue culture. Yes, and that's the reason the reason is because again the strongest start, and that clean start gives him by far the competitive advantage.
So that's kind of like the same idea with the yeah exactly there's no type of systemic issue waiting to flare due to a stress response in typically the grow the grow environment and right now with his setup, he definitely needs to make sure that he's using tissue culture genetics,
and really keep a clean approach with that. That's our whole thing is like start clean stay clean, you know, and like quality in quality out like that's kind of like, just the way you have to be these days and like the return on investments huge like with the grease specifically.
It's the only product that is actually targeting, you know, the resin and the terpenes and actually standing up to the claim and and boosting exactly what we want. So like the, the extractors are really loving it, and just the growers you go into a room that's treated
with the grease and you can literally just almost tell, because the terpenes are elevated and the volatility is elevated to that can even improve the leaf angle and things like that.
So, we've seen probably related to the fact that it is almost like a sunscreen. So it can help kind of the angle a little bit help them absorb some more.
It can help them absorb more photons, and then the, the connect the grease, you can definitely use all the way up to the end and it even works well as like a pre harvest wash.
So the compounds in the grease are from inside the trichome head. It, it is safe on the trichomes, and it's, and it's even safe all the way up until harvest and and can knock off some dust and debris and any type of nasty even a few last insects right before
you harvest in a natural way that's not going to throw off your extracts. So that's really exciting.
It's also really good for other crops. So like, yeah, it's a little bit of a premium product, but like for example I'm kind of like a giant pumpkin grower, and they have like pumpkins have four different types of trichomes.
I think two different glandular ones, and they exude a lot of terpenes you can tell tomatoes similarly to you know when you put your hands on the leaf, and you can just smell that vigorously.
And it's so strong on your hand.
Those are the terpenes and, and from very similar structures and yeah sure enough, the building blocks from cannabis can actually translate to other species it's amazing awesome.
Yeah, and, and, and.
So, I've seen that firsthand and we've grown.
We were trying to work up to 1000 pounds we grew like a 514 pound pumpkin. That's really fun. Wow.
And it wasn't it was kind of in parts, it was in like part son it wasn't even in close to full sun so you got pics. Yeah, I got pics. Okay.
But then, the, the bison brew, it's so nice because it's really adding to the flavor and the taste, but in a different way, not specifically adding the building blocks, it's more doing it from the ground up and and doing it actually feeding the soil and improving
the soil structure and improving the symbiotic relationships that are going on in the soil, applying that diversity from the bison that they, they're able to bio accumulate such an amazing like biodiversity of insects, or sorry of microbes in their, in their
gut, that it's actually 30% more microbes and say like cow compost, and really diverse diversity is king when it comes to soil structure and the microbes, the microbial environment because the more diversity you have the more they're going to be working together
to basically liberate all that nutrition for you. And you want to work, you know, with the microbes not against them in in cocoa and soil situations, because they are basically like an insurance policy and then they're also able to mine all those little micro
nutrients out of the out of the soil feed it up to the plant and then that directly translates into the taste and flavor and the terpenes and like the diversity of the microbial life is similar to the diversity that's going to be expressed in like the chemical
compounds that that plant can actually make and express to because it has then the full range of everything that it can work with it has all the tools and it's in its toolbox and basically that's what we're trying to do like with
the other places we we've developed a line here where no matter what you're doing, we were, we feel like we're adding a lot of benefit to it.
Even, even hydro guys are seeing a lot of benefit.
They can brew up the bison brew and spray it onto their plants, and then there's a whole, there's a whole surface microbiome above ground that literally you're feeding, and there's a whole bacteria bacterial network and fungal network even on the leaf surface
that's really pulling nutrients even out of the air and things like that. You want the whole plant to be protected and so there's just a, it's very diverse line but the nice thing is it plays friendly with whatever you're already doing.
That's what we really wanted to do is we wanted to create something where people that really want to take it and max out and go to take it to the top level.
And we do so, and so earlier you were talking about the, the bison and bring it for 24 hours for for the age and then 48 hours for flower was the difference in that could explain that one more time for me please.
Yeah, for sure and for.
And also it's worth mentioning like it's, it's very, it's commercially viable to because of the dilution ratio. So once you're done like let's say you're brewing up a five gallon batch of it.
I do about two cups of bison brew and then two tablespoons of unsulfur molasses and bubble that for 24 hours for veg 48 hours for bloom, just as you said, and the, the reason is, you go 48 hours for bloom because there's a lot of protozoa in the bison specifically,
and the protozoa species will actually eat eat your bad bacteria and flower, and can really. That's a nice, very nice insurance policy because it's going to re stabilize.
If your microbial community has has run away so to speak, and is an anaerobic community is starting to pop up, they'll actually come in control and suppress that and can save you even route, ultimately, but right in the end, which is that's incredibly
desirable.
And I think that especially when it's wet out outdoors and rain and fall. Also, you were talking about the cannabinoid boosters there's different colors and different labels, one specific for sativa which will help for sativa so there's a green was more of a overall universal
one, and could you go through the colors one more time for me and tell you what, which ones are specific for. Yeah, definitely. And it's worth mentioning that all of them will work.
And also, what we've discovered in all of our research is that the different colors are from different strains, and then they're also different extraction techniques. And basically, what we've done is we figured it out to where the isoprene the building
grounds of the resin itself. There's so many of those is about 50,000. That different group will actually vary quite a bit based on the variety. So, it's going to help no matter what but if you're if you're able to line up the group, it's almost like
the base to be so to speak, where all of a sudden you're putting the, you have more of a indica dominant room, and you're using the purple are more indica dominant cannabinoid booster. It's going to be about 2025% more effective because it, it filled that slot a lot
easier and matched up better. And, then, also, another big one worth mentioning is like CBGA. The plant has to create CBGA before it can create THC.
A before it can create THC or CBD or any of these compounds.
So we have some of that in there as well
to keep it naturally stimulated.
And basically it's a hack.
It's a reverse way to essentially use the plant
back on itself and naturally facilitate it.
It's a lot like us taking like an IV
or like a bag of like stem cells or something like that.
And then you said the green one was universal
and it worked as an IPM, which some people out there
if you don't know what IPM is pest management
and cannabinoids are a part of the plant
that help protect it from pests and from the sun
like a sunscreen, like you said.
So it's just natural to me thinking that it would help
as a pest management if you introduce it back
it would just deter the pests from attacking it
and making it much more strong.
No, for sure, for sure.
And that's what we're seeing across the board
which is so nice to have like a dual effect
and not only is it boosting the resin
but also controlling, adding to your IPM routine
and it seems to be really controlling pests.
The gold is our hybrid, so it works across the board.
The green is our IPM or it's also happens
to be the best for hemp or autos.
And the reason is it's the widest spectrum.
So it ends up being kind of hitting the molds
and the insects better because it's getting them
with more of a diversity of compounds
or there's a compound in there
that maybe it wasn't in one of the others
that seems to work more effectively against them.
And then the purple is our indica, the amber is our sativa
and then the yellow is actually our finisher.
And with the finishing compound,
you can layer all of our products together safely
so you can actually stack them.
But one thing we really recommend
is stacking the yellow at the end.
Basically keep doing whatever you're doing
if you're on the gold, green or purple, whatever,
but then add the yellow in for the last
like three or four weeks.
And we're really seeing that help with the maturation time.
It's helping like kind of speed up long flowering sativas.
And then with like your indicas, it's helping them layer on
and actually mature in a nice way
to where it's also boosting more of the resin at the end
because the plant is producing different compounds
at the end and then we've taken the precursors
from those finishing compounds.
So that's the idea is that it's also helping push
the maturation cycle.
So it's helping boost the yields for the strains
that people are washing these days.
They get a little bit more boost off their
or more yield off of their wash
and creating a little bit better resin or rosin.
Yeah, and we've even had a couple of friends
that are specifically like washers and they've had both,
they really love grease.
Like not only are they seeing it increase their numbers,
even on the high end, even on some GMOs
and things like that,
that they didn't think they could see go much higher,
but it's also saved some of their lower strains
that like maybe produced awesome turps,
but for some reason didn't have the yield
or maybe didn't wash right or something.
And it's actually making them a keeper,
pushing it up into that threshold where it can be a keeper,
which is super nice.
And for them, like flavor is everything
because obviously that's what gets people kind of coming back
to your brand.
And they're even doing mixes and things like that
where like they'll keep something around
because the turp is so special into their even like a mix.
That's really interesting.
Yeah, we had a lot of mixes out there.
That's why some people buy a rosin
and it'll have Mac Vader or something.
And it'd be like, I've never heard of a Mac Vader.
And they're taking Mac one and mixing it
with some Death Vader or something.
And like mixing them, like you said,
taking the turps from one, the yield from another,
combining them to boost the effects and the profit.
But they're literally telling me
that they can't grow without the grease now
after seeing the returns.
And then beyond that, the health of the plant too,
like just for the grower, just to walk into the room
and see them that much more healthy and notice it
is worth it to them too, which is awesome.
Yeah, we talked a little bit too
about the love you put into the plant,
you get back in return.
And the reason we start that conversation
is because these are available in all the shelves
in Colorado pretty much that you've been able to hit.
And if they're not, you can ask your local store
and they're available readily here in Colorado, right?
Yeah, definitely, and even across the country,
we're working as hard as we can to get to all the stores.
And thanks for saying that,
because that is totally our model.
Like we really wanna support the stores
and support that community.
And that's what impressed me so much
about being out here at the area 420
and seeing such a strong community.
And then the Hydro Shop right across the street,
I mean, you guys literally brought them here
just off of the demand that you created.
And then that spirals.
I think they may have been operating before,
but I would assume their sales
have increased dramatically since.
I mean, they bring in quite a bit of business as well
outside of the area 420 community.
I mean, this whole valley for the most part
is pretty cannabis friendly.
Totally.
But then when it comes to like the industry side,
it's all about the ordinance in place within that township.
And I think that's where we kind of shine
in more of a pro-cannabis approach than others.
Definitely, yeah.
No, it makes a huge difference.
Like it just, we feel like,
especially with new products like ours,
innovative products,
the knowledge base needs to be there.
So I'm working as hard as I can
to basically get to the stores,
get bottles into those people's hands
so that they can use it, get the good results,
be able to confidently talk about it,
and then just take it from there.
And then next year I wanna do focus on a lot more events
and things like that.
Yeah, I think like the SLV seed exchange
would probably be a great event to jump on with, man.
It's an event hosted at the Joyful Journey Hot Springs,
plugging them real quick on this.
Nice.
But yeah, they do an event every year
and it draws in home growers, commercial growers
from all different fields, from all over the valley,
all over the state to come down and exchange seed,
talk about whore culture in general,
and promote certain products.
So I think it'd be a great little avenue for you.
If not, if you don't been there,
I would definitely try to put it on your schedule
to try to come by and check it out
because it's a good representation of this valley overall.
No, totally.
And the whole gardening community, I guess.
That sounds awesome.
Yeah.
And Joyful Journey is amazing.
Yeah, they got a good thing going there, man.
There's a couple good, cool little hot spring spots.
They're one of a few, but we like working with them.
We like sponsoring the event
and hope to get the event rolling again here soon for 2023.
Awesome.
Yeah, I need to go check out the other one.
So there are some people who don't have access
to a hydroponics shop.
Yes.
And can they go to your website and pick something up?
Yes, absolutely.
Can they get more information
about all these products at your website?
Definitely.
And it's at Grow With Grease on Instagram
and growwithgrease.com is our website.
And thanks for saying that,
because yes, we absolutely have it available on our website
for folks that live pretty far away from shops
or they might live by a shop
that doesn't happen to carry it for some reason.
So yeah, totally.
So yeah, like he said,
request it at your shop, support your local hydroponics shop.
It's a hard time for everybody out there.
Shout outs to Kim up at Hydro Shack in Frisco, Colorado.
She's the one that hooked me up with your sample.
I tested it out.
I like it.
I would definitely like to try some more.
I'm highly interested in Bison Brew.
I'd like to brew some of that up.
Anything else you would like the listeners out there
to know about your product, about yourself?
I know you've got a lot of love for the plant
and you're spreading love out there,
spreading knowledge.
I highly appreciate that.
And Matt, thanks for bringing us on here.
Yeah, anytime, man.
I appreciate you guys doing what you do.
Appreciate the content.
Mike, many thanks for coming out.
We still got a couple more little spots
we wanna check out here in phase one at area 420.
And I wanna take you out to phase two.
Anybody that's listening in,
you can find us at Colorado area 420 on Instagram,
Colorado area 420.com.
And then my personal Instagram at brainstrap underscore F2.
That's the backup account.
So that's kind of some contact information for us.
But yeah, man, big ups.
This is a cool episode and a lot of information
and a lot of knowledge dropping.
And it's gonna be cool to see
what happens going forward here.
Definitely.
Mike, any information, any more plugs,
any Instagram links you would like to let people know about?
Yeah, I was gonna say, please look out for us.
We're heading out to Michigan and the Northeast next.
And then also we just made available a sample pack
on our website.
So if people are interested and just wanted to try
the product, they could buy a sample pack too on the website.
And that's one thing we wanted to do
to just get it into people's hands a little bit faster.
And then really your store is also the best place
to request samples because requesting samples through them
is going to basically get the product onto the shelf faster.
And I'll send samples right to the store too.
And any stores out there that wanna get your products
that they don't have them anywhere in the nation,
they can go to your website.
Do you have your contact information?
They can get wholesale products from you there.
That way you don't have to hit them up.
They know about your product.
They can hit you up.
Yeah, definitely for sure.
And they can either email me through the website
or also just sign up and log in through the website
and we can get it all approved.
And that's, I mean, it's a grassroots thing.
The other thing I really wanted to say is,
we are like grower owned company,
that like kind of buy growers for growers.
And that's our whole thing is like holding quality first
and quality is like our premium kind of value.
No pesticides, no heavy metals, no residual solvents
and staying true to the plant
because that's really where like our passion is.
Yeah, those are the types of products
and the type of businesses I like to support myself.
You got a lot of love for the plant.
It really shows at the end,
in through the plants expressions.
And we talked a little bit earlier about
if you're cutting corners here, cutting corners there,
on a business side, number side, sometimes
that love is lost and it really shows
sometimes through the plant, not always,
but if you got love for the plant, show it,
support the other people who got love for the plant,
support local.
And that energy is just gonna keep transferring
and passing on.
Yep, I believe that the karma,
the cannabis plant has a karma to it.
If you try to take advantage of it to your advantage,
it'll bite you in the ass in the end.
Totally, yeah.
So thanks for tuning in guys,
one love and peace and go out and support your Greece.
Thanks.
You're welcome.
Thank you for coming on the show today.
Thanks for tuning in again, everyone.
Big things to come this year.
A lot of new content coming from Area 420
and the Colorado Connoisseurs Cup
down at the Vibe on South Monaco.
I'll be down there occasionally setting up,
doing some interviews and having some tinctures and tea,
which we're calling TNT hour
and sharing some tea with everyone.
Also, there's gonna be a lot of new video content
coming up with my boys, Dan and Kendall.
They are helping out the little farmer team here.
Thanks guys for becoming part of the team.
Together, hopefully we can make 2023 a great year
for the cannabis community and legalize cannabis
across the nation and hopefully across the world.
Peace and love.
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