Last month brought the beginning of Harborside Health Center’s busiest season. Spring planting season actually starts in January when people from all over Northern California descend upon HHC and buy seeds to sprout. Ask anyone-especially an employee of the clones department-about spring, and the word “madness” will most definitely surface. There will often be lines three-deep, as people queue up to get their orders filled. This year we sold more packs of seeds than any other by far! We currently stock over a hundred different strains in seeds, making Harborside the largest seed bank in the country. The seed bank was a pet project of mine that started over five years ago with seeds from the legendary DJ Short (see The Harborside Illuminator, vol. 14). The real rush begins, however, in March, when the first of the light-deprivation (aka, ‘dep’) greenhouse growers arrive to secure genetics (aka, clones). Growers have increasingly turned to dep crops in recent years. This allows for two or more harvests per year, or a single harvest that’s dried and distributed before the helicopters start to fill the fall skies with their incessant buzz-killing whine.
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Light deprivation also has some other advantages over traditional-let’s call it, “full sun” sun-grown. Greenhouses (GH) are enclosed, controllable environments. Being able to regulate the temperature and humidity gives a grower much more control over the finished flowers. Daily fluctuations in temperature that create mist or dew can be avoided. Plants in containers can also be rotated, allowing for consistent sunlight exposure, thus producing more uniform buds. All sun-grown cultivators know well the difference between south-facing flowers and their shadier sisters. GH also has the advantage of being lockable, making rip-offs harder, or at least noisier; even going through plastic sheeting creates more of a fuss than just cutting branches. Four-legged rippers are also excluded from the feast of fresh, tasty cannabis branches by enclosed spaces. Insects, unfortunately, are still a challenge, although a slightly reduced one.