PotForPot.com | Interview #293 with Josh Jacob Mezher ~ Rockstar Millennial

I’m so excited! On Tuesday I talked to Tara at the Rodale Institute and she got me so excited about all the things going on in the Hemp World. I’m so excited to introduce Josh Mezher from A Pot For Pot.

If you want to read the Golden Seeds just click here.

Are you a Rockstar Millennial born between 1980 and 1995?

I was born in 1986

Awesome! I’m writing a book about the rockstar millennials I interview on my show!

Tell us a little about yourself.

Been in the cannabis industry for about a decade now. I moved from the UK to go to school at the USC Santa cruz.

I moved here at a great time where you could legally grow your own cannabis at home and walk down the street and take it to a medical dispensary.

I actually dropped out of school

hobbies

I always loved gardening and it’s an amazing plant to grow!

I love all of this! Tell me about your first gardening experience? Did you say you grew up in the UK?

My mom is actually a California and she is actually a fanatical gardener. As a young kid I was always trudging around vegetable patch.

digging up the garden

underrated species

I give full credit to my mom, for everything she taught me, I have applied that

vegetables
flowers
more utilitarian based plants!

I love that answer! I am not sure I express enough on my show that what makes the rockstar millennials so amazing it’s because of their awesome parents! Of course my husband is a parent to 2 rockstar millennials!

How did you learn how to garden organically or do you want to talk about what’s going on?

i didn’t start

hydroponic side of it

focus on the product

It’ funny the evolution of cannabis cultivation is really going

traditionally this plant has been grown in small spaces inside houses.

A lot of people are not aware of, is how much cannabis does the U.S. produce? and who produces it?

now they get marketed PR

impressions

there are these huge cannabis

predominately

11k tons grown annual

low end estimate

largest cannabis farms

barely hitting

one to five tons in production

hundreds of thousands of people who are growing this in their garden

larger scale

I’m so excited! On Tuesday I talked to Tara at the Rodale Institute and she got me so excited about all the things going on in the Hemp World. I’m so excited to introduce Josh Mezher from A Pot For Pot.

If you want to read the Golden Seeds just click here.

Are you a Rockstar Millennial born between 1980 and 1995?

I was born in 1986

Awesome! I’m writing a book about the rockstar millennials I interview on my show!

Tell us a little about yourself.

Been in the cannabis industry for about a decade now. I moved from the UK to go to school at the USC Santa cruz.

I moved here at a great time where you could legally grow your own cannabis at home and walk down the street and take it to a medical dispensary.

I actually dropped out of school

hobbies

I always loved gardening and it’s an amazing plant to grow!

I love all of this! Tell me about your first gardening experience? Did you say you grew up in the UK?

My mom is actually a California and she is actually a fanatical gardener. As a young kid I was always trudging around vegetable patch.

digging up the garden

underrated species

I give full credit to my mom, for everything she taught me, I have applied that

vegetables
flowers
more utilitarian based plants!

I love that answer! I am not sure I express enough on my show that what makes the rockstar millennials so amazing it’s because of their awesome parents! Of course my husband is a parent to 2 rockstar millennials!

How did you learn how to garden organically or do you want to talk about what’s going on?

i didn’t start

hydroponic side of it

focus on the product

It’ funny the evolution of cannabis cultivation is really going

traditionally this plant has been grown in small spaces inside houses.

A lot of people are not aware of, is how much cannabis does the U.S. produce? and who produces it?

now they get marketed PR

impressions

there are these huge cannabis

predominately

11k tons grown annual

low end estimate

largest cannabis farms

barely hitting

one to five tons in production

hundreds of thousands of people who are growing this in their garden

larger scale

smaller scale

plant that is spread throughout the country and doesn’t get a whole lot of recognition

Out of the house and out of the cupboard!

This plant has so much to offer. I can’t believe I see adds for Hemp Levis and Hemp Overalls. I can not believe the growth in this industry in just a year, stuff that wasn’t there a year ago.

its cool

look at the cannabis plant

indica

sativa

rooterallis

auto flowering

original plant

archeology

humans

domestified

started agriculture

really good reason

forget about the drug side

mind altering affect

put that to the side

have a plant that almost naturally grows rope.

branch

twist

you could throw

secondly it gives seeds that are so  nutritional

hemp and cannabis and how healthy it is for humans to consume

other aspect

mind altering

My husband is pointing to all this research that humans are not getting a lot of our nutritional value because we used to get a lot of it from animals that we eat but they are not getting it in their grain so it is not passing on to humans. … People always tell me that hemp protein is good for me, and I can’t afford to buy it and why can’t my husband grow it for me?

medical effect

often draw the parallel of Michael Pollan’s book

evolved us

cannabinoid system

designed to work in the home growers club

I don’t agree with a lot of laws around cannabis cultivation

In Nevada, you can’t grow cannabis at home if you are within 25 miles of a dispensary. Even in California you are not allowed recreational without a card.

I would like to see people grow their tomatoes, next to their cbd pot, thc pot growing next to it

I mean who grows the most tomatoes in the US?

IDK marijuana growers?

No home gardeners…

I would say that I think there has to be  a certain amount of regulation because people are going to the emergency room for overdosing on al these edibles they don’t know what they are doing and I would also say it’s not the easiest plant to grow.

I would beg to differ ~ It’s called weed for a reason and it’s also called pot for a reason because it’s always been grown in a pot I have a whole blog on that

What we have tried to do is to create the right conditions

having great soil

plant in the right soil it should grow

it’s all in the soil!

Our goal is to make this really easy for people

our average customer can grow 3 oz in 80 days!

We want to demystify this plant that is really easy to grow, i mean don’t get me wrong but the only time it’s really hard to grow is when you start to scale up.

If you grow a couple of plants in your backyard.

We try to educate people on soil but also

on a particular variety of cannabis that doesn’t get anywhere near enough credit

which is auto-flowering which is the street name, called rootarellis.

If you look at the cannabis ~ indica and sativa and forget everything you have learned of the cannabis plant from a different perspective.

When does this plant flower? What most

commercial growers which is photoperiod

and it only flowers once a year in the fall

cannabis gardener

have to grow it in tents because you have to get the 12 hour darkness to generate hormones to say to start flowering

rooterellis

auto-flowering,

that strain evolved I actually make the argument that it is the original strain of cannabis that we created photo period

I’m alive

above the ground

right way before I die

flowers

80-100 days from seed

one of the cool things about rooterellis

high in bcd and it has tech

10% all day in  rooterellis

Commercial growers don’t want to grow the plant predominately because you have to start from seed and you can’t clone it.

lose a little bit of crop consistency

square foot greenhouse

all these seeds

grow a couple of plants

grow 20 foot tall

If you want to grow a 3’-5’6’ foot plant

never exceeds 6 foot

typically 2-3 foot range, and you get an ounce a foot that it grows

I have customers in San Francisco who grow them on their windowsill for fun.

I am here in a state where if you have a medical marijuana card you can maybe grow 8 plants. I also feel like another problem is that people grow it indoors and I would like to see what you do is that people are growing it organically in their gardens and not with a bunch of chemicals indoors.

takes the heavy metals out of the soil

When I talked to Tara about their hemp trial and how good their soy beans which grew after the hemp was incredible!

Before we get to the root of things let’s take a minute to thank our sponsors 

Getting to the root of things!

What is your least favorite activity to do in the garden?

trimming of the plant

harvest

30-25 cuts per gram of cannabis

just to get it t the flower

One of the most mundane parts of growing the plant is

And it’s all sticky and your fingers are sticky.

The only blessing.

fingers are st

within the industry one of the more challenging jobs. I can definitely say I have trimmed my fair share and it’s mundane!

On the flip side what’s your favorite activity to do in the garden?

I think my favorite activity is playing with the plants, Is kind of playing with the plants altering their growth pattern and training them a bit.

I’ve got one plant that’s a regular plant kept in a vegetative state for 365 days

I’ve trained it, it has this sort of twisted bonsai planting you can do a lot of pinching the stems ~ you can slow down one shoot so another one catches up, thinning it there

That’s the fun part of growing! Trim your plant as it grows, it’s very rewarding thing that takes quite a bit of time but is worth it in the long run!

What is the best gardening advice you have ever received?

Don’t overwater your plants! Definitely the biggest complaint we get.

Plants don’t need that much water, depending on the species

haha, my listeners are like this is the plant for Jackie! Because I struggle to water my plants the most!

A favorite tool that you like to use? If you had to move and could only take one tool with you what would it be?

My phone ~ It’s the star trek transponder

I’m still curious did you say you are doing a daily call with Amsterdam?

We haven’t even been selling the product for a full year yet This year is our growth year.

Last year was more like

testing the product
customer results
data back

somewhere in the pacific

weed inventory

We’re giving away 1k units looking to,  trying to get 10k product testers on board

We kow the product works but we’re looking for testers to grow one ton of cannabis. We work with

ilovegrowingmarijuana.com

strategic partners at this point

My week includes 12-14 hour days but I I love it

Been waiting for the opportunity so not complaining there

satisfaction

thrilled with the results

tag line for this year

help us grow one ton of Tax Free Cannabis by being part of this 10,000 growing army we are sort of creating here.

How do my listeners find out about this?

The program is launching here in a couple of weeks.

Sign up for the email and you will know when the program launches.

1000 kits we give away

We’re trying to target it to

veterans
people in need
opioid addicts 

every hundred kits we sell we can afford to give one away

We’re in start-up mode. We’re a scrappy little bootstrapping company here!

Go to the website an sign up for our newsletter.! Just after April 20, 4/20/19 which is a good time to get growing.

Tell listeners about the kit because I’ve been to your website!

Releasing two versions of the Pot 4 a Pot kit.

so, what we want to do is empower people to grow their own 

affordable

simply

The soil is the key ingredient it’s a blend 18 in gradients

Kit comes with:

fabric pot

great for growing cannabis in

carbon dioxide

saucer

seedling kit

scissors

watering can

neem

diatomaceous

new version comes with a smart phone camera lens

sticker

grow guide

coupon can go to

discount on your seeds

can’t com

as far as I am concerned we ship everywhere

there’s no THC in our product.

Provide you are willing to grow

We have sent them all over the world at this point to some surprising countries.

He’s in the Netherlands, ILoveGrowingMarijuana is able to send seeds anywhere they want to.

And then on top of that my mom and her friends are buying all this cbd oil to reduce their brown spots. I’m like seriously, you have no idea how much they laughed at me back in the 90’s. I’m glad. But it drives me crazy how many people mocked me for saying it could help us!

the blessing of the cannabis plant