East Coast organic growers culture?

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socialgrow

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Hello everyone! I'm a relatively new grower, currently running my first fully legal medicinal run. After nearly 3 years keeping up with the organic growing culture online, my question is... where is the east coast culture at? I know the legal scene is still new most places, but I absolutely cannot find anywhere on the east coast to buy locally acclimatized genetics, locally sourced nutrients and amendments, or really much of anything. I know Marco from FCP sells microbes, which are on my list, and Coast of Maine has some good stuff, but where is the east coast equivalent to Build a Soil? Where are the breeders fighting for "Hudson Valley" in their name the same way Humboldt locals do? If this scene doesn't exist outside of hyperlocalized pockets, is it because big corporations were able to swoop in because of the comparatively late legalization? I'm a young grower with ambition for a career in cannabis, but it's all too opaque to me right now. Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this, and may we build up such a strong community like has been built in the west!
 
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Phytoplankton

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socialgrow said:
Hello everyone! I'm a relatively new grower, currently running my first fully legal medicinal run. After nearly 3 years keeping up with the organic growing culture online, my question is... where is the east coast culture at? I know the legal scene is still new most places, but I absolutely cannot find anywhere on the east coast to buy locally acclimatized genetics, locally sourced nutrients and amendments, or really much of anything. I know Marco from FCP sells microbes, which are on my list, and Coast of Maine has some good stuff, but where is the east coast equivalent to Build a Soil? Where are the breeders fighting for "Hudson Valley" in their name the same way Humboldt locals do? If this scene doesn't exist outside of hyperlocalized pockets, is it because big corporations were able to swoop in because of the comparatively late legalization? I'm a young grower with ambition for a career in cannabis, but it's all too opaque to me right now. Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this, and may we build up such a strong community like has been built in the west!
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At this point, a career in cannabis will be tough, unless you’re working for those mega corps. The market is saturated, in the west you can hardly give bud away. Most goes into vapes and edibles. I have a couple friends that got in on the ground floor in Cali, when medical marijuana was approved, so when it was legalized recreationally they had the buyers and pipelines in place, they did well, but still complain that the market is choked with product.
 
thumper60

thumper60

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socialgrow said:
Hello everyone! I'm a relatively new grower, currently running my first fully legal medicinal run. After nearly 3 years keeping up with the organic growing culture online, my question is... where is the east coast culture at? I know the legal scene is still new most places, but I absolutely cannot find anywhere on the east coast to buy locally acclimatized genetics, locally sourced nutrients and amendments, or really much of anything. I know Marco from FCP sells microbes, which are on my list, and Coast of Maine has some good stuff, but where is the east coast equivalent to Build a Soil? Where are the breeders fighting for "Hudson Valley" in their name the same way Humboldt locals do? If this scene doesn't exist outside of hyperlocalized pockets, is it because big corporations were able to swoop in because of the comparatively late legalization? I'm a young grower with ambition for a career in cannabis, but it's all too opaque to me right now. Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this, and may we build up such a strong community like has been built in the west!
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Check out some canna shows meet all kinds of people doing all kinds of stuff at the local level.
 
Richard Drysift

Richard Drysift

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Used to sell clones awhile ago and had an idea to sell my own brand of super soil but honestly with full legality there are just not enough people growing their own around here. I can only speak for mfers in CT but guess all these heads must like paying 20% tax for their weed on top of the prices already as high as the street used to be not all that long ago. The cost of electricity may be a deterrent up here. Also the grey market has flourished; it seems almost cheaper to buy weed at a pop-up event or your old dealer than it is to grow your own. I think that may be why there is not really much of a growers scene at all. I know of a few people who were trying to sell clones at pop ups but they did so little business they ended up giving away a lot of their plants. There’s just no market for them. Sad.
 
MtRainDog

MtRainDog

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Seems like everyone in VA grows since we can and there isnt really shit for dispos here anyway. Anyone not growing is likely being overloaded by friends that do. Or their dealer if they don’t have any friends lol.
 
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