chazbolin
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Hi everyone! It 's good to be back! I've been growing cannabis with aquaponics now for about 4 years. What I'd like to demonstrate now something I've been working on that is a strategy farmers can use which I believe will optimize annual crop production values, on a gram/meter basis, by reducing harvest times in a closed loop, flood and drain, aquaponic system. I'm doing this with plants that are taken from rooted clones to a 5 day veg in black 5 gal plastic buckets under each light before we flip them into flower. But before I get into the technical aspects of this garden I'd like folks to consider the big picture perspective of what it is we're doing here.
As this grow develops what will be demonstrated are the obvious economic benefits to considering this cultivation method for your farm but even more importantly we will demonstrate the environmental benefits when using closed loop aquaponics as it relates to keeping you compliant when it comes to the often subjective standards that occur in environmental regulations and law. For example, in California you can see how our recently passed 'recreational' cannabis law, Prop 64, The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), specifically addresses water diversion and waste water discharge issues which under this new authority gives various state environmental agencies the power to revoke a cultivation license as described in SECTION 2- FINDINGS and DECLARATIONS paragraph (F): https://www.oag.ca.gov/…/i…/pdfs/15-0103%20(Marijuana)_1.pdf
With these new powers and an ever increasing mainstream acceptance of cannabis, law enforcement agencies will refocus their energies towards removing unlicensed cultivators from competing with those that are licensed. It will than fall on the environmental agencies to decide who will be allowed to cultivate cannabis based on the environmental impact that farm has created. If they find your methods divert excessive amounts of water, or generate excessive waste runoff from your property, that farm is likely to be shut down by any one of these agencies regardless of whether that farm has a license to grow cannabis or not.
http://www.thecannabist.co/…/mendocino-california-ma…/86607/
So what can we as growers do to mitigate environmental issues so these agencies don't come down on us as being bad actors and put us out of business? We need to be smart and we need to have a plan that puts us, the cultivators, at the leading edge of energy and water savings strategies. The idea being we are utilizing sustainable cultivation methods that will not run afoul of those environmental agencies who oversee any and all licensed or unlicensed cannabis cultivation activities.
Here is a link that shows the full text of the album and a few of the images within the album @ https://www.facebook.com/151Farmers/posts/1570266836363615
The actual album with all the images is on this link but because the OP text is long and in FB they just make it one HUGE paragraph it's impossible to get through. It's confounding actually. I don't know how to fix it. Anyway here's the link to the album with all the images. We'll be updating it weekly if you care to follow. https://www.facebook.com/pg/151Farmers/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1567398119983820
As this grow develops what will be demonstrated are the obvious economic benefits to considering this cultivation method for your farm but even more importantly we will demonstrate the environmental benefits when using closed loop aquaponics as it relates to keeping you compliant when it comes to the often subjective standards that occur in environmental regulations and law. For example, in California you can see how our recently passed 'recreational' cannabis law, Prop 64, The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), specifically addresses water diversion and waste water discharge issues which under this new authority gives various state environmental agencies the power to revoke a cultivation license as described in SECTION 2- FINDINGS and DECLARATIONS paragraph (F): https://www.oag.ca.gov/…/i…/pdfs/15-0103%20(Marijuana)_1.pdf
With these new powers and an ever increasing mainstream acceptance of cannabis, law enforcement agencies will refocus their energies towards removing unlicensed cultivators from competing with those that are licensed. It will than fall on the environmental agencies to decide who will be allowed to cultivate cannabis based on the environmental impact that farm has created. If they find your methods divert excessive amounts of water, or generate excessive waste runoff from your property, that farm is likely to be shut down by any one of these agencies regardless of whether that farm has a license to grow cannabis or not.
http://www.thecannabist.co/…/mendocino-california-ma…/86607/
So what can we as growers do to mitigate environmental issues so these agencies don't come down on us as being bad actors and put us out of business? We need to be smart and we need to have a plan that puts us, the cultivators, at the leading edge of energy and water savings strategies. The idea being we are utilizing sustainable cultivation methods that will not run afoul of those environmental agencies who oversee any and all licensed or unlicensed cannabis cultivation activities.
Here is a link that shows the full text of the album and a few of the images within the album @ https://www.facebook.com/151Farmers/posts/1570266836363615
The actual album with all the images is on this link but because the OP text is long and in FB they just make it one HUGE paragraph it's impossible to get through. It's confounding actually. I don't know how to fix it. Anyway here's the link to the album with all the images. We'll be updating it weekly if you care to follow. https://www.facebook.com/pg/151Farmers/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1567398119983820
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