Female cannabis plants are often threatened by male pollen coming from a neighbor's garden. Now though, regular breeding has created the first cannabis triploid plants. This naturally occurring plant type not only is impervious to unexpected pollen, ...
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It's been exciting watching our triploid field trials this summer grown side by side with their diploid counterparts. Above is Stem Cell CBG, and as you can see the triploid specimens are far outproducing their diploid neighbors. We can't wait until ...
We have been committed to traditional breeding practices from day 1, but it is deeply meaningful to our entire team to be the first Non-GMO Project verified hemp seed supplier in the US. You can find certificates for our varieties on our compliance p...
New for 2020 and only available to a very limited number of returning farmers, meet the “Sours.” One of our goals in breeding unique hemp varieties has been to widen the range of flavor available to farmers and consumers. By pairing the unique ol...
Above - Mel Beard inspects walls of drying flower at 4 Letter Farm's Facility in the Klamath Basin, ORHarvest season is coming on fast, but are you ready? Long days, late nights, and lots of work - but the moment you've been growing for is here....
As the flowers begin to take shape across your hemp fields it’s a good time to plan for pre-harvest compliance tests. If you are growing any of our CBD varieties, timing is imperative. If you are growing our CBG varieties, you are free to wait unti...
The onset of flower! This is a critical time in the field for farmers, who are filled with both excitement and nervous trepidation. It is the time to be walking fields on the lookout for those rare (1/4000), but fully male phenotypes that...
By Crystal Garcia Last year, a couple employees started a vegetable garden at company headquarters. On July 26, 2019 Oregon CBD made their first produce donation to the Ella Curran and Dallas food banks. At the time the garden was well on its wa...
Get to know the pests and pathogens below. Keeping plants healthy is your greatest defense and prey often prefer to pick on damaged or weak specimens. For treatment, consult a professional. While there are many pesticides and fungicides on the market...
Farm life is certainly different during Covid times but we are thankful to be able to continue our R&D field trials. This year our crew planted several acres of varin rich autoflower varieties in our lower field and we can't wait to see the ...
How did we create 100% federally legal varieties for 2021? Seth explains the 3 year "varinization" breeding program implemented by the Oregon CBD team with Medicinal Genomics's Ben Amirault. We can't wait to get these CBDV and CBGV rich seed varietie...
Cannabinoid synthase genes are responsible for converting precursor chemicals into the cannabinoids we all love and benefit from. The genes are classified based on their nucleotide sequence similarity and the resulting compounds produced--CBGA, CBDA,...
An oft-asked question: what is the terpene profile of variety x? This is shorthand for a larger question that science is currently trying to answer, which is: what compounds are responsible for detectable aroma in cannabis? Fi...
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