Workers won’t begin planting nearly 20,000 marijuana plants outside WeedMD’s Strathroy greenhouse until early next month, but preparations already are underway for the company’s second outdoor cannabis crop.
WeedMD, a London-headquartered firm – with operations in Strathroy, Aylmer and Bowmanville, east of Oshawa – was one of the first pot producers to grow cannabis outside last year after the government lifted its ban on outdoor cultivation.
Now, head of cultivation Curtis Wallace is taking the lessons learned last year to ensure this season’s crop is the best. Only seven strains of cannabis are being planted on the 11-hectare farm – formerly an organic asparagus farm – down from 38 varieties last year, Wallace said.
“We found that some strains will perform in certain environments better than others... Some performed great indoors in a greenhouse, but then we had them outside and they didn’t do nearly as well,” he said.
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