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Welcome to the Cannabis Cultivation and Science podcast, I’m your host, Tad Hussey of KIS Organics. This is the podcast where we discuss the cutting edge of organic growing from a science based perspective and draw in top experts from around the industry to share their wisdom and knowledge. If you want to hear the latest in growing technology and methods, this is the place..
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
Applied plant science for cannabis growers, with close attention to soil, lighting, genetics, and production constraints.
Cannabis Cultivation and Science Podcast sits in a practical part of the Science beat: plant science for cannabis growers. Its best use is for listeners who want the crop treated as a real production system, not as culture-war shorthand or hobby talk.
You want your grow advice with soil tests, VPD, and a healthy distrust of magic.
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A practical case for transplanting and for treating plant botany as a working tool.
This episode treats good gardening as a matter of reading the plant instead of trusting instinct alone. The host keeps coming back to plant botany as a practical tool for spotting limiting factors, thinking through air and water relationships, and making better decisions in the…
A close look at the chemistry that can quietly shape a healthy cannabis grow.
Bryant Mason centers the chemistry that keeps crop performance steady, with pH, alkalinity, sodium, chloride, and reused media all getting real attention.
A practical look at how stress affects plants, yield, and grower decisions.
This episode tracks Dr. Jose Leme and Tad Hussey as they unpack how stress affects a plant and where that shows up in secondary metabolites, biomass, and the decisions growers make under pressure.
A grounded look at silicon, source quality, and how it can help plants handle stress.
This Foundations Series episode is about silicon, but it keeps circling back to a simpler question: what should a grower trust? Dr. Wendy Zellner walks through source quality, rice hulls, guaranteed analysis, and why a tidy chart is not proof by itself.
Airflow and fan velocity are treated as practical controls that can push a cannabis room toward structure instead of flowers.
Airflow gets treated here as a working variable, not a side note. Tad Hussey and Dr. Nadia Saba keep coming back to fan placement and air speed, showing how those choices can steer a cannabis plant toward structure or flowers.
A practical look at how stable seed lines, hybrid vigor, and finish time shape cultivation choices.
Dr. Matthew Indest and Tad Hussey keep the focus on a practical question: whether seed-based production is becoming a more workable commercial path.
A careful look at how intentional stress may shape a plant's response.
Tad Hussey and Dr. Michael Gutenson spend the episode on a simple but useful idea: drought stress can push a plant to raise secondary metabolites, including terpenes and cannabinoids, as a possible defense against other stresses.
A careful look at cannabis lighting that keeps the plant, not the headline number, at the center.
This is a grounded look at cannabis lighting and photobiology, and it stays most useful when it keeps returning to the plant rather than the number on a meter.
Mushroom culture from soil to society.
Clear neuroscience for curious minds.
Plant papers, jokes, and useful uncertainty.
Weed science, from genomes to paddocks.
Biomedical careers, described from the inside.
Human stakes behind biomedical progress.
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Tad Hussey and the guest discuss how plants respond to drought stress.
Christine DeJesus sits down with Tad Hussey to talk through the real-world headaches of a working cannabis cultivation operation.
Tad Hussey steers the show into lighting and photobiology with Shane Torpey of MyGrow on the line.
The show opens by returning to a foundational conversation on silicon and plant health.
15,000 clones annually from a purpose-built propagation system with modular genetic tracking.
This episode revisits the soil food web, explaining how plants and microbes trade carbon for minerals, introduces the rhizophagy cycle where plants farm bacteria internally, critiques biomimicry in controlled environments, and advocates for precision biology over untested compost to optimize cannabis cultivation.
Host Tad Hussey interviews Dr.
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Cannabis Cultivation and Science Podcast episode 155 features Julie Gretch (Bioworks biological scientist) explaining entomopathogenic fungi for pest management.
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Tad Hussey of KISS Organics talks with Saul Alba, Biobee USA’s technical sales representative, about cannabis IPM, scouting, and how growers decide when beneficial insects are worth the cost.
Tad Hussey and Suzanne Wainwright Evans, the 'Bug Lady,' talk through isopods, pyrethrins, REIs, and pesticide labels for cannabis growers.
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Tad Hussey sits down with Matthew DeBacco, whose background spans pathology, horticulture, agronomy, education, and cannabis teaching at the University of Connecticut.
Bryant Mason joins Tad Hussey for a grounded reset on the basics growers come back to over and over.
Lean farming starts with wasted motion.
Stable seed crops do not just show up.
Host Tad Hussey interviews retired horticulture professor Don Marshall about foundational plant science concepts for growers.
A cannabis cultivation science podcast features Dr.
20-30 ppm nitrogen at finish gives true plant maturation vs nitrogen-starved yellowing.
The episode wraps the foundation series with a grounded look at soil health.
Tad Hussey talks with Adam Arnold of Collective Elevation in Bozeman, Montana.
Tad Hussey sits down with Bryant Mason to talk through soil testing and nitrogen management.
An interview with Julie Gresh from Bioworks about the science and application of oils in cannabis cultivation.
Host Tad Hussey interviews plant pathologist Dr.
An interview with George Grant, a horticulture expert, discussing cannabis cultivation issues like sanitation, IPM, fertility, lighting, and water quality.
An interview with biological scientist Julie Gresh about integrated pest management in cannabis cultivation.
This episode discusses water treatment and irrigation for cannabis cultivation with an industry expert.
An interview with Professor Yoram Kapulnik about his research in plant-microorganism interactions and natural products.
This episode features an interview with cultivation consultant Nelson Lindsley, discussing sustainable chemical nutrient options and large-scale cannabis growing techniques.
An interview with Rob Nectel, founder of Black Swallow Living Soils, discussing organic soil formulation and cannabis cultivation challenges.
Host Tad Hussey interviews Dr.
Host Tad Hussey interviews Dr.