HIGHIGAN While you can't nd any Highigan ower on dispensary shelves, you may know the duo, Neil and Heaven, from their high energy educational channel and massive grower community online. Beyond the screen, they've channeled their passion for elite genetics into Poppin Fire, a seed company dedicated to sourcing and curating rare, small-batch re for home growers. How did you get started in growing? What resources, experts or otherwise did you use for direction? Like most people in Michigan who support
When you’re selecting a mother plant, what is the rst thing you look for beyond THC— is it the structure, the scent, or a speci c "feeling" you get from the plant? Qualities we look for in any plant we grow can vary. During the grow, we’re looking at plant structure, node spacing, stacking and bud structure, trichome development and overall vigor. Terpenes and smell are obviously a big factor but in the end it all comes down to the nal eect and how it makes us feel. Only then do you really know if it's a keeper or not! What is the one "soulful" element of small- scale cra growing that you’ve fought the hardest to preserve now that you’re manag- ing a larger facility? We grow at home because we love the
cannabis reform, we made sure to get out and vote! A er it passed and recreational was legalized we thought it would be fun to start our youtube channel Highigan to document our trials and tribulations of learning to grow at home since the law allowed us up to 12 plants per household! We thought it would be fun for anyone else interested in growing to learn from our successes and failures. Youtube is a great resource for learning about new things, along with some of the original cannabis content creators and educators, legends like Jorge Cervantes, Ed Rosenthal and more!
plant, there is something therapeutic about spending time with the plants and growing in general. Plus these have to be some of the most beautiful owers mother nature has ever created! How do you balance the commercial pressure to grow "hype" strains with your own desire to introduce unique or forgotten terpene pro les to the market? We have always grown whatever looks or sounds good to us. Since everything we grow is for personal use we are always trying new strains, new breeders in search of new avors and eects! at's what's amazing about being
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