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with cannabis but I didn’t want to traffic it any
more, didn’t want to sell it.”
Through all the negative consequences
from dealing and trafficking, cannabis has
remained a positive for Gilbert, a light in his
life. “My relationship to cannabis is sacred...
The relief you gain from it is real.” As Master
Cultivator at a pristine Humboldt County
cannabis farm, damn good at growing prime
medicine, Gilbert is officially a healer.
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Seriously, Gilbert has got some rockstar
farmer talent going on. “I’ve always had 400
watt closet grows and a few plants,” he says,
“But never scaled it up until here.” He’s got
that history of growing indoor hydro and
then indoor organic. Now he is farming outside
in the eastern county and he’s loving it.
He’s been applying his indoor organic skills
to both light deprivation and full sun crops:
“Outside of the equipment and some of the
environmental modifications, I’m building
my soil under the same concepts, I’m essentially
applying the same principles... The difference
I’ve found is, in the natural environment
there’s more grace and a wider area of
forgiveness when it comes to predators and
pests.”
Gilbert believes growing outdoors is advantageous,
and he foresees the development of
highly efficient outdoor methods in this region
as cannabis becomes more mainstream,
“especially in the eastern county because
you get past the fog line and there is perfect
weather.”
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Gilbert kicked ass at the Golden Tarp with
Diesel Berry, and says the strain was just a
cut he got from a friend. “It wasn’t anything
I started from seed. I’ve started to track down
the history...” But the genetics and history of
the strain are a mystery, at least for now. Gilbert
says the plant is “beautiful and it grows
with great structure. The leaves are a nice
lime green and the flowers turn purple.”
Indeed, the flowers are frosty and sublime,
packing a soft rosy smell with fuel undertones.
The color is pale green with flecks of
a deep amethyst, like some fluorite -- buds
that you want to show off. And this is some
smooth-hitting cannabis, with a nice heady
high.
If Gilbert’s life had taken a different trajectory,
he would have been an engineer. “I
would have built and designed cars and car
parts... I have a natural aptitude for mechanics.”
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