We The Growers is a cannabis cultivation podcast hosted by Brandon Burkhart and a panel of experienced Southern California growers. The show brings real-world perspective, proven best practices, and discussion around the latest technology shaping the cannabis industry. Each episode features knowledgeable guests with years of hands-on cultivation experience across multiple sectors of commercial cannabis.
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Host Steve Mayo of Mitten Canna Co. interviews Rex Gill about cultivating cannabis with simplicity and consistency in a competitive market, revealing key strategies for profitability and plant health.
26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Steve Kado from Legasea Farms – E.46
Host interviews Steve Kado of LegaSea Farms about navigating the Michigan cannabis market, building a brand, and optimizing cultivation for competitive success.
25 Jun 2026
Terp Mansion & Roach from Jungle Boys – E.45
Terp Mansion is one of the fastest scaling Youtube channels in the cultivation space. Located in the Emerald Triangle he has expanded from a homestead to a 75,000+ square feet of canopy operation while living onsite with his family.
Join Luke as he sits down with We The Growers Podcast and Roach from Jungle Boys to break down what it actually takes to run a cultivation brand growers respect — greenhouse production, LED vs HPS lighting, cannabis genetics, IPM, and scaling a brand from the bench to 80+ retail doors.
We get into Terp Mansion and Jungle Boys time in Athena's Crowdsourced R&D program, including a lower-nitrogen feed strategy built to push smoke quality — nutrient timing, EC adjustments, foliar applications, and side-by-side trials that settle arguments theory never can. Cultivation moves forward when growers share what they learn.
Then we go straight at the debate every grower has an opinion on: LED vs HPS. Terp Mansion lays out why LEDs have taken over greenhouse production for consistency and yield — and why HPS-grown flower still holds the edge for hash and rosin thanks to bigger trichome heads.
On genetics, we talk Gorilla Glue, SFV OG, and why the old-school OG cultivars keep outgrowing the hype-strain cycle year after year.
Whether you're a home grower, commercial cultivator, hash maker, breeder, retailer, or cannabis entrepreneur — this one's full of dirt-under-the-nails insight from someone actually building, testing, and growing at scale.
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Steve Mayo from Mitten Canna Co & Rex Gill – E.47
Published 24 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The processor then distributes to retailers. And then that processor has to pay the tax. Really, if I move all my product to processors, then I don't have any state wholesale tax. Is that what you're focused on? Oh, yeah. Sounds like it's time to make hash. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm like probably 90% of my sales is intentionally two processors. Makes sense. But a lot of these retail chains have processors, and they already did before this tax even came around. It's like their distribution hub to their 10 stores. Okay, so you're selling it to the processor, and then the processor owns the retail. Owns the retails. […]
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