{"id":7840,"date":"2017-11-07T04:21:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T04:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2017-11-07T04:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T04:21:19","slug":"ca-cannabis-growing-into-the-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/ca-cannabis-growing-into-the-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"CA: Cannabis Growing Into The Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/ca-cannabis-growing-into-the-mainstream\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Patrick King\u2019s first arrest was at age 11. It was for growing marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>King has always been interested in growing things. \u201cWhile the other kids were playing with Legos, I was planting flowers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He graduated from rose buds to cannabis buds, and even though he thought he was growing in secret on wild land near his Bay Area home, he got busted.<\/p>\n<p>Decades later, the world has caught up with King. A beloved figure in Cloverdale, where he works tirelessly to support local causes and even set up his own donation center for fire victims, he is equally well-regarded in the cannabis industry, where his Soil King Garden Center is the supplier, advisor and booster for hundreds of cannabis-related businesses, from backyard growers to trimming machine manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also still growing.<\/p>\n<p>King has a private seed bank of rare strains and is constantly hybridizing and nurturing new varieties.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent visit to Pine Mountain, a rugged and remote area above Cloverdale, he spent time with Bill and Sally Disbrow and their son Jackson, who are growing 60 cannabis plants in a fenced garden.<\/p>\n<p>It was a harvest day. The massive plants had already been topped \u2014 the buds that grew toward the sun cut off so that light and air could reach deeper into the plant and stimulate another budding.<\/p>\n<p>The Disbrows and a crew of trimmers were cutting, trimming, sorting and freezing high grade cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeventy-five percent of this farm\u2019s production will not be smoked,\u201d King said, explaining that his \u201cHealth before Wealth\u201d philosophy was shared by the Disbrows, who were selling their harvest to other small operations that would make it into tinctures and into oils for \u201cvaping,\u201d using a device that vaporizes the active molecules in concentrated marijuana oil.<\/p>\n<p>The Disbrows are happy they found King and Pine Mountain. \u201cWe lived in Florida and all the kids had left and we were looking around, saw this piece of property and bought it,\u201d said Bill Disbrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to make the property pay for itself and start a family business with our son,\u201d Disbrow said. \u201cAnd then we met Patrick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King helped the Disbrows with advice at first and later got into business with them on the grow. \u201cMost people are just in this industry for the dollar,\u201d King said. \u201cThis family (the Disbrows) are the perfect partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bill Disbrow admitted that they\u2019ve made a lot of mistakes in their first year, and Sally shows off a smaller garden where the plants are too close together and won\u2019t yield well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Patrick\u2019s help, we keep improving,\u201d said Disbrow, who said he expects to net about $1,000 for each of his 60 plants \u2014 not enough to recoup the initial investment, but a start.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA healthy harvest should bring you about a 20 percent margin,\u201d King said.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/ca-cannabis-growing-into-the-mainstream.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News Moderator: Ron Strider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><br \/>\nFull Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonomawest.com\/the_windsor_times\/cannabis-growing-into-the-mainstream\/article_1de10178-c0b5-11e7-b471-fbcd8ea0b476.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cannabis growing into the mainstream | The Windsor Times | sonomawest.com<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Ray Holley<br \/>\nContact: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonomawest.com\/site\/contact.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us | Site | sonomawest.com<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto Credit: Bloximages<br \/>\nWebsite: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonomawest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sonomawest.com | To Build a Better World, Start in Your Own Community<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick King\u2019s first arrest was at age 11. It was for growing marijuana.<br \/>\nKing has always been interested in growing&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2017\/11\/ca-cannabis-growing-mainstream\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Read More]<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2329,9,1,3],"tags":[4896],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}