From cleaning to cutting and curing: How your favorite cannabis products are grown here in Ohio

In the fast-paced and hi-tech world of Ohio marijuana, it’s easy enough to assume all products are created on a truly massive and dehumanized scale. While this may be true for some dispensaries, The Landing Dispensary–part of the Firelands Scientific family–is embracing cultivative care and small-scale attention to detail.

Operating as a vertically integrated Cannabis producer, Firelands grows all of its own cannabis, creates each of its own products, and distributes them at facilities like The Landing, which is located at 724 W. Gay St.

According to cultivation director Ben Abourjelly, all of The Landing’s cannabis is grown in Huron, Ohio, just a stone’s throw from the shores of Lake Erie, where he says the lake acts as a “temperature buffer,” leading to more stable growing conditions and a long-lasting growing season.

The intensive growing process starts by creating a clone of one of Firelands 200 mother plants, which is then transplanted, receiving 18 hours of sunlight for two weeks before they’re transferred, allowed to flower, then harvested, dried, trimmed and cured.

Altogether, the process takes more than two months, and the vast majority of the work is done by hand with careful oversight from expert growers.

“When it comes to the cultivation part of our production facility which includes all the steps mentioned above, there is next to no automation involved other than equipment to help control the environment, the lighting, and the irrigation. Even then all these things need to be monitored daily and controlled and adapted to different seasons by a human being,” Abourjelly said.

So whether it’s their Orange Grove Sunbites or Brunch Punch 1g Vape, every product available at The Landing was grown in the Buckeye State, by humans, and with plenty of Midwestern care.

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