I want to be a hemp famer
Mate, those hemp farmers are fucking famous!
But it's also a true story. At the time, Chinese and Indian hemp seed was testing <0.3% THC in their own countries – which was the initial cut-off limit when industrial hemp legislation was first introduced in my state – but because no-one had experience growing the same strains under the Australian sun, the local farmers soon found out that their crops were exceeding 0.3%, and so they needed to lobby the government to increase the limit due to environmental conditions – namely, the higher UV Index. The limit is now 0.5-1% D9THC, but if you import any seed stock then it needs to have tested at 0.5% or less in the country of origin.
There's a little bit more to the story, as we've always known that outdoor weed had the potential to be stronger than indoor weed of the same strain due to the UV component. We also knew that Metal Halide, Mercury Vapour and Fluorescent lights contained UVA/B and we used to mix those with HPS to improve the quality of our indoor buds. So it wasn't really a secret, but it was hard to find DIY LED lights in the early days with UV and almost impossible to find a "true" full spectrum light on the one channel, so that's what I set about designing. I just did it for fun, mainly, but people kept buying them and so I had to make more and eventually I brought in GLA and then LED Teknik joined us and we turned it into a business venture. It's still a very small operation.
