There used to be more than 180 rose growers along the highway in California’s Monterey County. Now they’re almost gone. The flower industry went south to the lower-cost country of Colombia.
With marijuana legalization in California, Monterey’s greenhouses have shifted from growing roses to growing cannabis. But Paul Henderson—whose Salinas-based company Grupo Flor was instrumental in Monterey’s marijuana revival—isn’t waiting for North America’s cannabis growers to suffer the same fate as its flower producers. So Grupo Flor... Subscribe or Sign In to continue reading.
I’m near Monterey & it doesn’t matter who grows what in Columbia. West coast bud will ALWAYS have a market, as long as it’s grown well. Anyone who knows their history knows Columbia was good for some pot, but to get the very best strains, you’d usually go for west coast.