Top 3 Terpene Strategies Used by Growth-Oriented Cannabis Cultivators

THC still rules, and cannabinoids are crucial, but terpenes are becoming more important to cannabis consumers every day. The cultivators who implement strategies to optimize their crops for terpene expression will find significant growth opportunities in the near future.

Will your grow operation be one of them?

To seize the opportunities that terpenes offer growers, you need to prioritize the right strategies. Following are the top three terpene strategies you should know and implement to be one of the cultivators that increases revenue in the coming months and years.

1. Take Steps to Directly Influence Terpene Expression

The inputs you use and the growing environment you create have direct effects on the terpene expression of your plants. If you don’t start with the right building blocks, your results will be limited.

Everything starts with your growing medium. All bio3655 growing media include organic nutrients and biology. Our bioCHAR™ and bioCHARGE™ help significantly increase terpene expression to the maximum level that the DNA of each plant allows.

We have a variety of data to prove our media increases terpenes and cannabinoids (e.g., Holistic Industries switched from Rockwool to bio365 and increased terpenes by 48% and cannabinoids by 35%).

Bottom-line, if your goal is to maximize terpenes, bio365 growing media and the bio365 team can help you do it.

2. Avoid the Temptation to Use Terpenes in a Bottle

Many growers buy terpenes in manufactured liquid concentrate products, which they apply to their plants to boost the terpene profile through aftermarket chemistry rather than developing it within the actual plants.

Ultimately, most of these cultivators are growing lower quality plants and trying to fix the lack of terpenes in post-production using synthetic products. However, it’s a Band-Aid approach.

The problem is a lot of other things won’t be fixable in post-production, and critical measures of quality will be missing. For example, if terpenes aren’t fully expressed, you can bet cannabinoids won’t be fully expressed either.

Of course, each grower has their own goals and strategies to reach those goals, but if you don’t want your crops to be lumped in with other low quality growers’ crops, then you need to make sure cannabinoids and terpenes are fully expressed during the growing process, not poured on after the fact.

3. Optimize for as Many Terpenes as Possible

There are more terpenes than your probably think. In fact, the term “terpene” refers to hundreds of different chemical components in the cannabis plant. Limonene and myrcene are two of the most talked about terpenes, but as the saying goes, they’re just the tip of the iceberg.

Chemical components in plants, including cannabis plants, can be broken down into multiple categories depending on how the molecules are constructed. For example, monoterpene and sesquiterpene molecules don’t have oxygen in them, while monoterpenols and sesquiterpenols do. There are also phenols, aldehydes, ketones, esters, oxides, coumarins, ethers, and more.

Different terpenes have been found to offer their own therapeutic benefits through research on essential oils and other non-cannabis studies. The data says limonene (d), a monoterpene, activates white blood cells and has shown in studies to have analgesic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, antitumoral, antiulcerogenic, immunostimulant, and other properties. On the other hand, myrcene (b), a monoterpene, has shown to have analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and sedative properties.

Each of the hundreds of terpenes in the cannabis plant likely has its own therapeutic benefits, so today, the best strategy for commercial cannabis cultivators is to develop a growing system that optimizes for as many terpenes as possible.

Your Next Steps to Maximize Terpenes for Business Growth

The best way to maximize terpenes for business growth and meet consumer demands for high quality cannabis in the future is to mimic nature to the extent possible. It all starts with the soil.

All bio365 growing media is engineered with clean, living biology, and through biomimicry, your plants grown in bio365 will be able to reach their full potential in terms of growth, health, resilience, and THC, minor cannabinoid and terpene production.

In other words, your next step to maximize terpenes is to switch to bio365 growing media. Contact us to start a free trial!