Cloning and cannabis strains at Rocking Star Farm
At Rocking Star Farm, we grow the highest quality organic cannabis to meet a variety of patients’ needs.
We start our process by choosing proven, established cannabis strains that are known to produce a successful product. From these strains we begin cloning and cultivating to produce the specific medicinal qualities we are looking for.
This meticulous approach ensures that patients can get a range of medicinal cannabis products with a variety of unique flavors, effects, and applications.
How does it all work? Let’s take a look behind the scenes…
An RSF team member carefully trimming a shoot from a mother strain
A look “behind the scenes” at cannabis cloning
Although you can grow new cannabis plants from a seed, the process is time-consuming and doesn’t necessarily guarantee the best product. Plus, all male plants must be identified and eliminated before they pollinate and ruin an entire crop. Instead, most new plants are cloned from our trusted “mother” strains.
To make a clone, one of our horticulturalists carefully trims a few small, healthy shoots from one of our mothers. We split the delicate stem, trim the leaves, and dip the stems in a special growing solution before placing them in a tray. All tools and surfaces are meticulously cleaned and sterilized to help the delicate clones thrive.
Young cannabis clones require an isolated warm, damp environment to thrive.
After about two weeks, our medicinal cannabis clones are ready for a small container of their own.
As soon as our young clones are considered viable, they each get a special yellow tracking tag from METRC (Marijuana Enforcement Tracking Reporting & Compliance). This helps ensure quality, compliance, and product safety for medicinal cannabis businesses and patients.
Four weeks later, they are transferred to a larger pot where they will stay all the way through harvest time.
Once they graduate from the nursery, the cannabis plants are transferred to our main growing facility where the organic conditions are just right to encourage a high-quality harvest.
This little Star Killer clone is just about six weeks old, and you can already see the beginnings of a promising flower.
After harvest the medicinal cannabis buds are left to cure for three to four weeks. Here, our talented RSF team is trimming the buds to prepare for sale. Any leftover trimmings still make great raw ingredients for processing into edibles, distillates, and other product. Ours are used all over Oklahoma by great processors, including Gold Rush Extracts, Red Bud Elixirs, Midwest Extracts, Twisted Extracts, Oklahoma Sweet Grass and White Rabbit Medicinals.
As they mature, the unique qualities of each cannabis variety really start to shine. Check out the rich hues and bright orange hairs on this organic cannabis strain, Bubba’s Gift!
Quality takes time
“Because we’re learning, it’s a process,” says RSF owner, Sam Bein. “We’re trying to figure out what’s going to grow well in our indoor environment with cooler temperatures, different types of lighting, and many other factors.”
Each cannabis strain has its own unique preferences when it comes to light exposure, temperature, humidity, soil type, nutrients and even water quality. This means there are numerous factors to account for and tinker with to grow an optimal strain. Finding the perfect formula, however, means the process can be slow.
“We recently raised the temperature of the room to 81-degree leaf temp over a period of time, and this led to declines in yield. We brought the temperature back down and everything is very lush and the key learning is our strains thrive with cooler environment,” continued Sam. “To make meaningful discoveries like this, we have to invest the time. We are still learning.”
Experimentation, trial and error, and continual testing are all crucial parts of the process.
New cannabis strains coming soon to Rocking Star Farm
“When we put a new strain into a room, we don’t know exactly how it’s going to react,” explains Sam. “For example, we tried the Banana Kush strain a while back, and it was growing too tall for our indoor facility. We couldn’t use that one at all.”
Our careful cloning process means the team can continue to push forward and fine tune our products.
In fact, a few new strains are now in the works and showing promise. These include:
- Strawnana, a new strain that is testing above 26% THC and 2.4% terpenes. We expect this to be a hit product moving forward.
- Grape Durbin, a new strain that tested high for a sativa at 18% with as 1.5% terpenes.
- Royal Gorilla – 50/50 Hybrid – Sour Dubb x Chem Sis x Chocolate Diesel
- Gorilla Girl – Girl Scout Cookies x Gorilla Glue – 60/40 Sativa Dominate Hybrid
- Blackberry Cookies – Hybrid Indica Dominate – Black Domino x Raspberry Cough
- Lilac Diesel – Sativa – Silver Lemon Haze x Forbidden Fruit
- GMO Cookies – Indica – Chemdawg x Girl Scout Cookies
Join our crew and become part of the process!
Would you like to be the first to sample exciting new cannabis strains and products from Rocking Star Farm? Would you like to help us decide which genetics we test next out of our extensive seed bank? Your insights can help us grow and improve.
Together continue to make the highest quality, organic medicinal cannabis products in the state of Oklahoma. Learn more and sign up on our RSF Crew page.