Dr. Bruce Bugbee: Debunking Cannabis Myths
Dr. Bruce Bugbee: Debunking Cannabis Myths
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Dr. Bruce Bugbee’s Utah State University Crop Physiology Laboratory has been well-funded by NASA for many years. Dr. Bugbee has performed work on everything from pharmaceutical-grade food drops to precision cultivation under electric lights, but when cannabis became legal, several large growers started funding his lab to study cannabis cultivation. At about the same time, growers needed instruments to measure their cannabis grows, so they went to Apogee Instruments, which Dr. Bugbee founded in 1995. At Apogee, Dr. Bugbee develops custom cultivation instrumentation.
Dr. Bugbee’s lab has some 44 growth chambers, so he had the infrastructure to quickly ramp up cannabis studies when the plant became legal in parts of the country. He also hired Ph.D. graduate students eager to learn the science of cannabis cultivation.
Cannabis is a new crop full of very strange claims that come from “heritage growers.” For example, some growers say the plant requires uniquely high levels of phosphorus, and others believe it needs to be planted under the full moon. While he debunked both, to some extent, his lab is behind several discoveries, like how cannabis is uniquely sensitive to light pollution at night — of all the crops they have studied, cannabis is the most sensitive.
In this episode, Dr. Bugbee also discusses:
The science of cannabis cultivation and how it’s improving every day.
How (and when) we’ll grow cannabis on the moon, Mars and the space station.
His work building state-of-the-art environmental sensors and how it all started in his garage.
How, after studying crops intensively for 70 years, cannabis opened an entirely new frontier for researchers.
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If you have good seeds you get good weeds. Everything else is bro science.
Dr. Bugbee, you must have lived a wild and wonderful life. What a job when I hear you talk. I can tell it is more than a job you love what you do
"The power of observation is wonderful" 😊
I know a grower who cuts willow branches puts them in tubsx, fill up with water and let soak. The water afterwards is then used to water the plants…uses no growing chemicals ..
Bugbee is Einstein in the plant-science area. Very nice always to watch his scientific talks.
It’s the spruce goose the legendary white moose Dr Bruce
Awesome! It’s great learn some real science behind growing. I wonder if cannabis more often gets phosphorus deficiencies because of environmental conditions BESIDES the amount of P available. Like if the ph is off or something
Alcoholics must seek their cannabis and your tavern pub and bars please leave our shops alone but it’s plenty of homegrown more potent cannabis than is available in the retailers throughout the United States latent carriers of covid-19 flu virus and may not be immunization contagious cross-contamination and implanting of a flu that can resurface at any time as soon as the regular flu vaccine wears off and you just have the covid-19 vaccine only please ensure that both vaccines are annually presented and inoculation pets and wild animals as well as human contact to mucous membrane dry skin mist breath and vapors are all methods including oral consuming a food that may have been contaminated by missed vapors breath or droplets will be probable intestinal and digestive covid-19 add feverish brain damage as well as lung and heart damages
I Call Bs On Light Contamination
hate viideos like these.. we want to learn about cannabis, have some images and graphic presentations …. why should we be looking in your face the whole time??????? u are of no consequence to us
❤Mark Twain
WTF. This guy completely left out the fact light pollution at night causes your female plants to make male flowers and seed themselves and the room. No wonder the industry if fracked. 😮
Bugbee got that NASA loud good good..
That shit ain’t even all that it’s a waste of money and time.
Reagent darkness = grow tent in a closet with a door/s.
oh the science of the unique point of view… I guess is still float some people boat.
The best thing for me about this Video is when he explained when he gets his "Heureka" Moments,that they are allways when you let go and do not think about what you are actually want to acieve,that is a Principle which i hear that it works and to hear it from an older Man who has seen a lot is very convincing for me that it is true and very important to learn.
Great podcast
I’ll take what he sais as truth and the current scientific stance but especially when he talks about light and the amount the plant can hande everyone should be aware that this performance can only be achieved under very specific circumstances and almost laboratory lvl of controll on the environment if you grow in a tend many things don’t apply unless you hit a very specific equilibrium of water nutrient mixture VPD CO2 concentration and consistency of those values over the entire grow cycle unless you can archive that you should stick to more common knowledge wisdom just because there is more wiggle room
11:40 Bananna skins are high if Phosphorus just saying.
I understamd why we are sorting everything out for Mars. Everything is perfect here theres really nothing left to work on. Millions and millions and millions of dollars spent to grow plants were people dont live. America f#@k yeah!!!
Cannabis is a leafy green. Eat your leaves.
"good questions" 🦄
They say weed is supposed to be good for you mate my best friend is on it … can not remember his name now …cranky when he’s off it. And will go to the lengths of sourcing it like a heavy narcotic user so this whole canabis is good for you well ….
I think roots can be grown in space using a sealed pot I know it sounds dumb
Amazing podcast
I feel so much better knowing they overwatered plants on the space station. Even nasa doesn’t have a flawless watering schedule
Read CEN as CERN and seen Bruce, thought, at long last a real breakthrough in Sweden
39:01 I saw the stereotypical triangle of lights fly slowly overhead, completely silent, one night in the 1980s.
Obviously it wasn’t aliens. It was the F 117 doing training flights a half dozen years or so before going public.
Granted that doesn’t explain the anal probe. …actually, maybe it does. (OK, I made that part up)
Wtf? Student loans and grant money to study growing weed in zero gravity? Glad I didn’t waste anymore time listening to this garbage.
Growing indoors is totally wrong!
The electricity needed to grow just 1 pound indoors will run an average household for 4 to 6 MONTHS!!
A greenhouse on Mars?! 😅 Let’s better stick to playing golf on the moon to not make it harder for NASA and their actors 😂😅
muchas gracias desde Mendoza Argentina
I’m a big fan of Dr. Bugbee, thank you for your work, greetings from Europe.
super absorbant porous subtrate that can be wet wicked
00:50 Do you prefer Dr. Bruce, or Dr. Bruce Bugbee?
00:56 How’d you come to cannabis?
02:16 What was it like to see increased university funding?
03:00 What was some of the work that would grow the cannabis industry?
04:07 How is cannabis similar and different to other crops?
05:35 How do you achieve a dark period?
06:23 How much light can a plant take at night?
07:37 What does light pollution (during dark period) do?
08:05 Is the industry still in the Wild West period?
09:38 How did you select your list of pseudo-science to debunk?
12:53 Does the unknown knowledge of cannabis drive you in your research?
14:19 Do your students become growers?
15:30 Are your cannabis students more passionate than other students?
16:45 Can you describe some of the work you’ve done for NASA?
19:09 Space Farming?
21:07 Will cannabis be grown on the moon or mars?
21:23 Issues with watering with gravity? How did you figure that out?
22:43 Biggest, "Eureka!" moment in your career?
23:22 When did you start Apogee Instruments?
24:40 What is the importance of environmental sensing for cannabis?
26:26 Is there an ideal way to cultivate cannabis?
27:48 What are some of your products that make the biggest impact and which are most popular?
29:30 When do people come crawling to you on their hands and knees?
30:45 Any new products you’re working on?
31:39 What’s your RND like, and do you outsource your work?
33:17 Do you test your products in labs or with growers?
33:58 Are there any myths that you can’t bust?
35:39 Coming from academia? Do you get pushback from the industry?
37:53 Do you see new growers straying away from conventional wisdom in lieu of science?
40:00 Is there anything that you would like to share with the CEN or broader audience?
42:40 Are the people taking your courses already in the industry, or are they just getting in to it?
44:15 What kind of work can someone expect from taking this course?
44:55 Do students grow a plant as part of the curriculum?
45:50 What’s will be the first crop grown on Mars?
46:20 How close is that to being a reality? (Mars)
47:51 Why shold we worry about space farming when Earth has it’s own problems?
any news on the course yet? thx
Bugbee is the 🐐
BACK IN THE LATE 60’S MY MOTHER LOVE 💕 PLANTING ALL KIND’S EXOTIC PLANTS AND FLOWERS SHE FOUND ONE OF MY SPROUTS AND HIDE IT FROM ME LATER 3 WEEKS I FOUND IT.. QUESTIONING HER SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS FASCINATING AND SURPRISED HOW FAST GROWING IT WAS ❤❤😮😅🎉
The GOAT of info, thanks Bruce your a legend.
And thanks for inviting Bruce on the channel!
excellent interview! thanks Dr Bruce!
Music to my ears lol!!! Someone who’s on my level 😊😊😊😂😂💯. Great job and keep learning!!!!!😁
even in just the FIRST 10 MIN, already so much GREAT knowledge & science
How is this guy not an entomologist?
Raphael Mechoulam Known as "the godfather of cannabis research that started in 1962 and was giving a grand in 1963. " isolation of THC,CBD and total synthesis of tetrahydrocannabinol, major contributions to the chemistry of cannabinoids and discovery of endocannabinoids. He passed on in 2023 but his research continues in Jerusalem, Institute of science
Nothing worse than a video where one person mic volume is way higher than the other ones
19:30 I don’t mean no harm but the interviewer restoring to annoy me. The rapid-fire questions. I mean, some of them are really good. And they follow-up with what the Doctor was saying, but it’s almost like he’s trying too hard to just think of really good questions instead of letting the conversation flow. And make it feel more natural or more flight hoarded in-and-in and fun. It’s starting to feel like he’s like grilling him in like a meeting about his job or something
PROTECT DR BUGBEE AT ALL COSTS
I really love your passion.. to be redudit..