Niagara College has had cannabis courses for the past few years and there are courses to be accredited as a master grower. I’d love to put one of these “masters” up against my mentor . I have the utmost faith he would easily put them to shame . Just like everything else these courses can be cheated on/manipulated etc. just a title that unless going into the legal producing market holds ZERO weight imho
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It’s a local club. Like a car club. Pay your dues, go to meetings, know your stuff.
You don’t show up to a car club meeting talking about muffler bearings and blinker fluid like pot growers would. That’s why it’s a thing, mastery… To weed out the kids who go around yelling TERPENES TERPENES CALMAG THC CBD VPD OMG
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Want to talk about a scheme, look at “registered” hunting/fishing guides and how much they get paid per trip. Illegal to charge for a fishing/hunting trip unless you’re certified and registered to the state, and the requirements are kinda crap lol. All about money for pieces of paper and stamps.
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If you wanna join the snooty who’s-who’s then:
helps for getting a job but otherwise wankery
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You beat me to it. My cousin retired a few years ago, she worked for an evil corporation (to some) that developed seeds to feed the world. I do not remember the degree she had but I seem to remember her going to university for six years getting it.
A guy I follow online said he was introduced at a luthier event as a Master Luther. He said, I guess that makes me one. He is in the upper echelon of individual guitar makers and makes other stringed instruments also but mainly for fun. There is no association that you can be a part of that labels you a Master Luthier but when your peers, who make their living building guitars call you a Master I guess you can call yourself one also.
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i find it hard to believe that i watched that whole video. i thought i was a master gardener because i had put in my three hours growing marijuana. then mr scott made me realize i perhaps am a the second type master gardener. because i do the 4 step plan he refers to. or was it my bong hits made me think that. lol 
no offense intended to the real plant botanist people that have years of study & education in this field.
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I was a “junior” master gardener in primary school, does this count?
We did fun projects like look at leaves and identify which trees they came from… they told us if we stuck with it we could become Master Gardeners just like my teacher, who did it as a hobby, but I never stuck with it.
The point of the Master Gardeners is to help people I believe, not grant elitist status. My grandparents would call the local college and ask for advice all the time from the Master Gardener there on their garden.
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Bottom line folks: THE PLANT’S CAN’T LIE.
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I agree here fully. And they do go 100% by whatever hype there is goin
from everything to equipment they use to the strains they run.
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But then again only master growers buy those 300-$800 packs or $10,000 clones so
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I’m ready for a world where a person can go get a student hair cut while waiting for his student plant training and sugar leaf trim. Go down during seed popping time and have a couple follow behind and label everything. haha
It’ll be the first trade class that will have so many applicants that they’ll have to do a lottery to pick the next participants 
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BAHAHHAHAAHA!!!
I mean’t about the growers skills; and you have skilled the shit out of that male! lol.
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The classes are not hard. You just need to study. The biggest thing that you will have to overcome is you’ll need to know all the different types of molds and especially bugs. If you know about all the stuff already it will help you out.
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I can put a worm on a hook and also a cricket or a grub for fishing does that make me a Master….BAITER? 
I really get your point but that is because not everyone with degree are smart enough to understand actual plant physiology, climate control and physics, root-zone management and again physics with chemistry.
Most of them just memorize what school teaches them.
As you can imagine, most of growers like more of “do and learn” rather than “reading few chapters through Feynman’s physics lecture to understand at least basic”.
Of course, quite many of peop with degree look into physics and plant physiology. Giving them a lot of superior idea that people who lean on “do and learn” can never catch it up.
I’m not that far to get a degree of Horticulture and often extremely surprised how deep those some researchers think and build a strategy.
It is actually insane how deep those researchers with degree know and that they can directly apply to plants.
** I think it is relatively old topic…but I think if people can put interest in physics and plant physiology, anyone can improve their grow. And it’s hard to see anyone mentioning in Cannabis scene so wanted to point out.
I’m not talking about setting certain VPD or whatever. But meant the principal behind of using such technique. Unless knowing the principal, dealing with VPD often miss-lead growers. Very often.
I totally understand what you mean sir!! But just to little emphasize other side of view!
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Working on it. I got some classes coming up. One is growing in water.
I was bored one day and got certified as a life coach. I’m actually not kidding.
Anybody need a life coach?
Edit: ugh I should really read the whole thread before replying.
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