The BLUNT Truth
The Current Buzz Vol 3 Issue 2
can help you grow medical marijuana (or build a skyscraper) By: Amy Addams
Who knew a welding supplier would be so valuable to the MMJ industry? Tulsa Gas & Gear (6665 W. 65th West Avenue) is providing beverage grade CO2 for your plants (or help you erect a skyrise). What they also have is knowledge – about carbon dioxide; if you want to know what grow medium you’ll need, you’ll have to go elsewhere. Tulsa Gas & Gear provides high grade gasses to the pharmaceutical industry, food suppliers and the medical supply trade. If you plan on starting your own medical marijuana grow space, you’ll want CO2 that’s pharmaceutically compliant.
TG&G has what you need. That’s what you can expect when you buy from them; clean, usable gasses that will not mess with the purity and cleanliness of your medical grade marijuana. What’s the difference? TG&G carries ‘Beverage Grade CO2’ (CO2=Carbon Dioxide), a higher grade, cleaner, more efficient CO2 that does not burn-off byproducts like benzene, ammonia, Sulphur, acetaldehyde and other impurities that affect the quality and quantity of your product. If you sell to dispensaries or processors, poor CO2 quality can ruin test results, if you grow
for personal use, you don’t want these chemicals in your house. They are toxins on their own, but when burned, they become known carcinogens. Acetaldehyde is a chemical often used in the manufacture of perfumes and alcoholic drinks and researchers are still debating the toxicity of it, but it should be left out of medical marijuana. Pet waste, dander, cigarette smoke, asbestos and paint fumes could further contaminate your MMJ. Need more convincing? Beverage-grade CO2 can increase your yield as much as 20 percent. Imagine that kind of return. When you have spent so much money on specialty soil,
seeds, fertilizers and lights, why are you ignoring air quality? High-quality CO2 makes the plants more resistant to overheating from high power lights and heating units, but it can help plants with light stress as well. MMJ plants need about 1500 ppm CO2 and our indoor air provides about 350-400 ppm (parts per million, or for every million particles of air, 350-400 particles are CO2 on average). TG&G has you organized too. They can tell you how many of their cylinders you have on hand, which is critical if you are watching your bucks. Bring in continued on page 11
