Live from Lake Erie · Season 1
The People’sGrow
You pick the grower. We grow it their way, live, every day, from opening the boxes to the first cured hit. Like we’re right there in your living room.
Dates announced soon · 21+
How it works
- 01Join freeMake a free Lake Erie Cannabis account. One vote per member.
- 02Vote for the grower6 growers whose methods are on our site. The winner’s way is the way we grow.
- 03Watch it every dayA short episode a day, plus live events at the big moments.
- 04Help decideTop it or let it ride? Harvest now or wait? Members vote on real calls in the grow.
Chapter 01
The ballot
Whose way do we grow? Each method is public, and each has a page on Grow Like the Greats.
YouTube cultivator · Canada
Mr. Canucks Grow
Beginner-friendly organic grows, explained one calm step at a time.
Keep it organic and keep it simple. Pick forgiving genetics, dial a stable environment, grow in living soil or coco, and let the plant do the work instead of chasing every bottle and gadget.
YouTube craft grower
Basementganja
Craft-tier indoor quality on a home-grower budget.
Obsess over the environment, grow in living soil, and hunt phenotypes. Quality over quantity — a perfectly dialed room and the right cut beat raw wattage every time.
Author & educator · since the 1970s
Ed Rosenthal
The 'Guru of Ganja' — decades of cultivation authority.
Ground every decision in how the plant actually works. Understand the life cycle, give strong light, feed appropriately, and treat every problem as a solvable puzzle with a cause.
Cultivator, educator & breeder
Kyle Kushman
Veganic-growing pioneer and award-winning cultivator.
Veganics: feed the soil's biology with plant-based amendments instead of synthetic salts or animal products, for cleaner, smoother, more flavorful flower. Technique and living soil over bottled shortcuts.
Living-soil company & method · Jeremy Silva
BuildASoil
Water-only living soil and no-till, done right.
Build one complete, biologically complete living soil — then grow water-only, top-dress amendments, run cover crops, and reuse the same soil indefinitely (no-till). The soil gets better every cycle.
Plant physiologist · Utah State / Apogee
Dr. Bruce Bugbee
The science of light, VPD, and plant physiology.
Measure, don't guess. Optimize the environment with data — light intensity and spectrum, VPD, and CO2 — and match every input to what the plant can actually use at that moment.
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Lake Erie Cannabis is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by any of these growers. We follow the methods they share publicly.
Chapter 02
Box to first hit
Day counts are typical for a photoperiod plant. The plant sets the real pace.
- Act 1 · Days −7 to 0Unboxing & buildEvery box opened on camera: tent, light, fans, filter, pots, soil, meters. Assembly and a test run.
- Act 2 · Day 0The winner’s way beginsLiveThe winning grower revealed, seeds in, germination starts.
- Act 3 · Days 1–14SeedlingFirst sprout, first true leaves, light distance, humidity.
- Act 4 · Days 15–45VegTraining, transplant day, defoliation, and the week-four transformation.
- Act 5 · About day 45The flipLiveLights to 12/12. Flower starts now. Members guess the stretch.
- Act 6 · Days 46–110FlowerFirst pistils, bud set, smell checks, trichomes going clear to milky to amber.
- Act 7 · About day 110HarvestLiveMembers vote on harvest day. The chop, and the wet weight on camera.
- Act 8 · About 10 daysDryHanging, room temperature and humidity, the snap test.
- Act 9 · 2–4 weeksCureJars, burping, humidity readings, the smell changing week by week.
- Act 10 · FinaleFirst cured hitLiveThe dry weight, honest tasting notes and the season recap.
Chapter 03
Still here
Why I built Lake Erie Cannabis.
When I was fourteen years old, a car ran over me and broke both of my legs.
Lying in that hospital bed, I built a picture in my head of the life I wanted: an education, meaningful work, stability, and enough strength to give something back. I didn’t know then how hard the road would get. I only knew I wanted a life that mattered.
I worked for it. I earned degrees in computer science, business, and information systems. I built a career in technology. I learned construction, caregiving, systems, problem-solving—the kind of work where you take something complicated, figure it out piece by piece, and make it work again.
Then life took turns I never could have planned for.
There were years when I lost direction. Years when I had to look honestly at myself and decide whether I was going to keep running from my life or finally stay and build one. On October 10, 2023, I made a decision that has changed everything: I chose recovery, accountability, and showing up.
In October 2026, I marked three years.
Since then, I have earned my New York State Certified Recovery Peer Advocate credential. I have helped people navigate treatment, insurance, and the first frightening steps of rebuilding. I have gone back to the things I know how to do: learn, create, fix problems, and help people see that a hard chapter does not have to be the final chapter.
That is where Lake Erie Cannabis comes from.
It is not a fantasy. It is not a shortcut. It is something I am building with real work, real curiosity, and the belief that knowledge should be shared—not guarded like a secret.
Lake Erie Cannabis is a 21+ cultivation-education community for people who want to learn, grow, ask questions, make mistakes, and get better. I built it because I know what it feels like to start over. I know how powerful it is when somebody gives you real information without making you feel stupid for not already knowing everything.
Now I am building The People’s Grow: a daily, live “Box to Bowl” grow series, free for every registered member who is 21 or older. We will show the process as it really is—the planning, the work, the lessons, the setbacks, the wins, and the patience it takes to grow something worthwhile.
I want people to see that growth is not magic. It is consistency. It is showing up tomorrow. It is paying attention. It is learning from what went wrong without quitting on what could still go right.
If this mission means something to you, I hope you will support it. Your contribution helps keep the show free, improve the tools and production, and grow a community built on practical knowledge and second chances.
And if you cannot donate, you are still family.
Watch the show. Share it. Learn with us. Be part of it.
I have lived enough life to know that nobody is promised a clean ending. But I also know this: a person can take a hard road, tell the truth about it, and still build something useful.
I am still here.
And I am building.
Where this is going
One day, you’ll stand in the tent with us
Put on a headset and you’re in our grow room, in front of the tent, with the same controls we use. The People’s Grow is the first step.
Pick the grower. Watch it grow.
Free to join, free to watch. 21+ only.