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I love growing food in the Shaping Fire demo garden’s Mother pots. The varied roots are great for the root health of the...
03/05/2026

I love growing food in the Shaping Fire demo garden’s Mother pots. The varied roots are great for the root health of the Mom, keeping the soil from going hydrophobic, and encouraging tiny life in the surface. Plus! The carrots are the best I’ve ever eaten! Radishes work great too. This pot has a Diablo Cosmos too. Woot!

.Shaping Fire Episode 129 - Out Now!Tips for Making and Savoring Enjoyable Hash with guest Adam Simpson"Enjoying hash ca...
02/05/2026

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Shaping Fire Episode 129 - Out Now!
Tips for Making and Savoring Enjoyable Hash with guest Adam Simpson

"Enjoying hash can be a sensory delight. On episode 129 of Shaping Fire, host Shango Los talks with The Ego Clash 2022 Full-Melt winner Adam Simpson .Lee.Adam about identifying hash plants, the attributes that make hash enjoyable nowadays, best practices for making hash, and his Resin Dial invention for sampling hash flowers before running them.”

Click the profile link to listen on the website, or listen wherever you get podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube ->

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Living cold compost is more biologically dynamic than anything else you could use. You’ve heard about it on Shaping Fire for years. It is now being sold to the public! www.KingdomAquaponicsLLc.com


Natural Enemies provides cannabis-specific beneficial insects and advice for your pests. www.NaturalEnemies.com

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If you want to grow bomb-proof genetics with no males, Caleb is the guy to go to. For generations, his family has been cultivating in Northern California, and you can benefit from that heritage. https://www.humboldtcsi.com/


GTR seeds are very consistent, true-growing in**ed F1s from stabilized in**ed parent lines.
These THC, CBD, CBG and THCv seeds are nearly homogenous and the plants will all grow the same. https://www.gtrseeds.com/

.Shaping Fire Episode 128 - Out Now!Mycology, Mushroom Lore, and Psychedelic Fungi: What We’re Still Figuring Out with g...
25/03/2026

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Shaping Fire Episode 128 - Out Now!
Mycology, Mushroom Lore, and Psychedelic Fungi: What We’re Still Figuring Out with guest Alan Rockefeller

The study and discovery of mushrooms is a wide-open opportunity for everyone! Much of what we think we know about mushrooms is built on poor historical descriptions and incomplete science. On this episode of Shaping Fire, host Shango Los talks with world-renowned mycologist Alan Rockefeller about the cubensis species complex, the myriad mushrooms still to be named, unknown evolutionary pressures, the necessity and variety of secondary metabolites, wood lover’s paralysis, and mycelium versus fruiting body mushroom supplements.

Click to listen here: https://www.shapingfire.com/podcast-feed/episode-128-mycology-mushroom-lore-and-psychedelic-fungi-what-were-still-figuring-out-with-guest-alan-rockefeller or listen wherever you get podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube ->

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Living cold compost is more biologically dynamic than anything else you could use. You’ve heard about it on Shaping Fire for years. It is now being sold to the public!
www.KingdomAquaponicsLLC.com


Natural Enemies provides cannabis-specific beneficial insects and advice for your pests. www.NaturalEnemies.com

**pDotcom
Fish P**p brand fertilizer is an all-natural fish p**p concentrate with nothing added. www.fishp**p.com
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If you want to grow bomb-proof genetics with no males, Caleb is the guy to go to. For generations, his family has been cultivating in Northern California, and you can benefit from that heritage. https://www.humboldtcsi.com/


GTR seeds are very consistent, true-growing in**ed F1s from stabilized in**ed parent lines.
These THC, CBD, CBG and THCv seeds are nearly homogenous and the plants will all grow the same. https://www.gtrseeds.com/

Shaping Fire Episode 127 - Out Now!The Heartland Series: Full Moon Farms with guest Nik EricksonThe Emerald Triangle of ...
13/03/2026

Shaping Fire Episode 127 - Out Now!
The Heartland Series: Full Moon Farms with guest Nik Erickson

The Emerald Triangle of Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity counties in Northern California is the heartland of American cannabis. On Episode 127 of Shaping Fire, host Shango Los talks with heritage farmer Nik Erickson of Full Moon Farms in Humboldt about his family’s property, from the Gold Rush to the Green Rush, exciting stories from the hide-and-seek CAMP law enforcement days, the impact of legalization and the internet on hill folk, and how NorCal generational regenerative farms work together to produce the most meaningful flowers available.

Click to listen here: https://www.shapingfire.com/podcast-feed/episode-127-the-heartland-series-full-moon-farms-with-guest-nik-erickson or listen wherever you get podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube ->

Special thanks to this episode’s advertisers who power Shaping Fire!


Living cold compost is more biologically dynamic than anything else you could use. You’ve heard about it on Shaping Fire for years. It is now being sold to the public!
www.KingdomAquaponicsLLC.com


Natural Enemies provides cannabis-specific beneficial insects and advice for your pests. www.NaturalEnemies.com

**pDotcom
Fish P**p brand fertilizer is an all-natural fish p**p concentrate with nothing added. www.fishp**p.com
0
If you want to grow bomb-proof genetics with no males, Caleb is the guy to go to. For generations, his family has been cultivating in Northern California, and you can benefit from that heritage. https://www.humboldtcsi.com/


GTR seeds are very consistent, true-growing in**ed F1s from stabilized in**ed parent lines.
These THC, CBD, CBG and THCv seeds are nearly homogenous and the plants will all grow the same. https://www.gtrseeds.com/

Shaping Fire Episode 125 - Out Now!Easy-to-Make Natural Farming Preps with guest David HooverNatural farming techniques ...
10/01/2026

Shaping Fire Episode 125 - Out Now!
Easy-to-Make Natural Farming Preps with guest David Hoover

Natural farming techniques replace our reliance on chemical fertilizers and pesticides and grow the tastiest flower imaginable. On episode 125 of Shaping Fire, host Shango Los talks with natural farming educator David Hoover Conscious Natural Inputs about four fast and easy natural farming fertilizer preparations that you can have ready before your summer garden is even planted.

Click to listen here: https://www.shapingfire.com/podcast-feed/episode-125-easy-to-make-natural-farming-preps-with-guest-david-hoover or listen wherever you get podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube ->
Special thanks to this episode’s advertisers who power Shaping Fire!


Living cold compost is more biologically dynamic than anything else you could use. You’ve heard about it on Shaping Fire for years. It is now being sold to the public!
www.KingdomAquaponicsLLC.com


Natural Enemies provides cannabis-specific beneficial insects and advice for your pests. www.NaturalEnemies.com

**pDotcom
Fish P**p brand fertilizer is an all-natural fish p**p concentrate with nothing added. www.fishp**p.com
0
If you want to grow bomb-proof genetics with no males, Caleb is the guy to go to. For generations, his family has been cultivating in Northern California, and you can benefit from that heritage. https://www.humboldtcsi.com/


GTR seeds are very consistent, true-growing in**ed F1s from stabilized in**ed parent lines.
These THC, CBD, CBG and THCv seeds are nearly homogenous and the plants will all grow the same. https://www.gtrseeds.com/


Connoisseurs and commercial cannabis farms across the country love growing Gnome Automatics because of their consistency from seed to seed, short grow times, THC percentages and colorful bag appeal. https://gnomeautomatics.com/

I’m stoked to be conducting a preservation run of Cherry Chem with my buddy . Thanks to for doing our s*x testing. This...
26/12/2025

I’m stoked to be conducting a preservation run of Cherry Chem with my buddy . Thanks to for doing our s*x testing.

This project goes back nearly a decade to 2017. At that year’s Emerald Cup (Respect to the original EC!), cultivator Bryan Sayre gave me a jar of Cherry Chem flower originally bred and brought to market by South Fork Seed Collective. (Looks like their IG is kaput.) I was floored. The Cherry Pie x Chemdawg b3 cross had a terpene profile that is urgent, nasty and beautiful. Big gas and caustic chem, backed with a touch of red cherry sweetness. Not only was her aroma heady, but she is bulletproof to grow where I live in the PNW, indoors or out. She grows fast, stinks the whole run, finishes faster than most, and, if a novice panic-cuts her outdoors, the flower is still excellent from week 7.

I had been given seeds by and about 2020 and I have been growing them, but those remaining seeds need to be refreshed.

I got together with last week and we combined his pure Cherry Chem and my pure Cherry Chems into a big ol’ preservation run. For such a thing, of course we turned to for the s*x testing science firepower. We received their redesigned and now super easy to use sample kit and took samples from 16 plants. Now we will let the girls and boys open pollinate in an empty barn in the middle of nowhere on the island. Nice!

I’m looking forward to getting the results from Leafworks. I’ll let you know how it goes. 👍

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