From what I've read and heard tilrays mmar stock pile is almost gone and the stuff they are growing in house isn't anywhere near the same quality.....
This. Tilray has yet to ship product produced in house. They managed to "aquire" large quantities of Cannabis grown under the MMAR and squeeze it through the testing process with some fancy footwork.
They have now set the bar very high and are going to have a hard time meeting expectations when their in house product goes to market.
When you have ex illegal commercial growers growing for you that is what you'll get. They should have started with a clean slate with proper horticulturists that know plants and how to grow plants. If they have proper access to growing equipment and testing equipment any competent horticulturist would have learnt fast how to grow potent weed.
Actually its the opposite of this statement. Tilray and other companies were very limited in who they could bring on board as "master growers" with the security clearance issues and risk involved. If you look at someone like Tweed who wasnt able to funnel large quantities of MMAR Cannabis into their product line they are getting hammerd on the quality front.
I think part of this is using a new space, with new genetics. But in large part its down to the over burdonsome regulations. It looks like many of the LP's are being forced to harvest very early to avoid total bacterial load and CFU counts from getting too high. The LP's lucky enough to import from the MMAR avoided the lions share of the testing burden of producing a plant in house through its entire life cycle without any pesticides. Even the best growers use Endall or Neem at some point.