Scotts Miracle-Gro Tests Whether It Can Make Pot Grow Too
- Company teams up with Flowr for research facility in Canada
- ‘The motivation is obvious: it’s a high-growth category.’
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Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. is betting its fertilizer can help cultivate a different kind of grass.
Hawthorne Gardening Co., a subsidiary of the Marysville, Ohio-based company best known for its garden products, has teamed up with Canadian pot producer Flowr Corp. to build a 50,000-square-foot research facility in British Columbia. The lab will initially be used to test Hawthorne’s lights and nutrients on cannabis, but it hopes to eventually study pot genetics and its impact on human physiology.