How it all Started

Hi, my name is Henrique, or "H" for short. As a mechanical engineer and business consultant with ADHD, I have used medicinal plants to relieve my stress and anxiety since I was 18 years old. However, after years meeting my dealer at the parking lot, consuming daily created a serious problem: it got expensive. So I decided to grow my own after it became legal to do so here in Canada.

It was 2019 when I started growing my own medicinal plants at home. I spent hundreds of hours researching how to grow well, both online and in books, but contrary to my expectations I couldn't grow high-quality plants. All I grew was low-quality bud, with meek yields. It was quite discouraging... until it got personal. Check out one of my first plants below. Yikes.

I was so intent on growing high-quality bud that I abandoned my career as business consultant and went to Niagara College to get a post-grad degree in commercial production of medicinal plants. I graduated in 2021 with a 4.0 GPA, and was finally able to grow the biggest buds of my life, at a scale of thousands of plants. Growing big buds felt awesome, but during college, I realized that I had faced two major problems when I was a new home-grower. Maybe you can relate.

First, most of what I learned through blogs, videos, and books was either BS (Bro Science) or too complex, which not only led me to get poor yields, but also took months of useless research.

Second, most gardening tools I bought were either low-quality or complicated, which led me to waste my money on products that broke down and perplexed the process.

I realized that most gardening companies don't care about the gardening process, and I felt there was a lack of high-quality products that were specifically made for growing medicinal plants. I wanted to upgrade my garden but I couldn't.

Motivated to solve these problems, I created BudTrainer® with a simple mission: to help people upgrade their gardens and grow the biggest buds of their life with the most durable and user-friendly tools in the world.

Our products are made specifically for helping you grow bigger medicinal plants and get bigger yields, and they are built to last a lifetime. Today, BudTrainer® has made it in the hands of over 100,000 growers, 85% of whom rated our products with 5 stars.

If you are looking to learn how to grow like I do, I have also created The BudTrainer Method™, a simple 7-step process from seed to harvest, designed to help you grow the biggest buds of your life.

BudTrainer® is a designer, retailer, and distributor of innovative gardening products. BudTrainer’s products are built to meet the unique and varying needs of new home-growers, regardless of how much gardening experience they have. By consistently delivering high-performing, exceptional products, we have built a strong following of brand loyalists, ranging from serious home-growers to individuals who simply value products of uncompromising quality and design. BudTrainer® has an unwavering commitment to design and sustainability, and we are relentless in our pursuit of building superior products for people to confidently grow high-quality plants at home.

Everything taught and sold by BudTrainer® is to be used strictly for legal purposes. We do not endorse the production of illegal substances and it is your duty to ensure that you are complying with the law. The words "hemp", "cannabis", "weed", and "marijuana" are used interchangeably to refer to the same plant (legal hemp with less than 0.3% THC) for the purposes of this lesson.

From the FDA's Website (LINK):

"At the federal level, the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, Pub. L. 115-334, (the 2018 Farm Bill) was signed into law on Dec. 20, 2018. Among other things, this new law changes certain federal authorities relating to the production and marketing of hemp, defined as "the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant, including the seeds thereof and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis." These changes include removing hemp from the CSA, which means that cannabis plants and derivatives that contain no more than 0.3 percent THC on a dry weight basis are no longer controlled substances under federal law."