High Grass Farms Buena NJ Tour: Cloning, Hash Holes & the Cultivation Team

August 15, 2026

High Grass Farms Buena NJ Tour: The Next Big Drop in Craft Cannabis

High Grass Farms exterior sign in Buena, New Jersey

I want to start this article by saying the team at High Grass Farms was absolutely professional and friendly. I often think I know everything but these guys taught me so much. It was my pleasure meeting John, Lou and Mike. Great examples of what human beings can be when powered by good. This whole operation is geared toward the medical or daily user. With products ranging in forgotten terps from the West Coast to new strains, High Grass Farms is my new daily driver. I hope you enjoy this article as much as I did writing it. So, with that...

I walked into High Grass Farms in Buena, New Jersey expecting another polished indoor cannabis grow tour. What I got was something different — a working 48,000-square-foot facility that still feels like it belongs to people who actually grew up with the plant. A High Density Farming Master class by two wine growing friends from childhood.

Inside the High Grass Farms cannabis facility in Buena NJ

The cultivation team at High Grass Farms moved me through every stage the same way the plants move through the building: clones and mothers first, then the stretch of veg, and finally the flowering rooms where the air itself changes.

High Grass Farms cultivation facility hallway and grow rooms

Cloning at High Grass Farms: Where Every Plant Begins

Cannabis mother plants in the cloning room at High Grass Farms

This is where it starts. Mother plants sit under controlled light, locked in as genetic anchors. From them come the cuts.

The cloning process is deliberate and physical. A healthy branch is selected. At the bottom of the cutting, the outer flesh is carefully scraped away. That scrape exposes the cambium layer and creates more surface area for roots to form. Once the outer layer is removed, a rooting hormone is applied directly to the wounded base. The cutting goes into the medium, and the waiting begins.

Cannabis clones rooting under controlled lighting at High Grass Farms NJ

There is no magic formula here. It is clean technique, consistent environment, and the hormone doing the quiet work of telling the plant to push roots instead of leaves. Watching it happen in person at High Grass Farms removes the mystery. You see why some New Jersey grows produce uniform, vigorous plants and others do not.

If you want to go deeper on what drives terpene expression from the root up, read our breakdown of how to maximize terpenes in cannabis flower — the variables that actually move the needle start at the clone stage.

Veg Room and the Stretch Phase

Cannabis plants in the veg room stretch phase at High Grass Farms

From the clone room we moved into veg. This is the stretch phase — plants reaching upward, filling out, preparing for the flip. The canopy starts to look like a living ceiling. The team dials the environment hard here. Too little light and the plants get leggy. Too much and they stress. Everything is measured.

Dense cannabis veg canopy filling the grow room at High Grass Farms

Flowering Rooms at High Grass Farms: An Ocean of Terpenes

High Grass Farms flowering room with cannabis plants under full-power grow lights

Cannabis colas in flower at High Grass Farms NJ craft grow

Then the doors open on flower.

Rows of flowering cannabis plants at High Grass Farms in Buena New Jersey

The first hit is the smell. It is not one note. It is an ocean of different strains growing together under a single canopy of super-bright lights — dense, layered terpene clouds that hit you in the chest. Gas, fruit, funk, cream, all mixed in the same air. You can walk the rows and the profile shifts every few feet.

Close-up of trichome-covered cannabis buds in the High Grass Farms flower room

The lights tell the real story of the room. At 10 percent the space feels manageable, almost calm. You can stand under them and talk without squinting. Then they bring the intensity up. At full power it feels like standing on the surface of the sun. The heat is immediate. The brightness is total. Every trichome on every cola is lit like it is under a microscope. That contrast — the quiet of 10 percent versus the full solar blast of 100 percent — is the difference between a plant that finishes and a plant that finishes with density and oil.

High-intensity grow lights over cannabis flowering canopy at High Grass Farms

Curing Process: From Hang to Airtight Storage

Cannabis buds hanging to dry in the curing room at High Grass Farms

Harvest does not end the work. The buds are hung to dry in controlled conditions, stems still attached, air moving just enough to pull moisture without rushing the process. Once the dry is dialed, the flower moves into proper airtight storage for the cure. This is where the final flavor and smoothness are locked in. No shortcuts. No rushed jars. The same patience that starts with the scraped clone continues all the way to the sealed container at High Grass Farms.

Airtight curing containers for cannabis flower at High Grass Farms NJ

High Grass Farms Products: Bubble Hash, Hash Holes, RSO & More

High Grass Farms product lineup including bubble hash and hash holes

High Grass Farms is not just flower. The manufacturing side turns that same carefully grown material into a full range of products that still carry the same standard.

Ice water extraction bubble hash process at High Grass Farms

Bubble hash comes from ice water extraction — pure solventless work in an ice bath that separates the trichomes the way it has been done for decades, only cleaner and more precise. That hash becomes the foundation for other products.

High Grass Farms RSO and cannabis cartridge products

They produce cartridges and full-spectrum RSO, keeping the process intentional rather than chasing volume. The goal is the same across every format: clean, potent, true to the plant.

Solventless hash rosin produced at High Grass Farms in Buena NJ

High Grass Farms hash hole prerolls with glass tips ready for inspection

Then there are the hash holes. These are not machine-filled prerolls. One gram of premium flower is paired with 0.3 grams of cold-cure rosin or solventless hash. The team hand-rolls each one, then finishes it with a glass tip. To get the perfect density and shape they use a cigar roller. Every single preroll is inspected, weighed, and checked. If it is light or the paper is off, it gets emptied and redone. Absolute care shows in the finished product — tight, even, and built to burn slow.

Hand-rolled hash hole preroll with glass tip from High Grass Farms NJ

Want to see what this cultivation produces in the jar? Read our full strain review of Cadillac Rainbow — Blues Brothers Greatest Hits, grown right here at High Grass Farms.

The Real Story Behind High Grass Farms: The Cultivation Team

The rooms and the product are impressive. The people are the reason.

High Grass Farms is led by Dr. John Kulin alongside Lou and Mike, the core of a cultivation team whose backgrounds stretch across medicine and wine growing. You feel those influences immediately. The same attention to terroir, balance, and long-term plant health that defines serious grape growing shows up in how they manage environment, genetics, and timing. Principles carried over from the vineyard — restraint, observation, refusing to force a plant past what it wants to give — translate directly into the way these rooms run.

Their core mission is straightforward and rare in the New Jersey cannabis market: deliver a better product than their competitors at a fair price. Not a boutique markup. Not a race to the bottom. Just cleaner, more expressive flower and concentrates that people can actually afford to finish.

Dr. John Kulin and the High Grass Farms cultivation team in Buena NJ

That is how they get the terpene expressions they do. Clean genetics. No pesticides. No remediation. Tight environmental control. And the daily discipline of doing the same things the right way, every single day, without compromise. The result is bold, layered, and honest — the kind of profiles that hit you the moment the jar opens. For context on what those terpene profiles actually do to your experience, see our deep dive on the best cannabis terpenes for focus and calm.

What could feel pretentious in other facilities instead feels like weed grown by your best friend. Because in a real sense, it is. These men bring genuine passion to every batch. You see it in the way they talk about the plants, in the care that goes into a scraped clone, a hanging dry, a hand-rolled hash hole with a glass tip. I was impressed by them. I salute them.

High Grass Farms team photo — craft cannabis cultivators in Buena New Jersey

This article was written under the influence of Garlic Ice Cream, a High Grass Farms strain that delivers a clear cerebral experience — the exact headspace that let these details settle and this story take shape. Becca at High Rollers in Atlantic City walked me through every High Grass option on the menu with real knowledge and zero pressure. The dispensary itself sits on an old casino gaming floor, and upstairs they have a smoking lounge that still carried cool vibes even though the room was empty when I saw it. Check out High Rollers in Atlantic City. Like Carmines, it's a must.

High Rollers dispensary Atlantic City NJ — cannabis menu featuring High Grass Farms

This is what a next big drop looks like when it is still growing — and when the people making it refuse to cut corners at any step.

Final shot of High Grass Farms cannabis facility in Buena NJ — grow tour by The Stoner Review

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Find more gritty, honest stories, strain reviews, travel guides, and multi-minded stoner perspectives at theStonerReview.com/blog. And if you want to understand the bigger picture of where New Jersey cannabis is headed, read our take on federal cannabis rescheduling in 2026 and what Schedule III means for the market.

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