As a Flower Purchasing Manager, I only have one line of cannabis products to educate our staff on. I start this research process by visiting grows and purchasing their flower to then have distributed amongst my company's stores. Typically, I will follow up with our local dispensaries and perform a quality check which I make a point to ask Budtenders for their first impressions. Together, we note the price point the flower is meant to be sold at, the quality of the buds, whether the trim job is good or lacking, the smell, the color and later, are customers coming back for that strain or are they trying others? My first notable find was a particular strain of "Tropicana Cherry" that comes out in more of a pink hue rather than purple, only one company in Colorado grows it so well from all the different kinds I've seen and for that reason, my company will continue to keep it on our shelves for as long as I am in my position and hopefully even beyond. Once, I came across this strain called "Dark Chocolate" from a soon to be retired company in Denver, that does not test high in THC, yet is so exotic in the darkest purple color and a sort of citrus smell that I've asked other grows to try to save the strain and further continue the lineage. Circling back to the original question of how I go about educating our staff, my process simply involves trying the product itself and asking our Budtenders what they thought of their experience with a particular strain of flower. Six months into this position, I am consistently told that our flower quality is ever increasing, and I intend to continue my research process along with our Budtending staff as we pursue the never-ending rainbow that is perfection.