Botanical Waters — Verdone Wellness Inc.
Botanical Waters.
The science of water-extraction.
Botanical Waters builds water-soluble extracts of traditionally lipophilic botanicals. Joe Verdone's proprietary water-dissolution method — developed during his cancer recovery, when conventional oil-based delivery wasn't producing consistent absorption — makes cannabinoids and mushroom triterpenes genuinely water-soluble at meaningful concentrations. Faster onset, higher bioavailability, dose-precision you can verify against published research.
Three lines today: Hemp Botanical Water (Joe's existing OMGX CBD products), Mushroom Botanical Water (research-stage), plus the platform's research backbone — extraction methods, cultivation curriculum, and hypothetical-product specs for the eventual regulatory pathway.
- Hemp Botanical Water SKUs
- 4
- Functional + grow SKUs
- 10
- Gourmet strains documented
- 8
- Mushroom recipes
- 26
- Cultivation course tiers
- 3
- Citation-backed claims
- 100%
- Direct-to-consumer checkout
- Stripe
- Lab-result mirror
- Live
Six lanes. Pick where to start.
The platform's six major surfaces. Each lane stands alone — you can arrive for one and ignore the rest. Two are educational (Learn, Cannabis), two are practical (Grow, Recipes), one is commerce (Shop), one is research-stage documentation (Research).
Hemp + Mushroom Botanical Waters.
Shop
Joe's existing OMGX CBD line, third-party tested, sold direct via Stripe. Functional-mushroom supplements (lion's mane, reishi, cordyceps, chaga, turkey tail). Spores + grow kits for home cultivation.
Shop the catalog →
Beginner kit to advanced agar work.
Grow
Three-tier cultivation curriculum, fully sourced supplies catalog, gourmet strain library, recipe cross-links. Your first kit in 30 days; your own culture library in 6 months.
Start growing →
Mushroom compounds, history, science.
Learn
Long-form articles on CBD vs CBDA, hericenones + erinacines, beta-glucan immunology, the legal landscape, and 5,000 years of mushroom medicine. Every claim cites peer-reviewed work.
Read the science →
Peer-reviewed cannabis education.
Cannabis
8 long-form guides — cannabinoids, terpenes, full-spectrum vs isolate, edibles dosing, microdosing research, growing at home in Arizona, strain selection, harvest + cure. ~24,000 words, 40+ peer-reviewed citations. No commerce.
Read the guides →
Cooking with cultivated mushrooms.
Recipes
Lion's mane crab cakes, king-trumpet vegan scallops, dashi from your own dehydrated shiitake. Real recipes for the species in our strain library — grown then eaten.
Open the recipes →
Extraction methods, hypothetical specs.
Research
Water-dissolution + ultrasonic extraction research — real engineering, real vendor pricing, real bench-scale SOP. Plus hypothetical-product specs that demonstrate readiness for if/when regulatory pathways open.
View research →
Founder · Verdone Wellness Inc. · OMGX line
Joe Verdone
Inventor of the Botanical Waters water-dissolution method · founder of Verdone Wellness Inc. · CBD-industry veteran
Joe is a Scottsdale-based wellness entrepreneur who came to cannabinoid + functional-mushroom science the long way around — through his own cancer-recovery journey. Conventional oil-based cannabinoid delivery wasn't producing the consistent absorption his treatment regimen required. So he built his own process.
The result is the water-dissolution method that powers Botanical Waters today. It makes traditionally lipophilic botanicals — cannabinoids, mushroom triterpenes — genuinely water-soluble at meaningful concentrations. What that unlocks: faster onset, higher bioavailability, and dose-precision that lets you verify what you're actually taking against published research. The same approach that produced Hemp Botanical Water (Joe's existing OMGX CBD line) now extends to Mushroom Botanical Water — research-stage today, commerce-stage when the bench trial validates.
Joe approaches the science with the same rigor wherever it goes: peer-reviewed citation behind every claim, no "treats this disease" language, doses you can verify against the published literature. Every product ships with a third-party COA mirrored on this site under /mushrooms/labs. The platform you're on now is the expansion of that approach — beyond CBD into cultivation, extraction research, and (eventually, when the law permits) regulated psychedelic-medicine products.
Hemp Botanical Water · CBD
Joe's OMGX line — water-soluble CBD
OMGX Full-Spectrum CBD Tincture · 1,500 mg
Joe's flagship: Colorado-grown hemp, MCT carrier, third-party tested.
$89
OMGX Broad-Spectrum CBD Tincture · 750 mg
Mid-dose, zero-THC. Same Colorado hemp, broad-spectrum extraction.
$54
OMGX CBG + CBD Balanced 1:1 · 1,000 mg total
1:1 cannabigerol + cannabidiol. The 'mother cannabinoid' with full CBD support.
$79
OMGX CBD Topical Balm · 500 mg
Localized CBD with arnica + menthol. For warm-up and recovery routines.
$49
AI tools · new
Four ways to dig deeper.
Ask Joe
AI chat with the science. Cannabinoid mechanism, mushroom compounds, extraction chemistry. Educational only.
Open →
Compound match
Pick a wellness goal — get 3-5 research-backed compound recommendations with mechanism, form, and citations.
Open →
Outcome journal
Anonymously log how compounds work for you. Aggregated insights show what other users are reporting.
Open →
Research library
20+ curated peer-reviewed papers. Searchable by topic and compound. Each carries Joe's editorial commentary.
Open →
Plan + log · new
Calculators for planning. Notes from the field.
Two interactive cultivation tools and a running editorial cadence from the people doing the work — Joe in the Phoenix lab, Mitch on the Minnesota farm. The receipts under the long-form articles.
Substrate calculator
Pick a species + target yield. Get dry-substrate mass, hydrated weight, recipe component breakdown, spawn requirement, bag count.
Open calculator →
Cultivation timeline
Pick a species + inoculation date. Get a 12-stage calendar from spawn run to second flush, with species-specific quirks baked in.
Open timeline →
Lab notes & farm log
Short, timestamped dispatches. Joe's lab — extraction runs, COA reads, supplier audits. Mitch's farm — bag runs, contamination postmortems, build logs.
Read the notes →
Grow track
From your first kit to your own strain library.
Beginner — your first kit grow
Your first mushroom grow — a complete kit, start to harvest
30 days from cardboard box to dinner plate. No sterilization, no spores, no risk.
- Time
- 4 hrs
- Cost
- $35
Intermediate — DIY sterile workflow
Liquid culture + grain spawn — your first DIY grow
Drop the kit markup. Inoculate your own grain. Fruit on supplemented sawdust.
- Time
- 18 hrs
- Cost
- $425
Advanced — agar + strain keeping
Agar work + strain isolation — keeping your own genetics
Isolate fast colonizers. Bank cultures. Dial in your own strains.
- Time
- 50 hrs
- Cost
- $1850
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