Peter Pracilio’s story reads like counterculture Americana on an info sheet he provided to the Leaf: “Gifted my first handful of seeds in the mid 90s, I traveled West in an old gutted 1970s school bus with nothing but my glass blowing torch and my dog until I could rent my first place to grow in.”
His brand, Mount Vision Pharms, exudes the kind of authentic quality and artistry you know must come with rich lore. With over 30 years of growing experience, journeying from 10,000 feet in the Colorado mountains to British Columbia for genetics before there were seed banks, he ran rooms for years before finally landing back in New York to study art and design.
Pracilio “traded in his Metro card for a tractor upstate” on a 75-acre homestead, where he also raises rare and heritage breed chickens and turkeys with an underlying philosophy of sustainable stewardship of the land. That translates to the greenhouse, which was “built with sustainability and energy conservation in mind, while making sure to produce top-shelf quality flower throughout all times of the year” in central New York.
MVP stays craft by staying small: a 3,000-square-foot greenhouse with two growing zones pulling four harvests per year. Pracilio runs the entire operation with one assistant. All flower is hand trimmed. “I set a pretty high bar for myself and the flower I decide to jar,” Pracilio said in an interview with Northeast Leaf, “but I hope that the love for every unit I package up shines through and is seen and enjoyed.”
“The Rainbow OG were seeds from LIT Farms that I grew out and hunted through,” Pracilio said. “I do sacrifice some space to run pheno hunts alongside my commercial strains to be able to find unique flavors and keepers, all the while working on my own crosses to start to move more toward offering just my own bred and hunted work.” He’s got one of his own already: Grapeopottomus.
The Rainbow OG is a solid choice for a commercial strain. The nose on the jar is earthy and sweet, a little Runtz-ey. The buds are chonky and solid, and they sparkle in the light. The coat of orange hairs is particularly dense, and when I break the bud apart for the mill, citrus notes jump out first. The bud sticks to my fingertips slightly, and the resin has a spicy warmth, like ginger, when pressed together.
Milling the flower releases even more of the sweet orange and bright lemon. With a combined 0.5% valencene and limonene, the dry pull fills my mouth with the citrus bouquet.
Once lit, on the inhale, the spicy warmth shifts toward a soft, sweet note of baby powder. On the exhale, the sour citrus translates closer to bitter green apple peel. The flower burns evenly with a slick resin ring and keeps its flavor the whole way through.
About one-third into the joint, I started to feel the rainbow vibes. It was rainy and gray out, but the fresh yellow-green of the first spring leaves looked brighter. Halfway through, the tension in my back melted into the chair, and I was slowed into a relaxed, aware presence. The vibe reminded me of those Happy Buddha statues.
Going forward, Pracilio “looks forward to collaborations and for some personal art and design to hit the packaging and peripherals, all while hunting for the next tire fire, chemmy, skunky, candy, sour flower to share with New York.”
“I’ve always wanted MVP to be a blank canvas for not only the work to outshine the Mylar but also to incorporate the colorful, the fun and the weird,” he said. “I’m cultivating creativity.”
This article was originally published in the June 2026 issue of Northeast Leaf.
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