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Ryan Cook, executive vice president
of operations at Florida-based Jushi
Holdings, another multistate operator,
agrees that planning and preparation
make for a successful harvest day.
" A lot of work is done on the front end
so that, by the time we get to harvest,
there's less subjective decision-making
at the back end, " Cook explained.
" We've got full-on harvest prediction
planners where we can see when the
clones we took this week are going to be
harvested. "
While cultivators who plan their
indoor harvests weeks in advance have
their own ways of preparing, there
are several commonalities they use
to ensure a successful harvest. These
include adjustments to:
* Lighting.
* Temperature and humidity.
* Nutrients.
* Watering and flushing.
* Defoliation.
The changes often depend
on specifics of the cultivation
environment-size of growing room
and plant canopy, strains being grown,
type of HVAC system and lights being
used-and growers will have to figure
out what pre-harvest tactics work best
in their respective environments.
Lighting
Indoor cannabis growers often make
pre-harvest adjustments to light
intensity and spectrum.
During the first week of the
flowering phase, Jushi starts the LED
light intensity at 700 micromoles
(micromoles are a unit used to measure
brightness). By the time the plants hit
week three of flowering, cultivation
staffers have moved the lights roughly
10 to 12 inches closer to the canopy,
increasing the micromoles to anywhere
from 1,000 to 1,400, according to Josh
Malman, Jushi's vice president of
cultivation. They maintain that level
of light intensity until the final week
of flowering, when light intensity is
returned to 700 micromoles.
" That helps reduce the temperature
on the canopy a little bit and helps
to maintain those terpenes from
volatizing off near the end of the cycle, "
Malman said.
Some cultivators also like to expose
their plants to extra red light. By
introducing a few minutes of redspectrum
light per day, growers can
go from the typical flower-phase light
cycle of 12 hours for both light and
darkness to a cycle of 13 or so hours
of light and 11 hours of darkness. The
additional light, some growers say,
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