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There she is. Looks like they have space for expansion should they need to....... a good read for those who have not seen that. Not just any old shed is it.
Thanks BH. That aroused my curiosity.
Took me to this: https://www.enr.com/articles/43687-sustainable-cannabis-grow-facility-rises-in-western-colorado
I'm asuming it's the same facility?
Si_Derman,
Great to hear you have been giving this serious thought. Some ideas for you.....
The indoor facility and hemp cultivation will be being managed by Trevor and Antonio whom you can read about on the Zoetic website. They grew cannabis before under D8, and are now raising hemp for Zoetic. They will know EXACTLY what this plant likes and does not like. They KNOW this plant.
The 4 bay / 2500 plant rotation system will have 'grown' out of their careful consideration of how to maximise production from the indoor De Beque facility. A facility that has the uncommon ability to exclude male pollen and allow cloning and production of nearly exclusively female seed. The female plants make the big flowers with the high quantities of CBD. $$$
Seedlings will be grown in a separate space and fed early with the Nitrogen/Hydrogen gas fertiliser to encourage early root growth, by providing a boosted nutrient environment in that crucial early growth phase... like giving a baby the best food early on. The thriving seedling will then be put out into each 2500 plant bay.
After approx 4 months ( I suspect not quite that long ) plants have grown and gone to seed and harvest will take place. seeds dried and tested and bagged with samples taken and re-germinated and plants analysed for CBD yield....... at the FLOWERING STAGE mind... they will want to provide CBD yield data and THC levels at the flowering stage to the prospective buyers.
These guys are NOT stupid. It will all be done in exact detail AND our company chemist will be doing trace impurity anaylsis on the harvested plants.
So, back of the envelope. This facility certainly has the ability to produce 12,000,000 seeds per year. The seeds will be a tested certified product. Can we sell 'em? let's see. Any guesses... BH
Regarding the number of plants being quoted. It looks quite feasible but does depend on a few factors.
Firstly, It all depends a great deal on crop rotation Or, how you stagger the bays. At the start of the process, yes it maybe possible to plant out huge amounts of plants becuase that's all you have to do. But further on you need to factor in time for plant care and then harvesting. They will need to space out the planting of each of the bays so as to end up having a rolling crop over the four bays with as little downtime as possible. Namely, each bay in a different stage of development.
Secondly, enviroment control. Can they control each bay on an individual basis. Mature flowering plants wouldn't require the same light, as say, a new seedling. Just like in nature, the changing seasons ( hours of sunlight mostly) trigger plants to go into certain phases of their growth cycle. Can they hold plants (bays) in a vegetative state until required to flower?
These and a few more questions I've been wondering whilst modeling a few scenarios on a spreadsheet.
Are they are planting the bays from seed or from already established seedlings? I would imagine they would be using seedlings so as to eliminate wasted time and effort from non-germination.
How long it would take to harvest a bay and get it ready for the next rotation of planting?
For some of these unknowns I have made an educated guess. I've also factored in the abilty to control each bay indepedantly as (imo) that seems key. Over a couple of seasons It does seem that it would be possible to ramp up production to figures being quoted and more , if required. But, not in the first year as you still have to wait to get to the point where that first harvest is cropped and the next one in.
I'm sure they are well advanced in respect of most of this stuff but I do find this much more intersting than oil and gas ever was. But Jeeze, the things I busy myself with during Stoptober. lol
Si. :)