Are you maximizing harvest per year at your facility?
Written by Ron Johnson on May 03, 2022
As commercial growers a key way to ensure ROI is maximizing harvest per year. While I think all grow types can extract value from this quick read it is catered towards the year around perpetual grower looking to maximize harvest per year.
What is your facilities annual harvest capacity?
Every facility is a little different. A quick method to determine your facilities max annual harvest capacity is to take your flowering zones divided by flowering weeks. Take 52 weeks and divide it by this figure and you will get your facilities max annual harvest capacity.
Here's a quick example of a facility with two flower zones with a 9 week flower period;
Flower Rooms = 2
Flowering Weeks = 9
9 / 2 = 4.5
52 / 4.5 = 11.5 Max Harvest Capacity
What does it take to achieve facility harvest capacity?
Have the right amount of cuts ready at the right time. It is essential to know your destroy rate between phases along with max plants per flower area in order to have the right amount of plants to maximize harvest per year.
Example:
Max plants per flower area = 160 plants
Destroy Rate between phases = 20 plants
Right amount of cuts to take at a time = 200 plants
Once you know the right amount of cuts to take per time it's pretty straightforward to determine when the right time is. We can take the same math we used earlier to determine how frequently we should be taking these cuts. Divide flowering weeks by flowering zones and this will give the exact frequency in which you should be taking cuts.
Flower Rooms = 2
Flowering Weeks = 9
9 Flowering Weeks / 2 Flowering Rooms = 4.5 weeks take cuts
Ultimately in this scenario we would be taking 200 cuts every 4.5 weeks.
What does it take to achieve facility harvest capacity?
In order to maximize harvest per year you must understand the following;
- Annual harvest capacity of facility
- Max Plants Per Flower Area
- Destroy Rates between phases
- How frequently to take cuts
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