(This story is part of the cover package in the August issue of MJBizMagazine.)
Nic Robertson, vice president of operations in Massachusetts for 4Front Ventures, said commercial growers have moved away from eyeballing the color of trichomes and squeezing buds to gauge moisture content in favor of scientific methods to evaluate when cannabis flower has reached an optimal point for harvest.
“Over the last seven or eight years, I have been proven wrong by my aesthetic view of how mature I think that plant is at that time,” Robertson said.
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“Getting those test results and showing higher levels of CBGA – the precursor to a number of other cannabinoids – than I would have expected indicates that that plant could have gone another few days or another week before it truly reaches its maximum potential.”
Today’s cannabis cultivators have more scientific approaches to decide when their crops
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