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What’s The Best HVAC System For Commercial Cultivation?

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Choosing The Best HVAC System for Cultivation Choosing the right HVAC systems is crucial to your success in your new cultivation facility. While cooling the air is the goal for most systems, they all do it in various ways, and some that can be a hinder to your operation. Below we will discuss some of […]

What Are The Best Cannabis Facility Guidelines?

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Gold Standard in Facility Development: GPP vs GMP, and what it all means 4trees offers the gold standard in cannabis facility development, but what does that mean? As the cannabis industry continues to grow, cultivators are faced with numerous decisions on how to build their facility or plan for the cultivation practices. One of the […]

Are Greenhouses Any Good For Cannabis Production?

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Both greenhouse and indoor cannabis production has its own slew of advantages and disadvantages. The choice between the two depends on several factors such as the location, available resources, and the goals of the producer. However, that’s the basic answer, and at 4trees we’re far from basic. Lets dig into some other very important factors […]

Growing Success: Micro Cultivation Facility Planning

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As the owner of 4trees Cannabis Building, I have spent over 20 years cannabis consulting with cultivators, and I can tell you first hand that the planning stage is by far the most crucial point for any successful operation. Micro cultivation facilities, also known as craft cultivators, are becoming increasingly popular as more states and […]

What Is The Size Of A Typical Cannabis Cultivation Facility?

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The correct answer to this lies on whether or not you are a recreational cannabis cultivation facility or a medical grower. If you are an ACMPR in Canada or a medical license holder in the US then you will not require as much space to operate such as shipping and receiving rooms, quarantine etc. However, […]

5 Steps to get your micro cultivation license in Canada

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Selecting the right land It is important to understand that a micro cultivation will still operate as a fully functioning Health Canada approved production facility complete with shipping & receiving bay’s, lunch rooms etc. Despite the “micro” in micro cultivation, these indoor growing facilities are generally 6,000 square feet in size when maximizing full canopy […]