How Bountiful Farms Uses TSRgrow Lighting Technology to Produce Award-Winning Cannabis
After earning Best in Show at the NECANN Cup – (New England Cannabis Cup), Bountiful Farms shares how TSRgrow LED lighting, GROWHub cultivation software, strain-specific light recipes, and cultivation data help drive consistency and award-winning quality.
Adapted from an article originally published by MMJDaily.com.
Winning a blind cannabis competition and earning Best in Show does not happen by accident.
Bountiful Farms recently earned top honors at the NECANN Cup in Boston, including first and second place in the licensed non-solvent concentrate division and Best in Show with the highest overall score across the competition.
For Zach Taylor, Director of Cultivation at Bountiful Farms, producing consistent quality means paying attention to every variable within the cultivation environment.
“Consistency starts with environmental control. If you're not treating each strain, and even each individual cycle, as its own unique entity, quality can suffer.”
Environmental control extends far beyond temperature and humidity. Light intensity, scheduling, cultivar response, and the ability to make precise adjustments throughout the crop cycle all play an important role in crop development and quality.
That pursuit of greater control is one of the reasons Bountiful Farms has relied on TSRgrow lighting technology for six years.
“TSRgrow lighting solutions allow us to focus on the minute details at every stage of the process, and that attention is often what separates a good harvest from a great one.”
Bountiful Farms operates TSRgrow LED lighting across approximately 20,000 square feet of cultivation canopy in their Lakeville cannabis facility.
Through TSRgrow’s GROWHub Intelligent Cultivation Software, the cultivation team can manage lighting by zones defined by room, rack, cultivar, or stage of growth while creating customized lighting recipes based on how individual cultivars perform.
Instead of treating every room or cultivar the same, Bountiful Farms can adjust lighting intensity throughout the crop cycle and refine those settings based on plant response and historical performance.
“By giving each strain its own tailored recipe, we're able to optimize it for the best possible end product. From intensity to spectrum variation, every strain is dialed in to hit specific umol targets, in some cases adjusted daily.”
Taylor says even relatively small changes can have a meaningful impact over the course of a cultivation cycle.
“That ability to gradually ramp lighting up or down, even by as little as 5%, can make a meaningful difference over time and ultimately has a major impact on quality and consistency.”
GROWHub allows cultivation teams to create and manage recipes tailored to light zones which can be individual cultivars, rooms, racks, and stages of growth rather than relying on a single lighting strategy across an entire facility.
These recipes can be refined over time as growers collect more information about crop performance. That gives cultivation teams the ability to build on what they learn from previous cycles and create a more repeatable cultivation process from harvest to harvest.
For Bountiful Farms, continually adjusting and improving cultivation strategies helps support greater consistency while giving the team more control over the variables that influence crop quality.
The value of those adjustments extends beyond a single harvest.
Over time, lighting schedules, environmental conditions, cultivation recipes, and crop-performance information create a growing body of data that cultivation teams can use to better understand how individual rooms, cultivars, and crop cycles perform.
Taylor says GROWHub has changed the way the Bountiful Farms team evaluates its cultivation environment.
“GROWHub has completely changed the way we read each room, allowing us to approach every day as its own unique environment while also giving us meaningful comparative data over time.”
He compares cultivation recipe development to continually refining a recipe in the kitchen.
“I like to compare it to cooking. As you develop a recipe you can continue to dial in and tweak.”
That ability to compare performance across cycles gives growers greater insight into what worked, what changed, and where further adjustments may improve consistency, quality, or operational efficiency.
For commercial cultivators managing numerous strains and production cycles, historical cultivation data can also help turn individual observations into repeatable strategies that can be refined over time.
Cultivation data is becoming increasingly valuable beyond crop performance.
Commercial cultivators must manage environmental records, cultivation data, reporting requirements,batch information, and other compliance documentation alongside day-to-day production.
As GROWHub continues to evolve, TSRgrow is expanding the platform to help cultivation teams collect, organize, analyze, and report more of the information generated throughout the cultivation cycle.
For Taylor, the labor required to manage compliance and reporting is an operational cost growers should not overlook.
“One of the most commonly underestimated costs in commercial cannabis cultivaiton is compliance and regulatory management. Think about it this way: if even one full-time employee is spending a third of their time on recordkeeping and reporting, that's a hidden labor cost most operators never formally account for.”
Greater automation and better access to cultivation data can help operators reduce the amount of manual work involved in managing those records.
“Any efficiencies or savings in that area can have a direct and meaningful impact on overall cost of goods.”
As cultivation operations face increasing expectations around traceability, recordkeeping, energy monitoring, and batch-level data, having cultivation and facility information available through a connected platform can help teams manage both production performance and compliance requirements more efficiently.
Six years into the relationship, Bountiful Farms continues to use TSRgrow LED lighting and GROWHub technology as part of a cultivation program focused on precision and continuous improvement.
For Taylor, the relationship goes beyond the technology itself.
“TSRgrow truly understand what it takes to be a successful partner regardless of scale: attention to detail, customer service, and constant progression. TSRgrow takes the same philosophy we do. We are all stewards to the plant and stagnation breeds complacency.”
Bountiful Farms’ NECANN Cup results demonstrate what can happen when experienced cultivators combine disciplined cultivation practices with the ability to precisely control, measure, and continually refine their growing environment.
TSRgrow’s intelligent LED lighting, Remote Power technology, and GROWHub Intelligent Cultivation Software provide commercial growers with a connected approach to lighting control, cultivation recipes, environmental data, energy monitoring, and facility performance.
For cultivators focused on producing consistent quality at commercial scale, the goal is not simply collecting more data. It is using that information to understand the crop, refine each cycle, and make more informed cultivation decisions.
Learn how TSRgrow intelligent LED lighting and GROWHub cultivation software can give commercial growers greater control over lighting, cultivation data, crop performance, and facility operations.
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