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ombining their oversight of craft Cannabis, automation and overall passion for the plant, Highland Provisions continues to set the bar when it comes to indoor cultivation in the Oregon market. Utilizing a condensate recycling system, automated drip irrigation systems, and a PLC (Programmable Logic Controller), it was made clear that Bend-based Highland Provisions takes both functionality and sustainability very seriously. Parallel to everything else I’ve mentioned, you can only imagine how sterile, spotless and clean this facility is! “From the time we save with automation, we put a lot of our time towards cleanliness,” said Stuart Higgins, Co-Owner/Director of Cultivation. From the moment you walk in the doors, every surface appears clean enough to eat off it.
As a part of their inteAdditionally, you will find HIGHLAND PROVISIONS 1,904 grative pest management square feet designated OPERATES UNDER A TIER to the main vegetative room, program, all employees/ visitors are required to with 1,152 square feet of II PRODUCER LICENSE wear protective fullcanopy space - as well as THAT HOLDS A SUM OF each flower room with a total body suits and specific footwear/booties in the of 2,500 square feet, with 20,000 SQUARE FEET production section of the 1,800 square feet of canopy IN SIX DIFFERENT facility, ensuring their end space. products to be as clean Using perpetual cultivaGROW ROOMS as humanly possible. tion methodology, Highland Making our way into the garden, Provisions divides each flower room Highland Provisions operates under based upon their overall length of a Tier II producer license that holds flowering time. Each set of cultivars a sum of 20,000 square feet in six in each room has the same flowering different grow rooms - four for flower, requirements as one another as far as one for main vegetative, and one for the time demanded, environmental mothers/propagation. parameters and nutrient diets. With the mother/propagation room Creating these individual microoffering 280 square feet for teenage environments are known to optimize plants, 176 square feet for mother genetics to their fullest potential. For plants and 144 square feet for clones, example, more or less all of the Kush it's safe to say that Higgins took full strains can be found together in one advantage of every square inch while room: Blackberry Kush, Master Kush, rigorously designing these grow rooms. Blackberry Bubba and Bubba Kush!
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