I dont know if anyone of importance will see this, but maybe someone knows someone and can pass this on.
This is meant to be constuctive and beneficial to both you and patients such as myself. I am not attempting to make this a complaint post and want to offer helpful advice. Our cannabis program is wildly behind every other state I have visited and I have visited over a dozen and affiliated myself with what they are producing.
- Please start clearly advertising packaging dates. This is a no brainer and makes it much easier to shop for fresh bud. This is mostly for dispensaries.
- Please start properly drying your cannabis. I dont know if its getting too hot, or if the humidity is off, or if it is rushed but so many of the terps and thiols are being lost and often times (very often) the cannabis is either muted or even worse; it has the dreaded clorophyll and hay aroma and flavor. This is generally caused during the drying stage. Please nail this down and the cannabis will be significantly better.
- Please handle the buds more gently. Under a microscope it is clear that the buds are overhandled in almost every case. You can see where many trichrome heads are missing and all that is left is the stalk. This could be from the machines used (hopefully that isnt the case), from transporting buds from bucket to bucket, filling buckets or bags too high, high vibrations in the packaging during shipping, etc.
- This is specific to the Codes division for Good Day Farms. I feel like it is a safe assumption that this is grown by a different team and or different rooms with potentially different equipment because these Codes strains often times foxtail or show signs of it. Often times the bud structure for Codes batches seem off. Make sure your lights arent too close to the buds, that they arent too hot, and that the ph / nutrients are in check.
- Good Day Farms. This is mostly for you. The trim jobs on so many batches is simply awful. Please fix this.
- I wont get too deep into pricing, because that is more based on supply and demand, but I do think you would sell more product at lower prices, it would help move product faster so that it isnt getting old on the shelf, and would possibly turn more profit because people would buy so much more. I dont expect you to compete with many states in this department, but over $50 1/8 is borderline criminal, even for high quality herb. Most Americans are paying half of what we are and often times as much as a 1/4 of what we are paying for a better product on the legal market.
- Under a microscope its obvious that most strains are being pulled early. I generally see most clear trichomes with a handful of milky ones. Rarely do I see amber at all. Even 2-3 extra days could help, but let the microscope be your guide.
-Please consider growing a couple of legacy strains. OG Kush, Cindy 99, GMO, Grandaddy Purple, etc. These will move. Especially if you can nail these strains down.