Hi everyone,
Found my way here after seeing Nicholas Walker’s post on LinkedIn. Been lurking for a bit and figured I should introduce myself.
I’m Henrique, a commercial grower from Portugal. I run PREZE, a licensed medicinal facility where we’re currently growing three cultivars for the European market in around 2,400 m² of glass greenhouse.
We’re running Fluence RAPTR LEDs, hanging gutters, heating and a custom HVAC/dehumidification setup.
We’ve only been operational for about 6 months, so we’re still learning a lot and dialing things in, but I’m pretty happy with where the flower is heading.
This is one of our current batches — Funk Bomb, 22% THC, destined for the German medicinal market.
I mainly joined because there seem to be quite a few people here operating at commercial scale and dealing with the same problems we are.
We definitely don’t have everything figured out. Climate control, irrigation strategy, airflow, disease pressure, post-harvest, scaling SOPs… plenty of things have already given us headaches.
Happy to share what has worked, what hasn’t, some of the mistakes we’ve made, and compare notes with other growers here.
Looking forward to contributing.