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Without getting into too many specifics, suffice to say that OGI’s security meets and exceeds the ACMPR security specifications. The level of cleanliness and protocols in place ensures that product quality and patient safety is first and foremost. Tools are sterilized between uses to prevent the risk of any potential contamination or exposure. The highlight of the tour was their recently completed Phase 2 expansion. Large rooms with their own unique micro environments geared to where plants (based on where they are in their lifecycle) were the homes to three tiers of plants. These 30’x40’x20’ rooms can be home to as many as 1,500 individual plants. The obvious questions for many include what OGI’s average yield of plants is and how does that compare to the industry average. Turning that on its head may be the true question and that is what is their plant loss rate is and how does that loss rate compare to the industry average. We ask just that question in the no holds barred exclusive Q&A appearing elsewhere within this issue.
I have been on several tours to several LPs and it always astonishes me that no two are the same. On the one extreme is the personal touch – each plant is personally attended to regularly - the environment as well as the plant nutrients are often on a plant by plant basis. On the other extreme are processes that are as automated as possible – steps said to pursue greater efficiencies, effectiveness, and consistency. Organigram like every other LP I have visited has their own approach. OGI has a true hybrid approach combining the pursuit of automated and scheduled processes to increase shareholder value, efficiencies, consistency, and reduce the downtime between room occupancies (their goal is to soon be less than 24 hours of downtime). I referred to this as a hybrid approach because interwoven in that process is plant by plant individual care. This hybrid approach could ensure a reduction in crop loss while growing high yield