Recent expansions to its indoor facility include two additional flower rooms, bringing the total to six rooms with 1,600 square feet of canopy space, along with doubling the size of the indoor fertigation room, where indoor flower lead Dakota Arnold( photo on right) has worked for the past four years since the very first indoor harvest. Again, leaders stick around legacies.
It’ s a kind of legacy that makes newer employees like Benjamin Stubber( pictured above in front of Honey Green’ s large outdoor plants) pack up his entire life from Oklahoma and move to Joplin, MO, not knowing a single soul except what he could learn from Briggs. Stubber transitioned from managing a 10,000-square-foot indoor grow in Oklahoma to being one of the two outdoor irrigation leads at Honey Green. He learned how to cultivate the largest outdoor cannabis plants we’ ve ever seen in Missouri, covering 280,000 square feet.
Other expansions around the facility include the 2,000-squarefoot“ Frankie Greenhouse,” the“ Cadillac” greenhouse covering 5,600 square feet, and the Hill House dry and cure room at 6,000 square feet. These are all multipurpose buildings and greenhouses used for genetic hunting, drying and curing, and growing cannabis during the winter months after the outdoor crop is harvested.
It’ s also the kind of legacy that keeps long-term employees like Derek Mayfield( pictured above in the irrigation room) around, as he has worked his way through various positions during his three-plus years with the company and is currently the other outdoor irrigation lead.
From 4 a. m. to 11 p. m. every day, only Stubber and Mayfield are allowed to water and feed the outdoor giants, as each individual plant is checked every hour and a half while going through 5,000 gallons of water, organic IPMs( Integrated Pest Management), and nutrients weekly.
Each outdoor plant is in a 100-gallon pot with top-of-the-line living organic soil mixes that regularly get sent off for testing to Briggs’ longtime soil specialist company, Soil Scape, back in Humboldt County in the Emerald Triangle, bringing the best of the best soil expertise back to Missouri by supporting the OGs who got us here.
The 35 strains in Honey Green’ s outdoor grow were selected from over 400 seeds tested in their genetic search to determine which strains could thrive in Missouri’ s harsh outdoor conditions.
Honey Green’ s double-decker indoor grow room.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you see it, the expected sheer volume of this year’ s outdoor crop harvest later this month has made Briggs and his team realize they are quickly on track to outgrow their current dry and cure spaces. Now, the race is on to finish building one more indoor dry and cure space before beginning their outdoor harvest season, which runs September 10 to October 15.
If that wasn’ t enough work to finish by October 15, you don’ t know Briggs and his team. Over the past year, newly added custom-fabricated shipping containers, including a freezer storage for fresh frozen, a C1D1 extraction container, and a solventless extraction container, all just started their first runs at the end of July. These feature some of the highest quality indoor flower from Briggs’ top indoor genetics. By the time you read this, Uncle Mac’ s fresh frozen solventless extracts will be available at a dispensary near you.
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