STRATHROY — WeedMD workers spent the day cutting off the tops off cannabis plants and stuffing them into 100-kilogram containers that were taken away by a waiting tractor.
The crates of cannabis were taken to a nearby greenhouse to be dried and processed into edibles, extracts and topicals — Cannabis 2.0 products that first hit store shelves in January — and pre-rolled joints, head of cultivation Curtis Wallace said.
Staff at the Southwestern Ontario pot producer, and a team of temporary workers, started harvesting the nearly 19,000 plants on the company’s 11-hectare farm southwest of London last Friday.
“This year, the harvest should be complete by Halloween,” Wallace said.
WeedMD became one of the first cannabis companies in Canada to grow outdoor marijuana last year, yielding about eight tonnes of biomass sold as dried flower and concentrate products.
It’s too early to predict what this year’s yield will be, Wallace said, after two early frosts.
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