Medical cannabis in professional greenhouses

Medical cannabis is a relatively new crop for growing in professional greenhouses and on a large scale. But for greenhouse technologies, any task is in force if the growing parameters are known. The optimal parameters for growing medical cannabis in the ratio of crop quality and energy consumption are being actively studied, so manufacturers of different systems adapt their products to the requirements of the new culture.

The speed of development of the relevance of this topic can be described by a simple fact: the famous news site for high-tech greenhouses HortiDaily issued only a few notes a week in 2014. And today, this column has grown into a separate news resource MMJDaily.

Undoubtedly, the hemp plant does not require special efforts for growing and cultivating. At its core, it is a weed adapted to our climatic conditions.

But if it were all that simple ...

Why a greenhouse for medical cannabis?

Cannabis plant is not very demanding at first glance. But it seems so, until we face the task of growing medical cannabis.

The following factors will help you decide on the need for a greenhouse:

- antistress! Greenhouse conditions make it possible to create optimal and constant climatic conditions and watering for the plant, which prevents the occurrence of stressful situations. Female cannabis, which are very valuable to us, as a result of stress, even a strong wind, can become hermaphroditic and lose their properties;

- climate control at each stage of cultivation;

- product quality control;

- protection against pests and infections.

If it is expressed in numbers:

- 6 crops per year

- 3-4 kg / m2 per year

Currently, there is no unequivocal opinion regarding technological equipment for growing medical cannabis in greenhouses. Actually, as for growing vegetables))

There is no standard greenhouse. A professional greenhouse is an adaptive tool. Such an agro-lego that can be adapted to any tasks and growing technologies.

There are many factors that you need to pay attention to when deciding on the construction of a greenhouse: location, climatic conditions, water quality for irrigation, planned volumes of cultivation / marketing, for what purposes it is planned to grow and what quality certificates need compliance, etc.

Greenhouse technologies provide different growing solutions: in film greenhouses, in glass, in enclosed spaces and in semi-closed.

Sometimes it is difficult for the client to navigate in such a variety of proposals, solutions and to correlate the project needs and their capabilities. But this is only at first glance.

The rapid development of medical cannabis leads to saturation of the market and lower world prices for products. If Ukraine decides to legalize the cultivation of medical cannabis in the near future, then by this moment you need to be prepared to grow high-quality products in antibacterial conditions.

Katerina Volyanskaya,

representative of Dutch companies in the CIS countries KG Greenhouses and Royal Brinkman