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Services

BIG HEALTHY PLANTS AND ROOMS THAT YIELD

FACILITY DESIGN, REDESIGN & REMODEL

Room design and equipment placement, choosing the equipment and the vendors, and redesigning or upgrading rooms that are already built.

  • Facility design and layout
  • Room sizing and airflow modelling
  • Bench and canopy layout
  • Equipment and vendor selection
  • Environmental and dehumidification spec
  • HVAC load and latent capacity review
  • Lights-off humidity and condensation control
  • Hot and cold spot mapping
  • Lighting strategy and PPFD mapping
  • CO2 enrichment strategy
  • Irrigation and fertigation scheduling
  • Dry room design and cycle control
  • Cost analysis — full cost breakdown and cost per pound
  • Scale-up planning
  • Facility commissioning

GENETICS AND MEDIA

What you run and what you run it in — cuts, mothers, propagation, substrate, and living soil or conventional synthetics.

  • Strain and genetic selection
  • In-house pheno hunting
  • Mother stock management
  • Cloning and propagation
  • Hop latent viroid testing and remediation
  • Root pathogen diagnosis
  • Soil testing where applicable
  • Substrate selection
  • No-till, cover cropping and composting
  • Transition between organics and synthetics, either direction

HEALTHY PLANTS

Feed, environment, pest pressure and the day-to-day workflow that keeps a room producing.

  • VPD targets by growth stage
  • Nutrient program design
  • Crop steering and dryback targets for synthetics
  • Secondary metabolite focus
  • Runoff EC and pH diagnostics
  • Salt buildup and lockout correction
  • Calcium and micronutrient correction
  • Water cleanliness and proper filtration
  • IPM program design
  • Scouting protocol and action thresholds
  • Biological control and beneficial release
  • Powdery mildew management and eradication
  • Botrytis and bud rot prevention
  • Defoliation and canopy management
  • Harvest timing and trichome assessment
  • Trim workflow
  • Post-harvest storage and shelf life
  • SOP development and documentation
  • Staff training and skill transfer
  • Yield troubleshooting
  • Room-to-room variance diagnosis
  • Interim or fractional head of cultivation
  • Monthly retained advisory

HANDS-ON SOLVENTLESS EXTRACTION INSTRUCTION

This is taught in person. If we can answer things over the phone, we will. Whatever needs doing, we do — we physically show you and your crew how, or we walk you through it on the phone.

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  • Wash SOP development
  • Wash room design and layout
  • Wash vessel selection and sizing
  • Input material selection and why
  • Phenotype selection for hash production
  • Harvest timing for wash colour
  • Water treatment and RO specs
  • Proper water temperatures and ice formation
  • Equipment sourcing and vendor vetting
  • Bubble bag and micron stack selection
  • Grade separation and collection workflow
  • Agitation time and intensity tuning
  • Fresh frozen handling and cold chain
  • Freezer logistics and material rotation
  • Test wash protocol before committing a harvest
  • Wash yield troubleshooting
  • Freeze dryer selection
  • Freeze dry cycle design
  • Tray loading depth and drying uniformity
  • Residual moisture targets
  • Sieving and microplaning techniques
  • Press selection and setup
  • Press SOPs
  • Press bag microns and temperature selection
  • Rosin yield troubleshooting
  • Cold cure temperature and timing
  • Texture and separation correction
  • Full melt production
  • Contamination source tracing
  • Scale-up from bucket to vessel
  • Batch record and yield tracking
  • Lab staff training and skills transfer

LICENSING AND LEGAL COMPLIANCE

The application is the hard part.

Help with local, city and state licensing.

  • Local and state regulation briefing
  • City and county requirement review
  • Site and zoning vetting
  • Application package preparation
  • Premises diagram and site plan support
  • SOP and security plan writing
  • Standard operating procedure library
  • Inspection preparation
  • Compliance
  • Material testing and failure investigation
  • Remediation decision support

Rates

Remote consultation

  • $100 per half hour
  • $200 per hour

Half-hour minimum.

On-site

  • $250 per hour
  • $1,750 for a full day

Plus travel, lodging and airfare.

The cost of your first call applies as credit toward any on-site day or engagement of $1,000 or more.

Not sure which line items you need?

Tell me what the room is doing and we’ll figure out the scope together.

Contact The Full Melt Advisory