I was surprised of the amount of work it took to cut and hang the cannabis to dry. It took 2 men several hours to harvest just one row of four plants. In total, it took just over 3 days. At the time of the pictures, there were 4 rows of nets holding the harvested cannabis. There was a fifth net installed later (not shown) and was filled about half way with the final cannabis material. Part of what took so long was the majority of the cannabis leaves were removed during this harvesting process. Some growers will not remove the leaves and it creates more work for the people performing the trimming.
It is difficult to get a picture of all the cannabis, but I took pictures of each row.
This is a picture between the first and second net
This is a picture between the second and third net
This is a picture between the third and fourth net
Here is a picture of the room before it was harvested.
According to the grower, there a much more difficult task ahead (Trimming). The grower has a machine to perform the trimming, but it does not produce beautifully trimmed product. The trimming machine is only used on the outdoor grows. The indoor grow produces higher quality cannabis and machine trimming will degrade the cannabis bud. To get the best price, all the indoor cannabis is hand trimmed which is extremely labor intensive. A person trimming can go through about 1 to 1.5 pounds an hour. With this much material in this room, it will take about 10 hours of labor!
