02/23/2026
HEAR FROM THE CULTIVATOR DIRECT 🎤 A social media series where growers from around the world share their insights.
Today we have cultivator: Rachele Sanchez with ✨Heavenly Herbs Workshops ✨ providing insights on going from home grow to cultivating for MSO’s - small to LARGE scale:
“Transitioning from a home grow to a large MSO facility taught me something: no matter the size of the room, the foundation of cultivation never changes.
At home, you feel every shift in temperature and humidity almost immediately. In a large-scale facility with thousands of plants transpiring at once, those environmental shifts multiply fast.
I’ve seen firsthand how critical it is to dial in temperature and relative humidity for each phase of growth, veg, early flower, late flower, and more importantly, to keep that environment consistent.
When scaling up, your HVAC and dehumidification systems become cultivation tools. If your facility isn’t engineered to handle that load, you’ll fight mold pressure, nutrient uptake issues, and weakened immunity.
Bigger rooms just mean bigger consequences.
In a home grow, you are the system. In an MSO, cultivation is cross-departmental, irrigation, IPM, environmental controls, post-harvest. Clear SOPs, clean workflow, sanitation protocols, and strong communication protect the plants just as much as nutrients and light do.
At the end of the day, Scaling up magnifies everything… environmental fluctuations, pest pressure, sanitation gaps, and communication breakdowns.
But whether it’s a small tent or a large commercial grow, the core principles remain the same: stable environments, intentional observation, clean practices, and respect for plant stress responses.
The scale changes. The foundation doesn’t.”
We thank Rachele for her insights and service! Stay tuned, we have more coming✨
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