Soulshine Cannabis strains have continued to improve throughout the brand’s lifetime. As the team has become more stable, the plants have followed suit. Happy plants produce the dankest cannabis flowers, and happy employees cultivate the happiest plants. Walking through Soulshine’s facility, it’s easy to see why their employees are happy. The lobby of their building set up like a giant break room. Seats and sofas spread about. There’s a roundtable-esque set up with comfy chairs for team pow-wow’s and a physical therapy table, that I assume is for stretching and nap taking after long harvests. In the back of there is a mini gym filled with kettlebells, Bosu balls, ab-rollers, and a basketball hoop. Healthy employees are happy employees. Soulshine’s conscious cannabis comes from conscious employees.
Soulshine is in the process of adding on three large rooms to their facility. These things look like industrial meat-lockers with giant doors. These rooms will feature state-of-the-art equipment like AGS light systems. Appropriate Green Solutions (AGS) specializes in energy efficient LED lighting. Their bulbs feature at 50,000-hour life with only 10 percent lumen loss over that lifetime.
As Soulshine continues to grow, so will their ability to increase sustainability. Soulshine Cannabis waters all of their plants with water recycled from their air conditioning units. The condensation from the AC is collected and triple-filtered before being given to the plants. Recycled water makes up 40 percent of their total and their aiming for 90 percent once their facility is fully operational.
Soulshine Cannabis has some unique techniques throughout their cycle. Many of these are a direct result of a gentleman named Frank. Frank has the “special sauce,” according to Prisilla Ray, Director of Sales and Marketing. One of the key’s to Frank’s sauce is environment control. The grow rooms use fans that are placed strategically to recreate airflow that reflects natural weather patterns.
There are no mother plants used in Soulshine’s process. The clones are cut from plants in the veg cycle, thrown in humid boxes until roots are healthy enough to be re-planted into their soil and perlite blend. While the plants are in the vegetative state they are blasted with LED light and halogen lights are used once they’re moved into the flowering room. Soulshine harvests every two-weeks.
Their flowering rooms are divided into indica and sativa strains, and you can smell the difference between the rooms. The sativa room, in particular, was something to behold. Tall plants that emit a wide spectrum of smells: You walked into a wall of pine, lemon, citrus, haze, and terpinolene aromas that are swirling about. One of the best strains in this room was Lodi Dodi, which is highlighted by dark-forest-green leaves and small rocky bud structures.
Ray mentioned several new Soulshine Cannabis strains that have been rotated into the lineup that are about to make some serious noise in the market. Mandarin Cookies, Seattle Rain Maker, and Kinglon, which is a special phenotype of their Romulan strain. These strains were practical frost factories in the flowering room and had powerful smells when we got to see them during the curing process, the final stage before being packaged. Ray predicts that Seattle Rain Maker will overtake Narnia as one of their most talked about strains.
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Evergreen Market | The Joint | Tree House Club
