Cansortium has opened and begun growing in Phase 1 at its second medical cannabis cultivation facility in Florida. Approved by the Florida Department of Health on February 22, this six level indoor cultivation facility in Tampa - previously an indoor vertical lettuce farm - will support 60,000 square feet of cultivation area when fully propagated and will focus primarily on producing premium flower for the newly legal cannabis flower market in Florida.
Cansortium Chief Executive Officer Jose Hidalgo emphasized, "The addition of our new Tampa cultivation facility is another step in support of our strategy to address the needs of Florida's medical cannabis patients by expanding our production capacity, dispensary network and premium medical cannabis offerings in key markets. Florida is already our largest market, and this new facility will enable us to add premium flower to our existing offering of medical cannabis products across our expanding network of Florida dispensaries."
Since April 2015, the company has operated a 31,000 square-foot greenhouse and GMP-certified 9,000 square-foot processing facility in Winter Garden. The new 60,000 square-foot Tampa facility nearly triples Cansortium's Florida production capacity. The company expects the first harvest from its new Tampa facility to occur in May 2019, with subsequent ongoing harvests anticipated to mature approximately every week once the facility is fully propagated.
"Cansortium's cultivation operations and R&D are managed by a team of professionals, including accredited experts in agronomy and plant husbandry. Cansortium also utilizes a proprietary drying and terpene extraction process which requires only six hours per cycle - compared to the six days required using conventional methods - while preserving terpenes and whole plant profiles," the company explains.
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