Inside an approximately 400-square-foot chamber with high ceilings sit some 40 individually potted cannabis plants on industrial shelving. They are bathed in a harsh white light, the surrounding air thick with humidity.
Employees of Green Peak Innovations’ cultivation facility in Dimondale call this room the “heartbeat” of their operation.
The plants are a dark, forest green and bushy, their branches swaying gently in the circulating air. Nearly all the products produced and sold by Green Peak, both medicinal and recreational, originate in this room, the only of its kind in the facility.
The specimens in this chamber represent the bedrock of Green Peak’s business and mark the starting line of a multi-week process that takes plant clippings and turns them into millions of dollars of cannabis products such as edibles, vape fluid and bagged-ounces.
Employees call this the “mother room.” It is aptly named. “We’d be in a lot of trouble if this went down,” said Cory McCain, a plant manager.
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