Klutch Cannabis · ATCPC Ohio — Lifetime Cultivation Audit

The Lead — six years in one read

Facility evolution — three build waves

The room-first-use timestamps reconstruct the build cadence: five flower rooms in 2020 → six rooms (including five more flower) in mid-2021 → four more flower rooms in summer 2022. Total elapsed time from account-open to final room online: 26 months. Once Flower 14 came online on 2022-08-20, the facility hit its current 14-flower-room ceiling, and the program shifted from build-out to cycle discipline.

HG concurrency timeline — the build-out ceiling

Number of simultaneously active harvest groups by month. The line climbs steadily through the build phase, peaks at 24 concurrent HGs on 2022-10-23 as Wave 3 completes, then steadies into a 17–22 active-HG band as cycle cadence settles. This curve is the visible signature of "design capacity reached, run at it." The dip below the band that started 2025 is consistent with the trend toward higher-plant-count-per-HG (fewer concurrent runs of denser cycles).

Harvest cadence by year

Year-by-year HG count plus plant population entering each room. The shape: rapid scale-up 2020 → 2023 as rooms came online and cycles compounded, then a soft plateau 2024 → 2026 — slightly fewer HGs but bigger plant counts per HG, meaning fewer-but-denser runs as the program matured. 2023 is the cycle ceiling: 73 HGs running 69,377 plants. The 2024–2026 reset reflects the move toward higher-plant-count per HG that comes with consolidating cultivar blocks per room.

Cultivar deep dive

176 cultivars run lifetime. The top of the table tells the program story: Orange 43 and Ice Cream Cake are the rent-payers — together 405 HGs across 6 years (≈12% of all HGs), top-3 every single year since 2020. Lemon Slushee is the second-tier workhorse (110 lifetime HGs, accelerating to 36 in 2025 alone).

Top 25 with year-by-year deployment

Top three cultivars per year — the dominance shift

Cultivar bifurcation — workhorse vs newcomer

The cultivar program is a two-bet strategy. The workhorses pay the rent (predictable yield, established METRC product line, low-variance environmental envelope). The newcomers fund the upside (next-rotation candidates, new shelf-talker SKUs, terpene-driven testing). Reading the top 30 most-deployed strains splits 26 workhorse / 4 newcomer — i.e. the deployment is still heavily favoring established strains, but the testing pipeline is loud and accelerating.

The 4 newcomer strains that already cleared into the top 30 are Permanent Marker (46 HGs, added 2023 catalog import / scaled 2024), Lemon Cherry Gelato (40 HGs), Rose Gold R'ntz (34 HGs), Rainbow Belts (32 HGs), Purp 43 (28 HGs), RS11 (27 HGs), Pacific Cool (27 HGs). Strains added 2025+ are running 6–15 HGs each — not yet at top-30 thresholds, but the curve says they will be.

New genetics momentum

The cultivar library grew by 137 strains across 2024–2026 (32 + 79 + 26) versus 33 across 2020–2023. This is the clearest operational shift in the dataset. The library is now 170 strong. What separates this from "vanity catalog" is that the new strains are actually running — 20 of them have already cleared the 3-HG threshold across 2025–2026.

50 cultivars sit in the library catalogued but never planted in any HG — historical catalog accumulation. Worth a yearly cleanup pass.

Per-room lifetime utilization

How each flower room has been used across the lifespan. The plant-count column is the most telling — Flower Room 1, 2, 3, 4 (the original four-room block from 2020) collectively carry ~152k plants across 115 HGs, vs the build-2 rooms (Flower 6–10) carrying ~110k across 122 HGs, vs the build-3 rooms (Flower 11–14) carrying ~48k across 79 HGs. Flower 10 stands out as an intentionally-low-density room (3,760 plants across 23 HGs ≈ 163 plants per cycle) — the "Fresh Frozen Recipe (F5 & F10)" entry in the recipe library suggests this is the fresh-frozen / spec-ops room.

Support rooms (mom, clone, veg, dry, cure, fertigation)

Twelve non-flower rooms support the program. Mom 1 + Mom 2 hold mother stock for the active cultivar set. Clone 1 + Clone 2 do propagation (Clone 2 is currently running 3 brand-new flips for Flower 2/7/12). Veg 1 + Veg 2 hold vegetative through transition. Dry 1/2/3 + Cure 2 handle post-harvest. Fertigation 1 (online June 2021) is the build-2-era nutrient room; Fertigation 2 is the original 2020 nutrient bay.

Plant-out tracking — the 2024+ gap

If Klutch wants AROYA to reflect realized yield per HG / per cultivar / per room — which unlocks the strain-performance and ROI reports we ship for other facilities — the fix is process not technical: the close-out workflow has to write harvestedCount and at least one weight field back into AROYA. We can walk through which fields and which UI step on the call.

Phase-duration discipline

The dataset proves a remarkable signal: 286 of 334 lifetime flower cycles ran for exactly 63 days (86%). The handful of outliers (10 cycles at 57 days, 11 cycles at 77 days, 9 at 70 days) likely map to specific recipe variants — the 77-day cluster is consistent with the "F9 Slow Growers Recipe (21 Day Veg)" extending downstream. Propagation and vegetative phases have crept up slightly (PROP from 14 → 18 days, VEG steady at 14–17 days), consistent with the move toward higher-plant-count HGs.

Recipe program

14 active recipes in the library. Reading the names is the easiest way to understand how Klutch organizes its day. Two facility splits ("Home Ave" and "Akron Penn") suggest a sister Calyx Peak / Klutch facility — likely the Penn Avenue Akron location. Three time-of-day splits ("Morning" vs "Afternoon" vs "Slab Morning") show the program differentiates between staggered lighting shifts. Three substrate types ("1 Gallon Coco", "Slab", "Fresh Frozen") show how the room-by-room substrate decision flows back into the recipe set. And one specialty recipe ("F9 Slow Growers Recipe (21 Day Veg)") shows the facility has at least one cultivar block that gets a longer veg.

The recipe field on the harvest_groups endpoint returns a boolean (not the recipe ID), so we can't link each HG back to its specific recipe lifetime — a known SPA limitation. Recipe pull is from /recipes/?facility=1503.

Device fleet evolution

The facility runs 469 active mesh devices across the 26 rooms. Inventory: 136 TER12 substrate sensors (legacy, battery), 70 TER15 substrate sensors (new-gen, deployed 2024–2025), 29 ATM14 climate heads, 186 mesh nodes, 40 repeaters, 4 gateways, and 4 sinks. 29 devices have been retired across the lifespan — a 6% lifetime retirement rate against 498 total, which is healthy for hardware this old.

Battery health (online, battery-powered, active): 369 sensors reporting, mean battery 90.3%, 10 below 30%. The 30% threshold is the OTAP/firmware-update floor — anything below won't survive a remote firmware push. 10 of 369 ≈ 2.7% — comfortable. The companion device-health report (2026-06-12) carries the per-device list.

Firmware-generation (WP4 vs WP5) split is not exposed on this portal_api response. See the Klutch ATCPC Device Health 2026-06-12 report for the WP4/WP5 distribution per node. Per the OTAP model, online + battery ≥ 30% + signal ≥ 50% at the scheduled push time is what determines whether each device receives WP5; offline devices stay on WP4 (not harmed), and can be brought to WP5 on a later scheduled push once back online.

Substrate sensor age — the trade-in case

The substrate sensor age distribution is the story. 130 of the 136 active TER12 substrate heads are 3+ years old — 72 of them are 5+ years old (Wave 1 + Wave 2 deployment vintage), 58 are 3–4 years old (Wave 3 vintage). The new-gen TER15 fleet is all 1–2 years old (the 2024–2025 deployment wave). Battery health is fine today (mean 90%), but TER12 is end-of-life on the AROYA roadmap and the longer Klutch waits the more aging batteries plus accuracy drift become the rate-limiter.

Current state (week of 2026-06-25)

17 HGs are currently in flight: 12 inside flower rooms, 3 cloning in Clone 2 for the next three flips (Flower 2, 7, 12), and 2 vegging in Veg 2 (next-rotation cultivar blocks for Flower 8 and Flower 13). The 12 flower-room HGs span the entire flower phase ladder from Stacking through Ripen — i.e. the facility is running every phase concurrently, which is what an at-capacity flower side looks like.

Ripening EC restack — chronic-low pattern

From the prior 2-week audit (2026-05-29 → 2026-06-12), the two ripening rooms ran pore EC at 3.0–3.8 mS against a 6.0–8.0 mS ripening band. Reading the lifetime cadence, this pattern is not a one-off: AROYA crop-steering playbook calls for the EC restack to be the dominant lever in the final 2 weeks. Sample: Flower 8 ran 3.01 mS mean (range 2.0–3.5) → below band; Flower 13 ran 3.81 mS mean (3.1–4.1) → below band.

The most recent operator-facing 2-week audit walked the per-room steering envelope for every flower room above. Headlines: Flower 8 is in-band on ripening dryback (33.2 pp absolute) but well below the EC restack target (3.01 mS vs 6.0–8.0); Flower 13 is below band on both dryback (15.4 pp) and EC (3.81 mS); Flower Room 2 (Bulking) is running too deep a dryback (45.7 pp vs 15–25 band).

Operational recommendations

Prioritized for the meeting. Each rec carries Owner (Grower / Process / Klutch lead) and expected-outcome math where the data supports it. Ordered by yield-or-quality leverage.

Open questions for Klutch

These are things the SPA + portal_api wouldn't answer that the Klutch team can. Listed in priority order for the meeting.

Data quality & methodology

Appendix · Full harvest-group list (newest first)

All 334 harvest groups across the lifespan, newest first. Shown: HG name, flip date, harvest date, primary flower room, plant count, cultivar headline (first 3 + count of others).