Classify Your Product With
Environment, Product, Process

Environment, product, and process (EPP) are the three core characteristics used in product classification.

Environment refers to how the five essential inputs — light, temperature and humidity, carbon dioxide, and water — are provided to fuel plant growth.

Product refers to the type of product that a material is.

Process refers to the post-harvest processing method used to finish a product.

Each characteristic has several categories with a corresponding unique identifying code. When combined, they create 252 unique plant material product codes.

Example: A-Flower, Indoor, Scissor Trimmed Dry
Product Code: AFIDSD

View our EPP legend below to familiarize yourself with each environment, product, and process category.

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Environment, Product, Process Guide

Environment

Greenhouse

Greenhouses are enclosed structures that utilize the sun as a light source but are contained environments that allow for many of the same controls as an indoor garden.

Hoophouse

Hoop houses are outdoor-grown plants covered with hoops that support a layer of plastic sheeting that diffuses or blocks light. Hoop houses are often utilized for light deprivation, a technique that allows cultivators to manipulate light patterns and harvest multiple crops a year outside the typical growing season.

Indoor

Indoor facilities are highly controlled and customizable growing environments that rely on artificial lighting for plant growth.

Outdoor

Outdoor refers to plants grown under the full sun in the traditional growing season. Outdoor plants are grown directly in the ground or in raised beds or pots.

Product

A-Flower

The thickest, densest flowers from the top of the plants. A-Flowers are larger than 0.75 inches (19.05 mm).

B-Flower

Smaller and less dense than A-Flower. B-Flowers are smaller than 0.75 inches (19.05 mm) and larger than 0.25 inches (6.35mm).

C-Flower

Smaller and less dense than B-Flower, and/or are a result of processing and breaking down and handling flowers. C-Flowers are 0.25 inches (approx. 7mm) or smaller.

A/B Mix

An unsorted mix of A and B flowers.

B/C Mix

An unsorted mix of B and C flowers.

A/B/C Mix

An unsorted mix of A, B, and C-Flowers.

Fan Leaf

The signature five-fingered serrated leaves.

Fresh Frozen

Biomass is flash-frozen immediately after harvesting.

Mixed Material

Lots consisting of varying ratios of A-Flower, B-Flower, C-Flower, and Trim material.

Trim

Sugar leaves that have been trimmed off flowers during the manicuring process.

Process

Drum Trimmed, Dry

Flowers are trimmed using machines that tumble-dried flowers in a rotating drum over blades that separate the sugar leaves from the flowers.

Drum Trimmed, Wet

Flowers are trimmed using machines that tumble flowers (before being dried) in a rotating drum over blades that separate the sugar leaves from the flowers.

Machine Trimmed, Dry

Flowers are stripped of their sugar leaves using a variety of machines sometimes utilizing suction fans, which can separate trim from keif, after plants have been dried.

Machine Trimmed, Wet

Flowers are stripped of their sugar leaves using a variety of machines immediately before drying.

Partial Trim

Sometimes referred to as “farm cut”, are flowers that have been trimmed removing some sugar leaves.

Scissor Trimmed, Dry

Flowers manicured by hand after material has been dried.

Scissor Trimmed, Wet

Flowers manicured by hand before material is dried.

Bucked, Untrimmed