Starting a Harvest or Manicure

Created by Kylah Brown, Modified on Thu, 24 Sep at 10:43 AM by Kylah Brown

Cultivation Guide

Starting a Harvest or Manicure

Before you begin:  You will need tagged plants that are ready to come down, a drying room to move them into, and each plant’s weight. Starting a harvest creates the harvest in Metrc for you — you can start it from the Harvests page or straight from a plant group.

What Happens When You Start a Harvest

A harvest is the record that follows your flower from the day it comes down until it is packaged. When you start one in Hashio, you name it, say where it is drying, and give each plant its weight.

Hashio creates the harvest in Metrc, switches those plants to Harvested, and adds the new harvest to your Harvests page — where the weight, the cost, and eventually the packages all live.

Two Ways to Start One

Both routes create the same harvest in Metrc. The only difference is how the plants get picked — so choose whichever matches the plants in front of you.

Where you startUse it when
From the Harvests pageThe plants coming down do not line up neatly with one group — you want to pick them yourself by strain, room, or tag, or pull from more than one group.
From a plant groupA whole group is coming down at once. Every tagged plant in that group goes into the harvest together, so there is nothing to select.

Harvest or Manicure?

A harvest takes the whole plant — the plant is done. A manicure takes a trimmed portion while the plant keeps growing. Both are available from both starting points, and the steps below are identical for either one. Just start from the manicure option instead of the harvest one.


Step 1  Choose where you are starting from

In the left navigation, click Cultivation, then:

  • Harvests — to pick your plants by hand.
  • Plant Groups, then the name of the group — to harvest a whole group at once.

Not sure which? If everything coming down today is in one group, start from the group. Otherwise start from the Harvests page.

Step 2  Open the harvest window

From the Harvests page:

  1. In the top-right corner, click Start harvest — or Start manicure.

A window titled “Start harvest” opens. The manicure window works exactly the same way.

From a plant group:

  1. In the top-right corner, click Metrc Actions.
  2. Choose Harvest — or Manicure.

A window opens headed “Harvest — N Plants,” where N is the number of tagged plants in that group. Those plants are already in the harvest; there is nothing to select.

Step 3  Fill in the harvest details

Complete these fields:

FieldWhat to enter
Harvest nameA name that will still mean something to you months from now. Names are free text, so give every harvest its own — see the naming tip below.
Harvest dateThe day the plants came down. Defaults to today. From a plant group this field is labeled Actual Date.
LicenseThe license this harvest belongs to. Harvests page only — from a plant group, Hashio uses that group’s license.
Drying locationThe room the plants will dry in. These are the same rooms you have in Metrc.
Unit of weightThe unit you weighed in — for example, grams or pounds.
NoteOptional. Anything you want recorded with the harvest. Harvests page only.

Everything except the note is required. The button at the bottom of the window stays greyed out until they are all filled in.

Step 4  Add your plants and their weights

Weigh each plant as it comes down and record its whole wet weight — stalk, stems and all. That is the number Metrc expects at harvest, before any of it is trimmed off.

From the Harvests page — pick your plants:

  1. Click Bulk add, filter by Strain, Location and Phase — for example, every plant of one strain in one room — then click Add plants.
  2. Or click Add plant and search for a single plant tag, then type its weight. To add several rows at once, enter a number in the # rows box.
  3. To put the same weight on every row, use Set all wt.

Only tracked plants appear in the bulk add search.

From a plant group — the plants are already in; add the weights:

  1. Enter a Default Weight to give every plant the same weight.
  2. Or tick Customize per-plant weights and type a weight beside each tag.
  3. Or click Upload CSV to bring the weights in from a spreadsheet. The file needs two columns: Plant Tag and Weight.

The CSV is the fastest route for a big group — export your scale sheet, name the two columns to match, and every plant gets its own weight in one go.

Step 5  Check your numbers, then start the harvest
  1. Check the count. From the Harvests page the plant list reads “Plants (N ready)”; from a plant group the window heading shows the number.
  2. Compare that count — and the strains in it — against what actually came down. This matters most from a plant group, because the harvest takes every tagged plant in the group: if a few plants are not coming down today, or a second strain is sitting in the group, this is the moment to catch it.
  3. Click Start harvest from the Harvests page, or Harvest Plants from a plant group.

If you uploaded a CSV with a weight for every tag, you have already done that check — the tags in your file are the plants you weighed.

The button stays greyed out until every required detail is filled in and every plant has a weight.

Tip:  Naming your harvest. Because the name is free text, nothing stops two harvests sharing one — which gets confusing fast. Pick a convention and stick to it; strain plus harvest date is a common one. It matters because you cannot add plants to a harvest once it has gone to Metrc. If more plants come down the next day, they belong in a harvest of their own.

What Changes Once It Goes Through

The plant group keeps its total — the count does not drop. What changes is each plant’s State, which switches to Harvested.

The new harvest appears on your Harvests page with its plant count, its wet weight, and its drying location, ready for drying, costing and packaging.

That is it — your harvest is created in Metrc and live on your Harvests page. If you have questions or run into anything unexpected, reach out to the Hashio support team — we are happy to help.


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