URL: https://postharvestreport.com/glossary/cultivar-variation
The extent to which different cultivars require different post-harvest handling. The main reason a single machine setting rarely fits a whole harvest.
Glossary
Cultivar variation is the range of physical differences across cannabis cultivars — bud density, calyx-to-leaf ratio, stem strength, moisture retention — that change how flower behaves through drying, trimming, and sorting.
One dwell setting, one feed rate, and one dry protocol across a mixed cultivar mix guarantees that some cultivars finish over-trimmed and others under-trimmed in the same shift.
Operators who log settings by cultivar and revisit them each harvest consistently outperform operators running one universal setting, on the same machine, in the same room.