All immature plants must be recorded in Metrc. The growth phase within which an immature plant is tracked will depend on its height; shorter immature plants may be tracked as an immature batch (see below) while taller immature plants must be tagged as individual "flowering" or vegetative plants.

In Metrc, vegetative and flowering plants are individually identified plants. Metrc allows vegetative plants to be either tagged or untagged; an untagged vegetative plant will be assigned a unique, sequential number. Vegetative plants should only be untagged in Metrc if they have not yet reached the specific height at which plants must be tagged per OLCC rules.

Because vegetative and flowering plants are individually identified, any activity related to a vegetative or flowering plant must be tracked in Metrc at the level of the individually identified plant. That includes the following types of activities:

• Create planting: used to create clones from a mother plant
• Packaging vegetative plants: used to transfer plants
• Destroying plants: used to document death or destruction of a plant
• Plant waste: used to document waste off of a plant that is still being cultivated (e.g. pruning fan leaves)
• Harvesting: used to document a manicure or "regular" harvest from a plant
• Recording additives: used to document application of pesticides, fertilizers, etc.
• Moving rooms: used to document moving a plant to a new portion of the licensed premises

Creating Plantings:
All immature plant batches must be created using an existing, tagged plant or from a package tag brought in through an external transfer or a package of seeds created in Metrc from a source plant, package or harvest. Below are two examples of how to properly create your plant batches using existing plants or from a package brought in on an external transfer:

Creating plants from existing plants
If you are creating clones from a mother plant at your facility you will need to document the taking of those cuttings in CTS. To create plants from an existing plant, you will need a tagged plant in your flowering or vegetative tab of Metrc:

• Click on the plant you took the cuttings from (if you took cuttings from multiple plants for the plant batch, select one of the tagged plants that you cloned from)
• Click on the “Create Plantings” button
• Fill in the information for the new plant batch that you are creating

• Once the information for the plant batch is filled out, click the “Create Plantings” button.

The plant batch will then be created in your immature plants tab. You’ll see in the “Origin Plant” column that the plant tag that you pulled the clones from.

• To destroy a plant or several plants within the same plant batch, navigate to the Plants section in Metrc and select the plant batch, then click on the destroy plants button.
• In the dialog box, type in the number of plants that are being destroyed (it can be all or part of the batch depending on what has actually occurred), complete the form information and click the destroy plants button.
• Once complete, you will see that the number of destroyed plants has been shown in the summary plant count as well as in the drill-down history for the plant batch. The three remaining living plants in the example batch are still represented as well.

Once an individual plant has been unpacked from a cultivation batch and has its own tag, it will appear on the appropriate phase plant tab and if needed, can be destroyed by selecting the plant(s) and clicking on the Destroy plants button or clicking directly on the Destroy button and selecting the tags from the dialog box. Once destroyed, plants will move to the inactive tab where they can easily be found by tag number or by clicking the State column to sort by "destroyed" and/or filtering by the tag numbers.

Identify the batch you wish to move to the new growth phase; highlighting the batch or batches will prepopulate the dialog box in the next step. After selecting the batch or batches click the "Change Growth Phase" button.

Fill out fields with the relevant information:

• Group: Name of the immature batch from which plants are being selected; limited to immature batches that have been created and are active.
• Plants Count: Number of plants from within the selected immature batch you wish to move to the next growth phase.
• Starting Tag (optional if moving to vegetative): First tag to assign to the plants; remainder of tags will be assigned sequentially to additional plants based on available plant tags in inventory. If this field is left blank plants will be tracked but untagged.
• New Phase: Growth phase to which you wish to move the plants (vegetative or flowering). The number of plants entered in "Plants Count" will all be moved to this phase (you cannot move some to one phase and some to another).
• New Room: Room/area within the licensed facility to which the plants are assigned.
• Change Date: Date plants moved into the new growth phase.
• Additional plant batches can be added to the dialog box by pressing the "+" sign.

As of June 17, 2024 , plant group tagging became available in Metrc. This streamlined tracking for operations managing large numbers of plants. However, there are a few functionalities still under development to ensure a smooth workflow.

Here's what to keep in mind:
Selective Harvesting:
Currently, you can't choose how many plants to harvest from a group. It defaults to the entire plant group tag. If you would like to see the ability to specify how many plants you are harvesting please submit a feature request at https://support.metrc.com/.
Here's a workaround:
Click the “Manicure” button on the Flowering Plants tab and record your harvest. Indicate how many plants you are harvesting. It will default to the total amount of plants, and you will need to change it.
Select the plant tag you just did the manicure on (the harvested column will have a yellow highlight) and click the “Destroy” button.
In the Count field enter the number of plants that were harvested. In the Note field enter the harvest name and “was a standard harvest, not manicure.”

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