Ask five budtenders what AAAA means and you’ll get five answers. For us it isn’t marketing shorthand — it’s a checklist that starts in the mother room and doesn’t end until cure.
Structure, trichome integrity, terpene expression, moisture content, and a clean burn: each one is measurable, and each one can disqualify a harvest no matter how good the others look. Grading is subtraction, not addition.
Over the coming weeks we’ll break down each criterion — what we measure, how we measure it, and what we reject.