Understand Plant Groups and Plant Batches

Flourish organizes plants into groups so you can act on many plants at once. For example, moving a group moves every plant in it. Metrc facilities also work with plant batches, which is how Metrc tracks immature plants. This article explains both and how they relate.

Plant Groups

Every facility uses plant groups, whether or not it's integrated with a state system.

• Every plant belongs to exactly one group.
• A group can contain more than one strain.
• A group can contain more than one Metrc plant batch.
• A group is in one area and one stage at a time, though a group can share a name to span areas/stages, if needed.

You choose or name a group when you create plants, when you split a group, and when you move plants into a new group.

Name Your Groups

Choose a naming convention your whole team follows, and use it every time. A good group name tells you what's in the group and when it started, such as the strain and cut date: Blue Dream - 2026-09-01. You can also include a rack or room when that helps your team find plants.

Plant Batches (Metrc)

In Metrc, immature plants in Propagation are tracked as plant batches rather than as individual plants. Flourish still keeps an underlying record for each plant.

• Batch tag or name: some states, such as California, identify each batch with a Metrc tag. Most other states use a unique batch name.
• Plants per batch: California limits a batch to 100 plants, and many states use the same limit. Check your state's rules.
• Batches and groups: one Flourish group can hold several plant batches.
• Moving to Vegetation: when plants move out of Propagation, each plant is assigned its own Metrc plant tag.

For your state's fields, see Create Plants in Metrc: State Differences.

Work with Groups

• Creating Plants in Flourish: Overview
• Split a Plant Group
• Move Plants Between Areas in the Grow Module
• Managing Plants in Flourish: Overview