There's no single "right size" for a grow system.
There's the one that fits your crop, your space, and your commercial goal. Canobi VF systems are one platform, sized to the opportunity in front of you — Canadian-designed, built to scale with your grow.
The sizing trap most growers fall into
Choosing a grow system usually forces a bet you can't easily undo. Get it wrong in either direction and it costs you.
- Buy too small, prove your crop works, and then hit a wall — now you're re-buying a whole new system to scale.
- Buy too big, and you're carrying the capital, energy, and operating cost of capacity you won't use for months or years.
- Pick a system with proprietary lock-in and every step up means ripping out what you just paid for.
- Guess at demand before you've validated the crop, the market, or the margins.
One system, scaled to your goal
VF.100 and VF.1000 aren't different products. They're the same Canobi platform at two points on a continuum — so the step up is a scale decision, not a re-purchase.
VF.100 — Prove it
A focused footprint to validate a new crop, test a new space, or dial in your process before you commit capital to full production.
VF.1000 — Scale it
Full commercial production capacity — the same platform, the same controls, the same operating model, sized for volume and margin.
One continuum
Because it's one system across the range, moving up means growing into capacity you already understand — not learning a new platform from scratch.
Which stage fits you right now?
The right size isn't about how big you want to be someday. It's about where your operation is today.
You're validating
New crop, new market, or a first controlled-environment build. You need to prove the numbers work before you scale the footprint. Start with VF.100.
You're scaling
The crop is proven and demand is real. You need commercial volume with predictable output and margin. Step up to VF.1000.
You're doing both
Running production while validating your next crop or site. One platform lets you do it without splitting your team across two ways of working.
Grow into it — not out of it
The whole point of one system across the range is that scaling up doesn't mean starting over.
- Start where your operation actually is today, not where you're guessing it'll be in three years.
- Scale when the crop and the market tell you to — on evidence, not on a forecast you made before you had data.
- Keep the same controls, the same workflow, and the same operating knowledge as you grow — your team doesn't relearn the platform.
- Canadian-designed and engineered to run reliably in real conditions, from your first proving run to full commercial production.
Not sure which size fits your goal?
That's exactly the conversation to have on a call. Tell us your crop, your space, and where you want to be — and we'll help you size it right the first time.