Innovator Spotlight

Thai Stick

Thailand

Challenges

  • Re-establishing Thai cannabis as a respected product globally
  • Navigating Thailand’s intense climate
  • Creating a cultivation culture
“With Fluence lights, the spectrum is perfect for pushing the plants without stressing them, and the reliability lets us focus on mindful cultivation instead of troubleshooting equipment.”

- Brian Hood

Chief Cultivator
“What makes Thai Stick special isn’t just the quality—it’s the culture. They cultivate with intention, pride, and purpose. Their team, their energy, their history, and their vision represent exactly why Fluence exists: to empower growers who honor both the plant and the community around it.”

- Casey Rivero

Cannabis Solution Architect, Fluence
Thai Stick is a cultivation company rooted deeply in Thailand’s cultural and historical connection to cannabis. Named after one of the most iconic Thai cannabis exports in history, the brand represents a return to heritage—elevating traditional Thai respect for the plant through modern science, advanced greenhouse technology, and Fluence LED lighting.

By combining a family-driven team culture with a mindful, respectful approach to plant care, Thai Stick is producing some of the country’s cleanest, most aromatic, and most globally competitive cannabis. Fluence fixtures power every stage of growth, reinforcing Thai Stick’s vision to honor the past, cultivate with intention, and position Thailand once again as a global source of premium cannabis.

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Project Overview

Overview
Thailand
Crop
Cannabis
Fluence Fixture

VYPR and RAZR Modular

Facility
Greenhouse and Indoor
Results
  • Precision uniformity across a dense canopy—top, middle, and lower buds develop identically.
  • Cleaner, smoother, more flavorful smoke, with terpene retention that reflects the company’s commitment to mindful cultivation.
  • Unmatched reliability and dimmability that help Thai Stick meet environmental challenges in a hot, humid climate.
Challenges
Honoring Thai Heritage While Building World-Class Cannabis

Thai Stick faced a unique challenge: to build a premium cultivation operation in a country where cannabis is both ancient and newly rediscovered. Thailand’s climate required advanced technology to grow consistently at global standards, but the company also wanted to stay true to Thai cultural values— collectivism, warmth, mutual respect, and genuine care for each other and the plant.

Mindful cultivation became the guiding philosophy, requiring reliability from every environmental system—especially lighting. Before Fluence, the team wasn’t fully confident they could meet the precision needed to honor both tradition and global expectations.

Results

Where Culture, Community, and Technology Meet

Fluence lighting solutions helped Thai Stick unify sophisticated greenhouse operations with their cultural philosophy. The team can now cultivate with intention—replicating perfect environmental conditions, protecting terpene-rich flowers from heat stress, and enabling harvest timing based on aroma expression, not guesswork.

This scientific precision reinforces their cultural ethos: do what is right for the plant, not what is convenient for people. Employees feel like family, and the lighting system gives them confidence that the plant is receiving what it needs, consistently, every day. Thai Stick’s flowers now reflect both Thai heritage and world-class greenhouse performance.

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Heritage-quality cannabis, crafted with modern consistency—smooth, aromatic, culturally meaningful.
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A proud, unified team empowered by predictable lighting and climate conditions.
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Reliable export-grade product that strengthens Thailand’s reputation on the global stage.

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