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# Destroy Plants

## Destroy plants within a batch, whether the plants are tagged or untagged

Navigate to **Cultivation/Plants** and open the plant batch where you want to destroy plants. 

Learn how you can destroy:

- [Untagged Plants: Destroy Random Plants](https://support.cannavigia.com/knowledge/destroy-plants#untagged)
- [Tagged Plants: Destroy Specific Plants (in two distinct options](https://support.cannavigia.com/knowledge/destroy-plants#tagged))

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### **Untagged Plants: Destroy Random Plants **

1. Open the specific plant batch 
2. Click on green button **Actions** and choose **Destroy Plants  
   ![](https://support.cannavigia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Nov-18-2024-03-55-21-9592-PM.png?width=670&height=653&name=image-png-Nov-18-2024-03-55-21-9592-PM.png)**
3. The **Destroy Plants** window will open 
     1. Enter** Weight\*** and select **unit\***
     2. Select **Waste container** (only mandatory if strain=narcotic)
     3. Choose the** Date\***
     4. Add a **Reason** (only mandatory if strain is narcotic)
     5. Enter the **Amount of plants** you want to destroy
     6. Select a **Task **
     7. Click **Save**

![](https://support.cannavigia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jun-04-2026-09-49-40-7691-PM.png?width=907&height=500&name=image-png-Jun-04-2026-09-49-40-7691-PM.png)

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#### Tagged Plants: Destroy Specific Plants (in two distinct options) **Option 1 - Actions \> Destroy Plants**

1. Open the specific plant batch
2. Click on green button **Actions** and choose **Destroy Plants**

**![](https://support.cannavigia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Nov-18-2024-03-55-21-9592-PM.png?width=670&height=653&name=image-png-Nov-18-2024-03-55-21-9592-PM.png)**

#### **Option 2 - Plants list \> Select Plant and Destroy**

1. Open the specific plant batch
2. Click on the green number in the **Plants** field (a numbered overview of all plants in this batch opens up)
   
   ![](https://support.cannavigia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-May-31-2024-11-30-18-1866-AM.png?width=670&height=236&name=image-png-May-31-2024-11-30-18-1866-AM.png)
3. You can search the list for the plant to be destroyed by using its corresponding ID
4. You can select multiple plants (blue highlight) or use 'select all' button to identify the plant to be destroyed
5. When you have identified the plant to be destroyed, click the red **Trash** icon

**![](https://support.cannavigia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-May-31-2024-11-33-15-3125-AM.png?width=670&height=177&name=image-png-May-31-2024-11-33-15-3125-AM.png)**

#### **Both Options - Destroy Plants window**

1. The **Destroy Plants** window will open (different from the unttaged plants window)
   
     1. Enter **Weight\***, select **unit\*** and **Task**
     2. Choose the **Date\***
     3. Select **Waste container** (only mandatory if strain=narcotic)
     4. Add a **Reason** (only mandatory if strain is narcotic)
     5. Select wich **Plants ID** to destroy (Add the Plants ID by scaning the respective QR Code, or selecting them in the list), then click the green **Add** button
     6. The chosen plants will appear in the *Plant ID list*, if it's the wrong plant selected, you can remove it by clicking on the grey **X** button, under *Actions* before saving the destruction
2. Click **Destroy**

![](https://support.cannavigia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Captura%20de%20ecr%C3%A3%202024-12-18%20114133-png-1.png?width=670&height=673&name=Captura%20de%20ecr%C3%A3%202024-12-18%20114133-png-1.png)

The corresponding plant is marked as destroyed and the plant status is changed from *Alive (green)* to *Destroyed (red).*

![](https://support.cannavigia.com/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Dec-18-2024-12-14-48-8314-PM.png?width=670&height=145&name=image-png-Dec-18-2024-12-14-48-8314-PM.png)

**Note: **Destroyed plants can be individually recorded during all plant phases (immature phase, vegetative phase, flowering phase) with the exception of the harvest phase.

The specified waste can be viewed in the *Batch overview* under the **Waste** tab. In addition, waste is also recorded in the log.

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