rent 2600 month
hydro 1100 month
insurance 260 month
nutes 600 bimonthly
dirt 300 bimonthly
gas 300 monthly
garbage 100 monthly
water 300 monthly
security 70 monthly
- this doesn't even count odds and ends that are needed..PH replacement probes, adding nutes and replacement/preventative maintenance. Clothes, toilet paper, soap, food, water, labour, buying new genetics all the time
Cost until 1st harvest 60-80k
and people want shit for free...
People say "oh you just grow plants" yaaa "JUST" grow plants...its a hard tedious job and labour intensive. Be courteous and fair to those who feed you.
Yup totally agree Bigmanc. I feel a few of your numbers slightly high but basically your right on the money in Ontario. If you need to send someone say 10 grams a day you need more than a piddly little 4x4 tent. You need a bigger setup and that is a different ball of wax. You need a dedicated room. Plus a veg room to support it.
Anyway what's the deal with this " oh you keep the overage " in exchange....WTF !!!
That is based basically on the assumption that you'll sell the rest to the BM. The excess does you no good unless it get sold. So a DG who wants for very little money expects you to do the dirty work for them to support their lower cost..... WTF again. A DG system based on low prices to the patients is based on BM sales! What advantage to the grower does the overage do?????. It means the grower needs to operate a BM sales department as well to supplement the cheap DG commitment. Geez nice deal if you can get it.
It's been pretty obvious from these DG threads in the past here that once you go that low...there are NO TAKERS unless it's for huge daily scripts where they intend to sell plenty to the BM.
I spend over a hundred hours a month in my grow. Every fuckin day too...no days off or weekends off either. If my time is billed for only $20 per hour...well add that up.
The DG system is mostly based on BM sales to support it. That's why so many growers say..no thanks.
So let see.....hmmmm
I take all the risk.....do all the work......outlay all the capital....pay all the costs and bills......work
EVERYDAY faithfully.......sell to the BM.....take the legal risk of BM sales...Risk my own property.......risk your own safety and security....risk Home invasion and rip-offs ( Eh Dan ?).....and then sell it off for $1 a gram...no thanks.
And does the patient ever sell their basically free weed for a profit??? Only to be sent more. Kind of like the VETS could do with a 10g a day free stipence.
The DG system basically exists because of illegal BM sales. Am I wrong?
