Agreed, and not just spraying but over dried under ripe crappy weed. I've even seen dispensaries (Nirvana) resort to selling fertilized weed for their "lower shelf" option.
I don't think good growers have to worry about competing with each other, the real issue is finding a niche market. With the 6k plus growers in Oklahoma there is an influx of crap weed happening right now. Most of that will end up turned into shatter which means the market for small growers is high end/niche extracts and QUALITY flower.
For me that's going to be high CBD strains for flower and rosin/live rosin for extracts.
Right, the market is so big that we could be neighbors and not even be in direct competition. Really, I'm probably going to Norman with my stuff. I'm going to focus on growing outdoor sativas with 100% organic methods. It's hard to grow a good sativa indoor, so I think that there is a real demand for an uppity sativa. Don't get me wrong, I love OG Kush and I'll probably have some sativa dom OG Kush. I have some sour D crosses outside right now and I just hope that they don't make me feel like a bear going into hibernation. BTW, it looks like Trump just squashed that stimulus check, so I'm back to doing whatever I have to for this greenhouse. I don't have any investors, but I do have my legal grow going that is producing WAY more than I can smoke myself. I only need $10-15k for start-up. I'm a disabled vet too, so I get 100% disability which means that I have plenty of free time and living expenses are already paid for.
I've been growing in Oklahoma since 2011 and just kept to myself, so really I've been social distancing since then. It's super hard finding the right help because people are either too lazy or just don't get motivated by weed. The people that I've had help me are looking to get rich quick and they didn't realize that you actually have to do work to grow weed. My wife is interested but she started going to school for horticulture(OSU-OKC) on my GI Bill, but she is getting into houseplants and don't have a huge interest in my pot. However, her houseplant/school friends are a lot more help than the family members that I drag over here. I can still work, but my back is pretty fucked. I get about $52k/yr in disability, but it came with a price.
I try to make everything that I use on site, it's what Korean Natural Farming and JADAM focus on. Both methods don't really get into composting in detail, but they said that they use leaf mold and left it at that. I'm saying this because it's pretty hands on making compost and vermicompost. I learned from a guy in Santa Cruz, he said that he learned from the N. Cali hippies. It's all about leaf and grass clippings with comfrey, borage, and nettle type of plants. The idea is to use deep rooting plants that pull minerals from deep in the earth. I didn't understand it at first, but using these plants can reduce your need for rock dust(Trace Minerals). I'm just rattling on now. Anyways, I grow more like a barefoot hippy than a lab coat scientist. However, I do get my soil tested and you won't get that from most organic gardeners.
