OneHitDone
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Enjoy Gentlemen
No probs , youre welcome. Maybe you can refrain from the psycho, bloated gas bag postings???That's old news. But thanks for bringing it up. Maybe you can get them riled up! Lol!
As costs associated with growing indoors continue to fall, more and more crops of more varied sizes and shapes become economically viable. Leafy greens are the beginning, there's a lot more coming- almost everything in your crisper drawer.I
I knew my answer would be something like this. Carry on.
You're a reef guy? coral frags=$$$ right?i built a bunch of blurple strips for a guy here locally. he grows leafy greens but primarily "boutique" micro greens. He claims to be pulling down $500 a week delivering flats of greens to various bars and restaurants. not a bad side bitnis.
Micro greens get top dollah in these parts. The tweezer chef brigade considers a few grams of fenugreek or basil sprouts a legit veg garnish.i built a bunch of blurple strips for a guy here locally. he grows leafy greens but primarily "boutique" micro greens. He claims to be pulling down $500 a week delivering flats of greens to various bars and restaurants. not a bad side bitnis.
There's no place quite like a fully controlled indoor environment to grow them, no variables.Micro greens get top dollah in these parts. The tweezer chef brigade considers a few grams of fenugreek or basil sprouts a legit veg garnish.
We have a colleague who dominates the very top end micro greens and sprout mkt around here. I'll check in on their techniques. They are organic certified and extremely non-$$grovelling. They also have crazy, high brix carrots that are sought out by local celeb chefs. Their eggs are luscious!There's no place quite like a fully controlled indoor environment to grow them, no variables.
I'd love to see those someday.You're a reef guy? coral frags=$$$ right?
The apache guys have some sick reefs.
That blows my mind.I'd love to see those someday.
I was a reef guy, until I made a business out of it and had to deal with clients & customer service. After a few years, the passion was gone and I didn't even like the hobby anymore.
as far as coral frags=$$ , its just as trendy as the strain game. One month a rare color morph is going for $60 per polyp, the next month its $10. Shipping live corals never appealed to me, and the overhead of holding tanks and propagation is not for the faint of heart.
this is about the time I started hating working on people's fail ass fish tanks. this guy spent $200k on his and it was a swamp, until I got ahold of it. took 4 months to redo it. (this is a before pic)
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I used to do reef tanks! lots of $$ took me a while to realize that growing at least pays for itself.I'd love to see those someday.
I was a reef guy, until I made a business out of it and had to deal with clients & customer service. After a few years, the passion was gone and I didn't even like the hobby anymore.
as far as coral frags=$$ , its just as trendy as the strain game. One month a rare color morph is going for $60 per polyp, the next month its $10. Shipping live corals never appealed to me, and the overhead of holding tanks and propagation is not for the faint of heart.
this is about the time I started hating working on people's fail ass fish tanks. this guy spent $200k on his and it was a swamp, until I got ahold of it. took 4 months to redo it. (this is a before pic)
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OK that's basically everybody at this point has done reef tanks. The costs calm down once you get a mature tank and stop adding stock. Then again I just had a shrimp die and an algae outbreak. Annoying. But I have corals that are 15 years old at this point, I wouldn't even know who to trust them with. Certainly not anybody I know, or a local fish store.I used to do reef tanks! lots of $$ took me a while to realize that growing at least pays for itself.
I custom built a half circle wall tank, a bit smaller than growmau5's, with integrated refugium on the back in addition to the standard one underneath.@Growmau5 that picture is amazing. It was once my dream to have an in-wall tank. Once!
Lol, like growing weed isn't?!I heard reef guys and that hobby makes ours pale in comparison. Expensive and neurotic is an understatement. Looks cool though.
The funny thing is how much they have in common, and how caught up in gadgets and temperatures and water measurements and dosers and lighting everybody gets. Beneficial bacteria, nitrate cycles, controlling pests.I heard reef guys and that hobby makes ours pale in comparison. Expensive and neurotic is an understatement. Looks cool though.