Career in growing? PLEASE HELP

wwrockyou

wwrockyou

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SPLFreak808 said:
I would just grow for myself for a few years before making a retarded choice like this. What happens when your yield cost the same as everything you've spent? Thieves? Feds? Bug infestation? What happens when you loose the entire crop to something so simple as spider mites? This is not a career, this is a gamble, and its fucking hard work for such a gamble! Wait till you have to trim 5 lbs by yourself before 1 week
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You probably won't listen to this but you will experience all the above going forward, be prepared.
 
Final Phase

Final Phase

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Option40 said:
Thank you so much man, it means a lot. I did use the shiny side, so I will fix that right now. As for the strain, blackberry Kush is a high-yielding strain, and from what I've read a pound indoors isn't rare. Maybe for my first time I won't get there, but then again maybe I will. Thanks for your help:)
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It can certainly be done - given the right strain, excellent growing conditions, you can certainly do it... Just don't count on it untill you get everyting dialed in right. There are so many factors that come into play trying to get a lot of yield. It all comes from experience. Time to get your hands dirty big time.
 
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mollymcgrammar

mollymcgrammar

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Maybe im wrong, but i think what you should do is start growing on your own first, and maybe try to find a job at a weed farm..... Is that i thing?

Learn as much as you can and then apply it to your own grows.

Slowly increase your plant count so you can manage it better.

400 plants is..... ALOT. I bet 99% of this forum (including myself) couldn't handle a fraction of that.
 
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GrowUrOwnDank

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All of you children need to go online and fill out your FAFSA paperwork and get your tails in college. In the meantime get a labor job in construction OR on a farm or a spatula and get to flippin some burgers. Doing the math on the easy road to success is cute and all, but when the naivety subsides and you realize youve been spinning your wheels for nothing you will need something to fall back on. 4.0? What does that have to do with growing weed. Dudes that can't get a 2.0 can learn to grow weed. It's the marketing skills that get you paid. Assuming you're above a 2.0 in potential.
 
mollymcgrammar

mollymcgrammar

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Study horticulture.... If you wanna grow outdoors, in this quantity, you need to learn about ALL the aspects of growing.... Soil, bugs, other plants, climate, irrigation, marketing, fungi, bacteria, and so on... Anything that may effect your operation.

So many wildcards man...

Plus, you would need alot of employees. You need a customer base. You need wholesale nute suppliers. You need security.

The only way your getting 3,500 a pound is if you sell it yourself an ounce at a time. And fyi you are NOT gunna average an pound a plant unless you are a pro. I never even came close to that.
 
jacksthc

jacksthc

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option4 sound like you have a good business plan but its needs a little adjustment

first find out what a high price popular strain is and see if there available
( don't use auto's as there low yeilding plants, you will pull less than 100g's per plant )

buy the maximum amout of clones your aloud and as long as the are well rooted
start them under a 1000w

you want to start them under lights about 6 mouths before they go out side

lots of trainning(topping and lst)
will get the plants very wide and bushy
if you get them wide enough, so 4 plants take a 1000w hps footprint

and then you put them out side ( with lots of support) I can't see pulling less than a kg
per plant should be a lot more (never grown plants outside but grown plants in doors for years)
 
Greenhouse;save

Greenhouse;save

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Work ,work,work,and at the end of your work.......yes you guessed it more work....That my friend is the secret to success in this BUSINESS........Good luck if you forefill a fraction of your dreams ....then you will have gained alot more than you could EVER have imagined(experience)priceless......EVERYTHING you have been advised on in this thread will all be realized once you have completed your first grow..





Mr green
 
ricky1lung

ricky1lung

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After reading the first paragraph I've seen that you guys need far more experience growing and knowing the business before starting to grow as a career. Not slamming you but, free land and a clone doesn't make you a grower nor even close to good enough to make it a career.

Don't do it. You guys don't have the knowledge to keep you out of jail.
 
Red1966

Red1966

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hyroot said:
Actually if the ab 266 makes it past the senate in august , it will protect the small grower. Requiring all growers to get license from the state and local. It will pre empt all local ordinances creating state wide regulations. It supposed to be the standard for the rest of the country to follow. Colorado and washington and oregon regulations fucked everyone. They will have to adapt to california regulations eventually
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Trouble with these kinds of legislation is the rules keep changing, usually moving toward excluding all but an influential few from the business. Look at the agriculture industry as it is now. almost no family owned small farms left, just big corporate owned mega-farms supplying almost all our agricultural supplies. Add in even stricter controls because of the nature of the crop, I( just don't see how small growers won't be regulated out of existence.
 
Final Phase

Final Phase

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Red1966 said:
Trouble with these kinds of legislation is the rules keep changing, usually moving toward excluding all but an influential few from the business. Look at the agriculture industry as it is now. almost no family owned small farms left, just big corporate owned mega-farms supplying almost all our agricultural supplies. Add in even stricter controls because of the nature of the crop, I( just don't see how small growers won't be regulated out of existence.
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I agree 100% with the way small farmers will be squeezed out. There will always be a spirit to grow individually and plenty that will make a lot of money until big business moves in...
Until the doors close... I'll continue pushing dirt...
 
OrganicGorilla

OrganicGorilla

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You are getting WAY ahead of yourself. Grow for the love of it, not for how much money you think you can make. Grow one plant from start to finish, then come back and tell us how much money you'll be making. It's nice to dream, but honestly, wake up lol.
 
hyroot

hyroot

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Red1966 said:
Trouble with these kinds of legislation is the rules keep changing, usually moving toward excluding all but an influential few from the business. Look at the agriculture industry as it is now. almost no family owned small farms left, just big corporate owned mega-farms supplying almost all our agricultural supplies. Add in even stricter controls because of the nature of the crop, I( just don't see how small growers won't be regulated out of existence.
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There will always be boutique growers just like beer brewery's and winery's and the organic farmers market. All the commercial grows are about mass production and not quality. There will always be people willing to pay for the better quality.


You can get cheap shitty beer like coors and Heineken anywhere. If you want beer that tastes good and has a little more alcohol like lost coast and maudite. There's far less places that carry them. Those cost more and people still want them.
 
Red1966

Red1966

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hyroot said:
There will always be boutique growers just like beer brewery's and winery's and the organic farmers market. All the commercial grows are about mass production and not quality. There will always be people willing to pay for the better quality.


You can get cheap shitty beer like coors and Heineken anywhere. If you want beer that tastes good and has a little more alcohol like lost coast and maudite. There's far less places that carry them. Those cost more and people still want them.
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It's only recently that you could legally start a microbrewery.. For decades, you couldn't. I predict the laws on growing will be in a state of flux for quite some time. I think illegal growers will do it more for financial reasons than quality, but there will still be some of that. Moonshine was usually of much lower quality than commercial liquor, but didn't have the huge write up due to the high taxes. I figure pot will be much the same.
 
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