Weed in Canada has ZERO value

AquaTerra

AquaTerra

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ComputerSaysNo said:
50 lb over 10 weeks is 1 lb per work day...
Even with a trimmer and a lot of routine it will take you pretty much the entire day to trim and process the weed.
That's not "4 hours every couple of days", it's a full time job.

If that then pays $10k per month tops, and all that money would have to be laundered as well... and growing that amount will get you in serious legal trouble if caught...
It does not sound like a good deal to me.


It's exactly that. It has nothing to do with the product.


In most parts of Europe it would rather be more like CAD 3000/lb (and that's strictly a wholesale rate), 2k/lb is not even remotely in reach... maybe if you're deep in organized crime and basically sell to yourself or to your own corner guys, but even then it would not be worth the risk in my opinion.
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WTF you going on about? I know nothing of the weed market outside of Canada so I don't comment on it and even for the most part outside of BC as West Cost, Central, Easter and even Atlantic have had prices differences all at once but I know the market where I am.

2 week veg and 8 week flower, ok ok say 11 weeks for 9 week plants. With 25 lights most of my customers can get 50LB Dry from those 25 lights in that time frame using DE bulbs or 680W+ LEDs This is pretty much the standard now for anyone who has moved on from MH/HPS HID lighting to DE

4 hours every two days means you go in to your grow room and water, clean up the plants and adjust what needs to be adjusted. on 36 lights I use to water, defoliate and other shit in about 2.5 hours.

50LB dry = $30,000 CDN (at $600/lb) take out 10K for hydro/clones/nutrients/soil and hiring trimmers. A set of

No one launders money you used that money for anything you pay cash with and even then if you throw in the bank and pay income tax on it as a side job the gov will never look at you.

As for going to jail I haven't see anyone go to jail for growing that much weed for at least 10+ years and it was only because they were already under the radar for other things or they were caught stealing power. Hell even back 12 years+ in BC if you got busted by the Green Team and you were clean and not already on the radar they would take the plants, destroy the equipment and then leave.

if you think that $600/lb is not worth it you'd make 10 more posts about the Canadian market if I told you how cheap some of the Asian communities sell their weed for and how little they'll make on it yet they have their own huge market.

2lb per light

Hydro say $140per bulb per crop with ac/heater overhead that's $70//lb
$3 for a clone if you buy them
$10 for nutrients per light Plant Prod MJ set will set you back about $500 tax in and will do 3 crops on 23 lights but lets you it'll be 2 crops on 25 lights.
$40 to trim each light say you pay $2000 for someone to come in a trim the plants after you hand dry them.
$1000 for promix so $40 per light in soil.

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The Hippy

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AquaTerra said:
WTF you going on about? I know nothing of the weed market outside of Canada so I don't comment on it and even for the most part outside of BC as West Cost, Central, Easter and even Atlantic have had prices differences all at once but I know the market where I am.

2 week veg and 8 week flower, ok ok say 11 weeks for 9 week plants. With 25 lights most of my customers can get 50LB Dry from those 25 lights in that time frame using DE bulbs or 680W+ LEDs This is pretty much the standard now for anyone who has moved on from MH/HPS HID lighting to DE

4 hours every two days means you go in to your grow room and water, clean up the plants and adjust what needs to be adjusted. on 36 lights I use to water, defoliate and other shit in about 2.5 hours.

50LB dry = $30,000 CDN (at $600/lb) take out 10K for hydro/clones/nutrients/soil and hiring trimmers.

No one launders money you used that money for anything you pay cash with and even then if you throw in the bank and pay income tax on it as a side job the gov will never look at you.

As for going to jail I haven't see anyone go to jail for growing that much weed for at least 10+ years and it was only because they were already under the radar for other things or they were caught stealing power. Hell even back 12 years+ in BC if you got busted by the Green Team and you were clean and not already on the radar they would take the plants, destroy the equipment and then leave.

if you think that $600/lb is not worth it you'd make 10 more posts about the Canadian market if I told you how cheap some of the Asian communities sell their weed for and how little they'll make on it yet they have their own huge market.
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You don't think he "likes" us do you? I've never been fan boyo-ed before. Will it hurt?
 
MidnightSun72

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Sunbiz1 said:
Well gee, maybe the $1,800 person actually took the time, $$, and effort to grow indoor top shelf.
Anyone who thinks it's worth less, has never grown.
Growers were getting fucked before legalization, now legalization has made those who founded the industry unprofitable.
What kind of asshole sells a lb. for 650?, not even worth growing at this 1980 price for Mexican brick.
I'll answer, a very desperate asshole.
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Fair enough growing is hard ass work.
ComputerSaysNo said:
He said "$150-200/lb to grow" (after expenses), but that was wrong, because after expenses it's $0 to grow, since plants grow on their own...

Getting a pound of weed from clone to market (i.e. into a container, trimmed, dried and cured) is supposed to cost $200? Even after expenses (which probably means rent, electricity, water and fertilizer)?

Surely possible.
In Bangladesh.
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Possibly the dumbest shit I've ever read in my life. You couldn't make it any clearer that you don't have a fucking clue....

You've never grown shit.
 
AquaTerra

AquaTerra

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DancesWithWorms said:
At 2lbs per light how are you getting trimmers for $20-40/lb? I'm paying almost 10x that @ $20-25/hr (150-175/lb)
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LOL no one pays 150+ to rim a LB. more like $75/lb or $20-25/hr If you have a trimming machine and or you already hang dried the plants which most growers I know do it them selves you just hire the trimmers for the final stuff.
 
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DancesWithWorms

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AquaTerra said:
LOL no one pays 150+ to rim a LB. more like $75/lb or $20-25/hr If you have a trimming machine and or you already hang dried the plants which most growers I know do it them selves you just hire the trimmers for the final stuff.
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I personally wouldn't consider anything that's been put through a trim machine "high end flower", AA+/AAA- at best.

True quads should be hand trimmed, not just hand finished IMHO.
 
AquaTerra

AquaTerra

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No one that I know that smokes cares about "quads" or "trips" that fucking growers and Instagram smoker model talk, they want descent weed for cheap. The quad smokers are like the guys who always say they get $2000/lb then you find out he pieces it out by 1/4 LB and takes him months and he only had 5 lb to sell lol Meanwhile the rest of the market that moves 1000's is not even close in the price.
 
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DancesWithWorms

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AquaTerra said:
No one that I know that smokes cares about "quads" or "trips" that fucking growers and Instagram smoker model talk, they want descent weed for cheap. The quad smokers are like the guys who always say they get $2000/lb then you find out he pieces it out by 1/4 LB and takes him months and he only had 5 lb to sell lol Meanwhile the rest of the market that moves 1000's is not even close in the price.
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What is "high end flower" then in your market? Honest question.

Salt-grown vietnamese warehouse buds ran through a T4?
 
AquaTerra

AquaTerra

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DancesWithWorms said:
What is "high end flower" then in your market? Honest question.
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No idea, lots of people talk about having "quads" and I have yet someone who says they have them actually bring me a pic when I ask for one unless you're taking about big super dense and really smelly PGR grown buds, theres' stil some around

As for Vietnamese hey they're making more money than the broke as white guys.
 
J232

J232

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ComputerSaysNo said:
He said "$150-200/lb to grow" (after expenses), but that was wrong, because after expenses it's $0 to grow, since plants grow on their own...

Getting a pound of weed from clone to market (i.e. into a container, trimmed, dried and cured) is supposed to cost $200? Even after expenses (which probably means rent, electricity, water and fertilizer)?

Surely possible.
In Bangladesh.
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Are you the guy who grows single autos on his balcony?
 
The Hippy

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J232 said:
Are you the guy who grows single autos on his balcony?
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He probably uses the Grobo......what a fucking joke that piece of junk is. You can grow the worlds most expensive lowest end weed that any moron or teenager could grow by complete mistake.
https://www.grobo.io/
Boat anchor anyone. I know the asshole that owns and bilks folks for this water cooler shell. No conscience at all on selling that junk.
Check out this bowl of straw/hay you can grow hundreds and hundreds per ounce.
 
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ComputerSaysNo

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AquaTerra said:
I know nothing of the weed market outside of Canada
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You said specifically: "in their neck of the woods weed is still $2000/lb"; to which I reacted. If you "know nothing" about the weed market outside of Canada, then stop throwing around numbers willy-nilly.

AquaTerra said:
$40 to trim each light
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For the record: you said 2lb per light.

You do not get 2 lb trimmed for $40 (or has slavery been reinstituted over there?).
Plus there is more work needed past trimming, i.e. handling the product and bagging it, moving in/out of storage etc.

These are completely unrealistic numbers you are presenting.
 
raggyb

raggyb

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you're welcome to it. the trimmer is on the balcony so please be careful not to drop it. does weed in canada have negative value???
 
subwax

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subwax said:
This topic interests me a lot - its kind of a window into the future, to gauge how it would be if the UK legalised weed (which is a LONG way away).As aa result of me being in the UK, please forgive my ignorance.

So are you suggesting that things have got worse since legalisation? If so, how?
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Have lost interest in this thread - all the bickering and nastiness really isn't necessary, is it? If this is what happens when weed is legalised, I'll stick to how we have it now.
 
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