Ok, after quick calculations here goes...for the sake of argument we're going by roughly a 3x3 space..with a 600 (i don't use 1k's anyways, and you'll see why)
600w light
28 1 gallon grow bags fit under perfectly
Organic Dirt for bag appeal or Coco for bigger yield...really dealers choice as $$ balances out overall
2 moms per strain you're growing for cloning...its a no brainer but you want the fastest cloners...if it takes longer than 7days to start spitting roots, you need a different plant
lolly popped Sog is where its at....if you're the guy that only sells chunks/tops...well you already know what happens there and its super easy to trim(time is money)
if it can't be chopped at 60 or less...and since its 2016 and anyone can get clones now find the fastest finishing fastest cloning and you're in there..you ain't got time to be wasting space, money and energy on vegging some plants....12/12 soon as roots start....again time is money after all! if you can get the Giesel cut or any Chem cut it would work quite lucratively to your advantage..
that's the obvious stuff....to get wealth its all about marketing and strain selection, so that means no saying "Its a great daytime strain" that translates to "weak ass herb"
once you got it down and have a good strain you should be pulling an easy 16o's a chop....I've never hit 2 elbows before, most I've gotten is 30 off of Bubblegum from back in the day...
now you're thinking...well that's about a 90 day total turn around time....I'll run out of product to sell and smoke....it can be figured at about 1500 a month roughly...doing retail not wholesale...well hey 1500 a month is my house and or car payments....AND I still have a job and get to save most of my money....with overhead costs of mediums/ferts/grow bags/electricity...its about 150 bucks a month to get that 1500....not a bad return....BUT its very labor intensive and if you are a solo show you can only do 10 of them...if you're doing coco and hand watering (i hope you wouldn't be) that could be 280 plants a day to water...fuck that noise....BUT that 1500 a month turns into a lot...chopping every 9ish days isn't a bad thing....now...you're also saying...well those are federal numbers you're messing with now....and I agree that's bad news....soooo...i evolved into 9 3 gallons (still single cola only plants, but they turn into pretty big donkey dicks) you of course can run whatever #'s you'd like that's up to you...
all I'm saying is that I've tried EVERY way known to man to grow, and for a smaller scale or starting out that is always my recommendation....you won't pull a hundred pounds a week or anything but you can throw 1 elbow a week
@Say 300 an onion x 16 and that's nearly 5k a week...no terrible money at all..i heard its very easy to hide little money like that