1 veg tent, a 4x4x6'3 laying on it's side we have 3 400 watt 2 hoods and 1 reflector.
Got ya!!
If you sell in any manner, legal or no, labor has to factor in there somewhere. So at $40/hr, over a 60 day period (if I do a 60 day strain) an oz costs me $128 and change in labor alone. Before I get blasted for being a financial rapist, I came up with that $40/hr figure as that is $20 less than I bill my time out at the shop. In this economy, it's a wage that will allow you to live decently. How many of you want to live in bare subsistence? So......to make a PROFIT, you at least double your costs (Many retailers triple costs), which will put the rock bottom price of an ounce of my bud at $280.
Wow thats a lot of light!! I will assume you feel it makes a huge increase in your yields? And thats the main reason you do?
If I were to ever decide and make this a business, I already settled on $300/oz b/c that's what the market dictates in this area. People around here are doubling their $$ re-selling commercial hermaphrodites without even knowing what they are. So I would feel no shame in charging top dollar for my hard work. If this were ever to become a medical state(which it almost did earlier in the year), that would probably change if I could sell direct legally to patients. If I was limited to supplying dispensaries, then I would visit them all and sell to the highest bidder. Speaking of which, I just read a proposed dispensary bill in the state of Indiana. Only it says nothing about how these dispensaries are to be supplied. Who sets their prices?, and should growers not be getting together to control the market?.
All those numbers I threw out there were on the low side. If I factor in the time and gas spent just on running around collecting Rabbit Poo (4 rabbit breeders in a 100 mi radius), making bio-char, collecting eggshell and coffee grounds from 2 restaurants, out-dated (brown) produce from the grocery store, L'il Wayne wouldn't pay my price!! Thats where my LOVE and passion for this come in. I don't mind to do that, as I feel it gives me a superior product and actually makes life easier in the garden. But since I am not in a legal state, I get what I can for an O, and I get twice what you get!! It took a while to cultivate that discriminating clientèle, but it's there now. People can either pay my price...or not. I could care less. It all goes, either way, and usually by the QP!
Kind bud, I almost never hear that term anymore. My area is flooded with commercial, some good and some crap...almost all comes directly from Mexico. The going rate for quality commercial is half the price of your market. Hydro grown kush runs around 300, so yeah I could probably go up to 350 maybe even 400. It would depend on the strain. I've had re-sellers(lol)asking me for skunk b/c there is zero sativa on the market. Those are ones that are my age, and grew up on it. I'm growing it, for me only currently though. The younger generation here thinks herijuana is laced with narcotics, based upon simply hearing the word.
Then Sats are what you grow if there is a market for it. Obviously yuou cant sell it for what Kush goes for due to the extended flowering times. That is ONE of the reasons I have the clientele, I have Sat dom hybrids. the most part, they don't like the couch-lock indicas. So I give em what they want.
More light equals more yield is pretty much a given. Whether it would be worth it to you, depends upon your personal goals.
I'm thinking that the extra 1K light is overkill, but I have a plethora of them, and it gives me a warm fuzzy. I doubt you'd see enough extra to warrant the extra light, but 2 sure do the job!! Next round I'm probably gonna try just 2 to see.
If I thought for a minute quality was suffering, I'd downsize in a heartbeat. Since this is a full time gig from now on, I believe I can add another table and 2 more lights.
