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.
******If anything I count the time spent in the grow room as money saved....otherwise I'd be out in a bar or snowmobiling or riding my Harley, etc, etc....going in the grow room is better then going to the movies with the ole' lady IMO.
Sorry dude you don't get to bill out like you do in your shop. If you were paid the highest listed wage for a hydroponic master grower running a 2 Million sq ft green house in MI you would get 18.75 per hour. Gardening even for cannabis is not anything at all like tool room work. 40 bucks an hour is living large in any book. hell its a damn good living in Hawaii were the cost of living is 3 times higher than MI. Second problem with your greedy formula the average profit for the manufacture of a product in Mi is 28.3% Its greed like this which is why MI wants to crack down on all of us.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.
******If anything I count the time spent in the grow room as money saved....otherwise I'd be out in a bar or snowmobiling or riding my Harley, etc, etc....going in the grow room is better then going to the movies with the ole' lady IMO.
Me either.. But I'm not sure how you could do 80 cents an ounce..i am back up to 80+ cents per ounce, not the start i am looking for in 2012