Compound HQ's Grows

Kgrim said:

I think you'll like not having 90 plants to water!!!!!!!
Looking good!!!!!!!
Chop, twist, bend and tuck, I think you'll do good this run.
Test results on the Lemon Cane must have came back pretty good if your gonna run it again.
Have you tried any of it yet?????

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Yessir!, gonna tuck, weave, tie back, super crop, etc. it will be nice to feed less plants… I don’t mind training, it not so monotonous, and is like moving chess pieces, you gotta think before you move. Lemon Cane labs are not back yet, but the nose on this is pretty amazing. Paige loves it as a sativa dominant, so we’re running that cloned mother #10 from the last run. She also wants a personal plant or 2. So I’m gonna clone these for some outdoor for her. Bittersweet Haze was a low yielder, but it’s good for me. I love it. I’m a little THC sensitive unless the terps are there, but it’s not good for business. It was our lowest at 116g per plant. They grew very short, and squatty. Lemon Cane came in at 211g per., and Dosi right at 1/2 pound per.

All tagged up for METRC. Paige says she thinks she will like the new reporting system.

Did you ever get labs back. Just curious as to what your terps and thc% was. By the way you should have less work this round. I do think it will pay off with longer veg time. Best of luck brother and happy Growing.

Skillcraft said:

Did you ever get labs back. Just curious as to what your terps and thc% was. By the way you should have less work this round. I do think it will pay off with longer veg time. Best of luck brother and happy Growing.

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This is where we had to hold off on sending labs out. The METRC law was just announced not long ago, and it reads like this. IF you test product now, you MUST sell all of your inventory by May 26. If the deadline comes, and you still have product, you have to RE-TEST everything you have left. So, we just got everything in the METRC system as of today, and can now test as "METRC Compliant", and will only have to do labs once. And yes!, Im trying to play it smart with a longer veg, and more training.... Sounds like less work in theory, but I guess we'll see! That momma Dosi was vegged for like 3 1/2 months, and I just flipped her on the 9th. She's got a 4x6 ft canopy right now, and stretching.

DoubleAtotheRON said:

This is where we had to hold off on sending labs out. The METRC law was just announced not long ago, and it reads like this. IF you test product now, you MUST sell all of your inventory by May 26. If the deadline comes, and you still have product, you have to RE-TEST everything you have left. So, we just got everything in the METRC system as of today, and can now test as "METRC Compliant", and will only have to do labs once. And yes!, Im trying to play it smart with a longer veg, and more training.... Sounds like less work in theory, but I guess we'll see!

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Sounds like some BS to me. Glad I do not have to deal with it all. I grow enough for me and mine and stay within the laws. Although I do not agree with the 8 oz part. I am allowed 6 in veg and 6 in flower but can only have 8 oz. Glad me and wifey both have a card because if not I would be over limit all the time.

Skillcraft said:

Sounds like some BS to me. Glad I do not have to deal with it all. I grow enough for me and mine and stay within the laws. Although I do not agree with the 8 oz part. I am allowed 6 in veg and 6 in flower but can only have 8 oz. Glad me and wifey both have a card because if not I would be over limit all the time.

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Well, the good news is, they're not gonna come knock on your door to see if you have 80 or 800oz as a patient. They just don't do that. Hell, they just now got around to inspecting us about a month and a half ago, and we've been open since Sept. of 2018.

If rec is passed here how do you see it affecting the ma and pa growers? Do you think rec would be good or bad for our state?

Hard to say. It could create higher demand, or things could shift more to the BM. Possession isn't even a felony anymore, even if you don't have a card. You just gotta give a medical reason you have it. You might get a misdemeanor ticket and a $400 fine, or just get sent on your way. They really don't even look for weed anymore. It's a lost battle.

I just worry that the market will tank and force all the small grows out and then we will have only the corporations left. If that happens I think the quality will start to go to shit. I don't go to dispensary for medicine but I know many who do and they are already saying the quality is down.

Skillcraft said:

I just worry that the market will tank and force all the small grows out and then we will have only the corporations left. If that happens I think the quality will start to go to shit. I don't go to dispensary for medicine but I know many who do and they are already saying the quality is down.

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Yeah, a lot of growers don't even cure thier product. As soon as it's dry enough to test (max 15% moisture content), then they put it on the market. Quality has been down. I think this is because of the crashing market. If we were getting what we did for a .lb a couple of years back, I'd prob do a better job on the finish handwork (trimming). But because they want to pay peanuts for your hard work, some have taken shortcuts, and the product will always suffer when you do that. We're trying to stay true and sell our stuff like we always have, but damn!.. it's tough out there man.

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Yeah, a lot of growers don't even cure thier product. As soon as it's dry enough to test (max 15% moisture content), then they put it on the market. Quality has been down. I think this is because of the crashing market. If we were getting what we did for a .lb a couple of years back, I'd prob do a better job on the finish handwork (trimming). But because they want to pay peanuts for your hard work, some have taken shortcuts, and the product will always suffer when you do that. We're trying to stay true and sell our stuff like we always have, but damn!.. it's tough out there man.

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I wish you luck my friend. I believe you do things the right way and that will pay off in the end. Quality always beats out quantity in my opinion.

Dang! I haven't been getting alerts on this thread even though I'm following. I hope you get some huge productive scrog monsters!

Skillcraft said:

I wish you luck my friend. I believe you do things the right way and that will pay off in the end. Quality always beats out quantity in my opinion.

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We're gonna hang in there to see if this market self levels through 2023, then evaluate if we want to continue, or hang it up. I heard someone say the other day that a grower was in a Dispensary selling lbs of indoor for $325. He's either dumping inventory before METRC comes online and he's getting out, or he's panic selling shit that he's been sitting on since last year.

If you're a good indoor grower, your "cost to produce" a lb should be around $400.. and that's not including MY labor over 4 and a half months. That's for electricity, nutes, soil, harvest labor, nickel and dime stuff like sticky traps, tags, tape, paper, ink, labels, packaging, etc.

Tracker said:

Dang! I haven't been getting alerts on this thread even though I'm following. I hope you get some huge productive scrog monsters!

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Working on it brother! I can assure you that even with less plants, Im gonna have that net covered from front to back on every tray!

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We're gonna hang in there to see if this market self levels through 2023, then evaluate if we want to continue, or hang it up. I heard someone say the other day that a grower was in a Dispensary selling lbs of indoor for $325. He's either dumping inventory before METRC comes online and he's getting out, or he's panic selling shit that he's been sitting on since last year.

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I've been having people pitch me Ps of pretty good looking indoor for 850.

Tracker said:

I've been having people pitch me Ps of pretty good looking indoor for 850.

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Yeah, that seems to be the going rate at the moment…
Here’s that Dosi in my 4x8. Solo cup for reference.

Happy 420 from us at The Compound!

Got the net set up today. Growing in Sunshine #4 this time. That stuff seems to take forever to dry, but also seems to take alot of feed/water to get to the bottom. I haven't even had any runoff yet. But next feeding, I'll make sure I see some. This was a couple of min. before lights out, so they look a little droopy.




And Momma Dosi in week 2 of flower. She's gotten huge. bout a pound? She's 4x6ft canopy, and drinks like clockwork every 24 hours in C25 soil, 2 Growers Choice ROI 420's at full blast.

I feel bad that they have now dumped the METRC system on you. Some don't mind it, others absolutely hate it.
Hang in there my friend, swings in the market are like stocks, up and down, it's those like you that hold on thru the down times that make it thru. We had to thin the herd out, got rid of 10 employees, and our road crews are down from 85 people to 10. We are just starting to feel the effect of the "virus" we had stuff on the books that got us thru, but there hasn't been a lot of work out for bid. The one thing that's kept us going is our Service channel, all the rioting that happened, destroyed a whole lot of storefronts, and we are still replacing glass and doors. Hell, we opened up the new Chanel store at Hudson Yards mall in New York, Feb 15th, 1 week later, they mobbed and destroyed pretty much the entire storefront to the tune of $1.2 million to fix it.
Keep trudgin, in the end, its guys like you who will come out weathering the storm.