Dispensary weed in Ma is so cheap, is it worth growing anymore?

Beard-o

Beard-o

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A dispensary 10 miles from my home is selling beautiful dried, high THC buds for $45-70 an oz.

I guess my question is, is it worth growing at this price? I'm just getting ready to begin a new grow, and I easily dropped $250 on incidentals in preparation. That's not even including my elec bill.
I normally grow more than I could possibly smoke. Barter and give away the rest. My entire neighborhood reeks of fresh cannabis in the summer because everyone is growing. I wonder how long it will be before this stuff has the value of overripe tomatoes in August.
 
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formularacer

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Which part of Mass?
My opinion is the drop in price is good.
Growing it is not easy, the rewards come in both cost saving and the satisfaction of creating a good product.
I think the independent niche grower will turn out product the quantity based commercial guy can't.
Every one I have shared my first grow with were very impressed. Now the challenge is to best that.

When I found a few wood chips in the buds I know for next year to separate the lady bugs from the wood chips before I toss them on the plant.
 
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Delps8

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Beard-o said:
A dispensary 10 miles from my home is selling beautiful dried, high THC buds for $45-70 an oz.

I guess my question is, is it worth growing at this price? I'm just getting ready to begin a new grow, and I easily dropped $250 on incidentals in preparation. That's not even including my elec bill.
I normally grow more than I could possibly smoke. Barter and give away the rest. My entire neighborhood reeks of fresh cannabis in the summer because everyone is growing. I wonder how long it will be before this stuff has the value of overripe tomatoes in August.
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Add a zero for a primo ounce here in Southern California. Back in 2017, I was going through an ounce a month (it was $350± then) and it just made sense to grow my own.

At $50 per ounce, it's a very different cost picture. Sure, if you grow your own, you know what you're getting and you can pick your strain. I'm not that noble, I'll admit, I just want to get stoned.
 
Billy the Mountain

Billy the Mountain

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Delps8 said:
Add a zero for a primo ounce here in Southern California. Back in 2017, I was going through an ounce a month (it was $350± then) and it just made sense to grow my own.

At $50 per ounce, it's a very different cost picture. Sure, if you grow your own, you know what you're getting and you can pick your strain. I'm not that noble, I'll admit, I just want to get stoned.
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$50 ounces would definitely change the growing calculus.
Still >$240/oz near me so I have no plans to turn the lights off, but @ $50/oz I'd give it some serious consideration.
 
Beard-o

Beard-o

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formularacer said:
Which part of Mass?
My opinion is the drop in price is good.
Growing it is not easy, the rewards come in both cost saving and the satisfaction of creating a good product.
I think the independent niche grower will turn out product the quantity based commercial guy can't.
Every one I have shared my first grow with were very impressed. Now the challenge is to best that.

When I found a few wood chips in the buds I know for next year to separate the lady bugs from the wood chips before I toss them on the plant.
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Cape Cod. The line is out the door of the dispensary.

I spend a lot of time and money to get things right on each grow. New strains, upgraded my HID lights, using new soil. I do the same in the summer with my tomatoes. Each summer we grow around 50 plants. Many different strains, all started from seeds in my tent and transferred outdoors when the weather allows. All in 10 gallon soft pots. People love my tomatoes.

But I sort of had my feelings hurt the other day. Someone I've given some great weed to over the years ( and I've enjoyed giving it to him)tells me he can buy dispensary weed for around $50 an ounce. Says "this is great, I can buy it there now".
My first thought was 'see if you ever get anymore free bud from.me pal'.

I wonder if there's so much weed around they created a glut, or is this dispensary simply being predatory in their pricing? Trying to drive completion out.
 
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SB85

SB85

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Beard-o said:
Cape Cod. The line is out the door of the dispensary.

I spend a lot of time and money to get things right on each grow. New strains, upgraded my HID lights, using new soil. I do the same in the summer with my tomatoes. Each summer we grow around 50 plants. Many different strains, all started from seeds in my tent and transferred outdoors when the weather allows. All in 10 gallon soft pots. People love my tomatoes.

But I sort of had my feelings hurt the other day. Someone I've given some great weed to over the years ( and I've enjoyed giving it to him)tells me he can buy dispensary weed for around $50 an ounce. Says "this is great, I can buy it there now".
My first thought was 'see if you ever get anymore free bud from.me pal'.

I wonder if there's so much weed around they created a glut, or is this dispensary simply being predatory in their pricing? Trying to drive completion out.
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I am sure that there are plenty that appreciate the high quality/selection of weed which is grown by you.
 
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VaSmile

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Depending on your power cost in should cost you about $1/g to produce indoor homegrown (let's talk when dispensary bud is $20/oz)
If you enjoy gardening the process has value beyond the product. If you don't the process can be automated.

Commercial weeds is gonna be grown using carcinogenic pesticides

I am not a skilled cultivator but my weed is still preferred to most dispensary buds.

From a purely economic standpoint it is not worth it if you place any value on your time. If you enjoy and take value in the process then you will save some money and smoke a lot more weed but not enough to be a major change in your personal economic outlook.

Even at $20/oz a oz/wk is still 1k/year If you got good soil and can do outdoors why would you not save yourself a k just by turning your hose on every few days
 
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formularacer

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Beard-o said:
Cape Cod. The line is out the door of the dispensary.

I spend a lot of time and money to get things right on each grow. New strains, upgraded my HID lights, using new soil. I do the same in the summer with my tomatoes. Each summer we grow around 50 plants. Many different strains, all started from seeds in my tent and transferred outdoors when the weather allows. All in 10 gallon soft pots. People love my tomatoes.

But I sort of had my feelings hurt the other day. Someone I've given some great weed to over the years ( and I've enjoyed giving it to him)tells me he can buy dispensary weed for around $50 an ounce. Says "this is great, I can buy it there now".
My first thought was 'see if you ever get anymore free bud from.me pal'.

I wonder if there's so much weed around they created a glut, or is this dispensary simply being predatory in their pricing? Trying to drive completion out.
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I grow really great scallions the store bought ones don't compare. And here they will overwinter if not too brutal.

Many people are stupid and just don't think when they open their mouths.

I have had several people want to buy from me, I will not sell it would just suck the enjoyment right out of it. I like to either give it away or trade.

It is possible there is a over supply of it and commercial growers have sell by dates. I know the growers in NY are moaning they have so much product that will go bad if not sold. There just are not enough legal establishments to sell the amount harvested so maybe the same condition exists in Mass. I think the prices in the Quincy dispensary I visited was 45 for a 1/4.

I try to go to Hell I mean Hull regularly.
 
thumper60

thumper60

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Beard-o said:
A dispensary 10 miles from my home is selling beautiful dried, high THC buds for $45-70 an oz.

I guess my question is, is it worth growing at this price? I'm just getting ready to begin a new grow, and I easily dropped $250 on incidentals in preparation. That's not even including my elec bill.
I normally grow more than I could possibly smoke. Barter and give away the rest. My entire neighborhood reeks of fresh cannabis in the summer because everyone is growing. I wonder how long it will be before this stuff has the value of overripe tomatoes in August.
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I find it very hard to believe ozs on cape cod are 45-75 oz still running120-220 in my flooded legal state with a shop every 5 miles. If its true i would say that shop is selling off stock to close the doors.
 
Charles U Farley

Charles U Farley

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Beard-o said:
A dispensary 10 miles from my home is selling beautiful dried, high THC buds for $45-70 an oz.

I guess my question is, is it worth growing at this price? I'm just getting ready to begin a new grow, and I easily dropped $250 on incidentals in preparation. That's not even including my elec bill.
I normally grow more than I could possibly smoke. Barter and give away the rest. My entire neighborhood reeks of fresh cannabis in the summer because everyone is growing. I wonder how long it will be before this stuff has the value of overripe tomatoes in August.
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OMFG, $45 an oz for high quality cannabis? I've been totally self-sufficient on cannabis for over 40 years but if I could buy for 45 bucks an ounce, I'm not sure I wouldn't just chuck all this shit, kick back, relax, enjoy being high on the cheap ass buds and not having to work my ass off. :cool:
 
SB85

SB85

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Charles U Farley said:
OMFG, $45 an oz for high quality cannabis? I've been totally self-sufficient on cannabis for over 40 years but if I could buy for 45 bucks an ounce, I'm not sure I wouldn't just chuck all this shit, kick back, relax, enjoy being high on the cheap ass buds and not having to work my ass off. :cool:
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I doubt It's going to be actual craft/small batch. It's most likely commercial/mass produced stuff.
 
Charles U Farley

Charles U Farley

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SB85 said:
I doubt It's going to be actual craft/small batch. It's most likely commercial/mass produced stuff.
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I'm exceedingly familiar with small batch cannabis, because of my development of SouthEast Lights for the past 25 years. But 45 dollars an ounce, for high THC content cannabis (and I'm familiar with manipulation of those numbers, but I'll bet you in Massachusetts they're pretty close), is a fucking deal I just couldn't pass up.
 
cannabiscrusader

cannabiscrusader

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Charles U Farley said:
I'm exceedingly familiar with small batch cannabis, because of my development of SouthEast Lights for the past 25 years. But 45 dollars an ounce, for high THC content cannabis (and I'm familiar with manipulation of those numbers, but I'll bet you in Massachusetts they're pretty close), is a fucking deal I just couldn't pass up.
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There's no way you found good weed in mass. There is none, I've looked
 
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