I just grow more bud to offset the cost of crazy high power. It sucks, but what do you do? It's still lucrative as hell.
If you can't keep up with the times, it's time to quite growing. Some people just straight up suck at growing. Those are the ones that should quit.
it is also about making sure all your hard work does not go down a drain ..........any hydro set up need a back up power system or a primary that can not fail (that is a genny run of propain or wnid/solar bank of batteries )
u want to put a good product out at a good price .........if u can lower your over all cost and still maintain the qauitly of the smoke u can lower the prices u put out keeping the same profit marge but also getting sales word of mouth about your store compare to others
i worked out a plant in my system is 90 bucks total in power feed soil seed ......hydro is it like 55 bucks
so on the sale of the first OZ the plant makes i have already gotten everything i invested into the plant rest is sheer profit
i sell the oz a 3 times the cost of the plant
1 to recover what spent
2 to double up for nexted round
3 for my time and effort
i am undercutting everyone in this area asking 250/300 a oz hell that is what the stores are getting it for 280 when i was in denver for res of state to buy 1 whole oz of GSC