MILLION DOLLAR GROW?

[Joe A. Grower]

Pops is right. You can make yourself a "pot millionaire" if you are willing to utterly devote about 4 or 5 years of you life to the endeavor. Hardly anyone does it, though, cause most motherfuckers don't have the brains or the balls to grow on that kind of scale. Your average "commercial" grower is some stoner who started growing in his closet, and then figures, "Fuck! I might as well buy a couple lights and go Big Time!" Then he spends the next few years living off his pot income, smoking out all the time with his pals, and never saves a dime until the day he gets popped. He pleads out, stops growing, spends a few years on probation, and at the end of it all has nothing to show for everthing he's been through.

If you want grow for cash, grow BIG or go home. A house with a 10K setup is your STARTING point. You probably need a two or three of these ops to be able to pull it off in a reasonable time. Don't think for a second it will be easy. With multiple ops going you'll work your ass off, especially around harvest time. And you won't be getting to live that flashy "drug dealer lifestyle" unless you want to do time. You'll be socking that dough away and living like Average Joe until the day you pull the plug and walk away.

Getting rich off of pot takes as much ambition, work, and time as getting a college degree. Most people who are actually capable of doing it go and get the degree instead and make their way through life the LEGAL way.

 

[Guest]

You are looking at about 250#'s... on a good day average of 1.25#/light which is average, to just below average it would take you approximately 200 lights and somewhere between 1600 and 7200 plants depending on medium or sog plants to get what you are trying to achieve, not to mention the initial investment of roughly 2500.00/light for nutes, setup, mort/rent, etc.

 

[Pepe Le Peeyoo]

multiple houses and a til death do you part crew. can net 50G's a week. the organized guys who support the usa's needs on the street, use this Tek. apparently it works. But you must sell your soul. I turned down that opportunity years ago when a job was offered. Now I am still poor, but alive.... la vida loca is not for me. PEACE Tmon

 

[BigToke]

if your asking this question... you shoudlnt be growin.

....I very much agree with this saying!!!

 

[Verite]

Thats the thing about grow-dreams on paper, they always work out when everyone thinks the whole equation lumps down to some math equation. I have also never seen one person take their paper dream to reality.

Seeing how it wouldnt be possible for one person to man and harvest a million dollar grow just how long do you think you can keep all those extra people quiet? Whats the sense on trying to go that big when the odds you get busted increase by a million?

and jeebs? kudos for diggin this post outta a year old grave.

 

[TGT]

i know someone who has only six thousand watts and pulls off six pounds every month and a half and does this out of his basement> if you work out the money at two thousand dollars a pound thats twelve thousand dollars every month and a half> this IS possible< but a million dollar grow _ i don"t think so> it is just not possible without getting caught> with smaller gorws you can pull off a million in like ten years< but thats ten years! my advice is dont look look at such large grows as even being possible>

sorry for the weird characters and lowercase< i spilled coffee on my keys!

tgt

 

[Pythagllio]

Move that grow to New York City and you'll change that number to 5k/lb 30k per month that's less than 5 years to a million $. Oh yeah, US$ too.

A million bucks just isn't what it used to be. Just a meager income of 50k per year will add up to a $million after 20 years. Sheesh, not even a problem making that just working a legal job.

Anyway, lots of huge grows in the news nowadays. Pot St Lucie, 18 carrot farms, an apartment house in Canada can't recall exactly where but very recent, cave in KY, the edibles factory in CA, remember the Molson brewery with 20k plants? Yeah, they were all busted but the people who aren't getting busted don't let people know.

There is no basis for saying it can't be done. I have very little, if any, respect for people who trash people for asking questions. Put very simply just the nattering nabobs of negatism. I know that wasn't you tgt.

 

[Rosy Cheeks]

Um, in front of the White House, there's this big lawn. If you sneak in there and sow the whole field with you know what, and make it grow, I'll give you a million $.

 

[TGT]

I didn't mean to make it sound as though it was impossible because I know it is not - and it has been done, but it is very hard to do without great risk. I would be much more comfortable doing a few smaller grows over say a three year period to reach the million mark. I just would hate to make someone underestimate the shear size of an operation like that.

The way I figure it, if you want to make this your career and are smart about it, it can be done. But like I sayed, you probably won't have time for much else and this will be a career choice.

Oh how I wish I wasn't lazy and could get off my ass. It seems the smoking holds me back from doing most the idea's I have - but probably that is a good thing. I should switch from couch lock indica to a nice uplifting sativa. Then I would be mr. motivation lol.

TGT

 

[macster]

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[Guest]

Here in the Northeast you can expect to get about $3,500 a pound of good fresh bud. Lets say a safe amount to harvest every month would be about 12 pounds. You could pull this off with a 5000 or 6000 watts setup. Lets also say 1/2 of the income from each pound goes back into the grow itself. So you are left to pocket $1,750 from each pound with 12 pounds that is $21,000/month. To make this easier you are a miser and horde all your money and hardly ever spend any out of the money made from the grow. In about 48 months you will hit your 1 million mark and will probably still be free and undetected if you do everything correctly. Also this will require juggling of energy consumption. Also like Pops said start collecting for your get out of jail free card b/c theres a good chance you may need it.

 

[kryptonchron]

A large grow op is not a simple one or two variable problem. This is a system of dynamic and dependent linear equations. We study such things at school. It is similar to a diverse ecosystem. Every little thing that is done changes the outcome and effect of the values of your many other variables. In other words...too complex to even attempt to caculate on paper. This type of problem is the type that you spend half a semester at school working on the solution and still don't get it quite right. I say quit wasting time dreaming, and just try growing because you love to. Isn't that why you plant plants in the first place. For the love of the plant, not the money. If it is money you seek, then go back to school and be a lawyer. Then whenever you hear of someone betting busted for a million dollar grow op you can get your cut of there business that failed. That is your safest bet.

 

[kryptonchron]

How are you guys getting so much for herbals. Around here a guy with connects can score ounces for $165-$180. If it is legitimately the kind, then you are looking at $220-$240. I guess the market is over run with good herb in the NW.

 

[AYA]

I'm sure it can be done but i'd like to insist on two points which havent been fully appreciated :


-outdoor herbs are worth much less than indoor ones, at least here in europe.You have to manage the males issue, not to mention pests etc.Of course you can use clones but they'll be weaker than seedlings and more importantly hard to bring in I reallly can't see how you can grow quality sensimillia outdoors from seeds...Then again i've never grown much outside so i'm no expert.Maybe if you have a big budget you can buy "femaled" seeds...


-its nice having a million's worth of weed but as someone said how do you insure you get to sell it quickly and in max 2-3 transactions in order to reduce as much as possible your exposure? I'm sure many, if not most, people in the black market especially in the wild wild west USA will kill for a million dollar.
Frankly i hate working and have already thought about similar ops ; with a partner we were aiming for 300 00€ each in order to end our dependancy to The Man but for now we do not have the connections nor the shotguns required to enter these perilous business spheres...

m2ec..

 

[its kurmit]

if u need a million that bad all u need is 50 kilos of coke and a columbian friend

 

[kryptonchron]

Growing coca plants??? Interesing. I bet you could make a kick ass cup of tea.

 

[Guest]

Or die.

 

[Guest]

Anyone see that article in Cannabis Culture earlier this summer that had an article called "How to grow a TON" gave some hypothetical calulations for what it would take to pull it off (ie space, materials, time, money, manpower, etc.) kinda cool. They also had a two part article (might be same issue or one right after/before) about a guy that lived in the Aussie "bush" for a couple years growing huge guerrila plots (couple K+) SOLO. he was builiding make shift cabins, drying rooms, storage, irrigation etc. This guy was a beast to all this by himself (he was supplied by his father from the "outside"). Really interesting atrticles. highst

 

[Verite]

Theres another problem with the dreaming lot. They seem to focus on what it would take to grow a million bucks of weed and tend to be just as clueless on what it would take to turn the weed to cash.

 

[Guest]

Theres another problem with the dreaming lot. They seem to focus on what it would take to grow a million bucks of weed and tend to be just as clueless on what it would take to turn the weed to cash.

I can appreciate dreamers more than I can haters.

If they are SOO dumb like you say let them get caught. Its dreamers that got us Medical Marijuana in 11 states. maybe if more people that just say fuck it and go big, we will help turn the tides. If it weren't if for people going big and dreaming, then I am sure there would be a lot of people smoking NOTHING, bc no one would be there to supply it. So take it easy on the blancket statements...and getting money for your crop isn't as hard as you think (at least in Cali), it takes some balls and planning. peace highst