Who grows plants for a living?

[DimeBag65]

if you have some big green houses with tables set up, orchids are a very valuable flower that once you find where to get rid of your harvests of the flowers you could have a fun comfortable income, plus like they were saying mushrooms and truffles can be a nice little income as well.

 

[Tripco]

Taking care of plants? Well, that would be my dream job too. It's hard to find such job in my country these days, but you'll may be a better luck. Anyway, skip the museums and all other government/town salary places. Try to find some big corporation or private university (not the conservative one) garden where you could gain some serious money. They're usualy more open to new ideas. The best ones are computer/internet based companies with big money income. Executives do not understand the plants world and everything you say it's O.K. by them - you'll have total freeedom in decisions. I have a friend who works for such company and he said, whatever you want to plant, just order from nursery, and they'll pay for it. It's realy nickels and dimes for them.

 

[Guest]

Cool

 

[Guest]

Taking care of plants? Well, that would be my dream job too. It's hard to find such job in my country these days, but you'll may be a better luck. Anyway, skip the museums and all other government/town salary places. Try to find some big corporation or private university (not the conservative one) garden where you could gain some serious money. They're usualy more open to new ideas. The best ones are computer/internet based companies with big money income. Executives do not understand the plants world and everything you say it's O.K. by them - you'll have total freeedom in decisions. I have a friend who works for such company and he said, whatever you want to plant, just order from nursery, and they'll pay for it. It's realy nickels and dimes for them.

And when they announce that your job is going to end, get them a Stapelia grandiflora as byebye gift. But only if it was a crappy job, those smell like rotting flesh when in flower.

Just did a job selection test and it said what I've been thinking/feeling, environmental inspector or gardener. The school where I'm trying to get into has basics for both.

 

[the protege]

If you decide to do something yourself, market yourself etc, make sure to have enough start-up money and get in with the local farmer's market. Even if you decide to do a few different things such as niche farming, hydroponic strawberry U-picks, and truffles, you will need multiple avenues of making yourself known. If you google search strawberry U-picks, you will see how good some of those businesses are doing. You can fit so much on a 1/2 acre and people don't have to break their backs to get the fruit. Anyway, do your research if you are serious, do many google searches for any subject you can think of that has to do with making a living in gardening. Good luck

 

[Guest]

I have a nursery =]

 

[tekeenator]

Try some of these varieties and just try to imagine which types of fruit will sell very well in a farmers market you get access to.


While the yields on these may not seem huge they could add up quickly and be a decent boon for any locals who enjoy the local market.

http://www.acornsprings.com/index.php?mod=product&id_prd=166&id_ctg=70

 

[Pops]

You might want to go to work at the research center at U. of Miss., where they grow the legal government pot. God knows they need help with that stemmy, seedy 6%THC shit that they grow. Can you imagine introducing some G-13 or White Russian or Blockhead? No one would want that watered-down gov't shit ever again.

 

[tekeenator]

Now that you put it like that pops lets get an international goodwill mission set up and send a small team of growers to Mexico and that entire region with quality genetics.

If anyone here has ever smoked your average mexican brick weed or whatever the vast majority of it is worthless dog shit.

Teach those poor bastards how to grow quality cannabis and they can really command portions of the US cannabis market in style.

 

[The Uncola]

I don't make a living growing plants. The cannabis crop I've grown has only been finishing 2 females at the same time max. (Enough for me)

I am currently growing ~Seven hot peppers of various varieties I got from Pepper Joes
including Pueblo Hot, Golden Habanero , Chicken Heart, Barney, etc. Next month is tomato starting time. I am going to plant Roma tomatoes soon. Around here, the beginning of June is the start of the truly safe outdoor season. (Denver)

 

[arpnuke]

U-Pick cannabis. Now that's thinking outside the box.

 

[J0sh1]

Heya all

I grow plants for living and earn enough to support myself.

Now I can't sit here and write bullshit to you all about what a lavish lifestyle I live in terms of MATERIAL things but what I don't waste on material stuff I spend on stuff like traveling, hobbies (ej. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, skydiving, windsurfing, rock climbing, carpentery proyects etc.)

Now thing I live a very simplistic life. I built my own cabin following design plans straight out of Mother Earth News, I don't have the hassle of utility bills cause I harvest energy from the sun/wind and have drilled an aquifer that runs underneath my property. In my house we follow a very strict diet and a lot of the stuff we eat is produced in land. I don't have problems with money because we have a savings account in which we deposit about 1/3 of the cash we always get paid. With what I have saved in the past 3 years I have calculated that if I wanted to break down my system and not have any income flowing I could live for at least 2 years without any money problems.

I live with my girlfriend and we are clear that we don't want to have children so the "children expense" is slashed.

Now if you want to live with all the "Modern Comodities" you would have to run a HUGE operation and have a HUGE ass list of clients is what I say. It takes quite a lot of cash first to buy land then to get an operation running so I would say that you could make a living handling plants but you have to very clear in the priorities you want in life.

But it can be done and you don't need a "Horticulture Degree" to do it either. Instead of taking 4 years of your life getting feed some pety B.S. for landscaping, start a small practice garden in your backyard and take it from there.

 

[med_breeder]

great read. I would love to deal veges and fruits.
First I need to produce all my own crops. With a ression looming, plant an extra row if you can.

 

[green_grow]

i just read a week or 2 ago in the business section of the local paper that there is a hops shortage going on . hops ... they are related to cannabis, no ?

 

[pseudostelariae]

i'm trying to start making my living by growing plants as well. my first step is putting all my cannabis into a small closet and turning an entire bedroom into a legitimate hydroponic vegetable operation, though i will work a few soil crops. it's all about having the land to work with. greenhouse production and bee keeping are what i hope to accomplish.

 

[zeloszero]

i just grow personal, too risky for my blood.

I am all for the market tho. Good luck!