Is selling really that profitable?

BleedsGreen

Well-Known Member
In terms of gowing then selling

.. a $50 order from tude gives me 10 seeds. Whixh last me a entire calendar year. each seed gives me a qp. Growing cost me an extra $22 a month in supplies and pseg and I grow 9 months out the year... thats a total $279 ($300 with shipping) for running cost for the year

Now... on to the selling and money making.. I have 12 people I provide a service for... thats right... only 12... with these people I sell a oz a week.. making a average of $400 - $480 per ounce... and I faithfully sell a ounce a week.. sometimes I get other random buys and can sell two or three ounces a week.. but I wont count those..

400 x 48 (just saying that there are four weeks in a year I dont sell anything.. christmas. My vacation week and random loses.. I make 19k a year with the most modest of situations... remember I only have twelve constant clients.. imagine if I was more ambitious!!!

Im on theeast coast
If you want to be know from the east coast and not NJ you really should use general term power company or something besides PSE&G.
 

NoDrama

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I think $32,000 a year is possible with 2k watts once you get the hang of it and have a reliable and repeat customer base and you live in a sellers market.
In a buyers market? maybe $12k per year.
 

chocobear

Active Member
So I imagined up this guy totally out of the blue. He had a single 4x4 tent with a 600w hid set up in his bedroom for shiggles. Spent 6-800$ total on the set up, first harvest from it was 10 o's after 8 week flower and 2 week veg. He sold the o's for 200 a pop to some friends who were dealers. He could've sold them to regular customers for 300 a piece but it wasn't that great and he didn't really care about it after harvest or while growing it. So a half assed 600w set up with a .5 g per watt turn around made 2000 dollars lets even go so far as to imagine this person spent 1000$ on the setup, they didn't but they could've and would've gotten a lot more than .5 g per watt, especially if they put in any effort to top or prune. The imaginary person kind of just let them run free till cutting time. So that's an investment of 1000$ all inclusive, with a 2000$ payout. Doubled investment. So in imaginationland, lets call it the "North East" (of the US) for short, you can make quite a pretty penny.

NOTE THESE ARE COMPLETELY MADE UP FIGURES AND SITUATIONS AND ARE DEFINITELY NOT BASED OFF OF ANY REAL EXPERIENCES. I do not know anyone who had a 4x4 grow tent that pulled .5 g per watt for 10 o's at 200$ per o (typical North East pound price) and made a pretty penny with almost no effort. I most certainly do not advise anyone at all to try a small scale grow and see how much they can get out of it.
 

theexpress

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really the market is that flooded? Seasonally or what?
always flooded... everywere its legal.... Colorado. Washington... oregan..... cali... Michigan even..... its almost more worth it to set up a grow in a state w/o med laws were u can get 4k a p and up no problem and people are fighting over it... if u can deal with the consequences...
 

tiannunai

Member
this shit is amusing but do not for one second think that this removes legal liability. and do you do really think they will scout the forums for 4x4 tent growers, demand from RIU the ip logs and come to your house? if they did using swim wouldn't work
 

supchaka

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Without reading anyones posts or getting into details. In a state like Cali where its semi legal, I would have to grow with about 8k watts or more to supplement my income enough to equal my job.
 

GODWORK

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I swear I have said this shit a million goddamn times....if you are making 4500 a pound you are fucking yourself....$8900 is the ticket[HR][/HR] 20/g every second of the day...Urban landscape...I am the only one in the CITY with this smoke...I paid my dues by learning how to grow DANK! [HR][/HR] 4x4 fits 16 buckets....8 mothers trimmed in bonsai stylings, produce 2 clones each...16 clones....devotion is how you step up your GPW ratio. [HR][/HR] Leak 48 grams on your !st four units....& word WILL TRAVEL...your smoke will speak for its goddamn self. people you gave your number to a yr. ago will call you out of the blue...[HR][/HR] Scared money don't make money....SOME people are foul...they will kill you for anything precious....please respect the fact[HR][/HR] This shit Was, Is, & Forever Will Be....ECONOMICS!!!! High Demand...Limited Supply...Shortage...Fair Market Value...Game Over.
 

Sunbiz1

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always flooded... everywere its legal.... Colorado. Washington... oregan..... cali... Michigan even..... its almost more worth it to set up a grow in a state w/o med laws were u can get 4k a p and up no problem and people are fighting over it... if u can deal with the consequences...
No truer words have been spoken, every state legalizing has taken the profit...and incentive away from solid growers.
 

theexpress

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I swear I have said this shit a million goddamn times....if you are making 4500 a pound you are fucking yourself....$8900 is the ticket[HR][/HR] 20/g every second of the day...Urban landscape...I am the only one in the CITY with this smoke...I paid my dues by learning how to grow DANK! [HR][/HR] 4x4 fits 16 buckets....8 mothers trimmed in bonsai stylings, produce 2 clones each...16 clones....devotion is how you step up your GPW ratio. [HR][/HR] Leak 48 grams on your !st four units....& word WILL TRAVEL...your smoke will speak for its goddamn self. people you gave your number to a yr. ago will call you out of the blue...[HR][/HR] Scared money don't make money....SOME people are foul...they will kill you for anything precious....please respect the fact[HR][/HR] This shit Was, Is, & Forever Will Be....ECONOMICS!!!! High Demand...Limited Supply...Shortage...Fair Market Value...Game Over.
shit if u can make 8900 an elbow ill mail elbows all day for 4500...... get u some money orders :bigjoint:
 

spek9

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I sell only my medibles to a couple of close friends and a couple of medical patients. It's covered my startup expense, and all of my operating expenses (including if I value my time in the garden at $50/hr). That, and there's always a few hundred dollars extra floating around which funds my research and development costs.

I don't smoke, but my girl does. That cuts down on the product that is used internally.

-spek
 

GODWORK

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shit if u can make 8900 an elbow ill mail elbows all day for 4500...... get u some money orders :bigjoint:
[HR][/HR] That's really the only way that ill respect getting 4500 a unit....if you have workers that you split profits with...$10 for your trouble...$10 for their customers .$20 a gram...but if you just selling $10 grams to under cut competition...your not doing shit.... buy a pound for 4500 to make 4500...that's a 360 degree deal...[HR][/HR] $1000 to produce a unit for 4500-6500 w./ help...& 8900 w/o help...that's what selling anything is about PROFIT....fucking rappers got these fools trying to see who can sell the fastest @ the lowest price. THATS NOT HUSTLING
 

theexpress

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[HR][/HR] That's really the only way that ill respect getting 4500 a unit....if you have workers that you split profits with...$10 for your trouble...$10 for their customers .$20 a gram...but if you just selling $10 grams to under cut competition...your not doing shit.... buy a pound for 4500 to make 4500...that's a 360 degree deal...[HR][/HR] $1000 to produce a unit for 4500-6500 w./ help...& 8900 w/o help...that's what selling anything is about PROFIT....fucking rappers got these fools trying to see who can sell the fastest @ the lowest price. THATS NOT HUSTLING
im not gonna sit on some corner or in some apt selling grams bags to everuyone and there mama!!! black people can do all that.... I got elbows of indoor for 3500.... and outdoor 2500-3k....... in this state.... other places like co and cali id be cool with 2k-2200 an outdoor unit... and 3k for indoor in that setting
 

GODWORK

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im not gonna sit on some corner or in some apt selling grams bags to everuyone and there mama!!! black people can do all that.... I got elbows of indoor for 3500.... and outdoor 2500-3k....... in this state.... other places like co and cali id be cool with 2k-2200 an outdoor unit... and 3k for indoor in that setting[/QUOTE

More power to you...but race has nothing to do with it....you can put a Asian in a office space & call it a dispensary....sell everything for $20 a gram...& still make the same money...[HR][/HR] So if you like fisting yourself for 3500 a unit...rock on!...Im not doing it, I refuse to let some fucking HUMP get over on my hard work...its $20/g...NO questions asked.
 
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