Product Ideas - Growing

Hey all,

Just looking for some ideas for products, solutions, or needs in the growing world. New nutrients? New grow lights or accessories? etc etc

I'm contemplating bringing a product to the market and was just interested in some 'first hand' ideas from growers who know what they wish they had.

Thanks

seriously have you looked out there??? there are more products than you can shake a stick at...

Lance85 said:

Hey all,

Just looking for some ideas for products, solutions, or needs in the growing world. New nutrients? New grow lights or accessories? etc etc

I'm contemplating bringing a product to the market and was just interested in some 'first hand' ideas from growers who know what they wish they had.

Thanks

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their is a market for a 6 inch and 8 inch wall mounted Oscillating fan with a spring clip or clamp mount as attatchment to poles for tent growers

NL3004 - Yes there's plenty already out there ... until something new and innovative hits. All it takes is an idea.

Beardo - I've seen those fans but not with a clip for poles. I'm pretty sure what you're talking about is already on the market.

Some ideas I've toyed with in my head:

- Accessory for CFL's that allow you to basically 'bury' the light into the bush of leaves without burning any of them.
- New hydro nutrients. I wouldn't have a clue where to start but I'm sure there's a market for organic hydro nutes if there's something innovative and unique about them.
- Grow light. Some kind of new design or vertical grow or something that sets it apart from the lights/ballasts/hoods already out there.

Lance85 said:

NL3004 - Yes there's plenty already out there ... until something new and innovative hits. All it takes is an idea.

Beardo - I've seen those fans but not with a clip for poles. I'm pretty sure what you're talking about is already on the market.

Some ideas I've toyed with in my head:

- Accessory for CFL's that allow you to basically 'bury' the light into the bush of leaves without burning any of them.
- New hydro nutrients. I wouldn't have a clue where to start but I'm sure there's a market for organic hydro nutes if there's something innovative and unique about them.
- Grow light. Some kind of new design or vertical grow or something that sets it apart from the lights/ballasts/hoods already out there.

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They have big ones just like im talking about 12 and 16 inch, and they have small 6 and 8 inch but the 6 and 8 inch dont Ocillate you can turn them but they don't do it automaticly, and the big ones that you would copy are junk the 12 and 16 inch ones, If you build them they will sell

@BEARDO: you make a good point...

@lance: you are also correct. i stand corrected, my apologies, a person can be wrong: respect...

I want a product that triples my yield.

Seriously though, manufacturing a nice cfl fixture would be nice. Using a power strip is often difficult for new growers, and a simple "rack" of cfls would be nice. I'd buy one if the price was right.

Keep talking this is great.

CFL's accessories since they're almost all DIY or tube racks might be convenient it seems.

Quality wall/pole mounted oscillating fan 6-8-10-12"

Am i getting this right? : )

CFL market isn't profitable. Its a niche market which is predominantly people who avoid hids because of cost (meaning they only want cheap gear and/or dont have space for large racks of lights)

Wall mount and pole mount fans already exist i have 2 of them hanging in my workout room.

If you really want to make money in the growing industry develop a light that puts off all the necessary spectrums for vegetative and flowering growth in 1 unit with the area coverage and canopy penetration of a hid and the efficiency and low upkeep/operating costs of leds.

The thing about little accessories is that any serious grower can improvise your device for cheaper. Ive made my own pulleys to raise/lower fixtures for 1/2 the cost of buying one at a hydro store.

The real profits are in nutrients lighting and reflective materials. These are also markets that require multiple million dollar research funds to get into. the problem with accessories is that they cater to small audiences, designing a product marketed only at growers, on top of that only growers who won't improvise their own equipment, and on top of that only growers who need a really specific item for an obscure use...its just not a practical way of making money. You'll piss more away on r&d and advertising & production costs than you'll ever make back in profits before your copyright runs out.

Jesus,

ExDex1x1 nailed it on the head! Nicely done.

I've always said that if I wanted to make the BIG BUCKS I'd be in Nutrients.

Shit in a bottle. Big this, big that, bloom this, flavor that.

Yeah baby, Nutes is where the big money is.

bb57

BoomerBloomer57 said:

Jesus,

ExDex1x1 nailed it on the head! Nicely done.

I've always said that if I wanted to make the BIG BUCKS I'd be in Nutrients.

Shit in a bottle. Big this, big that, bloom this, flavor that.

Yeah baby, Nutes is where the big money is.

bb57

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Selling nutes is a gold mine. You make a good or even just a decent product with a cool name and a market will develop around it. Even if its the same shit in a different bottle. Plus its something ppl constantly have to buy unlike accessories where its a 1 time purchase until the one they buy breaks.

Yeah good points on CFLs. I DIY'd the whole first grow with cfls and a cheap plastic cabinet rig. Now i'm hps in a closet but still cheap, diy, and low tech.

Military grade super lights or more seriously a scientific lighting improvement is outside of my grasp as well as a scientific improvement to reflection material. Nutrients, on the other hand, are needed by all growers and it wouldn't be hard to find stock nutes and putting an innovative tweak on them. I'd love to see like organic extracts in the nutes or something interesting like that. Extract bat shit? hahahah

If you could create an all in one formula that has the exact balance of all macro and micro nutrients marijuana needs you'd be rich. I know im personally tired as shit of having to go out and buy 3 part nite systems and additional micros all the time. If i could lug home one big fuckin jug of all in one super awesome magic pot growing goodness id pay top dollar for convenience alone.

Well thing is getting it manufactured at a decent price. One could always take something that is already a big hit an bring it to the market cheaper. Hopefully without sacrificing quality. People are lazy and mostly un creative if you have not noticed. I agree with making something on my own to save some money but if you get the price break close enough and it is already done for them you got a winner (usually) I am a patent holder and importer of a gardening gadget, that if one were to make it themselves they could save themselves up to .50 cents a piece but then it gets to the point of reducing it to the ridiculous. As of now, my item goes for around 3 bucks a piece. If one were to make it themselves, buying the material they could produce it for themselves for about 2.50 a peice. Plus labor. My profit is better then that because of volume. For those who want to make it and sell it --I have a US Patent on it.

Nutrients are really a big profit as people do fall for some pretty stupid shit. Like Miracle Grow, has all you need to Veg. PERIOD! Hawaiian BIG BUD has all you need to Flower. Classic example Flushing or curing nutes or chemicals. Dirt already had the Folic acid needed to help the plant excrete or metabolize the nutes in the soil. But there is big money in humbolt this and whatever clever name used to sell a scented or flavored Floic Acid. Remember Dirt already has this---so R.O H20 will fluch it fine. Or you can use A folic Acid and have it scented with blueberries and sell if for 60 bucks a gallon. Ass for every seat. I grow the kind killer shit... I am from Santa Rosa CA originally and have been around growers my whole life and smoke the best. Folks who smoke my shit Vegged with Miracle grow and Flowered wiht Big Bud and Bloom and flushed with Revers Osmosis H20 tell me it is so good and strong one hit does em in. Pending on the strain of THC. Oh and the flavor is so sweet. maybe it is the Molasses in weeks 1-3 of flowering?

Also I'd just like to point out that we live in country where 99.99% of homes have direct access to tap water and reusable bottles from a local store, and yet I could think of about 30 different companies that sell bottled water and make a shit ton of money doing it. You don't have to reinvent the wheel you just have to find something thats ever so mildly inconvenient and do it for people. Profit on peoples laziness and lack on ingenuity.

Also I'm really fucking high and Im giving you a freebie idea right now, and if anyone uses this I demand to be mailed the prototype. Chiapot. Chia pets but with fuckin pot seeds with a package of nutes n soil mixture so instead of that nasty slimy grassy moss what ever the fuck chia pets grow you get a nice little clay statue thing with an autoflower pot plant popping out of it. Make them resemble big players in the pot world like Jack Herer, Marc Emry and who ever else you can think of. OH WAIT NO FUCK THAT make an entire series of them with the likeness of every single U.S. Drug Czar since the position was created! I'd pay big bucks to grow a fuckin lowryder out of Harry Anslinger's forehead.

dex: that s--- is BRILLIANT! you really should do it!!!