I’ve been growing outdoor in a greenhouse since it was made legal. Laws require it be locked and impenetrable. Not sure why it can’t be the same on a commercial scale. Although, winter growing would still require heat and light supplement. Add in the cost of 24/7 security and the cost may be exactly the same despite a tiny drop in emissions.
I think after years of creating the warehouse model, it would probably cost more to build-to-suit outdoors than it’s worth.
I do both and these stupid green energy dumbass's refuse to listen to the growers who have been growing primo with organics and sustainably for years. No green waste leaves my property. Worms, bokashi and compost heaps take it all up, yard isn't grass but rather 'cover crop' that feeds the bees while also feeding the deer that I eat in the winter and my lawn clippings. This all captures more carbon than any hippy quack scientist will ever admit, without spending a dime of the tax payers money.
I guess the commercial scale and personal scale aren’t even comparable. I’m literally only poppin’ off the max of 3 flowering plants at a time, but even still it far surpasses the 2 ounce limit. There’s no way I could smoke everything I grow and give it away regularly to friends and also as tips here n’ there. My point being, commercially grown weed doesn’t have to be so cooped up as to require all the heating, cooling and ventilation at such high levels. My little greenhouse only requires a small solar vent fan and after trimming, slowly picking the fan leaves and running a batch of bubble hash there’s very little material leftover. I literally throw it in the yard and mulch it with the mower like all the rest of the grass. One pass and it’s going back to the earth.
Sounds like you’re pumping out a lot more, but when it comes to the methods you describe there’s literally no limit to what the cycle can chew up. Again, winter months would put a damper on the method, but that wouldn’t be hard to overcome when ingenuity and financial motivation is considered.
There seems to be fewer and fewer little guys in the game. I do some maintenance for a couple dispensaries and also some consulting, mostly for bug control, but the corporate aspects are slowly overtaking the homegrown attitude and they simply don’t get the growing aspect of marijuana. Now, genetics have been crossed so many times it all kinda comes out the same despite the thousands of names they’ve come up with. I think that will be the bigger issue for the industry going forward even as the oils take over the market.
Yeah, my indoor operation cost me about $500 a year in electric. Power is cheap where I live. The greenhouse is awesome but I can grow out in the open and we have blistering hot summers with insane humidity so greenhouse get tricky to cool in the summer not being able to use swamp coolers vs my house already being cooled and using HLG 600w LED lights so it isn't bad on the wallet. I worked as a master grower for a time but I can't stand hippies or the state being in my business. Doing this for a living and having the government telling me how it should be done sent me back to welding and inspection.🤷♂️ Like you said the genetics are just renames half the time with or some slight perceived phenotype difference. I just help friends build rooms and lend them my rosin press or let them use my freeze dryer for their bubble hash, for a slight fee these days 😉. The cool thing about my state is a cultivation license is just a background check and $2,500 with unlimited plant count as long as you have lived in the state for at least 2 years. If you have your medical card the only rule is the plants can't be visible from the road.
Last year I converted my greenhouse to be a screenhouse in the summer to allow air to pass right through. Helps regulate that humidity and extreme temperature issue during the hottest periods. I did notice a slight drop in light intensity, but not enough to scrap the plan.
I’ve been growing outdoor in a greenhouse since it was made legal. Laws require it be locked and impenetrable. Not sure why it can’t be the same on a commercial scale. Although, winter growing would still require heat and light supplement. Add in the cost of 24/7 security and the cost may be exactly the same despite a tiny drop in emissions.
I think after years of creating the warehouse model, it would probably cost more to build-to-suit outdoors than it’s worth.
I do both and these stupid green energy dumbass's refuse to listen to the growers who have been growing primo with organics and sustainably for years. No green waste leaves my property. Worms, bokashi and compost heaps take it all up, yard isn't grass but rather 'cover crop' that feeds the bees while also feeding the deer that I eat in the winter and my lawn clippings. This all captures more carbon than any hippy quack scientist will ever admit, without spending a dime of the tax payers money.
I guess the commercial scale and personal scale aren’t even comparable. I’m literally only poppin’ off the max of 3 flowering plants at a time, but even still it far surpasses the 2 ounce limit. There’s no way I could smoke everything I grow and give it away regularly to friends and also as tips here n’ there. My point being, commercially grown weed doesn’t have to be so cooped up as to require all the heating, cooling and ventilation at such high levels. My little greenhouse only requires a small solar vent fan and after trimming, slowly picking the fan leaves and running a batch of bubble hash there’s very little material leftover. I literally throw it in the yard and mulch it with the mower like all the rest of the grass. One pass and it’s going back to the earth.
Sounds like you’re pumping out a lot more, but when it comes to the methods you describe there’s literally no limit to what the cycle can chew up. Again, winter months would put a damper on the method, but that wouldn’t be hard to overcome when ingenuity and financial motivation is considered.
There seems to be fewer and fewer little guys in the game. I do some maintenance for a couple dispensaries and also some consulting, mostly for bug control, but the corporate aspects are slowly overtaking the homegrown attitude and they simply don’t get the growing aspect of marijuana. Now, genetics have been crossed so many times it all kinda comes out the same despite the thousands of names they’ve come up with. I think that will be the bigger issue for the industry going forward even as the oils take over the market.
Yeah, my indoor operation cost me about $500 a year in electric. Power is cheap where I live. The greenhouse is awesome but I can grow out in the open and we have blistering hot summers with insane humidity so greenhouse get tricky to cool in the summer not being able to use swamp coolers vs my house already being cooled and using HLG 600w LED lights so it isn't bad on the wallet. I worked as a master grower for a time but I can't stand hippies or the state being in my business. Doing this for a living and having the government telling me how it should be done sent me back to welding and inspection.🤷♂️ Like you said the genetics are just renames half the time with or some slight perceived phenotype difference. I just help friends build rooms and lend them my rosin press or let them use my freeze dryer for their bubble hash, for a slight fee these days 😉. The cool thing about my state is a cultivation license is just a background check and $2,500 with unlimited plant count as long as you have lived in the state for at least 2 years. If you have your medical card the only rule is the plants can't be visible from the road.
Last year I converted my greenhouse to be a screenhouse in the summer to allow air to pass right through. Helps regulate that humidity and extreme temperature issue during the hottest periods. I did notice a slight drop in light intensity, but not enough to scrap the plan.