How Much Income Can I Make in the Medical Marijuana Industry?

 BUSINESS PLANS, COLLECTIVES, DISPENSARY, GROWING, The Business  6 Responses »
Aug 112012
 

There are many ways to make a decent income within the mmj industry. As a medical marijuana patient you have access to jobs that those without a med card could NEVER ever get.

You have the choice of thousands of medical marijuana jobs throughout the many mmj states ( more states are WAKING UP year after year ) and as you learn how to grow, clone and learn the grow techniques YOU will be able to get yourself a job within a collective or even offer clones and meds to other patients.

The different types of “green jobs” that you have access to will also continue expanding due to the new products and hydro companies that seem to come out with a new product every few months due to the DEMAND for quality growing supplies like led grow lights, organic nutrient options and anything else that benefits mmj patients specifically.
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The 12-1 Method: Photoperiodic Control—short night duration

 GROWING  2 Responses »
Sep 092011
 
Vegetative and Flowering Cycle

So there is a new growing method out there that is getting talked about, its called the “12-1″ method.  Its a way to grow plants with less light, and less electricity, saving you money and creating a more affordable or profitable product.

 12 hours ON, 5.5 hours OFF, 1 hour ON, and 5.5 hours OFF for each 24 hour period.

There it is people, you can’t really do better than that.  24 hours works, but its overkill…and so is  18-6 lighting cycles.  I have used 18-6  before and it worked, so did 24 hours for vegetative and flowering 12 on 12 off, to trick the plant into thinking its fall or harvest season (shorter days, less light).

Cannabis  from the Greek word kalamos which means reed or cane,  and sativa means “useful”… you figure it out. its a weed and it grows like one, pretty much no matter what, unless you water it too much.

12-1 application, if you want to reduce your power bill further 75-80%.   Then follow the new schedule for 12-1. Switch your timers to 1/2 hour on 1/2 hour off, 12 times, then put 1hr on middle of night period, you have just cut your veg power consumption to 7 hrs, plants stay in veg, in fact you can reduce even further to 15 minutes on 45 minutes off 12 times, 1 hr on in the mid night period plants stay in veg.

Vegetative and Flowering Cycle, Source: Harry Hydro on Facebook

 

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How to make neutral ph fixer

 GROWING  2 Responses »
Dec 122010
 
    Fix water with Homemade Fixer!

    When testing your water for ph balance, instead of buying pH fixers here are a couple home-made remedies.

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Solar Powered Grow Room

 GROWING  8 Responses »
Jan 162010
 

Investing in a solar powered grow room can be the best way to insure profitability of an indoor grow room, keeping utility bills low and costs down.

A solar powered grow room might be just right for you, whether you tie on to the grid or keep a low profile with an off grid system; the benefits of solar are increasing as energy prices go up.  The  reasons for solar include security, saving money, profitability, and the environment.

  • On the Security reason, it is safer to go off grid because police and Federal DEA agents look for raised electricity bills and infrared heat signatures of houses, LED light grow rooms use less electricity and produce less of a heat signatures. Also in a power outage, if you have a solar off-grid system, you will be able to run for days with out any interruption, this is important because if you lose power it can potentially stunt the growth of your plants.

  • On the Environmental issue, of course by producing all your own energy from the sun, you are creating and using 100% renewable energy. Even having a solar system supplement the bills by net-metering (selling electricity back to the utility) can save a grower big money. We will discuss average electricity usage of growers and typical electrical load in a second.

  • On saving money, a solar powered grow room can save $$$ in electricity bills and can offset an approximate monthly 800 kilowatts hours, the equivalent of a small grow room. 800 kilowatt hours would be 800 times 10cents/kilowatt or 80 dollars US.  A small grow room has the potential to double the usage of a house’s electricity usage. (average American family uses 936 kWh per month)

  • If you can offset this cost of running the lights in a grow room, you have significantly raised your profitability and lowered you cost to produce the marijuana.

Now let’s talk about sizing a solar electric system for you. We need to find your load of your system, this depends on how many lights, possibly pumps (for hydroponics), etc….   Your average daily power consumption will be expressed in watt hours per day. (watt-hours or wh)

RULE OF THUMB: LED lights use less energy and produce more light with lower wattage, a rule of thumb to use is that for every 240 Watts of high powered LEDs you get the equivalent of 1000 watts. Typical grow lights will be 1000 watts if they are of any quality such as most HPS and HID grow lights.

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The Growing Marijuana Basics

 GROWING  1 Response »
Jan 032010
 

The thing about growing weed, is that a lot of people who don’t know much about it will tell you growing weed is scientific and technical…It’s NOT!

A lot of ‘true blue’ growers will tell you to start simple, start with dirt and lights.  Hydroponics is for experienced full-time growers who have a cashflow to draw funds from, and I would advise the same thing.

Let’s start with the basics, it is a plant, it can grow in soil.  It uses solar energy, carbon dioxide, nutrients and water through photosynthesis to grow.  They call it weed because it grows like a weed, especially if it has all of the 4 things listed above.

The cycles of marijuana are tied to the seasons. When growing it–keep it in the vegetative state (18-24hrs of light) to make it think its spring or summer, until it gets big and you are ready for flowering your females (more on sexing in other articles).  Once you are ready to flower, start the light at 12 hours of light; this will signal to the plant that it’s fall and time to bud.

We are just going to cover what you need to get started, not harvesting, how long to grow, how to build a grow room, etc…so let’s get started

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