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PharmaCan said:This sure sounds familiar. Is that clown out in Hemet still screwing around promising people a place to grow?
Just for fun, let's look at some hypothetical numbers. Seeing as how you need space to walk around the plant trays, you can figure about 60% of your 3,000 sq.ft. will be useable grow area. You plan to light 1,800 sq.ft. with, what, 25,000 watts? That's just under 14 watts/sq.ft. - you need more like 50 watts/sq.ft., or about 90,000 watts total. The power to run those lights, and your veg lights and your ventilation and your a/c and your pumps... will cost somewhere between $10,000 - $20,000 per month.
IF you have done this before (no offense, but obviously you haven't) and IF everything goes perfectly, you can plan on seeing your first income about five to six months after you start operations.
With a large commercial operation, and this would be large even if you scaled it down to the equipment specs that you mentioned, you need at least $100,000 cash in your legal defense fund from the minute you start.
All in all, you'd probably best have at least $250,000 cash on hand for start-up capital. There's a thread here on IC, "So you want to be a commercial grower". You should find it and read it - there are a lot more opinions/points of view besides mine. But one thing is for sure, if you go into a business under-capitalized, the majority of times that business will fail and the owner will not only lose his/her initial investment, but will end up in debt as well.
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Evgeni_Malkin said:As for start up I will be ordering seeds ina few days after finding out what strain I will grow, but construction will begin before this weekend. I will post pics for all those non-believers.
I would not waste your presious time, as I have frittered away countless hours reading pointless threads that just never have and ending to them.
Please stay posted and add your 2 cents
Evgeni_Malkin said:Also as for electricity some will be bypassed from the meter as for how much I am guessing 15-20%.