Marijuana

[JDonly]

Here in california I have a script for 99 plants and can possess 16 pounds. The state doesn't even want to mess with it. If you get caught with more than what is stated on your script (mine is about as high as you can get) they call the Feds and let those knuckleheads deal with it. I pay extra for the high numbers on the script. It's called a growers script. Gettin close to harvest time. Then I can help all the sick people in Cali. I'm doing Gods work. Your welcome.

Thank you!

 

[JDonly]

An acre? What about one plant for 2x2 feet, or 4 sq ft? One acre might produce 11,000 plants. Can one plant produce $200?. That's about $2.3 million for one harvest.

One plant can produce about a $1000 if you do it right. (Or so I've heard)

 

[murphy1244]

What do you figure a plant is worth in Mexico?

 

[Redneck in training]

We call it ditch weed in Iowa. Don't know if it is the same stuff you smoke but it looks like it. I think it is hemp. If hemp grows everywhere here would the stuff you smoke do well too? Here when you open ground no matter how small spot it is you might be sure there will be ditch weed growing shortly after. When I bought my property there was a feed lot on the back. Shortly after the renter removed the cows there was a forest of weed. I had no clue what it was until my neighbor told me. The plants were at least 6-10 ft tall and few inches thick. I tried to use Grasshopper mower to knock them down but it was impossible. Then at fall I tried to burn it but there was not enough fuel density to sustain the fire. My neighbors were joking that I wanted to get them all high. I gave up on getting rid of it. Year later the plants were only about 3-4 feet tall and every following year got smaller. I think about four years later there were only few scattered plants.
I did some reading about the hemp story in Iowa. Hemp used to be a crop during WW1. Hemp A War Crop for Iowa – Global Hemp

 

[Larro Darro]

There was a saying when I was a kid. Down south they grow dope. Up north they grow rope. Folks from down here have been known to go up north and bring back a truck load of your ditch weed and cut it with cheap Mexican. You could smoke a pound and all you would get is a sore throat.

Hemp is where good rope and canvas comes from. We have to buy ours from Canada and Mexico because industrial hemp is not allowed in the states. But as a pine tree farmer, I guess that is a good thing. If you could grow fiber for OSB in one year instead of fifteen or twenty like with pines, I would be up the creek.

Larro

 

[Midniteoyl]

We call it ditch weed in Iowa. Don't know if it is the same stuff you smoke but it looks like it. I think it is hemp. If hemp grows everywhere here would the stuff you smoke do well too? Here when you open ground no matter how small spot it is you might be sure there will be ditch weed growing shortly after. When I bought my property there was a feed lot on the back. Shortly after the renter removed the cows there was a forest of weed. I had no clue what it was until my neighbor told me. The plants were at least 6-10 ft tall and few inches thick. I tried to use Grasshopper mower to knock them down but it was impossible. Then at fall I tried to burn it but there was not enough fuel density to sustain the fire. My neighbors were joking that I wanted to get them all high. I gave up on getting rid of it. Year later the plants were only about 3-4 feet tall and every following year got smaller. I think about four years later there were only few scattered plants.
I did some reading about the hemp story in Iowa. Hemp used to be a crop during WW1. Hemp A War Crop for Iowa – Global Hemp

Not the same stuff. 'Skunk weed' is what we called it.. the 'good stuff' is a lot harder to get right than simple planting..

 

[/pine]

♫...roll, roll, roll a joint...pass it down the line...take a toak...inhale the smoke...and blow yer freaking mind...♫

 

[Redneck in training]

Not the same stuff. 'Skunk weed' is what we called it.. the 'good stuff' is a lot harder to get right than simple planting..

You just popped my bubble. I thought I could make couple hundred thousand every year on that stuff.

 

[farmer2009]

Kentucky just redid its industrial hemp laws. Evidently if the Feds ever legalize industrial hemp we are set to start planting. The THC levels in the industrial stuff is suppose to be so low that the smoke will make you sick before you get high.

 

[burnieman]

$1000 per plant? Plants up here yield 3-7 lbs per. No one would do this much work for $1000 per plant. Everyone I know clear half a million a year. No joke. Farming at its best.

 

[JDonly]

You are correct. My wife has a medical card and we grew six plants one year. I broke out the calculator and if you were to sell what we grew at street price it would have been around $7500 per plant. They were 10 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet across. We also had people try to steal them and there where also shots fired(at them) and police called by us on more than one occasion. I wonder if moonshiners had to deal with thieves back in the day!

 

[newbury]

$1000 per plant? Plants up here yield 3-7 lbs per. No one would do this much work for $1000 per plant. Everyone I know clear half a million a year. No joke. Farming at its best.

I believe your concept of

this much work

is far different from someone engaged in "normal" farming practices.

You are correct. My wife has a medical card and we grew six plants one year. I broke out the calculator and if you were to sell what we grew at street price it would have been around $7500 per plant. They were 10 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet across. We also had people try to steal them and there where also shots fired(at them) and police called by us on more than one occasion. I wonder if moonshiners had to deal with thieves back in the day!

Again if it was legal nationwide what do you expect the value of those plants would be?

I'd expect they would approach the value of a good tomato plant. You'd be able to buy seedlings at Lowes for $20 each.

 

[burnieman]

6 years ago prices were around 3200 a pound in California. I've seen it go for as little as 1000 recently but that was a Hmong guy. They have destroyed the market and the land they grow on.

 

[Larro Darro]

High taxes were what kept the moonshiners in business. If the tax on legal weed is too high, there will still be a black market for the tax free product. I wonder if Co. will tax what folks grow for their own use. That would be hard to police.

Larro