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Market => Product offers => Topic started by: FarmerBob on March 05, 2012, 09:19 am
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Hello,
My name is FarmerBob, and I've been growing my own for over 20 years.
I'm a recently retired engineer and am considering selling on SR to bring in a little bit of extra cash. I have a small grow operation and generally grow more than I need. My grow room is really just my attic, and it's what you'd call a "stealth grow" I've got a couple of HPS lights and the ceiling is lined with florescents. I generally produce about 8 lbs per year, so I'm much much smaller a grow op than any commercial outfit.
The weed I grow is the highest quality, I grow the old fashioned way (dirt).
and it's all organic, I get plenty of free fertilizer from some of the barnyard animals we have here and my grow op is small enough that I don't need pesticides.... so this weed is 100% chemical free.
Right now I'm growing 4 strains:
Skywalker OG
Agent Orange
NYC Diesel
Blueberry X Northern Lights
I've got a few weeks left of flowering, then time to dry cure, but in a couple months maybe I'll list some of my product here. I expect I'll have perhaps 2 pounds extra to unload and was thinking of selling at around $300/oz. If all goes well maybe I'll grow extra next go-round.
anyways, I've got a couple of pics of my plants, i'll try to post those, right now it's saying that the upload folder is full :(.
I haven't signed up with a sellers account yet but figured I'll do that as these dry and cure.
Regarding cure: Do people her prefer slow dried and packed (green buds), full cure & age (browner buds), or something in-between?
I notice a lot of the domestic indoor weed I see on the street is green, probably just slow-dried (if that), packed and sold because the producers don't want to spend the time curing/aging and a lot of the young people these days seem to prefer the uncured weed... makes me cough too much up but I suppose it is stronger that way. I usually fully cure mine in sealed mason jars but I'd be OK with whatever the buyers prefer.
Any requests for what strain I grow after I harvest these?
Any advice out there for a small-volume seller?
I'll follow up in a while to let you know how this batch turns out.
Best Regards
FarmerBob
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Sounds amazing dude.. you should seriously try to cater to the Sr market and get an vendors upgrade
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Would you mind sending me a sample when you get up and running?
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Sick strains. Hope to see you around
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Farmerbob, shoot me a PM when you get setup - I'd love to give you a chance.
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I would definitely be interested in some nominal amount to see how it compares to mine. What oz divisions would you be selling?
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Would you mind sending me a sample when you get up and running?
Saw this one coming like a freight train
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I would definitely be interested! I'd love some purple strains!! I'm just so damn attracted to the color purple! I can't help myself!! As far as suggestions go (not that I'm an expert or anything!) you should set out a couple grams or so for sampling, either for free or a reduced price. Once reviews of your bud start coming in, buyers will generally be less hesitant in buying larger quantities! Also, pretty much always stay in escrow! and beware of sketch ass buyers! Good luckk(:
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I'm not interested in a sample. Please cure it completely, put up a listing and i'll probably buy some. I'll review it honestly. I'll be watching for the listings, good luck to you.
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ya cured completely would be great, a lot of weed on SR isnt completely cured and full potential is not able to be reached lol...
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wouldn't recommend using barn animal turd for indoor grows....coco,perlite, lime, and a good liquid veg and flower nute,would be bettet...
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well shoot, i still can't seem to post pics today. "upload folder full" again
For those of you interested, I'm planning to set up a SR vendor account once this latest batch is ready. I checked trichomes today and expect the first couple plants will probably go in the closet to dry this coming weekend. The rest are still at least a week or more away from ready. Drying usually takes a few weeks, and full cure in mason jars usually takes around at least a month to get to where I prefer it. (Maybe less to be equivalent to what you'd find in a dispensary.)
I'll jump back in the forums later and let you know how yields turned out and how much I have to sell.
I'll probably list some smaller quantities first: 1/4s, 1/8ths or even maybe 1 bud (1/2ish gram) for 1 bitcoin or something so people don't have to take much risk to taste the end product.
and CT, don't worry about the poop, It's from chickens and goats, I keep it piled for a year or so to let it compost, by the time I mix it in with the dirt you can hardly tell what it used to be. I throw in some bone meal or feathers and some crushed dolomite limestone to keep the PH in check and mix that in with the dirt in my containers. Using large volume containers with that method lets me grow without having to worry about fertilizers.
Also, my next grow I'm going to try a new strain, any growers or smokers got any recommendations?
Best Regards
Bob
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Awesome!! I would love a little gram or half gram to try the quality of your buds man! I am a small time grower myself but i do not or dont plan on selling anytime soon on SR. How much would you be doing "Test" Samples for? I would purchase one right away :)
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my vote: Purple Sour Diesel
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I'll definetely try some Blueberry x Northern Lights when you're up and running. My suggestion to grow is Purple Kush x Romulan.
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Agent Orange ... i liked Clockwork Orange would be better
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Welcome to the road FarmerBob! Looking forward to try some of your product in the coming weeks. :D
Grow out Mental Floss, Kushberry, Magic Merlin, and another TGA Subcool strain. Never had Agent Orange. Mental Floss is definitely at the top of my list though, and would be ecstatic if any grower on SR had tons of it.
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Will this be another domestic USA grower :(? I can understand as you're not a full-on grower.
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thanks for the strain suggestions, i'll look into them, I am planning to take a road trip to a nearby state where they sell MMJ and try to get some new clone strains soon.
Yes gustono, i'm in the USA, and yes i'm a rather small op. I really only grow for myself but can probably unload an extra pound or so each harvest and this seems like it's a safe way to do it without anyone having to know about my stealth grow in my attic... I might use any money I bring in to buy a whole lot of privacy glass (like from bathrooms) and building greenhouse with it and moving out of the attic altogether. Electricity costs are so dang high that I'd much rather use the sun to grow. Keeps me off the radar of any LEA snooping on my utility bill as well.
I've given up on loading my pictures through the forum attach button, here's some links that should work instead, I took these a couple weeks ago.
<a href="http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=039e75bdd3705b64cd4a71dc40aaa064.jpg">The Image</a>
<a href="http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=cb68a29ff66a0573843eb7d8a0425190.jpg">The Image</a>
I'll follow up with more photos as I approach harvest time, you guys will love the look of some of the plants, the NYC diesels look amazing this grow for some reason, more trichomes than I've ever seen on any strain before.
Bob
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They look like there in the 3rd week on those pics,looks good...Get alot more weight though ,with HID'z,but gonna need more ceiling height.
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CT, actually I have several 200W high pressure sodiums in there as well, they're at the high points in the attic with some custom made reflectors to light up the maximum amount of plants. The florescents were added to supplement the spectrum in the blues and to give more light from more angles without burning the plants.
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thanks for the strain suggestions, i'll look into them, I am planning to take a road trip to a nearby state where they sell MMJ and try to get some new clone strains soon.
Yes gustono, i'm in the USA, and yes i'm a rather small op. I really only grow for myself but can probably unload an extra pound or so each harvest and this seems like it's a safe way to do it without anyone having to know about my stealth grow in my attic... I might use any money I bring in to buy a whole lot of privacy glass (like from bathrooms) and building greenhouse with it and moving out of the attic altogether. Electricity costs are so dang high that I'd much rather use the sun to grow. Keeps me off the radar of any LEA snooping on my utility bill as well.
I've given up on loading my pictures through the forum attach button, here's some links that should work instead, I took these a couple weeks ago.
<a href="http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=039e75bdd3705b64cd4a71dc40aaa064.jpg">The Image</a>
<a href="http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=cb68a29ff66a0573843eb7d8a0425190.jpg">The Image</a>
I'll follow up with more photos as I approach harvest time, you guys will love the look of some of the plants, the NYC diesels look amazing this grow for some reason, more trichomes than I've ever seen on any strain before.
Bob
Using cash to move to LED's could be a better and more hidden plan, also led's you can use them for the full process of grow I believe, as most of the high end led's don't go with your cheap and nasty, give off the light spectrum's required for the complete grow.
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Looks like a nice little set up you have going on. Pictures are always appreciated. Nothing better than some good old fashion marijuana porn :) How many plants do you have going right now?
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DropGuy, I've looked into LEDs and done some light efficiency analysis and even some testing comparing modern high power LEDs to traditional alternatives. My conclusions were that the Osram golden dragon deep red LEDs will give roughly 60% more photosynthetically active light per unit energy than HPS, but only in the red. Blue LEDs are still rather inefficient compared to blue optimized T5/T8 florescents. Fluorescent lights are great emitters in the blue, hard to beat em. If I do take the LED plunge I'll probably make the lights myself, a lot of the lights I see online aren't all that well designed and tend to drive the individual LEDs hard, more light output per diode, allows them to use fewer diodes and keep costs down, but it creates higher junction temperatures and sacrifices power efficiency. The worst of the LED fixtures are rip offs, using cheap Chinese LEDs and are less efficient than shop lights. Combining red LEDs with WS daylight florescents seems to be the best solution.... I'm still toying with the idea of a greenhouse. Like I said, i'm retired and I have time on my hands. I live in a rural area where people tend to mind their own business and I can easily design in solutions to control the smell. My only concern for using it for cannabis is what if a curious neighboring gardening enthusiast wants to see inside, what excuse would I use to deny them a tour.
Even if I decide not to use it for cannabis I still might build it for use with some tropical edibles I can't otherwise grow in my area. Then I can show it off to my friends and neighbors, let them get bored with looking at my citrus trees, then switch to cannabis.
BuddyRoyale: I generally only grow 15-20 plants, like I said, personal grow op (plus a decent amount of extras). I'll take a few more pics and post em up. The NYC Diesel looks amazing this time and you'll all get a kick out of how loaded with trichomes it is now as I approach harvest.
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Looking forward to it.
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I guess this qualifies as homemade "marijuana porn"
Here's the Agent Orange photos:
http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=7942d30a69af0093ab6db27f9ae0faf6.jpg
http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=077585c8f5b8a6f45a172f029d540c86.jpg
I wonder if the thumbnails from the onion image uploader will show up in this forum... gonna try:
(http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/thumbs/077585c8f5b8a6f45a172f029d540c86.jpg) (http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=077585c8f5b8a6f45a172f029d540c86.jpg)
this Marijuana porn may be underage: my DIY cloning box:
http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=3339229ecc44b92db51a186db61a6faa.jpg
There's more to come,
Best Regards
Bob
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Photos of skywalker: Skywalker is good smoke, but the yeilds are smaller than my other strains.
http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=24f09cf1b6248a6374317517b94bc70f.jpg
http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=9082314d7d55559e37efac46a8d2d62c.jpg
Photos of NL x BB (harvesting these in the next day or 2 depending on trichome color):
http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=c39132b75a9891e0a668d415e2c9f016.jpg
http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=df90e22c282d3d6f5f454d9c1c2876c6.jpg
http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=2c1c9199e2f70b08e8d4eb4574cddb3a.jpg
Here's the NYC Diesel: these are slower to mature, but they're looking great so far, not too much longer left:
http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=1ea94099a6d657085961bb49ff705678.jpg
http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=a5ab1bd7894dedce706c4b13738b3481.jpg
http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=50f5baca488c4a4a43c65867c9249f4a.jpg
Enjoy the pics
Bob
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Hey I'm excited to buy from you on the road! I have a suggestion though, alot of the points you mentioned in the OP about your weed being completely organic and completely cured you should put in the description. Let people know the way you grow your weed and you'll probably get a good amount of buyers.
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Gorgeous, +1 for the effort and quick response.
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absolutely lovely<3