LED Ahoy!

Colorado changed that. Now Dispensary's can only buy anything from other dispensarys! :mad: In order for me to sell any overage, be it finished product or clones a dispensary would have to list my house as an off site grow.

And the city that I live in has a ban on dispensary's so if I'm affiliated with a dispensary I'm in violation of city law and will be arrested. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Thus I'm a private caregiver with my limited # of patients, and limited # of plants per patient, and no outlet for disposing of unneeded clones or overgrow aside from destruction or black market.

Since a getting Felony isn't on my "To Do" list, I have to destroy lots of clones and try to grow slightly less than my patients need.

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Originally Posted by canniwhatsis

Colorado changed that. Now Dispensary's can only buy anything from other dispensarys! :mad: In order for me to sell any overage, be it finished product or clones a dispensary would have to list my house as an off site grow.

And the city that I live in has a ban on dispensary's so if I'm affiliated with a dispensary I'm in violation of city law and will be arrested. :mad: :mad: :mad:

Thus I'm a private caregiver with my limited # of patients, and limited # of plants per patient, and no outlet for disposing of unneeded clones or overgrow aside from destruction or black market.

Since a getting Felony isn't on my "To Do" list, I have to destroy lots of clones and try to grow slightly less than my patients need.

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What about becoming 501-C status, or ''non-profit'' maybe something that would open a loop hole for you. The no tax thing may not apply, but really should, i think so new that they are probably adding more restrictions, are they? Il bet its tough keeping track of all the plants, patients and what are the price limitations?



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Originally Posted by LetsSeeYa

What about becoming 501-C status, or ''non-profit'' maybe something that would open a loop hole for you. The no tax thing may not apply, but really should, i think so new that they are probably adding more restrictions, are they? Il bet its tough keeping track of all the plants, patients and what are the price limitations?



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If he went with the 501 status, he'd be under much more scrutiny. No-Profit pretty much means that and he'd need a couple of accountants to keep things in 'order.'

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Originally Posted by khyberkitsune

If he went with the 501 status, he'd be under much more scrutiny. No-Profit pretty much means that and he'd need a couple of accountants to keep things in 'order.'

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I've established and run two 501(c)3s both of which are still alive and kicking.While it's true that you would face a higher level of scrutiny, it is not necessarily true that you would need even one accountant. This would only be true if the $$ were significant, which is unlikely to be the case here. Any reasonably intelligent person can pull it off. That said, you do have to keep your books tidy at all times. Accounting is an area that many non-profits over look leading to mismanagement, graft, and audit headaches. You could get it done with Quicken or if you end up with a few employees, Quickbooks. It is certainly worth looking into.

Thanks for the idea. I'll probably look deeper into that this year, but for now I'm just gonna set up a DBA for taxes. Me and ####'s don't get along well,... so I need it to be simple.


As for tracking patients and plants,.... I'm limited to 5 patients, and 6 plants per patient. + the wifes home grow, so I can have a max of 36 plants. :(

Of course with my day job sucking 50+ hours a week out of my life I can't take care of more than about 24 plants anyway,.... :o


Kitsune,... sorry for the thread jack. :jointsmile:

Yeah, my apologies too. Last post on this subject.

I'd be very interested to explore the politics of whether or not you can set up a non-profit to manage patient needs. Likely others are looking in to it too. A novel approach to be sure. Unfortunately it would have federal implications as you need to register with both your state department of revenue and the IRS to achieve full 501(c)3 status, though rule vary from state to state. You may be able to set up simply as a locally recognized non-profit without going through the IRS but then you would not be a true 501(c)3. Let me know if you decide to take this further. I'd be happy to contribute some knowledge and time.

Not worried about the thread-jack, gentlemen. Good information is always welcome in my threads.

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Not worried about the thread-jack, gentlemen. Good information is always welcome in my threads.

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Hey bro, i guess my bad too as i brought the idea up, but in this crazy ass world with all these restrictions, i just thought it might help Canni or anyone else for that matter. I worked at a no- profit for 9 years and they simply used the ol checks an balances method and our budget was over $250,000. But yes, ducks need to be in a row for any audit.


But i came in to see how your grow is doing khyber? I think last you were looking into growing with a different light. Have you started working on it and i wondered the differences in the new you want versus the old lights you were using. They looked like they did a good job to me man. I guess we all want to step it up, lol. My tents here, but not up yet, i cant wait man. I have some LED's too, which leads me to the other reason i stopped in.

I have my lights just sorta standing on there ends to finish my NL#5. I was told that the are ok as long as the fans are cooling the lights and when this plant is done, they will be put into my tent. I wondered if you might just take a peak at it in the problem section and let me know if the plant is close enough. I am new to the LED lights, but i know you know your shit when it comes to LEDs. Heck to build one:jawdropper:that would be fun, hard yeah, but you know what your doing. So i wondered if you have time to take a peek and let me know if it looks close enough to the lights. Now its only a temp set up thing and when you see the space you will understand why i cant hang the lights, huge slope which the plant grew to big while nursing her back to health. Also if you have a clue on the questions i ask would be helpful. I have spurs growing out of the main stems that grow out, then die off? But this is if ya have any advise, its the distance thing, i think you can help me with. And i do turn the plant ever two days as the lights are at the door, pointing to the plant.

If ya got time man, its just that this is your thing, i thought id get my best advise from a LED guy like yourself. My tent is 2' x 4' x 5' and the lights are 150 watts each, bro please tell me its big enough for the lights. Just worried that its to much light for the space, i sure hope not. But yeah man this is some stuff i wanted to run by ya, and if ya have any advise, id sure appreciate it? Il post a LED pic there as last post, i posted all the reg pic's and forgot to post the pic of them, lol, in front of the light:wtf:i know, but its set up for just this one plant, then they go to the tent, its really ghetto, lol.


Thanks man:rasta:

I have my new lights coming in about a week, so I'll get myself going then. I'm going to do my clone cutting tomorrow, most likely.


I'm tempted to pop a 300w on just one side and try a pair of 135w on the other side of the NFT and do a comparison. It's all set and ready to go, just needs lighting and clones!

You got the Welthink lights, right? Those are perfect in a 2x4 tent - 300w in 8 square feet will be awesome. Most people use a 400w HPS in 9 square feet, and your 2x4 area is perfect for those two lights to run down the widest part of the tent.

Also, I haven't been up to much else because I've had Nichia beating a hot path to my door with all kinds of samples. I can't say much beyond that, but let's just say be prepared for something potentially incredible.

Some of these samples are special monochromatic versions of new white-diode product made just for me :D They did their research on my company rather thoroughly! This 630nm is OUTSTANDING, even on raw battery power. The 460 is quite awesome as well.

I'm going to try to convince them to get into 660nm and 420nm production. I rather like the idea of the inventors of the white diode and stabilized blue diode working on my needs! Especially with input/output efficiencies reaching and exceeding 50% (for every 1w input power 500mW is emitted as radiant flux) even in their lowest-binned stuff, that's something I cannot turn down.