Quote Originally Posted by khyberkitsune
My grow totals down to about $20-30/oz of AA-quality, that's for most indica and sativa strains (that includes electricity for the air pump and air circulation and timers as well.) I'd have to wonder what equipment you're using.
Def. depends on system and nutes, I've seen people spend incredible amounts of $$ on organic hydro systems and other odd growing methods.

I just put 'em in dirt, re-use the dirt (this is a secret to high quality and yields out of dirt), feed them guanos, worm castings and not so much on the expensive liquid nutes. I'm figuring around $10 / oz, NOT INCLUDING LABOR. Labor is a big part of it, and is worth far more than co2, electricity, and nutes combined.

Labor is a large expense, especially if you have a small system. Mine is tiny, just 3 plants, so labor for me comes out to maybe $75-$100 / oz if I want to be reasonably compensated. So, lets just call it $100/oz for parts and labor. Going by general rules of business, I need to double the cost of production, so I need at least $200 / oz wholesale.

$200 / oz wholesale is just my number, and I've been gardening since '94. I don't need to spend very much time or money relative to most growers with less experience and/or more complicated systems. So, those who think this is easy money need to think again. It's not as lucrative as some might think, and not everyone is capable of coming up with product worth selling for top dollar. This makes top end ganja more like fine wine, and we should expect to be paid more for it, but we do not. Certainly not in proportion to it's quality. I think there needs to be even more differential in price, I see a lot of lower quality stuff that should be a lot cheaper in dispensaries...