Farmerdude
New Member
Hello everyone. Just want to go ahead and say thanks for any help or advice.
I’m in Tennessee, and our hemp industry recently just kicked into full swing with the passage of new legislation. I’ve been approved and have received my license to grow, and I already have strips plowed in my fields ready to go. I’ve built a greenhouse. Etc...
I’m going to be growing 8,400 plants which I will set on a 10’ x 10’ grid over a span of about 20 acres of land (I’m not really judging by the acreage).
As I understand it, right now with hemp the two main purposes to grow it is either for CBD or for the flower (yes, I know there is fiber, but we’re not really getting into that yet).
Up until now, I have assumed that with the amount of plants I’m growing that I would be growing it for biomass rather than for the flower. I was under the impression that growing for the flower was much more labor intensive and therefore unfeasible for the amount I’m growing. I’ve heard that the price estimates for the biomass range anywhere from $50-$75 per pound depending on CBD level. I’ve also been under the impression that because of the attention to detail flower requires that I would have to raise significantly fewer plants if I were to go that route.
However, recently I’ve been told by some folks that growing 8,400 plants for flower is not necessarily unfeasible, and that the flower could easily bring $300-$500 per pound. I’ve been told that the actual growing process for the flower is not much more in depth than growing for biomass, and that most of the difference is in the harvesting, trimming, and packaging. I’ve heard that the only difference in the growing process is just a matter of keeping pests off of it, and adding a good nutrient to it like alfalfa meal or something. Other than that I’ve heard that it’s not totally unfeasible to grow 8,400 plants in a field and sell them for flower. I’ve heard that I could easily just purchase a trimmer or even a few trimmers to trim the flowers off of them, then dry them in those little baskets and vacuum seal them.
Now that I’ve learned some of this information, I’m now trying to decide whether or not I want to grow for biomass or for flower. We are growing for a company that is fronting us the mother plants to clone from, then sourcing our crop to the highest bidder they can find for a percentage of our crop. If I can make that kind of money per plant from selling the flower, I would do whatever it takes, buy whatever equipment I need, and hire whoever I need to hire in order to grow, harvest, and process my 8,400 plants for the flower. I mean, we’re talking somewhere on the order of $12.6 million for my whole crop at the high end if I were able to pull it off. It seems almost too good to be true considering my overhead and investment is peanuts compared to that kind of profit.
Is any of this even remotely true that I’ve said? Or do I have it all wrong? Is my idea of growing my whole crop outdoors for flower feasible or possible?
Thank you so much for any and all help or information!
I’m in Tennessee, and our hemp industry recently just kicked into full swing with the passage of new legislation. I’ve been approved and have received my license to grow, and I already have strips plowed in my fields ready to go. I’ve built a greenhouse. Etc...
I’m going to be growing 8,400 plants which I will set on a 10’ x 10’ grid over a span of about 20 acres of land (I’m not really judging by the acreage).
As I understand it, right now with hemp the two main purposes to grow it is either for CBD or for the flower (yes, I know there is fiber, but we’re not really getting into that yet).
Up until now, I have assumed that with the amount of plants I’m growing that I would be growing it for biomass rather than for the flower. I was under the impression that growing for the flower was much more labor intensive and therefore unfeasible for the amount I’m growing. I’ve heard that the price estimates for the biomass range anywhere from $50-$75 per pound depending on CBD level. I’ve also been under the impression that because of the attention to detail flower requires that I would have to raise significantly fewer plants if I were to go that route.
However, recently I’ve been told by some folks that growing 8,400 plants for flower is not necessarily unfeasible, and that the flower could easily bring $300-$500 per pound. I’ve been told that the actual growing process for the flower is not much more in depth than growing for biomass, and that most of the difference is in the harvesting, trimming, and packaging. I’ve heard that the only difference in the growing process is just a matter of keeping pests off of it, and adding a good nutrient to it like alfalfa meal or something. Other than that I’ve heard that it’s not totally unfeasible to grow 8,400 plants in a field and sell them for flower. I’ve heard that I could easily just purchase a trimmer or even a few trimmers to trim the flowers off of them, then dry them in those little baskets and vacuum seal them.
Now that I’ve learned some of this information, I’m now trying to decide whether or not I want to grow for biomass or for flower. We are growing for a company that is fronting us the mother plants to clone from, then sourcing our crop to the highest bidder they can find for a percentage of our crop. If I can make that kind of money per plant from selling the flower, I would do whatever it takes, buy whatever equipment I need, and hire whoever I need to hire in order to grow, harvest, and process my 8,400 plants for the flower. I mean, we’re talking somewhere on the order of $12.6 million for my whole crop at the high end if I were able to pull it off. It seems almost too good to be true considering my overhead and investment is peanuts compared to that kind of profit.
Is any of this even remotely true that I’ve said? Or do I have it all wrong? Is my idea of growing my whole crop outdoors for flower feasible or possible?
Thank you so much for any and all help or information!
