Question about being a Caregiver

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jointss

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I was looking to become a full time care giver, with the max patients and curious if it would be a good choice to move to WA/CO/LA/AZ and be a legit caregiver, I'm not in it for the money, but in it because this is something I would love to do, and wouldn't mind making 30-40k a year compared to others who make a 70-100k...

curious where would be the best places to move, and if its hard to find people who will always needs their meds on a regular basis so I dont grow and they decide they quit cannabis and go homeless...thanks
 
bomb hills

bomb hills

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Well here in Montana we had a ton of caregivers until the legislature came in and basically told the voters that we didn't know what we were doing. Right now the law is somewhat back to what it was, you could be a caregiver providing you hand over your fingerprints and find people to be patients. But things could change either for better or worse in the coming election. I would suggest you start small and have a day job, just get your recommendation and grow for yourself. Make friends and eventually get them to sign up with you. Stay low, no store front, no advertising, just your friends as legal patients.
 
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patient2patient

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I think its funny how people look at the medical aspect and think (Jobs,Profit).You stated your not in it for the $$$$$ but you put a monetary value out there,then you try to compare it to others that profit bigger bucks.if you look at the average med patient usually they dont have the resources they need,so then they go to a dispensery to get over charged.We have patients we take care of with donations from other patients in our group we are med patients helping each other not for profits but forcompassion.
 
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SevenHourWorkWeek

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patient2patient said:
I think its funny how people look at the medical aspect and think (Jobs,Profit).You stated your not in it for the $$$$$ but you put a monetary value out there,then you try to compare it to others that profit bigger bucks.if you look at the average med patient usually they dont have the resources they need,so then they go to a dispensery to get over charged.We have patients we take care of with donations from other patients in our group we are med patients helping each other not for profits but forcompassion.
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colonuggs

colonuggs

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patient2patient said:
I think its funny how people look at the medical aspect and think (Jobs,Profit).You stated your not in it for the $$$$$ but you put a monetary value out there,then you try to compare it to others that profit bigger bucks.if you look at the average med patient usually they dont have the resources they need,so then they go to a dispensery to get over charged.We have patients we take care of with donations from other patients in our group we are med patients helping each other not for profits but forcompassion.
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And how would your little group handle the 1000s of new patients that get their MMJ cards daily???

It takes 3-4 months to produce your medicene alot of people work and dont have time to grow or the want to grow

$2-5 a g is a good set price for the kind....but if you supply a couple thousand patients you have overhead then $7-10 a g
 
colonuggs

colonuggs

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SevenHourWorkWeek said:
$2-5 for kind? lol that's cost. Yeah cool lets all do this for free.
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Our co op can grow 45 plants...45 plants X 8 oz = 360 oz 22 .5 pounds cost???? ....a crop takes a 4 months

rent $1200 a month ...$4800

electric $300 a month... $1200

4 bails of sunshine ... $160

45 potters...$150

Water and fert...$150

....................................$6460 cost into 360 oz......hmmmmmm $17.94 a oz...thats like .65 cents a gram


...........Lets say your running 45 plants getting 4 oz thats 11.25 pounds say your cost is $10,000 to produce thats only a 1.98 a g...getting $5 a G is more than doubling your $$$
 
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SevenHourWorkWeek

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Nice fantasy land mathematics. There is NO way you're getting 45, 8OZ plants in 4 months. That is not enough veg time to be getting 8oz plants. And you obviously don't know how much space an 8oz plant takes up. If you had 45 of them in the same room you'd need a HUGE basement or a warehouse. I figure about 45' x 25' at least. There is NO way you're electric bill is only $300/mo if you're growing 45 plants that yield 8OZ each. You'd need about 18 lights. There is no way that water and fert for 45 plants for 4 months is only $150. Even if you were doing super soil, $150 is about 1/4 of what you would actually pay for fertilizer and water. You're talking about 45x 7-10g containers to produce 8oz plants. That's about 45 1.5cf bags of soil. So you're talking closer to $900 for dirt. 4 bails of sunshing? Get the fuck out of here. I call bullshit on your entire post. You're clueless.
 
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permat

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SevenHourWorkWeek said:
Nice fantasy land mathematics. There is NO way you're getting 45, 8OZ plants in 4 months. That is not enough veg time to be getting 8oz plants. And you obviously don't know how much space an 8oz plant takes up. If you had 45 of them in the same room you'd need a HUGE basement or a warehouse. I figure about 45' x 25' at least. There is NO way you're electric bill is only $300/mo if you're growing 45 plants that yield 8OZ each. You'd need about 18 lights. There is no way that water and fert for 45 plants for 4 months is only $150. Even if you were doing super soil, $150 is about 1/4 of what you would actually pay for fertilizer and water. You're talking about 45x 7-10g containers to produce 8oz plants. That's about 45 1.5cf bags of soil. So you're talking closer to $900 for dirt. 4 bails of sunshing? Get the fuck out of here. I call bullshit on your entire post. You're clueless.
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Well said.
 
colonuggs

colonuggs

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SevenHourWorkWeek said:
Nice fantasy land mathematics. There is NO way you're getting 45, 8OZ plants in 4 months. That is not enough veg time to be getting 8oz plants. And you obviously don't know how much space an 8oz plant takes up. If you had 45 of them in the same room you'd need a HUGE basement or a warehouse. I figure about 45' x 25' at least. There is NO way you're electric bill is only $300/mo if you're growing 45 plants that yield 8OZ each. You'd need about 18 lights. There is no way that water and fert for 45 plants for 4 months is only $150. Even if you were doing super soil, $150 is about 1/4 of what you would actually pay for fertilizer and water. You're talking about 45x 7-10g containers to produce 8oz plants. That's about 45 1.5cf bags of soil. So you're talking closer to $900 for dirt. 4 bails of sunshing? Get the fuck out of here. I call bullshit on your entire post. You're clueless.
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permat said:
Well said.
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hahahaha Bother man.. I do this for a living and have done this for the past 20 yrs :)

my 8 oz plants are in 2 1/2 - 3 gallon pots not 10 gallon are you serious????...
 
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SevenHourWorkWeek

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colonuggs said:
hahahaha Bother man.. I do this for a living and have done this for the past 20 yrs :)

my 8 oz plants are in 2 1/2 - 3 gallon pots not 10 gallon are you serious????...

I produced almost 2 oz of dry weed in a 6 inch cup with my stinkbomb strain...

Our current Washington grow we are using 4 lights in veg on 24/7 in a 12x12 ft area and then going to up it to 8 lights in flower 12x24 ft area... Same electric consumption the entire grow

fert we use greenleaves it cost $170 for 5 gallons and we use 1/2 a oz per gallon...22.5 gallons of water with fert each watering 2-3 times a week... potters get 1/2 gallon everytime... fert lasts for 2 crops

My bails of sunshine are 3.8 cubic feet of soilless medium per bail 107 liters... $40 a bail... 15.2 cubic ft total


Heres one of our past grows in Denver about 4 weeks into flower... using a 12 x 15 room.... 6 lights in flower... 60 plants and these averaged just under 5 oz a plant of pre98 bubba in 2 1/2 gallon potters and finished in 17 weeks... 4 months 1 weeks
we now are running a strain in washington ...I have named stinkbomb that produces phat fat nugs.... the pre 98 bubba produces about 1/2 of what the stickboom does wieght wise because it has round smaller nugs not 12 inch colas
So in closing let me say..In reality bro...YOU HAVE NO CLUE:peace::mrgreen:bongsmilie
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Dude, you're ability to gauge yield per plant is way off. There is no way the plant in that party cup produced more than .75 oz of dried meds tops! 2oz? LOL Your gauge needs to be re-calibrated. Also, every other plant in your pics besides the party cup one is shown in 7-10g pots. LOL You're seriously trying to say those are 2-3g pots? LOL, mmmkay. And still, none of them appear to be vegged long enough to produce 8oz plants. I'm calling 4-6 tops, leaning closer to 4 based on the micro nutrient deficiencies apparent in the pics. Also, if that's week 4 flwr, I'm a monkey's uncle. And $300/mo for 12 lights? LOL right.

Congrats on fooling dummies like catfish billy and stonerman enoch, but I maintain, YOU'RE CLUELESS!
 
colonuggs

colonuggs

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I said almost 2 oz :) it was definatley more than .75 of a oz or 21 g.

I won a party cup competition last month... it weighed exactly 40.5 g...its about strain and knowhow :)
 
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SevenHourWorkWeek

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colonuggs said:
.....the plant wet wieghed 183.2 g...
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Yeah, untrimmed, undried, with all stalks still attached to the buds! Probably dried to about 20g of usable medicine, or, .75 oz, just like I said. I'm not buying the scale shot after all the other exaggerations.

Do I really have to explain this shit to somebody who has been growing for "20 years?" C'mon, this is basics bro.

I never had any problems with you before this thread. But when you start talking crazy dumb shit that degrades what I do for a living I gotta call you out.

If you're a grower, who makes a living growing, stop selling yourself and your fellow growers short bro. This shit is only semi legal and we work our asses off. Demanding fair compensation from an industry of scoundrels doesn't make you greedy. I'm not saying you shouldn't hook up the patients in your collective who allow you to put their papers on your wall and do what you do with some level of protection. But when you take your goods to market don't let those fucks convince you you're helping patients by giving them a low wholesale price. Their patients are paying the same street price they were on the black market. The only ones that are reaping from the savings of wholesale price drops are the middlemen dispensaries. So stop campaigning on their behalf and buying in to their BS! Please? Thanks.
 
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patient2patient

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well said.we have a room set up with 24 600wt we are useing hydro farms splitter that takes a 1000 wt ballast and runs two 600 bulbs to save power we veg for aprox 3 months and flower 9 weeks we are using the ebbflo deep water set up my electric runs approx $700.00-$850 a month.we have been averageing approx 15-20 oz per plant.i agree these dispensarys want our good quality meds at wholesale prices,meanwhile our electic and supplies keep rising.we spend on the average of 40+ hours a week.im not trying to get rich but i am trying to grow good quality meds and we support several patients that cant afford to go to the dispensarys to purchase there meds.remember this is a privledge, stay withing the r.c.w.s dont sell or smoke with non patients lets work together to grow together.grow big or stay home
 
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