Alright so what am i supposed to grow? I'm so confused. The original plan was to hunt down blue dream...but apparently thats a bad idea.
It's extremely profitable, IF you have someone who will buy it.
But yes. If you don't, you should probably try something different.
Guess I'm just gonna have to walk into some places in LA and see what's "top shelf"
I used to do this, but not anymore. If you do this you'll always be one step behind everyone. You'll find a "top shelf strain" that's really popular in dispensaries, then go find clones, do a cycle, trim, cure, etc and by the time you're ready to take it in, it ends up being 4-5 months later and by then it's everywhere. Then you're just one person out of several hundred all trying to sell the same thing at the same time.
You don't want what is "top shelf" right now. You want what is going to be top shelf 4 months from now.
What you really want to grow is something you're not seeing in dispensaries. Find a strain with extremely high bag appeal that yields and smells and tastes good. If you can get a strain that has all of that, you'll do good. If you find a strain with all of that + high thc, then you've found the next top shelf strain. But usually strains like that are created, not found.
Basically, take all the choices of strains that are obvious to you, and throw them all out. Then start your search.