Needed: Teachers of the Green

Brokeoldbloke

Brokeoldbloke

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With retail sale being over a year out. Seems to me there is a need for someone to show people how to grow for personal use in Colorado.

Over a million people voted for Amendment 64. Here is a new business opportunity just waiting to be filled. A quick internet search of the Denver area only turned up one site that offered classes for a home grower and it didn’t look active atm.

This could be a golden opportunity for MMCs or individuals with a good amount of grow experience to cash in. Teaching one or two classes on a weekend could easily put a grand or two in your pocket.

I learned what I know from sites like RIU and trial/error growing methods. It would have been great just to go to a class and learn from an expert. I’d still sign up. What do you think?
 
Brokeoldbloke

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SahTiva said:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/02/us-usa-crime-california-idUSBRE8310SV20120402


Every other one that attempted met the same fate, not trying to be a dick or anything but good luck with that. They dont like schools of pot.
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Denver already has several smaller scale Oaksterdams up and running without any Fed intervention.

What I was talking about and want to see is classes for the home grower. It’s going to happen I’d like to see it happen sooner than later. Not only is it a golden opportunity for some good growers to make a buck but the Hydro Stores could grow their customer-base/sales substantially with some free seminars. People have a year to wait for retail stores. I would like to see the home grower support industry/events develop during that time.
 
Brokeoldbloke

Brokeoldbloke

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The books and the internet are a great resource. I’m sure that is the way most new growers learned how over the past few years. But I would have much rather just started with a simple class instead of sifting through all the bias, conflicting and misinformation that is out there.

In Colorado there must be 1000s if not 100,000s of people considering home growing. The easier it is for people to get started and grow safely/successfully the faster that community will grow. I feel being able to grow legally is much more important than just being able to consume.
 
Medshed

Medshed

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I'm too cheap and stubborn to pay for lessons like that but if I had I know it would have saved me a few hundred dollars in wasted electricity, equipment, etc.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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Wonder where they give classes on growing rutabagas? You just plant the stuff! Buy the seed from overseas, Sea of Seedss is recommended (and they are a major RIU sponsor hint hint) but I have used others and had good service. Buy a bag of Fox Farms soil and a container. Voila you have it. Put it under a light and wait. Plant a seed every week and once your plants mature you will be harvesting a plant a week average.
 
chewberto

chewberto

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hotrodharley said:
Wonder where they give classes on growing rutabagas? You just plant the stuff! Buy the seed from overseas, Sea of Seedss is recommended (and they are a major RIU sponsor hint hint) but I have used others and had good service. Buy a bag of Fox Farms soil and a container. Voila you have it. Put it under a light and wait. Plant a seed every week and once your plants mature you will be harvesting a plant a week average.
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yea you may be able to grow it like all nonchalant but how good is it gonna be with little to no attention? factoring in providing the right environment the water and how the plant grows and needs to be harvested and cured, could be a big help to someone who has no clue. there is a market for it imo limited now but will it progress?.. and a plant a week how much room and trimming time you got?
 
Trousers

Trousers

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This has been tried a bunch here. There used to be weekly ads in the Westword. Did you try google?

http://www.cannabisuniversitycolorado.com/
http://www.thegrowschool.org/


I was recruited to teach classes on growing weed.
Before I did any work, I waited for the people to get their shit together. They had a website and it showed that classes were "running out of space quickly." About a month before the first class was actually scheduled I could not get a hold of the person in charge and the website disappeared. I later learned she was not really selling many tickets.

stoners, they are my people and I love them, but damn.
 
Brokeoldbloke

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Trousers said:
This has been tried a bunch here. There used to be weekly ads in the Westword. Did you try google?

http://www.cannabisuniversitycolorado.com/
http://www.thegrowschool.org/
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Ya, I look at those and few others. The only one that focuses growing is the thegrowschool and it didn't look active when I checked. I'm just saying there is a need for classes and its an opportune time for people/companies to provide them to the home grown community.


Why not start your own classes? You could easily make good money teaching a couple half day class on the weekends.
 
Brokeoldbloke

Brokeoldbloke

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hotrodharley said:
Wonder where they give classes on growing rutabagas? You just plant the stuff! Buy the seed from overseas, Sea of Seedss is recommended (and they are a major RIU sponsor hint hint) but I have used others and had good service. Buy a bag of Fox Farms soil and a container. Voila you have it. Put it under a light and wait. Plant a seed every week and once your plants mature you will be harvesting a plant a week average.
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LoL

The nurseries and gardens centers in my area do give classes every year on growing veggies and flowers. People take classes for every leisure activity or interest under the sun. The need for classes on growing your own marijuana is like any other hobby.

The startup cost for growing your own isn’t cheap IMO. Classes could give to people who haven’t grown before the knowledge needed for a successful 1[SUP]st[/SUP] grow. The more home growers that are successful the more interest there will be for others to do the same.

This 1[SUP]st[/SUP] year is an opportune time for the home grown community to develop and expand. This community needs to evolve out of its underground roots into a socially accepted activity. Classes are just a small step in generating interest and getting people involved with others in HG community.
 
NavySEALsVet

NavySEALsVet

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Trousers said:
This has been tried a bunch here. There used to be weekly ads in the Westword. Did you try google?

http://www.cannabisuniversitycolorado.com/
http://www.thegrowschool.org/


I was recruited to teach classes on growing weed.
Before I did any work, I waited for the people to get their shit together. They had a website and it showed that classes were "running out of space quickly." About a month before the first class was actually scheduled I could not get a hold of the person in charge and the website disappeared. I later learned she was not really selling many tickets.

stoners, they are my people and I love them, but damn.
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And I'm James bond
 
Trousers

Trousers

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Brokeoldbloke said:
Ya, I look at those and few others. The only one that focuses growing is the thegrowschool and it didn't look active when I checked. I'm just saying there is a need for classes and its an opportune time for people/companies to provide them to the home grown community.


Why not start your own classes? You could easily make good money teaching a couple half day class on the weekends.
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Because I do not want to advertise, find a venue, make a website, deal with accounting, create a curriculum...
I think that the people that started the business realized that it was a lot of work and that James bond is a douchebag.
 
Brokeoldbloke

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I guess "The Grow School" is doing classes. Here's their response to my email:

"Thank you for your interest in The Grow School. We are completely booked up until January 2013 and we are sorry for this inconvenience. Just since Tuesday's passing of Amendment 64, the demand for Grow 101 has more than quadrupled and this is something we hadn't planed on. We have a standby list for class openings, but people rarely cancel their class. If you would like to take the class in January, send us back an email. We are compiling a list in November and December of students that couldn't get a class date in 2012, and these will be the first students allowed to register in January. The course price is set to go up in 2013 to $149, but for all students that contact us before the end of this year, we will honor the current 99$ price when they take the course. At The Grow School LLC, our success depends 100% on our students success! Thank you, .Sent from THE GROW SCHOOL LLC"

A $100 let alone $150 seems pretty pricey in my IMO but their site does say they give discounts and free classes for vets and patients.

 
Osburn

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1) Call me old school, but I'd never teach a class or go to a class so a bunch of strangers could find out my name and that I grow. Even though I'm Am 20 and 64 compliant these days, I still like to keep a low profile. The only people who know I grow and where I grow have been my friends for 20+ years. Basically, if you weren't on my junior high football team, you're not going to get the tour.

2) Back in the day, I turned a lot of people on to growing and it was a pretty good money-maker. I'd supply the equipment, genetics, and know-how in exchange for a forty percent cut off the first two harvests. After the first two harvests, they'd also have to buy the equipment from me. The only problem was that some friends would try to cut me out after the first harvest. What can you do...

During that time, I also heard stories about guys doing something similar, except right around chop down time, they'd rob their "friends" and skip town.
 
eyecandi

eyecandi

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Brokeoldbloke said:
Classes are starting to be offered on craigslist. Sounds pretty shady when they offer a class with "a special bonus worth $90 from our private genetic reserve".
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the bonus is probably seeds or clones (I'd bet seeds). no shadiness with that, I'd be happier to leave with some decent seeds if I paid for a class (not that I would ..... I'm a lil beyond that)
 
Brokeoldbloke

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eyecandi said:
the bonus is probably seeds or clones (I'd bet seeds). no shadiness with that, I'd be happier to leave with some decent seeds if I paid for a class (not that I would ..... I'm a lil beyond that)
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You're probably right. Seeds makes more sense than what I was thinking. :)
 
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