It doesn’t take much to grow pot outdoors, just good weather and lots of water. The real cost is in the processing. Then there is the drying process, if it’s hung dried it virtually free as it is just hung-over drying line in cool dry location or machine dried (expensive). Good Bud trimmers can demand $100/hour and its time-consuming work. They make automatic bud trimmers, but they need to be managed so it’s not destroying too much of the bud.
It depends on the quality. We have all the special fertilizers and such. I grow it in the backyard. My cousin doesn’t kill the males so we have a quart jar of some Pineapple strain that he gave us.
The State Police brings in the choppers but I am 100% legit. It’s not supposed to be seen from the road and some jaspers were growing it downtown on their front porch. Town police confiscated them. The Sheriff won’t even bother people outside town.
Every workman we hired had grown it here back in the day. Welcome to Appalachia