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Before pot yield of their dreams, constant care for fickle plants
The Seattle Times ^
| June 28, 2014
| Bob Young
Posted on 06/29/2014 12:29:59 AM PDT by steve86
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posted on
06/29/2014 12:29:59 AM PDT
by
steve86
To: discostu
Some growers are seeking up to $5,000 a pound, Greenshields said, almost triple the price of pot on the illicit market.
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posted on
06/29/2014 12:31:50 AM PDT
by
steve86
( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: steve86
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posted on
06/29/2014 12:42:52 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Cogito, ergo conservatus sum -- "The Taliban is inside the building")
To: steve86
Well gee, then you think people will buy the legal, yet far more expensive pot or the still illegal but far cheaper version? Bunch of geniuses there, smokin’ too much of their product.
CC
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posted on
06/29/2014 12:49:32 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
To: Celtic Conservative
It won’t be long before the users just grow their own, growing decent pot is no more trouble than growing good tomatoes, and once guys start getting into it, they will be ever improving, and selling it cheaply or for cost to their friends, and trading versions of it and so on.
If you have ever been around pot growers or tomato growers, you know how it catches on and develops into a kind of gardening competition among friends and neighbors, roses are like that.
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posted on
06/29/2014 12:55:45 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(( Rand Paul---What a tragedy if America wouldn't have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader.)
To: ansel12
Nonsense. Pot smokers are too lazy to grow their own. /s
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posted on
06/29/2014 4:45:36 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: ansel12
It wont be long before the users just grow their own... This.
If a black-market guy can make a decent profit on his "product" at his price, legal growers should be able to also, despite the heavy taxes (look at tobacco or alcohol).
But eventually, a lot of people will start to grow their own, like your tomato example, and save a LOT of money.
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posted on
06/29/2014 5:03:20 AM PDT
by
jeffc
(The U.S. media are our enemy)
To: steve86
$480.00 for a dime bag...Hmmmmmmmmm
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posted on
06/29/2014 5:53:30 AM PDT
by
Iscool
To: steve86
Product selling for roughly $3,000 per pound.
Stoners say weed doesn’t make them stupid LOL.
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posted on
06/29/2014 7:46:27 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: ansel12
I’m holding on to my heirloom seeds...
Gonna be big money in them some day...
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posted on
06/29/2014 7:50:59 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: steve86
Some growers. That’s not even that expensive for top end stuff. I know stuff that goes for over $1000 an ounce. The interesting part about a white market is you can ADVERTISE differences in quality. So the prime market and the ditchweed market will really separate themselves.
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posted on
06/29/2014 10:03:04 AM PDT
by
discostu
(Ladies and gentlemen watch Ruth!)
To: Celtic Conservative
you think people will buy the legal, yet far more expensive pot or the still illegal but far cheaper version?Consumers will pay a premium for quality control and staying on the right side of the law - but I doubt many will pay triple. Either these sellers will realize they can make more money at lower prices, or new competitors will enter the market and drive prices down ... or both.
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posted on
06/29/2014 10:13:09 AM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: Wolfie
Get real stoner, join reality.
Growing pot is not work, it is just a plant.
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posted on
06/29/2014 1:39:44 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(( Rand Paul---What a tragedy if America wouldn't have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader.)
To: ansel12
growing decent pot is no more trouble than growing good tomatoesAnd yet people make money selling tomatoes.
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posted on
06/29/2014 1:53:45 PM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: ConservingFreedom
You think that is brilliant, and the equivalent to selling pot for 50 cents or a dollar a pound to everyone, and as the basis for a large portion of foods and sauces and Ketchup and hot sauce?
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posted on
06/29/2014 2:04:01 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(( Rand Paul---What a tragedy if America wouldn't have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader.)
To: ansel12
You think that is brilliant, and the equivalent to selling pot for 50 cents or a dollar a pound to everyone, and as the basis for a large portion of foods and sauces and Ketchup and hot sauce?Sorry, I don't speak gibberish.
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posted on
06/29/2014 2:08:26 PM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: ConservingFreedom
You claim to not think it, but you sure write it.
You compared growing pot for it’s users, to growing the ubiquitous tomato that farmers probably make a dime or two per pound.
Even at the end of the supply line for tomatoes, buying them whole for a salad, I don’t pay more than 50 cents a pound, and that doesn’t count Ketchup and canned sauces etc.
You thought your point was brilliant? What are you smoking?
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posted on
06/29/2014 2:27:43 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(( Rand Paul---What a tragedy if America wouldn't have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader.)
To: ansel12
So your theory is that you can only successfully sell a plant product if it's very cheap?
Like tobacco?
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posted on
06/29/2014 2:58:23 PM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: ConservingFreedom
Huh?
The article is about buying pot for $3,000 a pound in a bag.
Pot is so easy to grow that some of us have had problems eliminating it from our yards.
Is growing pot complicated to you? Have you ever grown tomatoes?
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posted on
06/29/2014 3:08:32 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(( Rand Paul---What a tragedy if America wouldn't have gotten to see Barack Obama as a leader.)
To: ansel12
Pot is so easy to grow that some of us have had problems eliminating it from our yards.Did any of you ever know anyone to get high from that pot? Many cannabis plants are very low in THC.
Is growing pot complicated to you?
I grew some once that didn't get me high.
Have you ever grown tomatoes?
Yes - and with less care than I gave my pot, the tomatoes met their intended purpose.
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posted on
06/29/2014 5:46:07 PM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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