I didn't read every post but I will say, Looks is what will sell your herb in socal, not the golden words, " it's really good, once you smoke it!" There is so much excess herb, indoor outdoor year round now that if it doesn't kill it with looks, your done son!
Nothing about you personally, it's just the market. Nobody wants to hear the words, it doesn't look like the kill but it is...
Trust me, if you don't have alliances and avenues set up like ten years ago, you're gambling!!!
Obsoul33t knows from experience and I can second that, things aren't what they used to be. Top top shelf indoor goes for 25-27 nowadays. Consider the most expensive real estate on the western side of the USA and the most expensive power and highest prices for everything you eat and use.
If your set on coming to California to live, Do IT Morgan!
But, make sure you have a huge nest egg or other avenues on income or more than one working person in the family...I don't wanna talk negative or bad. Just saying, the days of 4k a pound are years ago! Like Obs said, I see more people getting rocked out of the biz than ever, your paying top dollar to grow herb that if sold for top dollar, is nothing next to the prices in other states. I tell everyone, stay in your state and grow there....but if you wanna live in CAli, just make sure you have an income, jobs are non-existent and everyone living here who lost their job will be competing for any coming in the future. It's not a deterrent I'm selling, it's the truth.