Reading the LCB's faq's, they do not intend to limit the number of producer licenses. they simply want the time to go through the initial glut of applications. they are already required by law to process applications in a timely manner, and this application window simply gives them the time needed to conform to the already established rules.
Actually they do intend on limiting the number of producers whether or not you read it from the faqs or not. I went to one of their licensing seminars and they are aiming for a 2,000,000 sq foot canopy cap when including all the canopy of all the licensed growers. They have this 30 day sign up...then sign up closed at for at least a year when they see what they actually have in production. If they don't have 2,ooo,ooo sq foot being grown they will open the process up but if they are over their 2,000,000 sq ft figure they come to the growers and take a little space away from us all. This is from the mouths of the WA Liquor Control Board.
Hey... so I like your spirit!!! While typing this, one of my favorite songs in life is jamming in the background: You might die trying, by Dave Matthews. Check out the words, as it has seriously inspired me in times when I was doubting my next {life-professional) step.
Any fan of Dave's is a friend of mine:-)))
I am a 57 year old lady that used to grow indoors 20 years ago and things have changed greatly since then:-/
I have a solid 7 years of grow experience but not on this level.
The money I will be using is from friends and family that know my skills at growing in the past and feel I am competent and able to go forward with this.
This doesn't compute.
What on earth do you mean? That I am not 57? That I did not grow indoors for 7 years 20 years ago? That I don't have friends and family willing to invest in what to many of us here seems like a great opportunity? I actually watched "Lost in Space" when I was a kid and this totally computes. I also was 1/2 of an outdoor medical grow here in WA state for the last 4 years with yields of never less than 90 lbs of good bud and usually closer to 120 lbs for the 15 plants that WA state has been allowing for medical. The first year we got 10 lbs per plant on 8 of our girls. I can't even claim to have done anything amazing to it...it just grows outside here very well in our long hot summers.
Seriously I would love to sit and dispute half of the claims here but I have no time for this stuff:-/ I am sure that much more money could be spent to do this as perfectly as possible but I have to work within a framework that I have available to me and that I will do. We have a great deal going for us.....great building that needs next to nothing in the way of huge alterations except exhaust fans.....400 APM power with double 220 outlets every 15 feet on the walls and on poles situated within the growing space.....a landlord that is not only aware of what I my plan is but willing to charge me a substantially lower rent for the first 6 months to try to help make sure the venture works financially......partners that are well funded, ready, willing and excited to be doing this.......some of the cheapest power in the entire nation.......and the list goes on. You folks can continue to debate whether is can be done or not and on what budget it cannot be done, but in the mean time I am going to do my best to make sure it is:-) I will continue to watch the message board for good info because I have seem plenty in various threads but I have no interest in words of gloom and doom. I did not ask for advice on how to run a business...I was seeking help on setting up an grow area on such a large scale. Telling me I need more money is not advice on how to set up a grow room actually...it is telling me how not to even try. Perhaps if someone said you need this, this and this in these quantities I would at least have a figure to shoot for. No one has even suggested one actual thing towards a grow set up here except for those that privately messaged me. That is really what does not compute.
