If you look at how the so called large corps will grow thier weed. Yes they will have consultants and plant specialists, but who is tending to these plants. is it going to be 1 person with masters degree and 10 people making 10$ an hour and grinding out 40 hours a week. I would bet the farm its not going to be green houses, rather a very controlled environment, Green houses yes may save money off power bill but what about heating and cooling. Where I am at it -20 in winter for 3 months, green house no way would work. The cost to heat would surpass the electric bill of indoors. Not every grow is in California remember that its damn cold in alot of the U.s. The transportation costs are going to force the weed to be grown close by. My hunch is get outside of the big citys that the ops would be outside of city limits, and proboly in a very, secure area, armed guards, high fences ect.
The reason I said they cannot grow to peak is truely how you prefer your weed. I grow 60% amber every strain, every run. If things are running smooth they may let it go to peak thc. Thing is though have you had to depend on crops to pay your bills? Look what happened in Colorado when it went rec. They ran out of weed. If you had a dispense in your name as your bread and butter and knew that it is 2 choices as the shelves are running out, A. Let the shelves go bare and wait for the harvest to mature loose customers. B Chop that shit down and get in on the shelves. It is a differant ball game when its your sole income, you will do things at times you dont want to do, but you have to do. What hapens if a pest or a fungus issue over takes a 20K watt room, what do you do let the shelves go bare or do you chop another room early?
Its a entirely differant thing when growing for profit, notice I said profit. It matters not illegal or legal when you grow as your sole income you will do what you need to do to keep money flow going.
It is control plain and simple. Is it the guy that has the brains to grow in total control, or is it the General manager that knows nothing but is told can save 2K a crop by going to a differant grow cycle because of a bean counter? The General manager is not going to care what the grower says until its harvested and then finds out that it shit the bed. Guess who will answer to that. Will it be the general manager, the bean counter or the grower? It will be the grower every time and twice on sunday. The bean counters are the ones with control, it matter not who they work for.
What I am seeing more of is contract growing. People for what ever reason bring thier seeds to a grower and pay part upfront, then when harvest is done they settle out. The reason for the contract is they know how its going to be grown, what is used to grow it, how it is cured, how the grow is taken care of. The person has no risk to growing what so ever, and they do not have to be seen going in or out of a hydro shop, or a dispense. There are alot of people for example that are scout masters, lawyers, doctors, preachers, ect that will not at all want to be seen in a hydro shop, or a dispense.
I think this is going to be more and more common that contract growing will happen.. Yes most people dont give a flying ____ how its grown, they know they can pay 10$ a gram or 25$ a gram. How many people know about trichomes? How many people care about trichomes? Those that do not care are going to be the ones that just go cheap because its cheap. They do not care about indaca,sativia,hybrid%, how its grown, why its done certian ways, they just want to get stoned and want it cheap, even if a bowl last 30 minutes its cheap.
