Any ideas for this (x8) light dep, light assist greenhouse? Planning on making ready to flower plants for micros/industry. Or skip weed and grow peppers? Full licensed…ready to rip.
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That’s almost 6 million bucks worth the lumber!
I think… Looks like a new age retirement package
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I think there will be decent money running a nursery , I’m going to have a small one next to my micro to supply myself with teens so I can flower the full 2150sq ft.
Nursery licenses are much quicker and simpler to get.
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You mean the just the skids lol? It’s pvc plastic panels inside.
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anyone know where to get this stuff or similar stateside for a decent price?
I worked in a 3 acre one like that, it was really nice, we had an argus automation system running most of it, get you a little train or conveyor setup to reset the rooms, our propagation was on other side so we just loaded up a little train with about 200-400 plants at a time. If you need any help reach out and I can tell you how to optimize it.
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Damn Bro, I thought you bought the lumber dip in 2020…
Sorry, I’m unironically making joke of the lumber prices. I thought that you had a bunch of wrapped lumber packages.
But either way Go Team!
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this is approx 32,000sq ft.
and that would be great to reach out once we get closer to getting plants in here. i am trying to get them to learn everything micro propagation right now… as well as old school cloning techniques.
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yeah the one i worked at was 100k sq. ft 8 rooms, definitely reach out! I’d automate what you can, my favorite piece of equipment was the soil/media shredder that added amendments that fed into the pot filler which punched a hole for the plant in the pots soil, you just had to add coco, pots and plants. we were turning around 2000-4000 every week or 2 so it saved tons of time as well as having a train to bring them to all the rooms so we werent carrying pots all day…
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This place is full automate with Argus controls. That the shredder/soil filler sound legit.
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Do you think alot of people starting up would go ethanol for less regulations/cost and maybe implement hydrocarbons later on once running?
In the canadian market wouldnt you agree ethanol is easier from a regulatory perspective but what about having to compete with hydrocarbon products?
It seems ethanol extracts will never be as good as pho/bho…
Some people mentioned these louching/lle techniques to avoid pressured vessels…is this really an option?
What do you guys think in regard to Ethanol vs Hydrocarbons for canadian labs…
It’s much harder to make quality ethanol extracts.
Unless you’ve got some tricks up your sleeve and know how to make really high grade ethanol extracts… Your really only be spending an extra 10% or something to go for hydrocarbon vs ethanol for your compliancy. I’d hardly say it’s “much” easier from a regulatory perspective. You still gotta deal with high hazard compliancy either way.
If you’re louching… It’s likely into pentane, so you’re not avoiding any hydrocarbon safety requirements.
Ethanol is (in general) faster and more power efficient if you’re using membranes. But you’re likely just running it into a lower quality product. If you’re making lower quality product, you probably have to extract a lot more to maintain your margins. If you’re going into bulk production… Then you’re competing with guys who can do MASSIVE volume. So you’re likely not going to remain competitive for more than a couple years as we all race to the bottom.
Unless you know how to make superior ethanol extracts. Volitaile Hydrocarbons are likely a better route for a small scale extractor.
As someone who is probably going to save 500k-1m by ensuring that we have equipment that only needs a 1.5 meter bubble around it that is C1D2 instead of a whole room that has to be C1D1… I would disagree. So long as you have good code consultants and engineers and architects, anyways.
I agree with this. Where the technology sits today, if I were going to be looking at craft scale, I’d be looking at butane/propane/etc. But that’s still hard in Canada because you need something with CRN registration.
I keep thinking about working with Killa12345 and putting together a cheap garage-scale system that could be certifiable and let people do small scale BHO without having to shell out for a Luna.
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The 500k-1m is proportionate to your sized operation I guess 
I’d say % wise, if you were just doing a small build-out, and needed to upgrade the space into baseline compliancy, it’s probably a… 20-30% savings on specifically building upgrades and infrastructure? (Pending on your local government?).
Lots of variables…
I also haven’t built high hazard cannabis space, just alcohol. So I should certainly bow to your experience on this one lol.
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If you’re at the “just get a c1d1 labs box and wave the paperwork around until the fire marshall walks away” scale, you’re probably right. And they might just ask you to have a C1D1 space regardless because you’re throwing solvents at the demon lettuce. At that scale, that’s probably how I’d plan to skin that particular cat.
C1D1 over C1D2 can be but is not always a fair price jump. Assume you’re going to put twice as many $ into each thing that touches the classified space in question and you’re probably only going to have a few surprises by the time the final red line is drawn at the bottom of your bank account.
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Sounds like Rosin time 
Or else put 2 Rosin presses in your building, then run your hydrocarbon extractor out in the bushes out back.
“I’m just REALLLLLLLLY good at making Rosin Mr. Compliancy officer, no solvents here”
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If nobody sees it, then nobody gets mad.
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What about getting liscensed for something lower overhead on extraction side (ethanol/membranes) and easy from a regulatory perspective than once running go hydrocarbons to target both markets?
Does this seem logical?
Im just trying to wrap my head around this as it seems theres some huge pros/cons…
Ethanol is efficient and easy and cant make good products
Hydrocarbons are expensive and difficult but can make amazing products…
Trying to find a good route with a vague story 
Have you ever seen any ethanol operations be able to produce and compete craft?
Micro (a few hundred lbs per year) ethanol extraction is still likely minimum $300-500k.
There’s no “budget” setup in solvent compliancy.
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