Hey all, looking for some community input on what the bigger farms are getting in yields per acre on THC as well as CBD/hemp. Keep hearing in the 1800-2200lb range but want some more input on it. If anyone has real numbers, not sure hearsay. Just bought a ranch here in coastal central California that we can do either 72,000sq ft of cannabis or 10acres of hemp. Starting first year with strictly outdoor (no deps allowed) and working through costs of fertilizing the soil, (ag land, has been used for hemp the last few years, so won’t need massive inputs) as well as labor costs for harvests and processing that quantity. Next year we plan to set up the entire 72k ft as automated mixed light houses, so for those too, what are people getting per 20’x100’ house? Still the average of 100lbs? Again, real numbers and real advice on this is greatly appreciated!
Damn Larry
Sounds like a nice spot. Can’t believe you got that far in without knowing what you will get out. Wish I had more money then I knew what to do with. But seriously. Good luck
im useless and ranting but I couldnt imagine not using that for dank and not hemp. double negative but grow weed.
You want someone to do the homework for the MSO/VC? 
I heard @thumper has a reasonable retainer. He will get you a metric ton per acre no problem
His services can be retained at the chicago glg
Totally aiming for cannabis, not hemp, that would be last result if the THC licensing fails (for whatever be reason they can throw at us).
MSO/VC? That acronym I don’t know yet, can you clarify?
Wow, buying property and assets with this little information. Sounds like a hedge fund move.
So you’re going to cover 72000 square feet with automated greenhouses, and your here asking basic questions a third grader could figure out in about 20 minutes with readily available information? Assuming a 72k sq. Ft greenhouse (canopy) you will actually need about 140k sq.ft. @ a extremely conservative number of $100 (probably closer to $150)/ square foot you are looking at a minimum of 15mil just to build the structure. Maybe you should consider paying somebody for their time and knowledge with that kind of budget.
Would be happy to help you plan and buildout the greenhouses but no information is free for the big dogs 
Not at all, I’ve been growing cannabis my entire life, but been stuck in labs the past two years and ready to be back out in the sun. Finally got presented this opportunity so I’m going for it. Putting all my chips on green. The community input part of it is asking for Grower info. What issues should I look out for going up to the scale, such as when people do acreage, what is the average mold losses or weak plants vs real usable flower? @thumper does that metric ton include smalls or just going for colas, and extracting the rest?
I know very well on (relative to this) small scale, but this will be my largest grow yet by far, and first legal farm. So I have no shame in saying yes there is lots more I need to learn. We all benefit from info sharing, I’ll be happy to post my results come fall
Haha totally, reading back what I wrote last night when too tired to be posting things publicly. The full space of houses is a dream that will only come to fruition with lots and lots of work, but the potential is there. Not expecting to put them all up at once, I don’t have that kind of money and we have no Chad investors. Strictly funded by our own work.
To be honest (like 100% honest), the information is here. You have to hit that search bar, and read your ass off. Nobody is just going to give you the information that they either spent the time reading to learn, or has spent the time in real world applications learning this info. There’s people that that’s their lively hood. You might get lucky, and someone will break you off some info, but you’re going to have pay… Either in money or time, but it’s going to cost you.
Not trying to be a dick, I’m just being as honest as I possibly can
Ok, grow your 1.5 acres of weed, extract it into distillate, grow the other 8.5 acres as hemp, spray said hemp with distillate from weed and you effectively just 5x your canopy
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Where are you at? Are you hiring for the edibles?
no I don’t want to do that at all. Here to grow good quality
Hire someone with the required square footage experience that was successful.
Yeah I’m just playing. But if you are scaling up from small time to 72k canopy I would advise paying some experienced outdoor commercial growers to help you plan and execute.
You need to consider a lot of things: security, IPM, irrigation, fertilization, harvest and drying, sales, what strains to run, cross pollination etc…
I would maybe consider attempting to do a contract grow for some processors or other players so you are guaranteed to sell some of your product. You might make less but it’s better than losing your ass. You will be hard pressed, imho, to scale to that size outdoor and grow high quality flower. It will most likely be going into concentrates.
It’s a risk and gamble for sure. Anyone who’s reading this for hire that wants to talk specifics please private message me.
Yes all of those are in the process right now. The property is very secure, it was used for hemp last two years with zero issues. Fenced, gated, tons of water, irrigation sources already in place, just need to run new drip tape lines, good soil with amendments ready to be put in. I definitely do know a bit about farming.
Can’t get better if you don’t work on it right?
Edibles? Not my goal here at all. Publicly I’d like to only say central California.
you mentioned what to do with smalls= edibles. with gardens your scale the ediblees could bring in millions.
Definitely will need help on that side when the time comes!