Grow consultant

Just a thought. With legalization here in MA I wonder how many new growers would pay a consulting fee to have a person come and look at that persons potential future grow space and help that person figure out what they need to grow as far as equipment goes and then help them set it up to get them going. There is a marijuana grow consulting business in Colorado and they get $300.00 to figure out what you need to grow and provide 3 month of support.
I have no idea what to charge in this area. I'm toying with the idea.
Would you guys pay if you knew nothing to have a experienced grower come in to teach you the basics?

 

$300.00 has to be the "get you in the door price" cause there's no way a real consultant would be that cheap. No way.

And whatever became of that grow gig you were talking about?

 

They got the approval from the city but they will not start recruiting until they're closer to being done with the build. Their HR department contacted me three weeks ago and said as soon as they're ready to start recruiting they will call me. I still got to make money until then.

 

Looking back on it, it would have been worth a lot to learn how to do things the 'right' way to begin with. Problem is that people don't realize just how much they don't know. It all seems so simple in the beginning: It's just a weed, you water it and huge bags of bud appear. Until it doesn't quite work out that way... and you don't know why...

Five bills wouldn't seem unreasonable for an expert's guidance with starting up a small grow, especially if it saves a whole bunch of dickin' around, trying to figure out what hardware works. The hardware is the easy part. Teaching someone to grow is much tougher.

I think you'd need to define your function VERY clearly at the beginning or you'd end up becoming someone else's gardener for three months.

 

I would take a look at the legal markets already established. I am sure there are others out there doing it. Call em up. Ask em whats what. Keep your ears peeled for BS.

Its a good idea and a good service that would probably spare a new grower lots of headaches. But the market may be thin.

 

Thanks everyone for you thoughts and advice. It just another part of the cannabis business I'm looking at.
I'm still in touch with Green thumb Industries (GTI) Their HR department contacted me the last week of June. She said as soon as the recruiting starts I will be getting a call.
I'm just trying to cover all my basis.

 

I would say that $300 would be a good starting point to look at their spot and tell them what they needed. Any additional support, help setting up, good shop to buy from, you getting the goods from a shop, any help in planting and your "tricks" of the trade come as different packages and get charged accordingly. I have already had about 4 people ask for my help for when they are ready to get going and that's just from my summer grows outside. The market is there, especially if they tried on their own and failed. "That will be $300 to check what you did wrong and how you can fix it. Thank you."

 

What Luvs said. That's how I do it but I don't start at $300.00.

 

Standard fees for a grower without a business track record in Washington when they were starting were roughly $60 an hour and they tried to get in on retainers on a month-to-month basis. Ended up being about $1,200 a month for all of the nuts and bolts for basic running to get up to a crappy crop that would meet testing standards. The people who know what they're doing charge between $120 an hour and $600 an hour. It is a horrible business to be in long term but a decent side job. The problem is that when you tell someone how to fix their grow they don't ever come back if you do your job right so your revenue stream is limited.

 

Worth adding that that's for plant work only. You don't want to get involved in permitting, licensing, or construction. Each of those areas need at least one specialist to do the job right. The general contractor should have contacts for that. The rates are wildly different, too. We had an engineer, an architect, a general contractor, half a dozen subs, and two lawyers on our project to cover those areas and that's really what the jobs required.

 

True. If I had the money to hire a grow consultant to come by and give me a hand, and share the knowledge contained in these years of threads here, it would have made a huge difference.

I have to say tho that as an informal grow consultant with others in my area, a lot of my advice is "buy this or that" piece of equipment, and that adds up. Double the pain if your paying me to tell you. I guess if you are hiring a consultant it's in a budget of some kind so maybe for bigger stuff this isn't such a big deal. Or rather the cost of the consultant compared the the overall cost of the whole thing is negligible.

 

You know what I'd buy right now? A grow room cleaning service/pest control. Fans, filters, glass, vacuuming, wiping of panda. Spraying, plucking, bug war shit.

 

I'd like to have someone come and clean also. Then they can do the defoliation and feeding and trimming and................