AA> Hello John Dovey [[Photography]]!  
   AA> ** On Thursday 18.06.26 - 11:30, John Dovey [[Photography]] wrote to  
  Richard Falken:  
   JDP>> LOL. Yeah, as they say, you're only as old as the woman you're  
   JDP>> touching...  
   AA> Who is "they"?   Just one person with the initials JD?   :D  
   JDP>> It's an .... interesting ... journey this.  
   AA> How big is the weed farm?  International clients?  ..or just domestic?  
   AA> --  
   AA>   ../|ug  
    
  Yeah, I can only speak from experience ;~-)  
    
  I've got 500 plants in the ground for production, 200 in. Arrow room to  
  develop as mother plants and another 100 for experimentation with different  
  strains and other tests.  
    
  Once my mother plants are ready, I'll start making clones from them.  
  Initial plan is 200 a week, then pushing to 4 and the 600 a week. Our  
  calculations are that at peak we can be running 26000 plants  
  simultaneously. We're planning on three harvests a year, but we might push  
  that up or down depending on which of our methodologies works best for us.  
  26000is growing in the open with lights to control the photoperiod, growing  
  the plants to size so that could be four to six months between harvests.  
  The other method is that we forget about yield per plant, and concentrate  
  on yield per square meter, grow the plants to only a meter or so, then flip  
  them from veg to flowering, and move them outside to complete flowering.  
  Two very different approaches.  
    
  We're initially going to sell only product (buds) but we want to value add,  
  so we're doing intensive investigation into the most scalable and cost  
  effective way to produce high purity oil for medicinal use and obviously  
  for export.  
  We'll make pre-rolls from the lesser buds as that triples the sales value.  
  We're doing product development on stage three, that is infusion of  
  variables edibles etc, but that has an administrative burden that concerns  
  me.  
    
  It's a process. Lots of options. Lots of art and lots of science. I've  
  written a management system, which focuses on data gathering of all the  
  variables I can possibly get. I'm a data guy, so I want to see the data  
  over time, different weather conditions, lighting, propagation methods,  
  watering, nutrients, strains etc.  
    
  One side project I'm doing is to breed Tilapia in a dam and use that water  
  to feed the plants the natural nutrients. It's challenging. I'm struggling  
  with pH levels and nutrients load and finding the balance is difficult.  
    
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