I’m directing cultivation for a grow in another state, and I can only be on site twice per month for a few days at a time. I have two people who have never grown before working in the facility following my schedules. I will be running a fully automated system (irrigation, nutrient dosing, co2, humidity, temp, and light schedules); however, I’m worried that it won’t be enough and that I won’t be able to hit the yields that I’m used to. I’ll be checking in on the facility multiple times per day and setting a good IPM and feed schedule along with set days for plant maintenance. I’m worried that I don’t have the time to train these guys well enough to spot issues and report them back, but I may be overthinking it. I’m putting heavy yielding, easy to grow strains that have been proven, but I’m still thinking that I need at least one person on site who knows what they’re doing, but they’re impossible to find or extremely overpriced in the state that we are operating in. What do you guys think? Has anyone dealt with anything similar?
What’s the pay and what state ? How long does it take to get a work visa?
That’s a tricky one there. I did the same kinda thing but it was a outdoor run so it seemed a whole lot easier… I would force them to study I grow cronic and also teach em how to use co2 right I’ve seen some impressive fuck ups good luck👍🏿
To grow a federally scheduled drug?
A looooooooooooooong time…
Ive been working in many pot farms for years since 2009 and I could say that every farm is more or less organized like you…thers a Grower mind and a bunch of “water guys” and general workers.
Your plan is totally doable, as a hint I would raccoment to contract responsible people that love to spend loooong times alone in the nature, balanced people, no psychos, no alcohol addicted or drug addicts …
I think that the most important thing is have workers with a responsible mind, in harmony with each other that don’t go crazy if they skip a trip to town…
Its like working on a fishing boat in the middle of the ocean for 6 month straight…you need to be a team… growing knowledge is sure a plus but I’ve seen many grows go south because of social-problems more than technical…
Too much testosterone and no girls that can also be a problem for some individuals…and when trim season approaches and start to show up female trimmers…some people can’t handle…
Avoid EGO driven people…those are the worst also…
Good luck and keep flooding the world with good buds!!!
I’m building a second sonoff controlled flood and drain system. Mine will be small but there is nothing to stop you scaling it up to suit. Provided you’ve got big enough reservoirs 2 to 4 weeks is definitely doable.
Setup an IP camera system too. Not ideal but your own eyes from a distance can be better than someone else’s eyes in this instance. If I can help in anyway shout up
you get what you pay for. its probably worth the money to hire someone with cultivation experience, rather than risking entrusting your crop to people who have never managed a grow before, let alone one of larger scale. of course experienced cultivators will be expensive (theres no incentive for them to work for someone else otherwise), but you are essentially paying for risk mitigation. you may take a bit of a hit, but its much better than losing a crop
If the price is right im sure alot of expierianced growers would love a job in the industry. Alot of smaller very skilled farmers have been priced or zoned out of the market and are scrambling to survive. I myself would happily supervise a large grow if it were on the west coast, pref california.
I am available for consultations on remote-link automation for grow systems. I spent the dark ages while OG was poofta computerizing and automating a few commercial setups for dispensiary suppliers. These folks needed consistent harvests in weight and bud quality, and effects.
A specialty of mine that no one was ever ambitious enough to let me ingrain in their grow, is using a powerful router, and Power Over Ethernet combined with the tiniest of control servers to control every single square cm of the grow space, with the tiny control server hosting a LAN-only webpage that can turn on/off every single thing you can hook up and use PoE with.
Control of singular ventilation fans, giving you the ability to turn off a single fan in the array without affecting any of the other fans moving air, or being able to shut off, via webpage, a single fluoro tube in a 4-tube ballast, or being able to crank down the amount of power being fed into an HPS/MH system. (That last one would allow a grower to under-power a 1000w bulb so as to not burn seedlings, and as soon as they require it, the grower can change the system to run full voltage, giving the full 1000w of growing power.
Or do a combination control of a half-power 1000w and half the full fan artillery to make a good gentle environment for seedlings/clones, only to crank everything up and go full 1000w with the entire fan array blasting full force for flowering.
Eh?
I’ll be doing this for myself when I begin wiring my new living space for growing on a 50amp breaker. I love the idea of micro-controlling every single variable of an entire grow, even with flowering and vegging happening at the same time in different spots. I’d be more than happy to help anyone automate their own grow to their own specs; My control system will only be released as a full grow add-on once I have fully coded and debugged the fucker, but I think a lot of people will enjoy it when I’m done.