i preach this… I warn people all the time… if they have a job they love or career and make great money, i never advise them to start growing commercially and quitting their bread and butter job.
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Riddles nursery up the road from you in Sand Springs has massive bags of perlite cheap!
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The way it’s going here in Oklahoma now, the growing biz is becoming a game for players with deep pockets only. Not trying to discourage you from jumping in, just be prepared to spend BUCKS, and also jump through a lot of hoops and over a lot of hurdles…all while they keep moving the end goal posts.
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I think your right. And my pockets are not nearly deep enough 
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just for an idea/comparison, a ‘small grow op’ (500-1000 plants) expenses can run over $25,000.00 a year and that’s not counting your initial startup costs.
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And being disabled doesnt help lol, one day I will make this dream come true
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Both the wife and myself are elderly and disabled…it’s an indoor grow and we both work in it daily with our oldest son to help. It’s do-able, barely. lol We got our cards also, we grow mainly for ourselves and sell the excess to the dispensaries. If you’re disabled and on Medicare or Medicaid/Soonercare, you can get your card for like $20.
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Our electric bill is usually around $600-$700/month, sometimes a bit more (really hot or cold) sometimes a bit less (lowest was around $400+, water is about $45/month then you have nutrients, equipment upkeep/replacement of worn out things like bulbs/ballast, materials, pots, etc, etc also the hidden costs like taxes (city, county, state, federal) cost of plant tags and shipping tags, tax/accountant preparation, cost of security, cost of testing, the list goes on… also, trust me, you DON’T want to try doing them taxes on your own I did and then took it to a tax accountant who found a lot I hadn’t known
( I erred on the side of safety first)
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Yea I got my card, and I grow for myself. I would just like to be able to sale the excess to the dispensary as well, and of course would love to figure out the funding to do it on a scale where I could support myself doing so.
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What part of OK are you in? We’re in the country west of Tulsa about 15-20 minutes.
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Hey man. You need to PM me your addy. I got something to send you. 
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lol thought I had, sorry …done
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The number of plants you grow is up to you. Just bear in mind that a lot of the costs are going to be pretty constant. That’ll mean you need to grow enough to cover all monthly expenses as well as having what y’all personally need. It’s a math problem from hell lol
What plants will give you what yield, what will the dispensaries pay for your product, what strain will be best for your personal needs, etc lol plus the dispensaries want variety so you’ll need quite a few strains and the room for all of them… that all falls under the heading of ‘start-up’ costs we thinned down from mothers of over 50 strains to around 15 now
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OKC, but Im looking to move to the country.
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Sounds like such a fun problem to have, to me.
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damn, that’s a couple hours away. I was gonna say lets get together and I can go into things a bit more with you to help give you an idea of things. But you get the picture just from what I’ve said here so far, I’d think lol you’ll have to carry yourself cost-wise for the first few months while you growing out your crops
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It IS a fun problem lol I have grown all my life all over the country and still love growing…it’s all the BS that I hate 
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Yea so it really does seem like the initall buy in and land and just money in general is the issue! Dang I need to win the lotto!
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Land needs to be your outright I believe, otherwise there’s more things to get taken care, of like getting permission from whoever holds the note, I’m not sure on that so don’t hold me to it. We paid cash for this bit of land and buildings
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