I wish all companies provided white paper of this quality!
Follow there logic and read the references. And the references, references.
Business Plan White Paper Final A.pdf (543.6 KB)
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Just cut revenue by a two thirds or so and you could slap Oregon, 2018 on the cover.
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Thanks for sharing. This is exactly what I and a CFO of a company I am teaming up with are starting to work on. We already have 25 pages, maybe too much?
I am in Cali
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Jeff,
Lots of good papers out there. PM me I would love to see your production ideas. I am convinced that the correct layout and schedule can give a 52 week crop maturation schedule. That is one crop finishing each week. That means even staffing.
I also have some nice queueing algorithm for scheduling a grow in Microsoft Project.
From the voices in my head
Ethan.
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Jeff,
My full business plan was almost 200 pages for the bank.
We showed what we could and would track in our operation and how the grow of each crop would be cost accounted back to the grow.
We supplied targets that the bank wanted each month. Not just our PnL they wanted micro details. But, they had 1 million of only partially secured investment. When we paid them back five years early they got even more interested
and we had a million line of credit.
From the voices in my head
Ethan Kayes
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That is how I use to run my medical indoor. 6 plants in, 6 plants out every week, 52 weeks per year. It wasn’t exactly legal, I was running 60 plants on a 10 week cycle. I figured, if caught, I would justify it by the fact that I could fill the space with my legal number of plants, but that it was inefficient. Canopy is canopy, whether it is 12 plants or 60. Sixity 4oz plants was way eaaier to manage at ever step than twelve 1.25 pound plants. Most everyone I knew grew a full room all at once. There would be a ton of work upfront, then a little for most of the grow, and then a ton of work to harvest and replant. With a perpetual system it is steady work, well known in advance. I always harvested on a Friday, transplanted on Saturday, and trimmed on Sunday, then I worked (4) 10s at my ‘real’ job.
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My business plan was also about 200 pages to the OLCC, they said it was the best one they got in year 1. It was 250 pages to the bank just for a cannabis bank account. 
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Dan,
What was you veg to flower timing 5 and 5 or what?
if I am correct you got 5.2 turns of your space?
Do you think it’s possible to do an 9 weeks, instead of ten? You get 6 turns of space at 8.5 weeks or 15% improvement of space.
How many respaceing of plants do you do cutting, p1 p2 and final aka S4? Or cutting, p1 to final aka S3. Really changes utilization numbers. That requires me to know pot size and spacing an time at each spacing. Upto a 12% difference potential output from an S3 to S4 in utilization.
Plus, do you think we are harvesting past peak THC levels, In the grow? And go for a possible higher dry wieght? So numbers I am reading numbers that look like the best growers are getting 6.95 turns a year on space. I am missing something.
I would love to play with one or two of the biological growth regulators.
- Works like arest, but is organic for food in CA. Short fat plants. Cannabis mums?
- Is a chemical that inhibits side branches after flowers have induced. Used a lot in the Netherlands in mums that we don’t much grow here big cut flower verity that make a spray. Used to have to be pinched by hand to limit side branch growth, not any more. All the non flowering side branches just stop growing.
Enough rambling
From the voices in my head Ethan
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I grew a number of varieties ranging from 8-11 weeks, most fell between 9 and 10. I tried to pair 8s and 9s, 9s and 10s, and 10s and 11s as needed. Some maybe a bit higher turnover than 5.2, but pretty much 5.2. If I focused on 8 weeks cultivars, it could be 6.5, though my usual MO was to cut ripe tops and then let the bottoms fill out for another week, so 8 weeks still became 9 weeks total. Keep in mind, this was when price was high and I haven’t grown indoor for flower since going bulk rec outdoor, so I haven’t evaluated my old methods for ROI, it might not be worth doing that way in a tighter margin market. It probably isn’t scalable, but I haven’t tried, besides, if I were to do it now, it would all be in well outfitted greenhouse.
In my veg space I did all of my training to get a little bushy 18"Tx12"D plant in 1 gallon pot, I’d transplant to 10 gallon pot , give it a week in veg, do my last topping to balance growth, and put it into flower. I would only pinch tops that were becoming too dominate to slow them down. I didn’t want them getting much bigger than 3’x3’. They were staggered spaced in 2 rows with 1 row being about 10" higher than the other so I could tuck them in a bit. Total canopy was about 25’x3’ on one side and 15’x3’ on the other (total 120ft^2), roughly 56g per ft^2 per 10 week cycle, using a total of (10) 600w mixed spec (alternating MH and HPS). Clone/start area was 2.5’x8’ with (1) 8 bay T5 and (1) 4 bay T5, and 1 gallon veg area was 10’x4’, with (2) 600w MH.
This was all done in an old refer trailer (8’x40’) that came with my property and all juiced up as an old machine shop.
These are my moms to start cloning at the end of Feb. These are 7 gallon grow bags, fresh transplant, I used to use 10 gallon SmartPots. The setup was the same and this was about the size I would start flowering, but they are going 2 month more into veg as clone stock. I expect to get roughly 75 (50 on the first pass, 25 on the second) clones per plant, and then I take a few clones of clones as I run out of space and the moms run out of vigor.
Pretty bare bones…
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You guys are some real pros. Taking notes over here.
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Thank you. I think? 
From the voices in my head
Ethan
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