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FuzzyShark
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Has anyone here looked into starting a greenhouse garden for monetary profit?
#27591327 - 12/22/21 11:52 PM (2 years, 1 month ago) |
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Just wondering if anyone has experience with building a greenhouse with minimal funds. Thus far I have everything need to build it except for the fans and floor. I have the frame and the plastic. I have tons of plants and trees that I can take cuttings from and double my amount of profit. Blueberry orchids, may haw fruit trees, fig trees. My plan in a nutshell was to take cuttings of plants that clean the air and water and once they sprout ship them nationwide on ebay.
Also considered getting cheap mini greenhouse to start the babies and once they get big transfer them to enormous greenhouse. I play to grow herbs like rosemary, parsley, sage, cilantro and sage. And hopefully somehow get a permit to sell them to local farmers markets. But they will need a consistent product for that to work. Which I can accomplish once we get the greenhouse established
There's alot of factors that could go wrong. Investments... If anyone could please offer me any in site into this startup. I would be forever grateful
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Oldnameforgotten
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Re: Has anyone here looked into starting a greenhouse garden for monetary profit? [Re: FuzzyShark]
#27597741 - 12/28/21 05:58 PM (2 years, 30 days ago) |
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I was heavily considering getting into Wasabi. Its very difficult to grow but is extremely profitable if mastered.
Also you could do some of the mainstream hot peppers. Carolina Reaper for example. And Ghost Pepper. People would pay a premium to get them from someone like you.
I dont have my foot in the door and never have..... but I dont think herbs are going to pan out much profit. I could be mistaken.
Honestly though if you put a lot of research into it and you gave it your all at Wasabi.... I bet you could do quite well. It is not for the faint of heart though from what I've heard. They need very specific environments.
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Re: Has anyone here looked into starting a greenhouse garden for monetary profit? [Re: FuzzyShark]
#27597938 - 12/28/21 08:54 PM (2 years, 30 days ago) |
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My wife and I built a small greenhouse on our property (8x11 feet or so), which is predominantly dedicated to rare orchids and other collectible tropical species, controlled with an automatic humidifier, automatic heater, separate misters for dedicated watering on a wifi connected/remote controlled timer, fans and temperature sensitive piston-controlled vents. We also have a shade house for additional rare plants that can better cope with our temperature swings here against the foothills of Los Angeles, where we do get frost in the winter and up to 115*F in the summer. I'd say we probably put about $1400-$1500 into building the automated greenhouse, another $300-$400 into the shade house (framed with modular structural steel tubing).
The eBay route can be a good option for selling plants, specifically rare or highly sought after varieties. My wife stopped actively cataloging when her spreadsheet hit 1500 different species. Granted, she does this out of a love of plants and not the profit motive. Nevertheless, she has sold specimens for up to $500 for a single plant, and even unrooted cuttings for $50-$100 a piece. While some of this has taken place on eBay, she has found the most lucrative selling opportunities through auctions via plant-based Facebook groups. It is through these same plant-based Facebook groups that she was able to grow her collection so remarkably, by actively trading others for new varieties.
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SnowFat
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Re: Has anyone here looked into starting a greenhouse garden for monetary profit? [Re: geokills]
#27598047 - 12/28/21 10:23 PM (2 years, 30 days ago) |
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I have been thinking about doing this to make some passive income. How do you deal with bugs?
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geokills
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Re: Has anyone here looked into starting a greenhouse garden for monetary profit? [Re: SnowFat]
#27598564 - 12/29/21 11:59 AM (2 years, 29 days ago) |
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Well, it depends on what you're growing. With regard to rare and non-edible tropicals such as orchids and rhipsalis, you can be a bit more aggressive when warranted, because you're not going to be eating them. But generally, if you keep your environmental conditions tightly controlled with pervasive airflow inside, as well as maintaining an uncrowded space around the exterior of the greenhouse, you shouldn't have too much of an issue inside an enclosed greenhouse. Utilizing a separate set of dedicated tools and soil for greenhouse operations, as well as entering with clean clothes (i.e. not after working in the wild garden), will also go a long way toward protecting against unwanted elements.
When you do run into issues (because yeah, some bugs or powdery mildew or even bacterial diseases may crop up from time to time), just make sure you respond quickly before things get out of hand, and you should be able to get away exclusively with organic-accepted copper based solutions for fungal/bacterial problems and neem oil based solutions for controlling insects and mites. If you have an advanced problem, you may have to remove and isolate heavily infected plants while being treated (and in the worst cases, destroy plants that are too far gone), to help mitigate the spread to the rest of your healthy plants.
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