It's kind of ironic, because growing high-quality bud at home costs virtually nothing past maybe ~$60 in nutrients[0]. Growing cannabis just doesn't scale very

It's kind of ironic, because growing high-quality bud at home costs virtually nothing past maybe ~$60 in nutrients[0]. Growing cannabis just doesn't scale very well - you can't just double the nutrients for the same amount of water and expect to feed 2x the plants, in a similar vein you can't double the number of plants for a given space either, because the yield typically depends on the amount of light available. Even assuming you can double the amount of light, you can't automatically assume your yield will double as well, there's techniques required to maximize that return, which ultimately requires (sometimes significant) human interference. It's a remarkably fascinating plant in that sense, you can have two clones identical in every way, and they will still grow and flower slightly differently. For what it's worth, automatic trimmers have come a long ways in recent years. A coworker at my previous job had purchased one for personal use, he had a ACMPR license for up to 35 plants. He said where it used to take two or three hours to trim a single plant, he can knock 7 or 8 off in the same time. Of course it doesn't come anywhere near the quality of a hand-trim, but you can get 90% there with almost no effort. To the older generation like him, it's still orders of magnitude better than whatever you could get just 10-15 years ago. And yes, 10 brownies for $30 is a reasonably good price, even here in Ontario. Assuming they contain a reasonable dosage of THC (say 50mg), anyways. [0]: Personally I use the General Hydroponics 3-part; two 1L bottles of "Bloom" and one bottle of each "Gro" and "Micro" is roughly $90 CAD. Using just those three nutrients and some pH adjusters I've been able to harvest roughly 25 lbs across 14 plants over the past 4 years. It's likely I will need another bottle of the bloom and micro components before starting another grow, but the Gro bottle should last another two or cycles easily.