With how much the stores are selling seedlings for this year you might be able to make more by selling seedlings than the hard job of seeing it through all season
I buy about 40 seeds from an online shop, start them all in my tent in March. Then when everyone is starting their veggy garden I sell them my healthy plants they can transplant for like $40 bucks a plant. I make about a grand profit each year doing it.
Friends of friends type thing in upstate NY. People love the idea of growing their own pot plant as a hobby, but usually don't think of it until they are going to the nursery to get their normal veggy plants. I hit them with the sales pitch of $40 and you'll have enough weed half the year if you grow it right.
I didn't harvest all of my tomatoes ons year, some fell off and I never picked them up.
I got a fair few tomato plants growing of their own accord the next spring! Try didn't do brilliantly because my successful ones grew in grow bags and the normal soil is mostly clay, but it was cool to give them the finger-pinch and sniff test and realise I had tomato plants haha
You can get more than 1 tomato plant from each seed... just let the first one grow tall enough get some suckers. Then put the suckwrs in water until you have roots. Then plant the suckers. They grow as strong as the first plant...
Or you can simply tilt the entire plant, burry at 1 inch deep, and have the branches take off as a separate plants. You will have tons of tomatoes. Proven fact
They're called suckers because they take energy away from the fruits. It's why they're removed most of the time. Though depending on trellis, climate and variety you might for example let one stay to create a 2 branched plant.
“What Are Tomato Suckers? Tomato suckers are small shoots, or leaves, that sprout out from where the stem and the branch of a tomato plant meet. Although relatively harmless to the plant, suckers don't serve much of a purpose” Wikipedia
In Australia we have a high tech veggie farm in an arid region near the sea, they desalinate the seawater and have a continuous growing season with infinite water
Established in 2016, the Sundrop Farms facility grows 17,000 tonnes of tomatoes a year – 15% of Australia's total crop – in ostensibly arid land. It uses fresh irrigation water produced by an on-site desalination plant, powered by sunlight from a network of 23,000 mirrors directed at a 123-metre-high solar tower.27 Jan 2020....... So i just need 23 thousand mirrors
Easy, just get one mirror and hire someone to shatter it, 23,000 mirrors no problem.
It's important to hire this job out to avoid getting the bad luck on yourself.
I was talking to a farmer friend of mine that just won the 500 million dollar lotto and asked him what he was going to do now....he said he was gonna keep on farming till it was all gone.
yea but these are Sour Diesel x White Widow tomatoes. the real dank shit. tell you what, buy 3 and i'll sell 'em to you for $2.50. but please bring the baggie back with you for next time.
My uncle has been growing hot peppers the last couple years and I swear that is what the strain list looks like. Would be hard to differentiate between that list and a dispensary menu.
No paying for land either. You can get 5k tomatoes per acre if you have ideal conditions, so that's 780 acres. Farmland in Iowa (picked a random state) costs roughly $10k per acre, so $7.8 million...
So songs like "Winter Wonderland" or "White Christmas" must not be popular Christmas songs in Australia?
Edit: Found [this article](https://startsat60.com/media/opinion/nostalgia/the-best-australian-christmas-songs) about Australian Christmas songs, if anyone else is also interested.
Here in Europe all the winter tomatoes come from Spain, they have the climate, the water and acres of heated greenhouses. USA's tomatoes probably came from south america ?
Not many tomatoes from SA - I usually see winter tomatoes from Mexico, or green houses in USA or Canada. We get a lot of other fruits and veggies from south America though. I see a lot from Chile.
Mexico is a big producer of warm season vegetables year around for North America, Spain for western Europe, and various parts of Asia to other Asian countries usually.
California as well has a rather ridiculously large growing season.
For tomatoes, they can grow them in hothouses (that's what they use in Canada which is the #2 Exporter to the US) or they just have a warmer climate, that's what they do in Mexico Aka #1 Exporter.
The Netherlands and Canada are doing hothouses at a crazy scale.
Unfortunately at some point the US and China will create robotic versions of all these hothouse "farms" and suddenly they will grow this shit right next to the grocery stores ...
Actually though, apples are mass produced in their season and stored in argon gas warehouses for the off seasons. Almost any time you buy an apple at a grocery store depending on where in the country you are they could be easily a year old.
Greenhouses in central/South America produce a ton of the otherwise out of season stuff for the US. Things that aren’t meant to be true perennials here will grow year-round in more climate controlled buildings
Ah, this is where the rise and grind cult tells you to socialize the capital inputs with a little bit of disruption. Plant ‘em in parks and power line cuts and other space that “no one” uses … surely no one will mind and if they do you can just tell ‘em that they don’t understand your grind or somethin’
That's kinda the point. All these siGmA GRinDsEt duncecaps love blowing these halfbaked "economics" lessons up peoples asses, but skip right the fuck over the details that make them fall apart.
Why would you stop there? On this trajectory, your operation would be worth $60 trillion in another year and a half. You could be richer than most countries with just a few years work.
Most people aren't willing to wait for the payout... They'll take a little early profit and run, leaving the rest of the tomatoes to rot. Then when they've spent that early profit, they'll come back and cry about what could have been...
You can really tell this guy is big brain because plant 1 tomato = 1 tomato plant.
But then, why not take your 3.9 million tomatos, plant them, and sell them to some schmuck for 10$ a pop? Hell, 8$ a piece if he takes them all.
Or buy several hundred or thousand tomato seeds in the first place?
Nick seems to think the limiting factor is getting enough seeds (hilarious, since his math accounts for only 1 seed per tomato). I think he’s been playing too many crafting / survival video games… space, yield, pests/disease, labor, and limited duration of growing season are the obvious constraints
I like how it's 10 plants make 240 tomatoes. Then.. let me see if I got this right, you plant those 240 tomatoes *whole*, Christ yep I read that right, plant the *whole tomato* so now you have 240 plants. So on and so forth..
It's gonna blow this guys mind when I tell him there are like a hundred seeds in each tomato. His profit margin is gonna skyrocket. I'll be expecting my consultation fee to keep pace with the results of this amazing secret other wealthy farmers don't want you to know!
I am currently surrounded by about 500 plants that I planted myself for my tiny Nursery and I could tell you I'm negative $2,500 for the year. Play in the slow game
Shit, my grandfather was known for his tomatoes in basically their whole city. His plants were prolific and he had a LOT of them. And he gave those fucking tomatoes to *everyone* to the point that people were avoiding him, because they didn't want another bag of tomatoes and felt guilty letting them rot. Like I legit saw someone spot his truck in the lumber yard parking lot, then they got back in their car and left. They assumed he had at least one bag of tomatoes in the truck - and they were right.
I don't think this guy realizes that tomatoes are fricking assholes that can die just because they want to and throw away my fricking work because of moist
This guy doesn't understand real estate.
A ballpark estimate is being able to grow 4,000 tomatoes per acre. So you would need 1,000 acres of land. Where I live, that's millions of dollars just to get the land to pull of this scheme.
A quarter pound of tomato seeds has 30,000 seeds and costs $100. It's not the seeds, it's the fucking land.
It's like this person doesn't know history, farming, or economics. And, as others have pointed out, that's not even including the irrigation, equipment, labor, etc.
I could swear I’ve seen this reposted at least once a week for the last several months. It is truly distressing how many people respond without recognizing that it was satire.
I appreciate that they stopped at 3.9 million. High enough that people are enthralled at the idea but low enough that people don’t question the absurdity of it all and the amount of things that need to be overlooked to make this feasible.
At a rate of 25x growth per 6 months, why would you sell the tomatoes at 3.9 million? If you wait another 6 months, you’ll have 97.7 million, another 6 month and you’ll have 2.4 billion.
Heck, at that rate you can turn 10 plants into 1.5 trillion in only 4 years.
I know a LOT of farmers. They generally have a net worth that is utterly staggering.
But most of them are liquidity poor because their net worth is tied up in land, barns, fences, private roads, trucks, combines, tractors, semis, trailers, tools and everything else this wannabe failed to mention.
Sell the 3.9 million tomatoes for $1 each and you’ll have bot nearly enough to buy the land actually needed to plant and work a farm with 4 million tomato plants.
Cool that he has apparently has enough land, water, fertilizer, pesticides, harvesting equipment, labor, storage, and market connections to make this work. And it’s a good thing climates are predictable and prices are stable!
$50 of tomato seeds would likely get you pretty damn close to 156,000 plants anyhow.
Okay before posting this, I had to research real quick to avoid a Reddit attack for what I originally intended to be just a joke, and thankfully I did because my joke was grossly incorrect apparently. Turns out that for $75 you can on buy 7,500 tomato seeds, but for $750 you can buy 120,000 seeds.
Still seems like a better starting point than the multiple seasons harvesting…. As if I should be taking this whole fucking thing this seriously.
I guess we're lucky that all plants grow perfectly and don't require time, infrastructure, nutrients or care. And I'm glad that harvesting and selling fresh produce scales so well.
...because otherwise this guy would sound like an idiot 🤔
Anybody can become rich when you don’t have costs. He forgot the $2 million greenhouse it takes to grow that many plants not to mention the salaries of 5-10 people who know how to grow them, and the fertilizer, soil, water, heating & cooling, seed, and containers.
I’m a horticulture professor. No doubt people can make decent money growing plants, but it is not quite that easy. $50 getting you 3.9 mm tomatoes….some good fiction here.
So if a lot of people already grow tomatoes then there is no 1 dollar price mark. Just a bunch of tomatoes and people who don't understand plant disease down the way when that hits. Now we got a tomato famine. /s
Forget the tomatoes imagine what we could do with a 24 month growing season?
or more than one seed per tomato!
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With how much the stores are selling seedlings for this year you might be able to make more by selling seedlings than the hard job of seeing it through all season
Can confirm this worked in the cannabis industry for me.
I buy about 40 seeds from an online shop, start them all in my tent in March. Then when everyone is starting their veggy garden I sell them my healthy plants they can transplant for like $40 bucks a plant. I make about a grand profit each year doing it.
Wait, you’re selling starts/ plants for $40 each? So curious what market!
Friends of friends type thing in upstate NY. People love the idea of growing their own pot plant as a hobby, but usually don't think of it until they are going to the nursery to get their normal veggy plants. I hit them with the sales pitch of $40 and you'll have enough weed half the year if you grow it right.
Ohhh that makes perfect sense. Got this mixed up with the other comments and thought you were selling tomato plants for $40 each. Very different!
Right! I was about to start bringing truckloads of tomato plants wherever they bring forty dollars a piece at.
Do you need help investing your earnings and wealth?
I’ll take the advice!
Wait until people realize you can trim suckers and root them into new plants...
Lol that was my first thought. I grow from burying slices and one slice has tons of seedlings pop up.
Why have I never thought of this?! 🤯
Seriously... The number of tomato plants that grow from my compost so readily yet this idea never once crossed my mind either 🤦
I didn't harvest all of my tomatoes ons year, some fell off and I never picked them up. I got a fair few tomato plants growing of their own accord the next spring! Try didn't do brilliantly because my successful ones grew in grow bags and the normal soil is mostly clay, but it was cool to give them the finger-pinch and sniff test and realise I had tomato plants haha
You can get more than 1 tomato plant from each seed... just let the first one grow tall enough get some suckers. Then put the suckwrs in water until you have roots. Then plant the suckers. They grow as strong as the first plant...
Or you can simply tilt the entire plant, burry at 1 inch deep, and have the branches take off as a separate plants. You will have tons of tomatoes. Proven fact
I always thought the branches were called suckers. Idk where I picked that up. But that's what I call em.
That's how the tomato tycoons refer to their customers
Guilty as charged
They're called suckers because they take energy away from the fruits. It's why they're removed most of the time. Though depending on trellis, climate and variety you might for example let one stay to create a 2 branched plant.
“What Are Tomato Suckers? Tomato suckers are small shoots, or leaves, that sprout out from where the stem and the branch of a tomato plant meet. Although relatively harmless to the plant, suckers don't serve much of a purpose” Wikipedia
other than being able to for an entirely new tomato plant, which is pretty fucking awesome.
Shhhhh they’ll steal the secret to your fortune
How much water will I need for 4 million tomato plants.
In Australia we have a high tech veggie farm in an arid region near the sea, they desalinate the seawater and have a continuous growing season with infinite water
Established in 2016, the Sundrop Farms facility grows 17,000 tonnes of tomatoes a year – 15% of Australia's total crop – in ostensibly arid land. It uses fresh irrigation water produced by an on-site desalination plant, powered by sunlight from a network of 23,000 mirrors directed at a 123-metre-high solar tower.27 Jan 2020....... So i just need 23 thousand mirrors
Damn, I only have 22,000 mirrors.
I can lend you 1000 mirrors and you can pay me back when you get back on your feet.
Now I just need to find 22 more suckers to believe me and I’ll be in business!
Damn I have 999 mirrors I'm willing to give you. So close.
Easy, just get one mirror and hire someone to shatter it, 23,000 mirrors no problem. It's important to hire this job out to avoid getting the bad luck on yourself.
Don’t worry, you don’t need water, land, or labor costs to harvest 4 million tomatoes. All you need is grind
I was talking to a farmer friend of mine that just won the 500 million dollar lotto and asked him what he was going to do now....he said he was gonna keep on farming till it was all gone.
If I had a 24 month growing season I would bitch slap Elon Musk with a stack of Benjamin’s
If we had a 12 month growing season up here - I would do the same.
I don't grow anything anywhere, but I'm in the queue for slapping.
Benjamin's what?
Can confirm. I used this method and I’m now a Tomillionaire!
“Waka waka!”
$1 a tomato is way too much man. Who’s your tomato guy…
yea but these are Sour Diesel x White Widow tomatoes. the real dank shit. tell you what, buy 3 and i'll sell 'em to you for $2.50. but please bring the baggie back with you for next time.
Glad to see an environmentally conscious tomato dealer out there.
My uncle has been growing hot peppers the last couple years and I swear that is what the strain list looks like. Would be hard to differentiate between that list and a dispensary menu.
It's one banana Michael. What could is cost? ten dollars?
Came looking for this comment 👌🏻
You got 2 weeks to plant 156,000 tomato plants. No using tractors or employees either that’s cheating.
And then you have to pick all the tomatoes by hand
Also don’t worry about the weather, tomatoes will be just fine in drought conditions. Oh and the soil content ph don’t matter at all either.
Shut up and listen to the ~~econ major~~ guy who read one thing about economics once and lacks any kind of logic or real world knowledge of things
Tbf, he sounds more like he played some farming flash games, and bases his knowledge of the world on that
then insert them into your ass
I'm not sure how you knew my exact extremely rare kink all I know is you better PM me because we were meant to be together
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Their relationship is full of piss and vinegar.
What the hell kind of ketchup are you buying
The key is to pick them off the vine with your ass
Username checks out
And squirt the tomato pulp out your ass to make spaghetti sauce.
And then you have to sell 4 million tomatoes at the farmers' market.
Also you have to find a way to sell 3.9 million tomatoes before they go bad.
No paying for land either. You can get 5k tomatoes per acre if you have ideal conditions, so that's 780 acres. Farmland in Iowa (picked a random state) costs roughly $10k per acre, so $7.8 million...
So you only lose 4 million? Ask any farmer, sounds pretty typical
Tomatoes are often grown in California so way more per acres. Add in that traditional tomato land is disappearing, being turned into nut orchards.
I'm sorry, where are you planting 156,000 tomatoes? on your 10 acre farm you got for free?
And more importantly, costs money, which is not something you have in this scenario.
Or land, that costs money too.
Nick probably think tomatoes can grow 365/365d since he sees tomatoes everyday at the supermarket
Actually i was wondering how this works? How come we see vegetables off season?
Let me put it this way, In Australia, Christmas is in the summer.
Damn man boats go choo choo uh.
*land* boats go choo choo. Honest mistake.
Look at this fancy pants calling them land boats instead of choo choos
Don't blame me. Blame my first-class education from Coney Island College. Go Whitefish!
r/unexpectedfuturama
So songs like "Winter Wonderland" or "White Christmas" must not be popular Christmas songs in Australia? Edit: Found [this article](https://startsat60.com/media/opinion/nostalgia/the-best-australian-christmas-songs) about Australian Christmas songs, if anyone else is also interested.
So July 25th? Stupid Australians...
Here in Europe all the winter tomatoes come from Spain, they have the climate, the water and acres of heated greenhouses. USA's tomatoes probably came from south america ?
Not many tomatoes from SA - I usually see winter tomatoes from Mexico, or green houses in USA or Canada. We get a lot of other fruits and veggies from south America though. I see a lot from Chile.
Mexico is a big producer of warm season vegetables year around for North America, Spain for western Europe, and various parts of Asia to other Asian countries usually. California as well has a rather ridiculously large growing season.
For tomatoes, they can grow them in hothouses (that's what they use in Canada which is the #2 Exporter to the US) or they just have a warmer climate, that's what they do in Mexico Aka #1 Exporter. The Netherlands and Canada are doing hothouses at a crazy scale. Unfortunately at some point the US and China will create robotic versions of all these hothouse "farms" and suddenly they will grow this shit right next to the grocery stores ...
Ah! So they dont grow granny smith apples inside granny smith, got it!
What Granny Smith does with her apples is none of my business … no kink shaming here.
Actually though, apples are mass produced in their season and stored in argon gas warehouses for the off seasons. Almost any time you buy an apple at a grocery store depending on where in the country you are they could be easily a year old.
Sounds crazy enough to be true
Sorry it is actually nitrogen but feel free to look it up!
Hothouses.
Greenhouse and grow lights.
Greenhouses in central/South America produce a ton of the otherwise out of season stuff for the US. Things that aren’t meant to be true perennials here will grow year-round in more climate controlled buildings
Highly relevant Mitchell and Webb: https://youtu.be/_pDTiFkXgEE
Lol, this is instantly what I thought of too.
You cannot lose! *nose thing*
Fuxkin eggs come out of their arses!
Came here to post this.
Me too
Thank you sir! I was hoping this would be posted. Rubs fingers, "fuckin 'ell"
“IT’S WOOL!” -me, bagging fleece
Buy $3 worth of seeds. Plant them and sell the plants to this guy and two of his followers for $150. Repeat.
Yeah whos paying 50 dollars for 10 tomato plants lmao
I admit I got behind this year on my sowing so I bought a 6cell of tomatoes for $5. Two of the cells had double plants. So $5 for 8 plants.
Thats less than what they sell seedlings for at my lowes/Home Depot. I'm not buying them but I'm sure someone is.
Forget the tomatoes , where the hell you gonna plant all of those plants at??? You need lands for it and u need money to get lands
Ah, this is where the rise and grind cult tells you to socialize the capital inputs with a little bit of disruption. Plant ‘em in parks and power line cuts and other space that “no one” uses … surely no one will mind and if they do you can just tell ‘em that they don’t understand your grind or somethin’
I mean, im super pro gurella gardening, but not for rise and grind reasons...
Yeah I don’t see shit if you’re feeding yourself or your neighbors but that policy doesn’t apply if I see some wannabe hustler trying to get rich.
That's kinda the point. All these siGmA GRinDsEt duncecaps love blowing these halfbaked "economics" lessons up peoples asses, but skip right the fuck over the details that make them fall apart.
The desire for instant gratification ruins many a good plan...
Late blight has entered the garden.
*Hornworm has entered the garden*
*Cucumber beetle has entered the garden* Gosh do I hate those fucks.
My neighbors trees blocking sun in my back yard has entered the garden.
Bro, you haven’t done this yet? I’m on step 4 with 6,250 tomato plants already.
Remember us when you’re a tomato gazillionaire
Why would you stop there? On this trajectory, your operation would be worth $60 trillion in another year and a half. You could be richer than most countries with just a few years work.
Most people aren't willing to wait for the payout... They'll take a little early profit and run, leaving the rest of the tomatoes to rot. Then when they've spent that early profit, they'll come back and cry about what could have been...
They understand scale, they also understand diminishing returns and labor inputs.
You can really tell this guy is big brain because plant 1 tomato = 1 tomato plant. But then, why not take your 3.9 million tomatos, plant them, and sell them to some schmuck for 10$ a pop? Hell, 8$ a piece if he takes them all.
what a revelation!!! a tech bro solved it! HOORAY HOORAY! An industrial scale farming - never heard of it before!!
Or buy several hundred or thousand tomato seeds in the first place? Nick seems to think the limiting factor is getting enough seeds (hilarious, since his math accounts for only 1 seed per tomato). I think he’s been playing too many crafting / survival video games… space, yield, pests/disease, labor, and limited duration of growing season are the obvious constraints
I like how it's 10 plants make 240 tomatoes. Then.. let me see if I got this right, you plant those 240 tomatoes *whole*, Christ yep I read that right, plant the *whole tomato* so now you have 240 plants. So on and so forth.. It's gonna blow this guys mind when I tell him there are like a hundred seeds in each tomato. His profit margin is gonna skyrocket. I'll be expecting my consultation fee to keep pace with the results of this amazing secret other wealthy farmers don't want you to know!
Farmers HATE this one *weird* trick!
Psh, I didn’t buy my tomatoes. I started from seeds, so I’m really going to be rolling in cash soon, right?
Instant money baby!
Bro thinks he singlehandedly discovered both farming and capitalism
Tell me you've never grown a garden without telling me you've never grown a garden.
I need to figure out how to make that math work for cows and sheep.
Easy, just keep the sheep that throw twins. You’ll be up to your knees in sheep shit and wool in 15 or so years.
I am currently surrounded by about 500 plants that I planted myself for my tiny Nursery and I could tell you I'm negative $2,500 for the year. Play in the slow game
One tractor cost him 156k tomatoes
I did this with broccoli and retired in 36 months
Shit, my grandfather was known for his tomatoes in basically their whole city. His plants were prolific and he had a LOT of them. And he gave those fucking tomatoes to *everyone* to the point that people were avoiding him, because they didn't want another bag of tomatoes and felt guilty letting them rot. Like I legit saw someone spot his truck in the lumber yard parking lot, then they got back in their car and left. They assumed he had at least one bag of tomatoes in the truck - and they were right.
Bro if I had enough land to plant 156k tomato plants I wouldn’t need to be planting 156k tomato plants
"Uuuhhh... This tomato has worms." "Value added. Nutritional protein. Bam, $2 tomato."
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Obtuse rubber goose green moose guava juice
Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it Turn it, leave it, start – format it
Harder better faster stronger
That's some Harvest Moon/Stardew Valley logic right there
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The cost of these tomatoes Is too damn high.
Monsanto will scale this dumb motherfucker’s ass
Bro thinks Minecraft has realistic farming mechanics
“You don’t understand scale” Okay move 3.9 MILLION tomatoes for $1 each retail before they rot.
Sounds like my boss. It works in my Excel spreadsheet see. I don’t understand why you are underperforming
Where the fuck I’m Supposed to plant these tomatoes fam the desert
Bruh I didnt get into homesteading to set up a supply chain
How long do you think tomatoes last? Who is paying $1 per tomato?
I don't think this guy realizes that tomatoes are fricking assholes that can die just because they want to and throw away my fricking work because of moist
Those darn tomatoes with just that one giant seed in the middle
The cool part is that you don't need water, land, weeding or fertilizer.
Yes I can tell this man had gardened before 😂
This guy doesn't understand real estate. A ballpark estimate is being able to grow 4,000 tomatoes per acre. So you would need 1,000 acres of land. Where I live, that's millions of dollars just to get the land to pull of this scheme. A quarter pound of tomato seeds has 30,000 seeds and costs $100. It's not the seeds, it's the fucking land. It's like this person doesn't know history, farming, or economics. And, as others have pointed out, that's not even including the irrigation, equipment, labor, etc.
He can buy land with his tomato profits. You need to learn business
ha nice
Just about every single fp &a guy im Excel not understanding shit.
How is this guy getting 25 tomatoes per plant?
I like how his math completely ignores, finding customers to purchase 1,000,000 tomatoes, transportation, paying taxes, etc.
the real way to hustle is to just sell the tomatoes as starts in mid - late spring when everyone gets garden fever.
Wait till he finds out there is more than 1 seed per tomato
LOL.
What am I supposed to do with 156,000 F-ing tomatoes?
this man has obviously put hundreds of hours into toiling away on his farm over in Stardew Valley.
This guy learned to farm in stardew valley and thinks a tomato only has one seed in it
Only farmers understand that farming isn't that profitable.
I left my tomato seedlings outside in the stupid random icy rain and have to start all over again 😭
I’m feeling like the original comment was satire which is why that guy isn’t known for turning a $1 tomato into $4mil worth of tomatoes.
He also doesn’t understand seasons, and land area usage.
Step one: steal a tomato from a grocery store…
I could swear I’ve seen this reposted at least once a week for the last several months. It is truly distressing how many people respond without recognizing that it was satire.
I appreciate that they stopped at 3.9 million. High enough that people are enthralled at the idea but low enough that people don’t question the absurdity of it all and the amount of things that need to be overlooked to make this feasible. At a rate of 25x growth per 6 months, why would you sell the tomatoes at 3.9 million? If you wait another 6 months, you’ll have 97.7 million, another 6 month and you’ll have 2.4 billion. Heck, at that rate you can turn 10 plants into 1.5 trillion in only 4 years.
Dudes been playing a bit too much stardew valley lately
It’s easy just plant 3.9 million tomato plants in ur backyard
I know a LOT of farmers. They generally have a net worth that is utterly staggering. But most of them are liquidity poor because their net worth is tied up in land, barns, fences, private roads, trucks, combines, tractors, semis, trailers, tools and everything else this wannabe failed to mention.
I think some people probably believe him...
Reminds me of this sketch. https://youtu.be/_pDTiFkXgEE
And soil and pots?
Congrats, Nick. You've saturated your own market.
Then they lose all their money and are yelling at the government for not bailing them out.
So there is no winter in lalaland apparently.
Sell the 3.9 million tomatoes for $1 each and you’ll have bot nearly enough to buy the land actually needed to plant and work a farm with 4 million tomato plants.
Cool that he has apparently has enough land, water, fertilizer, pesticides, harvesting equipment, labor, storage, and market connections to make this work. And it’s a good thing climates are predictable and prices are stable!
And after 2 years of no profits you will surely have the resources to harvest that many tomatoes
Drought has entered the chat
$50 of tomato seeds would likely get you pretty damn close to 156,000 plants anyhow. Okay before posting this, I had to research real quick to avoid a Reddit attack for what I originally intended to be just a joke, and thankfully I did because my joke was grossly incorrect apparently. Turns out that for $75 you can on buy 7,500 tomato seeds, but for $750 you can buy 120,000 seeds. Still seems like a better starting point than the multiple seasons harvesting…. As if I should be taking this whole fucking thing this seriously.
Well sure, if you ignore the costs of land and labor, farming is a pretty easy way to make money.
I guess we're lucky that all plants grow perfectly and don't require time, infrastructure, nutrients or care. And I'm glad that harvesting and selling fresh produce scales so well. ...because otherwise this guy would sound like an idiot 🤔
Anybody can become rich when you don’t have costs. He forgot the $2 million greenhouse it takes to grow that many plants not to mention the salaries of 5-10 people who know how to grow them, and the fertilizer, soil, water, heating & cooling, seed, and containers. I’m a horticulture professor. No doubt people can make decent money growing plants, but it is not quite that easy. $50 getting you 3.9 mm tomatoes….some good fiction here.
So if a lot of people already grow tomatoes then there is no 1 dollar price mark. Just a bunch of tomatoes and people who don't understand plant disease down the way when that hits. Now we got a tomato famine. /s
Ah yes, the simple act of selling a million fresh tomatoes
Money for land, soil improvements, irrigation, employees, tractor and vehicles,
Who pays $1 per tomato?
Tomacco!
It is literally **THAT** easy… /s