5 ways rockwool saves your facility money to thrive!

Still using pots, soil, or grow beds?

Are you an indoor commercial cultivator using:

• Grow beds?
• Five-gallon pots?
• Three-gallon pots?
• One-gallon pots or bags?

And also using:

• Coco coir?
• Super soil?
• Tuper?
• Or any other type of media blend?

If you answered yes to any one of those combinations, you are severely overspending on grow media. Plus, you are spending even more on the extra costs associated with these styles of growing. They work, but they aren’t cost effective in the long run.

So, what’s ideal for commercial cultivation? Rockwool—a hydroponic media solution that is often underestimated, yet highly cost-effective and extremely efficient. Rockwool is the media we recommend to commercial growers who are looking for ways to reduce their cultivation costs.

Usually, the growers that benefit the most are the ones in grow beds and in large pots of media. They are spending the most on media when they definitely don’t have to. And it’s crushing their bottom line like nothing else.

Ditch the dirt, rockwool is what you need.

Many commercial cultivators insist on using pots and media to grow their plants. Which is great for home growers and may be alright for smaller operations. Yet, this approach can be costly when far more affordable and effective options exist, like rockwool cubes.

A single cube of rock wool can cost around 3$ a cube.

When you buy in bulk it usually brings the cost down a bit which can make a huge difference over the course of a few years or even a few grow cycles.

The amount of media required to fill three and five-gallon pots, on the other hand, can cost around $40 to plant 3-5 clones (depending on the size of the pot).

Switching to rockwool from pots will be one of the best transitions you can make.

Rockwool is an amazing substrate and does the same thing as soil, coco coir, tuper, or any combinational blend at a third of the price. Dollar for dollar, rockwool beats using any size pot of growing media. Not only is it cheaper, it has a host of other benefits.

Sure, traditional growing methods work and they’re sometimes easier to use. But is the simplicity and ease of use worth the unnecessary extra costs that still yield average results at best?

The time to refine your cultivation processes is now.

Growers who embrace newer hydroponic based growing styles, like using rockwool, are growing amazing results. While still saving thousands for their businesses. For them, they are past the learning curve of correctly using rockwool. Using anything else would be an expensive step backwards. Those who are using anything except rockwool, however, are experiencing the costly consequences of:

• increased consumable waste
• additional labor hours
• reduced flower output

Successfully using rockwool can negate these setbacks once and for all.

The cannabis industry, especially the cultivation sector, is as competitive as it gets. The name of the game is precision agriculture with minimal use, minimal waste, and maximum product output. As the market intensifies, being profitable is as difficult as ever for some.

Some of the biggest names in cultivation are consistently in the negative no matter how much more revenue they bring in.

Thats why no cultivation technique that can shave tens of thousands of dollars off your expenses can be ignored. It’s time to simplify and use only the best processes that work and produce the best results possible. There is no better time than now than to make the changes you need that will make your business grow more, with less.

Ready to cut 10K off your next grow cycle?

If your facility has a 1,000 plants at any time:

Investing just $3,000 instead of $13,000 to grow your clones is one of the biggest reductions in your budget that you can make. What would saving an extra 10K or more be worth for your business? Over the course of a year, it could be 40K that you could have saved.

We believe rockwool to be far superior to most other growing media for its cost, effectiveness, and size. It is always the media we recommended to our clients. It unlocks the full potential of any cultivation facility when they move from grow beds and pots. Make moving into rockwool a priority as soon as possible. We can help.

If the price difference alone isn’t enough to convince you to make the change, here are a few more reasons you should consider moving your operation into rockwool.

Reduction in labor.

One of the greatest advantages of using rockwool is its convenience to use straight out of the box. With just a little bit of prep work, you can skip the hassle of using pots. No more sourcing the cheapest media, blending it, buying pots, and stepping up clones to bigger pots as they mature.

To further tack on your cultivation bill, a day or more with a few laborers, mixing equipment, a bobcat, and a dedicated space to work in is the minimum to prepare media and pot your plants. What does this extra step cost you? None of this is required when using rockwool.

Furthermore, when you need to relocate your plants from vegetative rooms, transporting rockwool cubes is far more convenient than hauling bulky and unwieldy plastic pots that don’t take much to break.

Being able to use rockwool immediately when clones are ready not only saves you time and money but also minimizes resource utilization. Which frees up more revenue for your bottom line.

Easily Add more plants to your operation.

By precisely adding extra plants you easily increase flower yields. Pots and grow beds simply take up too much space when growing indoors. Too many growers are limiting their flower output by only growing a single level of plants in their rooms.

It’s too difficult and dangerous to shelve gallons of potted plants on multiple tiers and you can’t grow in tiers with beds of soil. So, if you aren’t taking advantage of tiered growing because of grow beds and heavy potted plants, moving to rockwool will help get the maximum number of plants you can fit in each of your rooms.

Rockwool easily allows for tiered cultivation. Your cultivation real estate is too precious and expensive to not utilize every foot of horizontal and vertical growing space. Its absolutely critical you grow the maximum number of plants as possible. Adding more plants is the easiest way to easily increases yields.

Maximized plant spacing.

It’s not uncommon to see fewer than the maximum number of plants under each grow light, especially when pots of soil are involved. But once you move to rockwool, you’ll automatically open up more space. Cubes of rockwool occupy less space on your tables than five- or three-gallon pots.

You can maximize your table space to accommodate more plants under each light to effectively utilize your electricity. Remember, each grow light experiences wear and tear when in use. So, it’s wise that your lights power as many plants as possible. With proper tables and lighting, we have successfully optimized each light to cover around 15 plants. Don’t let any space go to waste!

A utility and environmental bonus: Rockwool is great for water conservation.

You can heavily conserve water with a sound irrigation strategy, the right nutrition, and rockwool cubes. Dramatically reduce water usage down to about a third. With rockwool being key to this water-saving tactic.

The amount of water needed to grow is always debated about. But usually, a minimum of a gallon of water a day or every other day, per plant is needed to grow when pots of media are used. And more water is necessary as the pot size increases. So there’s no doubt that water is used and wasted in extremely high amounts.

But what if you can water three plants with one gallon of water?

With a few nutrition adjustments and using rockwool as your primary media source, it’s possible to water and feed up to 3 plants with 1 gallon of water.

More precisely, roughly 1,000 mL of water per plant every day or just every other day will be enough to grow amazing results while lowering your water bill and conserving water for the environment at the same time.

Not just anyone can move into rockwool and begin using less water. It may sound impossible, but it’s actually very easy to do with the right equipment and with real world hydroponic experience. And no, it does not decrease flower quality or lower final yields. It’s one of the best hydroponic methods around.

Another reason why water conservation matters.

Depending on where you are cultivating geographically, water can be more or less expensive. Further increasing your cultivation costs. Or there can be limitations on the amount of water you can use at any time due to severe drought conditions. Limited water availability can impede the output of any crop.

Although cannabis is a powerful medicine, with great recreational use too, some municipalities may not see it as an essential crop. So, it wouldn’t be surprising if water consumption for cultivators become limited or becomes more expensive just for cannabis cultivators.

Using the minimum effective does to elicit the highest and best results will save you tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars over just a few short years. While giving you an edge against the competition.

A simple change to rockwool can help your business thrive in more ways than one.

Rockwool is a fantastic option for commercial cultivators who want to get the most out of their budgets and crops. Not only can it lead to optimal returns on cultivation, but it can do so much more. It will reduce your operating costs, conserve resources, increase yields, maximize plant spacing, and minimize labor costs.

By using the right hydroponic techniques, you can make the most out of rockwool. You will be maximizing your revenue and reduce your expenses in a single grow cycle. Rockwool is an underrated, affordable, and effective choice that no commercial cultivator should go without. It may be the only way to successfully cultivate commercially in the future.

Curious about using rockwool or have other questions?

Cannabis Optimized is offering free consultations for commercial cultivators on how to properly use rockwool without any problems, setbacks, or confusion.

Our experts have years of experience with advanced hydroponic techniques and are ready to answer your questions. We can help you find the most efficient setup to maximize your returns and lower your expenses.

Take advantage of this offer today and get the most out of your cultivation with rockwool. Contact us now for a free consultation and learn how you can get the most out of your rockwool investment and optimize your returns.