Growing Hemp in Florida (Step-By-Step)
Are you looking to make money growing hemp in Florida? Here’s a free guide on how to acquire your hemp cultivation license in Florida.
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How to Get Your Hemp Cultivation License Florida
- Purchase or lease a piece of land zoned agricultural or industrial (no minimum acreage required).
Note: We can assist you in purchasing land that will suit your hemp cultivation needs. We offer on-site inspections, buildout consultation, budget reports, future projections, and more. - Contact the Florida Department of Agricultural and register the land as a nursery. Link for Nursery Registration form: Registration Form from DOA Estimated cost: $35-460
- Await inspection from the DOA (ETA: 1-3 weeks).
- Get fingerprints from an approved institution that handles background checks for DOA. Estimated cost: $25-75
- Await your nursery approval paperwork via mail. (ETA 3-4 weeks)
- Contact DOH and request a hemp cultivation license. (ETA 3-4 weeks) Estimated cost: $0
- Start Growing Hemp – legally!
Pro Tips and Advice
- Be sure to get an LLC for the land you plan on growing hemp at. This is just added protection you will thank yourself for later. (Avoid using words like “hemp, weed, cannabis, etc” when setting up banking or legal documents.) Estimated cost: $200-300.
- Look for Live Scan Fingerprints – these only take about a week to process. Note: Livescan will typically cost a little more, but you will save a tremendous amount of time in the long run. Estimated cost: $75
- Prepare an environmental containment plan (example: Containment Plan from DOA )
- Stay calm and don’t overwhelm yourself with the logistics and paperwork involved in this process. And remember, you do not need a million dollars to create a hyper profitable hemp cultivation business.
Frequently asked questions…
This greatly depends on the way you grow the hemp plants.
- Enviroment: Are you growing indoor or outdoor?
- Lighting: Are you relying on the sun for all of your lighting needs or will you provide supplemental lighting for increased yields?
- Irrigation: Are you using drip feed irrigation setups, hand watering, or hydroponics?
- Media: Will you be using soil, coco, or some other form of hydroponics media?
Low side you can expect roughly $84,000. (1,695 plants if growing quality over quantity – strictly outdoors)
High side you can expect $339,100. (1,695 plants if growing quality over quantity – strictly outdoors)
If growing in a greenhouse, you can expect these numbers to 10x with the proper setup in place.
Mind you, the numbers above do not represent the cost associated with cultivating the plant.
This depends on how long it takes for you to lock in land for growing.
If all goes well, you can expect to be legally licensed for cultivating hemp in under 6 weeks.
You can get licensed for under $1,000. This includes all fingerprints, llc’s, and nursery registration forms.
Yes, you do need a license to cultivate hemp in Florida.
We provide all the steps in order to aquire a hemp cultivation license from the Depart of Agriculture above.
Reports state that the hemp market is projected to grow 34% from $4.6 billion in 2019 to $26.6 billion by 2025.
This depends on what you are selling the plant for? Textiles, smokable flower, concetrates, etc.
Smokable flower can sell anywhere from $50-$750/lb depending on quality, region, and quantity.
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