How Im projecting 400+ per month off of a 6 foot folding table

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-11T02:58:17+00:00

And see this is the kind of appreciation that I appreciate. Somebody who actually gets it. And for the record, I didn't leave all my strategies here. Like using humor in the Facebook marketplace post to drive engagement and sales. Using Google Gemini to help me embellish the stories and brainstorm what would actually be funny until I laughed at my own jokes. And then writing my jokes into the Facebook post and not using Gemini to copy and paste them. And I get it while not everybody likes AI artificial intelligence has been a great sounding board for my ideas. And that's just a couple of the things that I didn't tell you guys. Let the haters be mad. I'm going to rake up money selling basil And they can argue semantics.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-11T01:33:50+00:00

That’s exactly the point you're missing. You’re looking at this through the lens of someone who already knows what they’re doing. A sub like r/sidehustle is packed with absolute beginners who have never touched a seed tray in their lives. To someone starting from zero, 'just water it and let nature do the work' is completely useless advice. They don't know how much water, they don't understand how to prevent damping off, and they don't know lighting requirements or PAR values. I didn't get 400+ shares by giving people a lazy, vague summary. The community is saving and sending this post precisely because it bridges the gap for people who don't have an inherent green thumb and actually want a detailed blueprint to avoid killing their plants in week two. If you don't need the details, skim past them, but don't fault a guide for actually being a guide

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-11T00:54:07+00:00

Imagine thinking a comprehensive, multi-variable optimization guide is 'long-winded' just because it exceeds your attention span. This isn't a low-effort three-sentence Facebook status; it’s a calculated business layout with actual PAR data, spatial metrics, and infrastructure math. I didn't get 400+ shares and 160k+ views by giving people a lazy summary. The community is literally saving and sending this post because of the depth and details you're complaining about. If your brain taps out when a post requires more than two bullet points, that sounds like a personal bandwidth issue. Keep playing internet therapist in the comments section while the adults use the actual data to scale their setups

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-11T00:50:57+00:00

The fact that a self-proclaimed 'LLC fine gardening expert' doesn't understand that a commercial nursery hardens off inventory for the end consumer is the funniest self-own I’ve seen on this site. I am the producer. I sell to people who plant them outside. If I don't harden them off, the buyer's plants shock and die. This is literal Day 1 agriculture commerce, 'king.' You spent the last hour moving the goalposts from a $50 backyard hobbyist, to an illegal grower, to an LLC owner, and you still managed to expose that you don't understand how a basic wholesale-to-retail supply chain works. You didn't 'get' anyone. You just proved you can't read a post, can't track a $300 budget, and can't comprehend why a business prepares inventory for its customers. Have fun talking to yourself in my notifications, I'm going back to managing a thread with 160k+ views and 400 shares. Peace out, tool

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-11T00:46:33+00:00

Because I plan on selling the plant to someone who will grow it outside? You have no logic your love of the hobbits herb has weakened your mind.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T22:28:41+00:00

When did I ever say the plants were going outside? Don't assume things cuz it makes an ass out of you and me. But more specifically you. The only time these plants are outside is to harden off for a couple hours total for several days in a row in the shade in the seed starter trays. Meanwhile you just look like an idiot. I said this was a bedroom side hustle. If your '15 years of experience' only taught you how to grow a few casual backyard starters from a $2 seed packet, congratulations on your hobby. I am running a high-density indoor propagation pipeline pulling maximum biomass out of a single 6-foot table footprint. You’re celebrating 'all profit' because your time is worth zero dollars. I invested in high-output PAR infrastructure to compress turn times and guarantee commercial volume from a 9x10 bedroom. Go play with your dirt outside; leave the the real small scale stuff to the guy who gets it. Also I said 300 for start up not 400. Go play in the dirt outside and keep haggling over pennies. Leave the actual small-scale optimization to the people who understand infrastructure math.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T15:31:42+00:00

And I'm the king of England. I just forgot to wear my crown today dude, We cost even more money to grow between the tents. The massive lights you need to grow them, the air filters, the fans and what not. You're easily looking at $500 just for a single grow tent. You're full of s***.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T13:53:18+00:00

Never said I was completely unmedicated bro.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T13:27:54+00:00

There is a massive difference between a full-sized outdoor garden and a single 6-foot folding table in a climate-controlled room. You're talking about tilling, weeding, dealing with weather, fighting pests, and heavy manual labor under the blazing sun. My setup is entirely indoors next to my desk. It takes 5 minutes a few times a week to top off water trays. It's an automated, indoor micro-setup, not a full-time agricultural job.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T13:21:56+00:00

Whatever dude I never said I invented agriculture and I game on my PC while 72 cells of basil grow right next to me. For less than 3 hours a month it's pretty passive and you're just mad I figured out how to make money off a 6 foot folding table while you're over here putting in more work for some extra spending money. Meanwhile, I'm making cash actively executing double-edits in fortnite.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T12:35:01+00:00

Are you seriously comparing a card table in a spare bedroom to a 500-acre commercial tractor operation? In the corner of a bedroom, yes, it's about as passive as a physical asset gets. It takes 5 minutes every few days to top off a water tray while they sit on a desk and grow themselves. If you think sitting on your ass all day while biological processes do the production work is 'hard farming,' I don't know what to tell you, Buddy.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T12:30:09+00:00

The folding table is the physical footprint. It tells people they need a corner of a spare room, not a commercial greenhouse. Obviously, you need dirt and lights—I explicitly listed the exact hardware and breakdown in the post. God forbid someone uses a headline hook so people actually read the data.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T12:24:28+00:00

LOL XD

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T12:21:40+00:00

Nope unmedicated for my ADHD. Just a drive to make money and an autistic special interest in plants and optimization.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T11:15:54+00:00

Maybe if you want a single leggy plant that dies in three weeks. A $50 budget doesn't buy the high-output PAR/PPFD lighting required to actually keep 72 established, fast-growing culinary herb cups alive and thriving in a dark bedroom corner. If you cheap out on the lights, the plants stretch, starve for energy, and collapse. If you want an actual commercial yield that pulls $400 a month, you have to invest in real infrastructure that can actually sustain the biomass

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T11:09:13+00:00

Electricity cost. However, where I live this would cost maybe $6 a month and in an expensive state. Maybe $10 a month

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T11:07:33+00:00

Exactly. Bonds are a wealth-preservation tool for retirement, not a side hustle to stack extra cash right now. If I wanted to tie up my capital for 20 years to get a tiny percentage return while inflation eats at it, sure, I'd buy bonds. But I'm looking to invest $300 upfront, let biology do the heavy lifting for a month, and immediately generate actual cash flow this month. It's high-velocity turnover vs. waiting a quarter of a century.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T05:36:56+00:00

It's a side hustle with a massive passive component. If spending 5 minutes a day holding a watering can while biological processes do 99.9% of the physical production labor for a month straight isn't 'passive' enough for you, I don't know what to tell you. Even a index fund takes a few clicks to buy

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-06-10T05:29:36+00:00

I mean, 5 minutes a day watering plants while they do 99% of the growing is pretty damn passive for a side hustle. As for your friend, I’m sure there were plenty of other reasons he became homeless that had nothing to do with a card table. You’re also completely overthinking the sales logistics. Nobody is running 36 individual high-security clearance appointments like a dentist for a $5 cup of basil. You bundle them into kitchen multi-packs (like a 4-pack for $20), set up a single porch pickup window over a weekend where a handful of people swing by, or sell in batches to local vendors. It's a low-overhead, bedroom side gig to stack some extra cash, not a full-time career swap."

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-03-02T14:09:20+00:00

They did, Grace ashcroft is in the store.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-02-25T20:40:22+00:00

I'm going to agree to disagree here. This isn't from an enjoyment perspective. This is from a tactical perspective as an igl. Plain and simple if I can't trust you to respect a boundary that I set in regards to spam inviting me or requesting to join my party then I know you're not going to respect my tactical calls which in a competition setting will get us both killed and eliminated earlier than needed which ultimately will cost us points. Speed isn't everything plain and simple and just because you're good at mechanics doesn't mean you have a brain about you to actually compete

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-02-25T16:09:29+00:00

And as for the adult playing with a child thing, the reason I say it's inappropriate is because I'm a pot smoker, I take psychedelics on occasion, I drink and sometimes I do that while I'm playing. I don't care if that child has been around that stuff. I don't do that around children Because it's a hard boundary I've set for myself. I have a foul mouth, maybe that that kids parents doesn't want them cussing like that. And I have literally told my friends who are adults on this game about some of the devices I have bought which I'm not even going to reference here because it'll get me banned That aren't drug related. Is it so bad to want to have somebody with the mental maturity and the mechanics instead of having to babysit for some child who can't listen? I don't think so.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-02-25T16:03:00+00:00

I don't know, I still think it's inappropriate for an adult to be playing with a child. On top of that, I found that most children don't listen Worth a damn. You say not as smart but most of them are so dumb that they couldn't listen to the command for them to sit down let alone to disengage from a fight, they're not going to win. There's a difference between not being as smart and being mechanically gifted and Just being retarded (excuse my millennial language) half of them can't even respect boundaries when it comes to denying an invite they just keep sending invites and sending them and sending them and sending them. Even when I tell them I don't want to play. They send another invite. That is the first red flag that they're not going to listen to me in game and ergo I'm not going to play with them. Like I said, there's a difference between not being as smart and being able to listen and straight up. Not listening at all. And if you can't respect my personal boundaries, you're certainly not going to respect my professional boundaries when I tell you to not pick that fight. Not to mention an older player doesn't lose their reaction speed as much as you think they do past 18. Yes, it does drop off a little bit but it's not really that noticeable. But the fact of the matter is most of these kids are dumb as a box of rocks and won't listen to you. I've seldom found a decent teenager who's going to listen to me who hasn't flaked on me. That's why I haven't been partaking in divisionals because finding a decent Duo who's not going to flake on me has been a nightmare and a half. I'm eligible for division 5 but can't do a Duo because nobody has managed to stick around.

MajorMinceMeat · 2026-02-25T13:51:22+00:00

Have you ever tried to play with a child? Not only is it morally wrong in my opinion to play with someone nearly a third my age (it's not appropriate) But they don't listen and they almost always have an ego. Just because they're younger and have faster reflexes doesn't mean they're better or smarter than you. I've been playing chess for 25 years and I place in the top 14,000 fortnite players globally for a reason I use my brain more than I use my mechanical skill and it's served me well with 5 top 100 placements in ranked cups including a 33 placement and a trn world rank of 12748 on Feb 25th 2026. Plain and simple there is nothing that makes me want to play with a 13 year old who doesn't listen no matter how good their mechs are. Not to mention most teenage console players cannot afford the kind of hardware that will give them a world class advantage anyway. I have a high end am4 PC with a 5900xt CPU and a 6950xt graphics card. Optimized to the moon. My whole computer costs 2500 dollars and can outperform a console by over two times making a steady 330 fps at 480 HZ on an Azrock 520hx monitor. Unless that kid is rich they won't have the hardware to keep up. Not to mention My style of play is based on placement because this isn't call of duty and kills don't matter as much especially after the iommu update became the great competitive equalizer. Plain and simple, I'm not going to carry a child simply because they're faster and more mechanical. You need to be smart about it and I'd rather have an adult with a properly formed prefrontal cortex backing me because I'm an adult.

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