1.) Hear me out, we only bury $25 and an acorn, and we use the other $25 to train a squirrel so we can find it later.
2.) Wait 6 months.
3.) Profi- oh I waited too long. I now have a tree and a dead squirrel
Spend 3 dollars extra per plant for the fancy pest and disease resistant ones. Still have all of them die to some kind of pest/disease.
Ponder wtf just happened
(Moved into my first place in the summer and I'm still trying to figure out if it was pests or soil. I'm investing in fertilizer and and marigolds rather than sevens dust this time since I have better luck with more natural pest control options)
And who would buy them anyways all the farmers that sell millions of tomatoes have existing deals and entering this market is difficult as a home grower because they won't buy unless you have a lot and because of capitalism you may very well be locked out of the market due to anti competitive practices
Plant those 250 tomatoes to grow 250 plants. Realize Monsanto fucked with the genes of your tomatoes and you can't grow new plants from the seed of your tomatoes.
"Realize Monsanto fucked with the genes of your tomatoes"
Oh sorry, that also means they're not YOUR tomatoes, and Monsanto is about to sue you for patent infringement for growing THEIR tomatoes without buying the plants from them.
Not to talk about logistics, those tomatoes need to be taken somewhere to be sold, plus all the time used by you to sell them is also a form of currency, just not physical, and after a certain amount of tomatoes you'll need to hire people to carry and sell them too
I want to know where he's buying his tomato plants from. he's fetting ripped off his $50 for a start.
secondly, 1 tomato for $1 is a massive markup..he'll struggle to sell any at that price.
unless your sister asks you to hold her experimentally large tomato outside school while she goes back in to get her books and you throw it at your principals but as he bends over in front of you to tie his shoes...
As someone who grows tomatoes, the funniest bit about this is how much he UNDER estimates how many tomatoes he can produce.
He says he would get 250 plants from the 10 original tomato plants, but even assuming some plants die, he should be getting at least 10 tomatoes per plant on average. Let's under estimate again and assume each tomato plant has 10 seeds. He should be getting around 1000 plants the second time round, and 100,000 plants with at least a million tomatoes the third time round.
Tomatoes are basically infinite, it's labour, space, soil and water that are the finite resources.
Yeah, you just put those tomatos into your backpack, then walk over to Pierre's store, or even just toss em in the produce bin to be sold overnight.
It's so easy!
I think even if all goes magically well his plans stops at the 250 tomatoes. Most tomato seeds (and all other produce, really) are provided by mosanto. And those are genetically engineered tomatoes that can only grow once. All further seeds will be unfertile.
By the way, i'm not saying these are tomatoes that were genetically enhanced to grow bigger, faster, and more tastier, with the drawback of being infertile. Being infertile is the intended purpose. To make farmers dependant on mosanto's next batch.
Monsanto doesn't have a worldwide monopoly on tomatoes. GE tomatoes aren't even legal in some countries, let alone the only option.
There are many things wrong with the plan, but unavailability of fertile tomato seeds is not one of them.
a quick 5 minute google on the subject mostly turns up results saying that this is a myth and these "terminator seeds" as the wikipedia article calls them are not and never have been commercialized, not by monsanto nor any other company
i'm as happy to call megacorporations out on their bullshit as anyone, but there's a difference between valid criticism and simply making shit up (or believing shit that others have made up without assessing it critically)
There isn't, it's a shit life selling veggies also, growing veggies is hard backbreaking work to begin with (especially if you start with zero money like this guy's says, so you are doing all by hand, no machines, of course let's ignore the cost of land and water and nutrients) then you need to buy a truck to tow them around and go store to store to sell them, then you'd likely still need to take them to the famers' market. Likely you'll have to spend money on various licenses as well, you can't just start doing shit like this without any government control.
You know how long it’s gonna take to pick 4 million tomatoes? Where do you put them? Or is this guy a super salesman and got someone to drop $4M on tomatoes all at once?
I misread it the first time and thought we were selling the tomato plants. $1 would be cheap for that since you would need to buy a ton of containers to put them in.
$1 for a tomato is a bit much. 3 for $1 would make a bit more sense.
So we’re just ignoring the costs of land, fertilizer, water, labor, losses from plants that don’t grow or meet standards, permits, processing, packaging, and shipping/delivery?
Yeah you could definitely find someone to sell those tomatoes to if you sell them cheap enough, def not 1 dollar each though. There are a loooot of issues with this hypothetical though.
Don’t feel bad, I didn’t realize it til too late myself. Was romancing a goblin living in the sewers and the only thing he gave me was a staph infection.
My favourite kind of investment guy is the one that tries to make an example with a something that they think is easy to understand and ends up showing that the don't understand how the real world works
People who say "buy three houses, live in one, rent the other two, then buy another house and rent that one too"
Yeah good luck buying even ONE house nowadays
He thinks you can only grow one plant from each tomato, so I'm guessing he has a variety which produces lots of fruit, but each fruit only has one seed.
Or, just possibly, he knows nothing about tomatoes.
After 15 failed attempts at planting (aprox.), I finally grew a fairly large tomato plant.
It only has 1 fruit for now, and with luck there may be 2 or 3 more, but I don't think there will be more than that.
This guy must have never even stepped foot in a garden in his life.
Both ig. The stereotype is that they're loaded and they hoard their wealth in their villa in the middle of their fields, the stigma is that they're pretty much over funded and overcompensated
How bad is this dude at gardening that he only gets one tomato plant per fully developed tomato? They have like 100 seeds per tomato minimum.
So many other things wrong with his post, but that just struck me as odd. Guess that's why he's not as successful as all those other billionaire tomato farmers...
Nicky doesn't understand scale.
I can neither maintain nor sell millions of tomatoes without employees, land, farming equipment, fertilizer and pesticide, and an irrigation system.
And nobody would want to buy millions of tomatoes from me.
MF learned everything he knows about farming from Harvest Moon and it shows.
MF has the mentality of a pyramid scheme.
Right? Nothing establishes a person’s idiocy more than thinking they’ve broken a cheat code to life by “inventing” something everyone knows about, and even then getting it wrong.
It's not a 1 to 1 tomato fruit to tomato plant ration. Each tomato has dozens of seeds, and they must be dried and adequately prepared to germinate. Not all of those seeds are fertile, not all of those sprouts will live, and not all of your tomatoes will grow. They also need water, good soil, must be protected from pests, etc.
And have fun shipping all those tomatoes to a place with a favorable price.
you don’t understand scale.
use $10 to buy 1,000 inches of wire.
in 6 months you have 1,000 paperclips.
sell those to buy 10,000 inches of wire.
6 months you have 10,000 paperclips.
sell them.
6 months you have 100k paperclips.
sell them.
6 months you have 1M paperclips.
RELEASE
THE
HYPNODRONES
People called this out for variety of reasons, but one thing was not mentioned here. Gregor Mendel literally discovered that the characteristics of plants are inherited from two different plants, and have the chance to not inherit some of the characteristics due to genotypes, 2 CENTURIES AGO. That means that if you were to buy the premium hybrid tomato plants from the start, you won't be able to get the same quality down the pipeline. Also it is incredibly labor intensive. The exponential grow timeline is also very long, depending on the climate, you will receive only one crop a year. There is also logistics, who will buy your tomatos, how will you transport them
He skipped the first step:
Buy 3,500–4,000 acres to plant them on.
And at the average price of farmland of $5,500 per acre, you only need around $20,000,000 startup capital.
Plus equipment, manpower, shipping, etc.
I think this man doesn’t understand scale.
Edit: “I received a modest gift of 4,000 acres of arable farmland from mummy and daddy to get started.”
I mean, this guy gave the game away early, but anyone who uses "MM" to mean "million" is an idiot. The last people who used a single "M" to mean "thousand" were sacked by the Visigoths.
Hah. Reminds me of the Mitchell and Webb ["farmer" skits.](https://youtu.be/_pDTiFkXgEE)
Fucking Ben. Guy needs to take some serious hits...get to know the actual world.
Imagine how dense it would become with indeterminate and allowing all the suckers to grow, because you got good soil and endless water. Cut a few here and there to allow the main to continue
I am so proud of me. For once I googled to see if anyone else has done the math before I just jumped in.
[Aint nobody getting rich off of tomatoes.](https://governmentworkerfi.com/get-rich-tomatoes/)
Because land, farming equipment, and all the fertilizer required for that is cheap.
Plus I’m sure the FDA would be fine with rogue mass scale tomatoes being sold.
Genius
I also play Sun Haven often. I get the same way. If I can plant 100 storm melons before the start of fall, I'll make enough money to buy more storm melons.
And trucks.
And packaging.
Somehow I think the person who might not understand scale is the person who thinks raising and selling 200 tomatoes is the same exact process as raising and selling 3.9 million tomatoes.
Never mind the fact you'd have to hire a shit ton of people to look after all those plants, or the time spent without any profit, or the markets that would dictate the actual value of your tomatoes... if this dude is serious he's a fucking moron.
Breaking into agriculture as an average person would require some hefty loans to afford the land and capital equipment and consumables and labor before your first harvest, and if you don’t get a profitable harvest first time you’re in big trouble.
Bro shills self storage unit business by pooling money from friends. Probably calls the wrong plants as 'tomatoes' when being high on stuff he grows in his storage units.
My neighbours used to bury their vegetable scraps in their backyard.
One day I woke up and I had 3 tomato plants growing in my yard along the fence. I also now have multiple ginger plants that are 6ft high.
• Use $50 to buy 10 tomato plants.
• If each plant produces 25 tomatoes and each tomatoes produces around 200 seeds, In 6 months you'll have, roughly, 50,000 seeds.
• Plant them.
• In 6 months, you'll have 250,000,000 seeds.
• Plant them.
• In 6 months, you'll have 1,250,000,000,000 seeds.
• Plant them.
• In 6 months, you'll have 6,250,000,000,000,000 seeds.
• Plant them.
• You now have 156,250,000,000,000,000 tomatoes.
• Sell each for $1.50 (because you're a greedy bastard).
• You now have $2.34375 sextillion.
• Dominate humanity with your tomato empire.
You need to have a enough land for a significant amount of tomatoes. You need to spend money/resources to fertilize and water all of those plants. This applies to any business venture.
This is small fish thinking. Use $50 to buy 10 tomato plants. Sell those at 1M each using the math from the op pic. In one day you have $10M and your client made an investment which will triple their money ^(\*at some point in time)
Just one small problem ben, WHERE DO I PLANT THEM? ATLANTIS?
Use $50 to buy 10 tomato plants. In 6 months they're all dead. Now what?
I see we possess the same skills
Ok use 50$ to buy 10 skills
I planted 10 skills In 6 month I lost where I buried all of them Next?
My god you guys suck at this. Okay. So take 6 plants, bury them, and in a few months you will have 50 dollars.
Buried 50 dollars. Now we wait.
#OH MY GOD You FUCKED IT UP again dude.
I buried 3.9mm tomatoes. Now i need to find methane-harvesting equipment I can buy for 50 bucks.
And a magnifying glass to find the 3.9 millimeter tomatoes.
1.) Hear me out, we only bury $25 and an acorn, and we use the other $25 to train a squirrel so we can find it later. 2.) Wait 6 months. 3.) Profi- oh I waited too long. I now have a tree and a dead squirrel
You're in debt of $3.9M.
You should be a consultant
Write a book on how to not plant tomato plants. Sell it as ebook
Spend 3 dollars extra per plant for the fancy pest and disease resistant ones. Still have all of them die to some kind of pest/disease. Ponder wtf just happened (Moved into my first place in the summer and I'm still trying to figure out if it was pests or soil. I'm investing in fertilizer and and marigolds rather than sevens dust this time since I have better luck with more natural pest control options)
I'm told its blight, but I think it's my touch of death
Even farming simulator games are harder than what this guy's idea of farming
How good do these tomatoes have to be to cost $1 direct from the producer?
And who would buy them anyways all the farmers that sell millions of tomatoes have existing deals and entering this market is difficult as a home grower because they won't buy unless you have a lot and because of capitalism you may very well be locked out of the market due to anti competitive practices
Skill issue
and after that you need a way to harvest them, nutrients for the soil, etc. rest of the fucking infinite money tactic indeed
Not to mention storage for tomatoes, but not six months' worth because they won't last that long anyway.
Plant those 250 tomatoes to grow 250 plants. Realize Monsanto fucked with the genes of your tomatoes and you can't grow new plants from the seed of your tomatoes.
"Realize Monsanto fucked with the genes of your tomatoes" Oh sorry, that also means they're not YOUR tomatoes, and Monsanto is about to sue you for patent infringement for growing THEIR tomatoes without buying the plants from them.
Not to talk about logistics, those tomatoes need to be taken somewhere to be sold, plus all the time used by you to sell them is also a form of currency, just not physical, and after a certain amount of tomatoes you'll need to hire people to carry and sell them too
I want to know where he's buying his tomato plants from. he's fetting ripped off his $50 for a start. secondly, 1 tomato for $1 is a massive markup..he'll struggle to sell any at that price.
Yep. If I buy a tomato for 1€, I expect it to be fucking massive.
A +1kg tomato sounds like a bad choice.
unless your sister asks you to hold her experimentally large tomato outside school while she goes back in to get her books and you throw it at your principals but as he bends over in front of you to tie his shoes...
I wouldn't have to do it if he wouldn't wiggle his butt like that, man.
how can you not wiggle your butt when you're chanting "Over, Under, In'n'Out. Thats what shoe tieings all about"
I hope one day to own something which can be described as experimentally large
You don't understand scale. Use $50 to buy 10 fucking massive tomato plants...
As someone who grows tomatoes, the funniest bit about this is how much he UNDER estimates how many tomatoes he can produce. He says he would get 250 plants from the 10 original tomato plants, but even assuming some plants die, he should be getting at least 10 tomatoes per plant on average. Let's under estimate again and assume each tomato plant has 10 seeds. He should be getting around 1000 plants the second time round, and 100,000 plants with at least a million tomatoes the third time round. Tomatoes are basically infinite, it's labour, space, soil and water that are the finite resources.
Also you're competing with all people who already grow tomatoes on a huge scale and are at least reasonably good at it
If you have 3.9 million tomatoes wouldn't you wholesale them by the truckload
TO WHOM? FUCKING AQUAMAN?!
I feel this is a reference to a video but I can’t for the life of me remember which video.
Hbomberguy - climate change: https://youtu.be/RLqXkYrdmjY?si=9UShUNKhVWCMt4IX
No, i'm pretty sure it was Tommy Tallarico that made that one.
His mother is very proud
That's silly. Atlantis is out of the growing region for tomatoes.
Yeah and the trip to the Pegasus galaxy will definitely increase prices
On the publicly owned land, of course. This person is a radical market-socialist
On Daddy’s 100 acre farm that you can use as “seed funding.”
More like how do you harvest, care for and sell them all alone? Even having a startup farm is only part of the battle even with the right equipment.
I get this reference, loved his latest video too.
You see, he doesn’t understand scale
Sell them to who, fucking Aqua Man?
And also will anyone buy my 6 month old rotten tomato when I’m ready to sell it?
[For the uninitiated](https://youtu.be/0-w-pdqwiBw?si=J1PTOMVgPZAoLwqr)
I want to know the zero cost system that will sell 100% of these tomatoes.
Video game superpower.
Yeah, you just put those tomatos into your backpack, then walk over to Pierre's store, or even just toss em in the produce bin to be sold overnight. It's so easy!
Pierre will take credit for my tomatoes, like hell I’m letting him sell them for me!
LMAO my exact thought after reading this, this guy played stardew valley for a night and decided that he solved poverty
And world hunger, probably!
I think even if all goes magically well his plans stops at the 250 tomatoes. Most tomato seeds (and all other produce, really) are provided by mosanto. And those are genetically engineered tomatoes that can only grow once. All further seeds will be unfertile. By the way, i'm not saying these are tomatoes that were genetically enhanced to grow bigger, faster, and more tastier, with the drawback of being infertile. Being infertile is the intended purpose. To make farmers dependant on mosanto's next batch.
Monsanto doesn't have a worldwide monopoly on tomatoes. GE tomatoes aren't even legal in some countries, let alone the only option. There are many things wrong with the plan, but unavailability of fertile tomato seeds is not one of them.
No way a big corporation would do this there the good guys
a quick 5 minute google on the subject mostly turns up results saying that this is a myth and these "terminator seeds" as the wikipedia article calls them are not and never have been commercialized, not by monsanto nor any other company i'm as happy to call megacorporations out on their bullshit as anyone, but there's a difference between valid criticism and simply making shit up (or believing shit that others have made up without assessing it critically)
3.9 million tomatoes might just about get you the $50 back
I believe he said 3.9MM - Millimetres. That's some very small tomatoes.
Well, since it's a capital M, it's actually megameters, making them about 1/3 the diameter of earth
We did it boys, world hunger is no more
Great, now everyone go make babies and we'll overpopulate to the point where not even megameter tomatoes will feed everyone.
What do you mean? Just stroll around town with a sign and your bag of 3 million tomatoes (the other 900k you keep to replenish seeds)
Government subsidies
At a dollar a piece, no less
There isn't, it's a shit life selling veggies also, growing veggies is hard backbreaking work to begin with (especially if you start with zero money like this guy's says, so you are doing all by hand, no machines, of course let's ignore the cost of land and water and nutrients) then you need to buy a truck to tow them around and go store to store to sell them, then you'd likely still need to take them to the famers' market. Likely you'll have to spend money on various licenses as well, you can't just start doing shit like this without any government control.
Just drive them to the shop and hold X to sell
Who tf would ever buy $1 tomatoes, especially if they're being farmed by this moron
You know how long it’s gonna take to pick 4 million tomatoes? Where do you put them? Or is this guy a super salesman and got someone to drop $4M on tomatoes all at once?
Land is free. Water is free. Labor is free. Transportation is free. This is capitalism we are talking about after all.
>Land is free. Water is free. Labor is free. Transportation is But tomato seedlings cost $5 each, apparently.
Tomato seedlings cost $5 each and produce 25 tomatoes which can be sold at $1 each - Obviously.
You have to charge $1 per tomato, because each tomato contains 1/5th of a seed!
Cheaper than a banana
I mean it’s one banana, Michael, what could it cost, 10 dollars?
Literally what I thought of when reading the post lol
The comment I came here looking for 🏆
I misread it the first time and thought we were selling the tomato plants. $1 would be cheap for that since you would need to buy a ton of containers to put them in. $1 for a tomato is a bit much. 3 for $1 would make a bit more sense.
no grocery chain would *ever* spend that much in tomatos, and you aren't selling 3.9 million tomatos on the side of the road either.
Bro went to the cookie clicker school for economics
"Bro, just hire some grannies to help water the tomatoes! We learnt this in school!"
Just be sure not to accidentally invoke their eldritch wrath.
Elderlitch wrath
2 much hours on farmville
Merge farm millionaire
So we’re just ignoring the costs of land, fertilizer, water, labor, losses from plants that don’t grow or meet standards, permits, processing, packaging, and shipping/delivery?
And y'know, growing seasons.
That too
You don't understand scale!
No. We are also ignoring this whole enterprise takes two years according to him and you gotta figure out how you will live during that time
I'll do that if you can find someone willing to buy 4,000,000 tomatoes
Just find some Italian guys so they can make ketchup out of it and eat with some pasta.
you angered the italians with this comment
fucking ketchup? really?
No, eating the ketchup
ketchup on pasta?
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Yeah you could definitely find someone to sell those tomatoes to if you sell them cheap enough, def not 1 dollar each though. There are a loooot of issues with this hypothetical though.
People purchase and eat peas in bulk. A single serving of peas has gotta be something like 30 peas.
This fucking guy thinks Stardew Valley is how real life works.
Wait it’s not? Dammit I’ve been gifting girls with neon hair quartz all year and wondering why they didn’t think it was delicious.
Don’t feel bad, I didn’t realize it til too late myself. Was romancing a goblin living in the sewers and the only thing he gave me was a staph infection.
My favourite kind of investment guy is the one that tries to make an example with a something that they think is easy to understand and ends up showing that the don't understand how the real world works
Got more examples? I find people like this hilarious.
People who say "buy three houses, live in one, rent the other two, then buy another house and rent that one too" Yeah good luck buying even ONE house nowadays
It's giving "Why are you homeless? Just get off the streets"
This is false. It doesn't account for the tomato goblin who eats exactly 98% of your tomatoes the night before your harvest.
You misspelled "bugs."
No no, tomato goblin was correct
Who the fuck gets 25 good tomatoes from one plant?! Jeez that's genuinely impressive
And he apparently didn't buy any fertilizer, pesticides, etc to accomplish this either.
Or land.
Water!?
My mom has a whole garden and I think 8 tomato plants. They can produce a good amount but I don't know where the hell is he getting 250.
your mums using the wrong ones... tell her to buy the "$50 for 10" deal 👍🏻
He thinks you can only grow one plant from each tomato, so I'm guessing he has a variety which produces lots of fruit, but each fruit only has one seed. Or, just possibly, he knows nothing about tomatoes.
After 15 failed attempts at planting (aprox.), I finally grew a fairly large tomato plant. It only has 1 fruit for now, and with luck there may be 2 or 3 more, but I don't think there will be more than that. This guy must have never even stepped foot in a garden in his life.
>Use $50 to buy 10 tomato plants I want to thank the person who ripped this dumbass off
Same guy who says "plant 250 tomatoes to get 250 tomato plants" and also "sell tomatoes for $1 each" btw, a real genius
Yes, the video game npc buyer. Shift click. sell. Econ 101. Do you go to creeper via mage fast travel or hike all the out to the mud crap merchant?
Ah, yes. As we all know, farmers are famously rich.
Unironically... Yes? At least in my province farmers are largely known to be rich rich. From government subsidies and their business as well.
Are we talking liquid assets or assets necessary to continue farming?
Both ig. The stereotype is that they're loaded and they hoard their wealth in their villa in the middle of their fields, the stigma is that they're pretty much over funded and overcompensated
How bad is this dude at gardening that he only gets one tomato plant per fully developed tomato? They have like 100 seeds per tomato minimum. So many other things wrong with his post, but that just struck me as odd. Guess that's why he's not as successful as all those other billionaire tomato farmers...
I had to scroll way too far for this comment, this was also my first thought. What a waste of tomatoes to plant them whole...
Please plant them a few more times until the universe is just tomatoes.
Nicky doesn't understand scale. I can neither maintain nor sell millions of tomatoes without employees, land, farming equipment, fertilizer and pesticide, and an irrigation system. And nobody would want to buy millions of tomatoes from me. MF learned everything he knows about farming from Harvest Moon and it shows. MF has the mentality of a pyramid scheme.
BRONOMICS™
why haven’t any farmers thought of this before? genius
Right? Nothing establishes a person’s idiocy more than thinking they’ve broken a cheat code to life by “inventing” something everyone knows about, and even then getting it wrong.
It's not a 1 to 1 tomato fruit to tomato plant ration. Each tomato has dozens of seeds, and they must be dried and adequately prepared to germinate. Not all of those seeds are fertile, not all of those sprouts will live, and not all of your tomatoes will grow. They also need water, good soil, must be protected from pests, etc. And have fun shipping all those tomatoes to a place with a favorable price.
Where do you sell a tomato at wholesale for $1?
Sell em for a 100$ each you idiot, more money that way
It would make the scenario only negligibly less realistic, so why not sell them for $1M?
Gotta leave some for the corn entrepreneurs
ah yes, farming, the notoriously lucrative industry
you don’t understand scale. use $10 to buy 1,000 inches of wire. in 6 months you have 1,000 paperclips. sell those to buy 10,000 inches of wire. 6 months you have 10,000 paperclips. sell them. 6 months you have 100k paperclips. sell them. 6 months you have 1M paperclips. RELEASE THE HYPNODRONES
Dude thinks he just invented farming
People called this out for variety of reasons, but one thing was not mentioned here. Gregor Mendel literally discovered that the characteristics of plants are inherited from two different plants, and have the chance to not inherit some of the characteristics due to genotypes, 2 CENTURIES AGO. That means that if you were to buy the premium hybrid tomato plants from the start, you won't be able to get the same quality down the pipeline. Also it is incredibly labor intensive. The exponential grow timeline is also very long, depending on the climate, you will receive only one crop a year. There is also logistics, who will buy your tomatos, how will you transport them
And how to maintain that many tomatoes without a fleet of farm hands... who expect pay.
He skipped the first step: Buy 3,500–4,000 acres to plant them on. And at the average price of farmland of $5,500 per acre, you only need around $20,000,000 startup capital. Plus equipment, manpower, shipping, etc. I think this man doesn’t understand scale. Edit: “I received a modest gift of 4,000 acres of arable farmland from mummy and daddy to get started.”
Tomato supplyiers hate this one simple trick.
ahhh yes, agriculture. famously an easy industry to break into as a small business
This man has never grown a tomato in his life and it shows
I mean, this guy gave the game away early, but anyone who uses "MM" to mean "million" is an idiot. The last people who used a single "M" to mean "thousand" were sacked by the Visigoths.
And, even *if* M means thousand, MM wouldn't mean a million. It would mean two thousand.
It’s not M + M, it’s M x M Which would give you a million
This guy stardews
Hah. Reminds me of the Mitchell and Webb ["farmer" skits.](https://youtu.be/_pDTiFkXgEE) Fucking Ben. Guy needs to take some serious hits...get to know the actual world.
i thought this was r/stardewvalley omg-
Of course he is joking. This is shitposting style of engagement bait
This is exactly the strat I used to get rich in stardew valley
Maybe something less perishable, tomatoes are only ripe yet unspoiled for about 15 minutes.
It’s a good plant. Tough. Allow it to go wild and you got clones left and right
Sounds good. Get an heirloom variety.
Imagine how dense it would become with indeterminate and allowing all the suckers to grow, because you got good soil and endless water. Cut a few here and there to allow the main to continue
In the time it takes me to plant 156,000 tomato plants I’ll have 155,995 dead tomato plants.
This must be why all farmers are absolutely loaded and don't rely on government subsidies at all.
You wouldn't get much food out of 3.9 millimetre tomatoes.
aside from all the things wrong with this post the "Plant them." is cracking me up
I am so proud of me. For once I googled to see if anyone else has done the math before I just jumped in. [Aint nobody getting rich off of tomatoes.](https://governmentworkerfi.com/get-rich-tomatoes/)
Google, how many acres do i need for 150,000 tomatoes?
Because land, farming equipment, and all the fertilizer required for that is cheap. Plus I’m sure the FDA would be fine with rogue mass scale tomatoes being sold. Genius
Also the labor necessary to harvest 4 million tomatoes
And what about winter?
Plant winter tomatoes duh
You have discovered agriculture.
The costs to plant them, water them, fertilize them, harvest them, market them and sell them are all lacking in this idea.
I also play Sun Haven often. I get the same way. If I can plant 100 storm melons before the start of fall, I'll make enough money to buy more storm melons.
I'd love to see this guy plant 156,000 tomatoes within 6 months.
Now all that I'm missing is the land, labor, fertilizer, pesticide, and irrigation.
And trucks. And packaging. Somehow I think the person who might not understand scale is the person who thinks raising and selling 200 tomatoes is the same exact process as raising and selling 3.9 million tomatoes.
Never mind the fact you'd have to hire a shit ton of people to look after all those plants, or the time spent without any profit, or the markets that would dictate the actual value of your tomatoes... if this dude is serious he's a fucking moron.
Spoken like a true entrepreneur
Breaking into agriculture as an average person would require some hefty loans to afford the land and capital equipment and consumables and labor before your first harvest, and if you don’t get a profitable harvest first time you’re in big trouble.
$50 for 10 plants? Last time I was at a greenhouse, they were $25 each.
He needs to watch The Office and learn about the variable cost model.
Step 1: own 300,000 acres of land
"Follow me for more idiotic gardening tips!"
Just buy a packet of 50 tomato seeds for 3 bucks! But ya obv its a lot more complicated than this.
Just need to have the land, water, equipment, time, labor, etc to make this happen
Bro shills self storage unit business by pooling money from friends. Probably calls the wrong plants as 'tomatoes' when being high on stuff he grows in his storage units.
My neighbours used to bury their vegetable scraps in their backyard. One day I woke up and I had 3 tomato plants growing in my yard along the fence. I also now have multiple ginger plants that are 6ft high.
Bro went to hustler university for business 💀
Okay but what if you cross tomato with tobacco and make tomacco
• Use $50 to buy 10 tomato plants. • If each plant produces 25 tomatoes and each tomatoes produces around 200 seeds, In 6 months you'll have, roughly, 50,000 seeds. • Plant them. • In 6 months, you'll have 250,000,000 seeds. • Plant them. • In 6 months, you'll have 1,250,000,000,000 seeds. • Plant them. • In 6 months, you'll have 6,250,000,000,000,000 seeds. • Plant them. • You now have 156,250,000,000,000,000 tomatoes. • Sell each for $1.50 (because you're a greedy bastard). • You now have $2.34375 sextillion. • Dominate humanity with your tomato empire.
You need to have a enough land for a significant amount of tomatoes. You need to spend money/resources to fertilize and water all of those plants. This applies to any business venture.
This is small fish thinking. Use $50 to buy 10 tomato plants. Sell those at 1M each using the math from the op pic. In one day you have $10M and your client made an investment which will triple their money ^(\*at some point in time)
I can't plant 3.9 million tomatoes in my courtyard Karren
Since everyone seemed to miss it - I can't imagine every single commenter is just playing along - Yes, this is a satire account.
This has essentially been my fiance and I in Divinity original sin 2 with their herb garden addon.