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> Say you need to fertilize the trees. When is the right time? What is the right amount? How many people do you need to fertilize 8000 trees in time?

You experiment. It takes a lot of time, yes, but it’s not that difficult.

I find your answer and many other here overly pessimistic and unkind. Not every thing is about hustling a business to perfection and on the first try.

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> You experiment. It takes a lot of time, yes, but it’s not that difficult.

A failed experiment might cost you 8000 trees. It takes a massive amount of time, and money, to re-launch an experiment of this scale. And every re-launch, you restart the 3-4 year clock until trees are mature enough to harvest.

When you quoted me, you left out the part about how to finance all of this.

> Not every thing is about hustling a business to perfection and on the first try.

With an 8000 tree farm, that point is you very very likely have only one try.

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