Regardless of how many plants you choose to grow, growing stealthily should always be a priority. Few things in life are as frustrating as having to flush your homegrown marijuana in the toilet simply because some nosy neighbors see your grow lights or a guest sniffs your growing room out.
To successfully perform a stealth grow, you need to consider four factors: location, smell, sound, and security.
Location is the most important of these four. Growing marijuana in the wrong place is the easiest way for a novice grower to get caught. Some good places for marijuana cultivation are:
- Attic – No one else can go up to your attic except you. You’ll have plenty of room and you have the freedom to add as many lights as you want because attics have few places for light to leak out and alert neighbors.
However, attics aren’t usually as well insulated as the rest of the house so you’ll need a top notch ventilation system to keep it cool in the summer and a heating system during the winter.
- Basement – Basements in general have fewer or no windows so no light will leak out. They also stay at a steady temperature throughout the year.
- Unused Closet – A closet is a well-defined space and you may no longer need a grow tent. The temperature inside the closet will only slightly vary with the temperature in the rest of your house. It can be easily lied with Mylar or panda film to seal the lights.
Unfortunately, it does offer less space and snoopy visitors may accidentally stumble into your grow closet.
- Garage – It’s easy to disguise a grow tent as something innocent in the garage – like a tool cabinet. Garages also stay cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
Now that you know the options on where to establish your grow room, you’ll need a way to deal with the distinct odor released by cannabis plants. A carbon filter is important to control a grow room’s smell. It also requires little maintenance.
NEVER spray your plants on your grow room with air fresheners. These contain chemicals which will hurt your buds and their quantity and quality will likely suffer.
As you work with more equipment, the louder the grow room becomes. Make sure you get equipment which work as silently as possible.
And finally, when it comes to the question of security, simply get a lock on the door of your grow room and only you and a trusted person should have a key.
This grow journal features a grower’s efforts to use stealth grow to successfully cultivate different feminized cannabis strains.
Grower: Luck33y7
Location: NA
Yield: 164 grams total (dried)
June 4th
The grow journal started out with the following supplies:
- Sugar Mama, Northern Lights, and Maui Waui auto, feminized seeds
- Soil – Fox Farms Ocea Forest
- Container – 3-gallon fabric pots
- Lights – 300W LED Galaxy Hydro
- Grow Area – 2 x 2 x 4 ft. grow tent in a closet
June 11th
Some Northern Lights popped along with a Maui Waui. A couple Sugar Mamas have also started showing tap roots.
June 12th
Northern Lights 1 and 2 have popped up. Maui Waui is staying chill and short. 1 of the 2 Sugar Mamas did pop up within 24 hours of being in soil. Not much to look at for now. They look almost identical at this point.
June 24th
Haven’t posted anything for a while and four girls are flourishing and putting out new growth. They’ll start receiving General Go Box nutes at ¼ strength as soon as all of them are in bigger pots.
The one at the center is the Sugar Mama. The ones on the left and right are Northern Lights 1 & 2, and the one at the back is the Maui Waui.
And here are some solo shots.
July 1st
These young ladies are growing up so fast! The Northern Lights #1 is droopy despite being fed the same thing as the others. The three other girls are obviously loving the ¼ strength General Organics Go Box Nutes. They were also transplanted into 3-gallon air pots right before the last water. These pots will be their permanent homes.
July 12th
Burnt tips are starting to show on all the ladies. They were also very droopy with some yellow leaves. All the dead growth were removed and they were given a good feeding!
And these photos show the beginnings of Sugar Mama’s flowers!
No update is complete without a group photo of the girls too.
Despite the differences with the leaves, all 4 are showing healthy stalks.
July 14th
The Northern Lights are developing well and putting out lots of green leaves. Both have fully recovered from the unhealthy state they were in a few days ago.
No comments:
Post a Comment