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My apartment complex grow may be in danger

phishin

Member
I live in a huge apartment complex. I get back to the apt today and find letters posted stating that the water company is switching water or something and that they have to shut down the water for a few hours and that during the hours of 10am-2pm they will be coming in to each apartment to make sure the toilets are working properly. My four plants are in the closite that leads to the bathroom. I have a huge tapestry that I can put down to block the plants but they still stink. What do you think I should do? I have until Thursday to figure out my plan. This is my first grow and am about a month into flowering.
 
M

Minnesota Nice

Never begin an operation without a proper exit strategy!

At this point I'd weather proof the inside of the closet door with that clear plastic stuff you put on your windows in the winter...or at the very least use some weatherstrips to seal the edges around the door. The point is you want to keep that skunk smell inside the closet and away from the rest of your apartment. Next, take the day off work and 15 minutes before they say they'll be there shut everything down and go to your kitchen and fry up a big fuckin catfish! No problemo.

edit- wait, you can move the plants? then yeah bag em and put them anywhere else!
 

LiLWaynE

I Feel Good
ICMag Donor
Veteran
4 plants? throw them in garbage bags and store them in your vehicle until after they check the tooilet...

then just clean up a bit so it doesnt look like you are growing..

air the place out as well - open windows and light some incense
 

Harvest

Member
are we all medical and legal? post ur script, 4 plants aint shit.....no filter for smell?....id just shut down move the plants into another room with a light floro above it untill the check is complete. they should be fine for a few hours. cook some bacon or somethin potent to cover smell.
-Harvest
 

Norrath

Member
BACON! go to your supermarket and buy the big package of thick sliced bacon(so that you can sort of leave it simmering and it wont burn straight through, EFF that cheap ready made bacon!)

cheap, smells like a sonova...oh put on some coffee too, last time i had an apartment inspection i switched closets with everything, hung a few CFLs in there for light, and cooked up a storm/ONA bucket revival.

worked fine. in my country, they arent allowed to open closets or even touch a bedroom door if they are first closed(not locked because default is not locked and landlord must have key to all locked doors+suspicion; if you want an invisible locked door look up the latest high times article with the remote locking door) thing called privacy...you do have some...sometimes..

so theyre coming in to check plumbing, do for scent and plain site and you should be fine.

ps dont do incense if it's not your regular regime. i tried to cover up certain things with incense a few times and people started to talk, depends on your neighbours... *shakes fist at nosy next door...mumble*
 

Lucky U

Member
Remember, if they cant see the plants, you just smoked them, if they see the plants you just grew them. Just put them away, cover the smell, put away all related items and you will be fine. Minnesota said it best!!!
 

Abja Roots

ABF(Always Be Flowering) - Founder
Veteran
I'm with Wayne. Throw them in some garbage bags and put them in the car. Cook up something like Indian Food, coffee, bacon fried salami.

Clean up the all the things that don't belong. Buy them some Donuts and make sure you're home.

I've heard of people breaking down entire grows into uhaul trucks with generators.

On another note apartment growing is dangerous, especially if you have no medical protection where you live.

Best of Luck
 

alaskan

Member
Does the closet have a door?

Ever hear of people blowing smoke through toilet paper tubes stuffed with dryer sheets to eliminate the smell of the smoke?

Stuff every crack in the door with some real pungent fabric softener sheets and leave the door closed as long as possible.
Air the whole place out if you can too...

I once got the "Why does the bathroom smell like skunk?" because air was drawing from under the house where the plants were, up through a huge seam around the bathtub, and stuffing that seam with dryer sheets worked for weeks.

If it doesn't have a door it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to loosely sew together some sheets/blankets and stuff them with dryer sheets or anything else that smells a lot, and hang that instead of tapestry...
Just try to get a good 'seal' all the way around the door frame. Staples?

Hopefully none of the plumbing runs through the closet...
 

InfectedMush

New member
I picked my apartment because of how easy it is to smuggle stuff in and out unnoticed. I have a locked hallway door and then another door that goes down to my parking space so i can back a truck in to the parking space and go 20 feet with nobody seeing anything. I jumped on the apartment when I saw it.

If they are going to need access to that area, I wouldn't leave them there. I would move them to a pantry or another closet that they have no reason to be looking in.

Also remember that when you are in a place for an extended period of time you get used to how it smells. Make sure before they come you go walk around outside for awhile then come back in and use that to judge whether it is clean.

The cooking bacon thing works great!
 

GeorgeSmiley

Remembers
Veteran
Burn a bag of popcorn smell solved now to distract them.... take a giant dump in the toilet and leave it... for the water guys.... they won't even think of your plants...... if you really wanna have fun with it..... eat some glitter the day before...... ya know Christmas spirit

:xmasnut:
 

opt1c

Well-known member
Veteran
cinnamon on the stove is great this time of the year

leave out a crappy spoon near the bathroom; nothing wrong with smokin a bowl; sure the toilet repair guys probably do it as well

or from 10-2 check the toilets ur damn self and let the guys know they're workin when they knock
 

Norrath

Member
i wouldnt KEEP them in the apartment mate. Even if youre supposedly caught with paraphernalia, wont you be kicking yourself for not displacing the plants when you had the chance...but this isnt an apartment inspection, merely for plumbing.. one must keep this in mind

in my apartment inspection i put them in several tupperware/rubbermaid tubs and put into the car. holy hell the car smelled of wet plant ganja for a good 24 hours but a simple drive with windows open would cure it. just dont drive and get pulled over immediately afterwards...


lmfao glitter...wow, way to fuck with your maintenance workers..

hey bill, look at this!
 
M

Mr-B

Wait till they knock on the door, TAKE YOUR TIME ANSWERING. When you do answer be all bundled up with blankets, tissue paper in hand and a thermometer in your mouth. Tell them you have the swine flu and they better not come inside unless they want to get sick.

trust me, THEY WILL NOT COME INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!
Tell them the toilet works fine because you just flushed down a bunch of bloody vomit.

Those plumbers and landlord will run away so fast, you will swear your in cartoon.

B
 

Norrath

Member
if theyre really only there for the plumbing, im sure this ^^^^^^ is a great idea, damn, i should have done that.
 

watson540

Member
Wait till they knock on the door, TAKE YOUR TIME ANSWERING. When you do answer be all bundled up with blankets, tissue paper in hand and a thermometer in your mouth. Tell them you have the swine flu and they better not come inside unless they want to get sick.

trust me, THEY WILL NOT COME INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!
Tell them the toilet works fine because you just flushed down a bunch of bloody vomit.

Those plumbers and landlord will run away so fast, you will swear your in cartoon.

B

at least give proper credit where it is due, someone did that in a thread not too long ago and I don't remember it being ^^^ you
 

Crake

Member
You should know your rights is what you should do. In many states of the US, apartments are considered their renter's property and laws protect anyone from entering without consent of the renter--even the landlord. Do some research on "renter's rights" to see if you have the right to refuse admittance.

Many times this is a ploy on the part of the landlord to invade the privacy of their uneducated tenants to see if anything they don't approve of is going on inside.
 

FreezerBoy

Was blind but now IC Puckbunny in Training
Veteran
A U-haul truck can be had for what? $19.95?

Get the plants out of the apt and stink it up with something else. Do you like Salmon?
 

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