LOL! I went yesterday to get some Nutes and had $176 in my
wallet. When the guy totaled it up it came to $175.54!
Came home with .46!
do you worry when going to the grow shop?
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LOL! I went yesterday to get some Nutes and had $176 in my
wallet. When the guy totaled it up it came to $175.54!
Came home with .46!
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LolaGal
I wish I had a grow store to go to. Ya'll are lucky to have one.
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Bud Bug
I'm not here to baby sit anyone. If you do something illegal you need to take responsibility for it when you get busted.
I'd be more worried about having someone follow me home and ripping me off at gun point then a cop writing down my info and doing illegal searches.
And yes I am DEA and I'm coming for you.
A plane can fly into your house too and you can burn to death.
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arrg
How about taking the train to the shop? I can get to brew and grow in a few stops but even though I only have tomatoes going right now (can't afford to waste the few good bagseed seed I got) I don't even want to be a spec on radar.
I was thinking since the train goes to the burbs and back maybe go out to the track then hope off grab a new one back home.
I could only grab stuff that would fit in a suitcase but most bigger stuff could be homerdepot or ace anyway
I was thinking since the train goes to the burbs and back maybe go out to the track then hope off grab a new one back home.
I could only grab stuff that would fit in a suitcase but most bigger stuff could be homerdepot or ace anyway
HossCartwright
Member
WA, OR, CA, MT, CO, ME. All good places to live and reasonably easy to get a recommendation.
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Diamonddss
I too would like to see a link to the affidavits for warrants. Ive heard from tons of people of many stories but only read a few actually links including "operation greenhouse". Ive also read all drop shipments from hydro warehouse are monitored. Who knows for sure but
I cant staY out of mine.
however florida law says over 25 plants is traffiking. this includes clippings and seedlings.
so Florida growers have a right to be paranoid but
If i was running 3k lights and selling i would prob never go and would drive out of city in someone elses car.
But if i was running 1k and 20 plants i would not hesitaTE TO Go to local grow store.
nutes online cost more to ship
how about soilless medium like pro-mix bx. I certainly cant get that at home depot or lowes. Local nurseries had no clue what pro-mix or "soilless" are.
good nutes are not at home depot.
Shipping gives an address.
Small timers should relax a bit but still take basic caution like pay cash and dont drive straight to grow but give me a break. Im not driving 500 miles for pro-mix or paying $35 to ship a $35 bag of pro-mix.
large growers on the otherhand have a right to be paranoid as so many in jail
final note i have a friend who wont go to grow store period. But about 15 people know he grows. Me i will go to grow store but zero know i grow. I think he is crazy and vise versa.
I cant staY out of mine.
however florida law says over 25 plants is traffiking. this includes clippings and seedlings.
so Florida growers have a right to be paranoid but
If i was running 3k lights and selling i would prob never go and would drive out of city in someone elses car.
But if i was running 1k and 20 plants i would not hesitaTE TO Go to local grow store.
nutes online cost more to ship
how about soilless medium like pro-mix bx. I certainly cant get that at home depot or lowes. Local nurseries had no clue what pro-mix or "soilless" are.
good nutes are not at home depot.
Shipping gives an address.
Small timers should relax a bit but still take basic caution like pay cash and dont drive straight to grow but give me a break. Im not driving 500 miles for pro-mix or paying $35 to ship a $35 bag of pro-mix.
large growers on the otherhand have a right to be paranoid as so many in jail
final note i have a friend who wont go to grow store period. But about 15 people know he grows. Me i will go to grow store but zero know i grow. I think he is crazy and vise versa.
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OGfarmerted
ive been using the same supplier since 99, sea-of-green. they also own american agritech and botanicare etc.. really cool people. they once got raided by the fuzz, took it to court and they didnt have to turn over any customer data and so on. they love and protect their customers. awesome indoor stores too. i do worry about it tho, the feds have staked out grow shops before but fuck it, if they want me, they will get me. until then, ill be doing what i want , when and how i want. self empowerment is awesome
ZoeFresssh666
Member
@Umbra: haha that just put a smile on my face!
Norrath
Member
i have 2 favourite grow shops, one i think knows, but theyre very jovial,nice and hip, the other store is very serious and more informative..the head honcho there is like a fricken encyclopedia, i BET he is a member on this website..
Ive only visited a handful, and sort of picked from that lot, but i know there are MANY more in this area. anyways, no qualms here. love my grow stores.
ps. dont you guys love the faint attempts to resemble a real gardening store? lmao
Ive only visited a handful, and sort of picked from that lot, but i know there are MANY more in this area. anyways, no qualms here. love my grow stores.
ps. dont you guys love the faint attempts to resemble a real gardening store? lmao
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Bud Bug
Well there's nothing illegal about the equipment that is sold in hydro stores but you just can't blatantly say you sell to weed growers although licensed medical growers is a different matter. Even then a store still have to be careful as there a limits when it comes to the plants.
I can't speak for the US but in Canada I'd be WAY more worried about someone following you home to rip you off then the cops tracking you.
The RCMP don't want you they want the end of the line guy who is gonna export the weed. Why do you think so many people don't get charged or just fined when they get busted. A lot of the times as long as you're not tapping power and haven't fucked the house up or doing other illegal things in the house they'll just cut the plants down, fuck up the equipment and leave.
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Diamonddss
i still stand by my post but heres a reminder for florida residence
c and p
Truck At Hydroponics Store Traced Pot Raided
Tagged with: Cannabis Busts Growing Cannabis
Narcotics detective Michael Papamichael kept seeing the same black Ford F-150 pickup truck parked behind Simply Hydroponics, a business that sells grow lights, nutrients and other products designed for indoor agriculture.
Papamichael saw the truck five times between Jan. 6 and Feb. 19, according to court documents released last week, and that got the detective thinking. He checked to see who that truck belonged to, and where the driver might have set up an account with Progress Energy Corp. for electricity.
This is how the Pinellas sheriff’s narcotics squad was led to a string of warehouses behind a U.S. 19 strip plaza this month. There they found 460 marijuana plants and more than $12,000 in cash, the court documents say.
Allan Bednar, co-owner of Simply Hydroponics, was taken aback when he heard Tuesday that detectives identified a suspect by jotting down the license tag of a truck presumably driven by one of his customers.
“If they don’t have anything better to do, there’s not much I can do about it,” Bednar said. “I’m surprised … it seems there are more problems around of a more serious nature.”
Bednar wondered aloud whether the sheriff’s office was exposing itself to potential lawsuits though the surveillance technique. “We’re a gardening supply store,” Bednar said. It caters to professors, students and teachers, as well as homeowners, and if detectives begin showing up at their doors, it could be considered harassment, he said.
The F-150 was registered to the man investigators initially believed was running the marijuana grow operation at the warehouses, the documents say. He is identified in the documents as Stephen E. Sweetwood, 51, of Seminole, the court records say.
The warehouses “” located behind the Four Seasons Plaza, 39070 U.S. 19 N., Palm Harbor “” were raided March 9 after sheriff’s narcotics investigators obtained a search warrant.
That day, authorities said a man had been taken into custody and was cooperating with them. They would not identify the man then and they are not doing so now. Pinellas sheriff’s spokeswoman Cecilia Barreda said Tuesday that no arrests have been made in the case, and the investigation is ongoing.
According to the affidavit accompanying the search warrant, however, the focus of the investigation, at least before the search, was Sweetwood.
Sweetwood became a target after his truck was spotted repeatedly at Simply Hydroponics at 7949 Ulmerton Road in Largo, the court records say. Investigators then looked to see where a power bill might be in Sweetwood’s name, and they were told by Progress Energy Corp. that Sweetwood had an account for one of the warehouses behind the plaza, the affidavit says.
When Papamichael and another detective went to the warehouse complex, they found five air-conditioners mounted to an outside wall that were in operation the entire time the detectives were there, with a generated temperature of 44 degrees. They also smelled marijuana coming from the exhaust of four of the five air conditioning units, but the smell of marijuana was evident no where else outside, the affidavit says.
Detectives then found the four warehouse units that were emitting the smell of marijuana were not in Sweetwood’s name, but rather in the name of Jeffrey G. McCubbins, 46, of Hudson, the affidavit says. The one air conditioning unit that was in Sweetwood’s name was not emitting the smell of marijuana, the affidavit says.
The three warehouses for which detectives obtained their search warrant “” and which were using inordinate amounts of power “” had accounts for electricity in McCubbins’ name, the affidavit says, and McCubbins had previously been suspected of distributing marijuana. Still, detectives noted that Sweetwood had access to one of the three warehouses, and he is “involved in the cultivation of marijuana within said warehouses,” the affidavit says.
Efforts to reach Sweetwood and McCubbins were unsuccessful. Neither man has a listed telephone number.
Pubdate: Wed, 18 Mar 2009
Source: Tampa Tribune (FL)
Copyright: 2009 The Tribune Co.
Contact: http://www.tbo.com/news/opinion/submissionform.htm
Website: http://www.tampatrib.com/
c and p
Truck At Hydroponics Store Traced Pot Raided
Tagged with: Cannabis Busts Growing Cannabis
Narcotics detective Michael Papamichael kept seeing the same black Ford F-150 pickup truck parked behind Simply Hydroponics, a business that sells grow lights, nutrients and other products designed for indoor agriculture.
Papamichael saw the truck five times between Jan. 6 and Feb. 19, according to court documents released last week, and that got the detective thinking. He checked to see who that truck belonged to, and where the driver might have set up an account with Progress Energy Corp. for electricity.
This is how the Pinellas sheriff’s narcotics squad was led to a string of warehouses behind a U.S. 19 strip plaza this month. There they found 460 marijuana plants and more than $12,000 in cash, the court documents say.
Allan Bednar, co-owner of Simply Hydroponics, was taken aback when he heard Tuesday that detectives identified a suspect by jotting down the license tag of a truck presumably driven by one of his customers.
“If they don’t have anything better to do, there’s not much I can do about it,” Bednar said. “I’m surprised … it seems there are more problems around of a more serious nature.”
Bednar wondered aloud whether the sheriff’s office was exposing itself to potential lawsuits though the surveillance technique. “We’re a gardening supply store,” Bednar said. It caters to professors, students and teachers, as well as homeowners, and if detectives begin showing up at their doors, it could be considered harassment, he said.
The F-150 was registered to the man investigators initially believed was running the marijuana grow operation at the warehouses, the documents say. He is identified in the documents as Stephen E. Sweetwood, 51, of Seminole, the court records say.
The warehouses “” located behind the Four Seasons Plaza, 39070 U.S. 19 N., Palm Harbor “” were raided March 9 after sheriff’s narcotics investigators obtained a search warrant.
That day, authorities said a man had been taken into custody and was cooperating with them. They would not identify the man then and they are not doing so now. Pinellas sheriff’s spokeswoman Cecilia Barreda said Tuesday that no arrests have been made in the case, and the investigation is ongoing.
According to the affidavit accompanying the search warrant, however, the focus of the investigation, at least before the search, was Sweetwood.
Sweetwood became a target after his truck was spotted repeatedly at Simply Hydroponics at 7949 Ulmerton Road in Largo, the court records say. Investigators then looked to see where a power bill might be in Sweetwood’s name, and they were told by Progress Energy Corp. that Sweetwood had an account for one of the warehouses behind the plaza, the affidavit says.
When Papamichael and another detective went to the warehouse complex, they found five air-conditioners mounted to an outside wall that were in operation the entire time the detectives were there, with a generated temperature of 44 degrees. They also smelled marijuana coming from the exhaust of four of the five air conditioning units, but the smell of marijuana was evident no where else outside, the affidavit says.
Detectives then found the four warehouse units that were emitting the smell of marijuana were not in Sweetwood’s name, but rather in the name of Jeffrey G. McCubbins, 46, of Hudson, the affidavit says. The one air conditioning unit that was in Sweetwood’s name was not emitting the smell of marijuana, the affidavit says.
The three warehouses for which detectives obtained their search warrant “” and which were using inordinate amounts of power “” had accounts for electricity in McCubbins’ name, the affidavit says, and McCubbins had previously been suspected of distributing marijuana. Still, detectives noted that Sweetwood had access to one of the three warehouses, and he is “involved in the cultivation of marijuana within said warehouses,” the affidavit says.
Efforts to reach Sweetwood and McCubbins were unsuccessful. Neither man has a listed telephone number.
Pubdate: Wed, 18 Mar 2009
Source: Tampa Tribune (FL)
Copyright: 2009 The Tribune Co.
Contact: http://www.tbo.com/news/opinion/submissionform.htm
Website: http://www.tampatrib.com/
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Bud Bug
So they got a warrant on the basis that the car was at a hydro shop several times?
I'm sure an experienced lawyer would have ripped through that unless the guy decided to "co-operate" right away.
I'm sure an experienced lawyer would have ripped through that unless the guy decided to "co-operate" right away.
Norrath
Member
yep. all true, but selling jorge cervantes' books, odor neutralizing gels, scales, bongs, etc etc etc et al onwards forever, grow shops' integrity is mostly loose at best. Though I understand what youre touting, it's all legal mechandise, but im not oblivious to reality. kk!
Tis why i have 2 i frequent, one when im feeling straight, and one when im feeling risqué
Tis why i have 2 i frequent, one when im feeling straight, and one when im feeling risqué
Peanut Butter
Member
Utility probably gave up information about address without questioning, warrant came after when they smelled weed from the AC.
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Diamonddss
good point, i think utility companies just turn over any and all info on request. They do not respect the rights of property owners privacy. tHEY SHOULD ASKED for a warrant. And yeah i guess they always can just "smell" it for a warrant
SaltyBalls
Member
and dont forget and McCubbins had previously been suspected of distributing marijuana.
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