[DaftBud]

Online? Hydro shop?

I'm wary of both just because they present their own risks. People talk about other people being tailed out of hydro shops back to their houses. Obviously having online hydro shop charges on your credit card and packages coming to your house present their own risks as well.

Which method do you guys find to be cheapest, most convenient, and/or most secure?

Online

[SocksRock]

Fuuny thing, I randomly picked up a bottle of Shultz bloom Booster (5-30-5) at a dollar store (went to get a bucket and was surprised that it was there). What's the worst that can happen right?


Paid 1.99for it

[sackoweed]

I am lucky that a local nursery sells what i use.. Cos i am noided going to my hydro guy anymore.. especially now he has a TV comersh.. peace n puffs...

sackO

[Admiral Canna]

Hydro store.....but in a med friendly state. If I didn't live in a med friendly state, I would prolly go to the next state over, or a distant store to buy my soil and other goodies, but would prolly get the lighter stuff online and shipped to a safe addy. Grow safe, grow hard.

With all due respect, because I've certainly been driven by paranoia in the past and surely will again...

The idea that cops are staking out hydro stores is, IMO, pure paranoid cannabis driven fantasy.

First of all, most likely it would have to be the state police. What are local cops going to follow every customer out of the stop only to discover that half of them are leaving their jurisdiction?

Second of all, what state has the money to fund a plainclothes surveillance operation with no known targets? In 2010, states are going broke and slashing services. Think about the expenses involved. The bodies, the equipment, the gasoline, the overtime, the donuts and coffee, etc.

And even if they could in the best of economic times afford to randomly survey hydro stores, how do they know if the customer leaving the store is an mj grower or an orchid grower or a strawberry grower? Talking about your proverbial needle in a haystack.

I would think if people got busted this way it was because the cops were ALREADY following them around based on some other information.

[Fuzz420]

The hydro store.I take my sports car up there so when i leave i drive recklessly so no one could keep up or follow

Originally Posted by Carl Carlson

With all due respect, because I've certainly been driven by paranoia in the past and surely will again...

The idea that cops are staking out hydro stores is, IMO, pure paranoid cannabis driven fantasy.

First of all, most likely it would have to be the state police. What are local cops going to follow every customer out of the stop only to discover that half of them are leaving their jurisdiction?

Second of all, what state has the money to fund a plainclothes surveillance operation with no known targets? In 2010, states are going broke and slashing services. Think about the expenses involved. The bodies, the equipment, the gasoline, the overtime, the donuts and coffee, etc.

And even if they could in the best of economic times afford to randomly survey hydro stores, how do they know if the customer leaving the store is an mj grower or an orchid grower or a strawberry grower? Talking about your proverbial needle in a haystack.

I would think if people got busted this way it was because the cops were ALREADY following them around based on some other information.

Its this type of attitude that will get you popped.You should really do more research before dismissing the notion.

You can start here

[gators7]

it all depends on your state. some states I would be terrified of the hydro store because of the news stories ive seen posted on here, but for me ive never seen one case on the news EVER about someone being busted from being seen at a store in my state- there are so many other ways that will happen first.

How bout just do like the rest of us and use a car that isnt registered to your grow site and pay with cash- simple yet extremely effective

Originally Posted by Fuzz420

The hydro store.I take my sports car up there so when i leave i drive recklessly so no one could keep up or follow

Did I say that I do that?

Its this type of attitude that will get you popped.You should really do more research before dismissing the notion.

You can start here

What attitude? It's not like I don't worry about the cops or don't act on informed paranoia. It's that where I live in the U.S., the cops apparently don't stake out hydro shops. Like the poster above, I follow the local news very closely. Here, growers get ratted out by their neighbors because they failed to control the odors or they get caught in controlled buys which lead to their grow spots. Obviously I was previously misinformed about what is happening elsewhere, but I didn't dismiss anything outright and am always open to information. In other words, I stand corrected.

by the way, this thread is much better https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=140671

[Dr.Dank]

Originally Posted by Carl Carlson

With all due respect, because I've certainly been driven by paranoia in the past and surely will again...

The idea that cops are staking out hydro stores is, IMO, pure paranoid cannabis driven fantasy.

First of all, most likely it would have to be the state police. What are local cops going to follow every customer out of the stop only to discover that half of them are leaving their jurisdiction?

Second of all, what state has the money to fund a plainclothes surveillance operation with no known targets? In 2010, states are going broke and slashing services. Think about the expenses involved. The bodies, the equipment, the gasoline, the overtime, the donuts and coffee, etc.

And even if they could in the best of economic times afford to randomly survey hydro stores, how do they know if the customer leaving the store is an mj grower or an orchid grower or a strawberry grower? Talking about your proverbial needle in a haystack.

I would think if people got busted this way it was because the cops were ALREADY following them around based on some other information.

Wrong cops will stake hydro stores seen it done read about it and known of cases that have gone down because of this.
for example read this
https://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/mar...-make-growhou/ ----> not your friend hehe