[straw]

Originally Posted by moose eater

Pick your path and run with it. Your logic re. plant counts is not uncommon, though it sounds like aggregate weight in your area is the bigger issue. Still, appearances may matter if the time of need ever arises.

My nerves have never/rarely been able to handle perpetual harvest. I've always felt a need for that elongated 'sigh' at the end of a go, where the 'finish line' is more clearly defined. Down-time mattes if you ever get to a point of nerves taking a toll. But while we're all somewhat the same, we are all made of somewhat different 'metal' too.

Good luck to you!!!

Yeah, i feel you on this point! I dont really want a full time job growing. But the problem for me is if im going one grow at a time, that means i have to harvest twice as much. Lets say a grow cycle is 4 months, that would mean like 2kgs. Anyone got a educated guess how much total dry weight i can expect with 2kg of dry bud?

But yeah i got your point. I guess you cant plan everything i just gotta go through with it!

[moose eater]

I've never weighed my TOTAL plant weight once dried, to include refuse. Just weighed the higher-grade trim, the finished bud product, and hash. But based on others' statements in your thread, if your dried bud weight is just over half of your total aggregate, then you should be safe.

Of course, 'leafier' varieties will have slightly higher weights in total end production. As well as those varieties with thicker stem structure will cause some variances.

Also, my on-again, off-again method was not just a strategy for dealing with nerves, but also, in helping with the 'nerves' issue, a legal strategy. i.e., LEO hates egg on their face, and any uncertainty as to what might be had by kicking in a door, might cause some hesitation.

In other words, if LEO's not certain that there's a decent score to be had by going through all the hoops of getting a warrant and violating someone's castle's sanctuary, etc., I've believed/hoped they're less apt to jump. In that regard, leaving them guessing is also a defense barrier of sorts.

Originally Posted by straw

Yeah, i feel you on this point! I dont really want a full time job growing. But the problem for me is if im going one grow at a time, that means i have to harvest twice as much. Lets say a grow cycle is 4 months, that would mean like 2kgs. Anyone got a educated guess how much total dry weight i can expect with 2kg of dry bud?

But yeah i got your point. I guess you cant plan everything i just gotta go through with it!

[HuffnPufferfish]

oh weed is legal in europe because of muslims, missed that one

[Easy7]

Indoor is not the best covert method. Unless you have hidden space. Totally silent and smell proof, hidden from snoopers.

Outdoor it's easier to deny. Unless you are caught working on the plants, harvesting and hauling home, with tools of the trade in route or leaving or on site, it's very hard to be tied to the crime.

Indoors is hard to deny

[TychoMonolyth]

When I plant in the bush, it's at 4:30am. When I visit the grow, I always walk out with my camera taking pictures of everything interesting. Bugs, mushrooms, crazy tree, bird... If I get caught, I have an out as a nature nerd. For harvest time, I only do it at dusk or even dark, or like 1/2 hour before sunrise. Police departments here won't pay overtime for cops to sit there overnight to catch you. (Mind you, I do know someone who was caught at his grow by the OPP during the day time. When the cop rushed him, he thought it was a bear. lol)

It's important to know that cops can't allow drugs to hit the streets once they've found it. That means instead of sitting there and waiting for you, they'll just pull it out of the ground and destroy your crop. So do like a squirrel and spread out your grows in different areas so you don't lose the whole thing.

[Easy7]

They found a large grow in our area, drying under a tarp. Largest grow I have ever seen around here. The cops played it like they had trail cam evidence. The losers never did charge anyone. The growers lost their weed but did not get a charge. They probably spent very little. It looked like a brick seed grow with chems. As cheap as they come.

The problem is having standards. Having desires and emotional investment. Things get complicated if you allow all your hearts desires to get involved. You are not going to do well if you bought the entire seed catalogue. Find the right bean for the job.

[Chevy cHaze]

Originally Posted by RB56

Haven't managed to get rid of the green hue, but I'm not too concerned about that. Frozen oil batches are stored away from the plants.

You can re-dissolve in hot water to get rid of the chlorophyll.It will remain in the water and when you let you oil cool off again it's not green anymore. Sometimes you have to do a second wash, but that's it...because to behonest-the green colour kind of gives it away to anyone looking at it...

Best,
CC

[Kaskadian]

I don't know how much of a difference it makes but I grew in a "red-state" for 10+ years. As others have said, if no one knows you're growing then who do you really have to worry about? It's the angry ex-girlfriend, the big mouth friend, and people growing + selling out of their house that get popped 99/100 times. Do NOT tell anyone, not your best friend, not your girlfriend, not your roommates, NO ONE. The ol' saying "loose lips sink ships" couldn't be more true.

In my case I was running 1000w between veg/flower. I used a carbon scrubber and all air exiting the grow room was "scrubbed" before venting outside. I never ordered seeds/grow equipment to my grow area, I never told anyone, I paid all my bills on time, I didn't leave grow equipment, bags of soil, etc laying around, and I wasn't a disruptive neighbor. I never had any issues.

Use common sense, control odor/light leaks, don't ship grow related stuff to your property, keep your mouth shut, and you don't really need to panic.

[TychoMonolyth]

Originally Posted by Kaskadian

I don't know how much of a difference it makes but I grew in a "red-state" for 10+ years. As others have said, if no one knows you're growing then who do you really have to worry about? It's the angry ex-girlfriend, the big mouth friend, and people growing + selling out of their house that get popped 99/100 times. Do NOT tell anyone, not your best friend, not your girlfriend, not your roommates, NO ONE. The ol' saying "loose lips sink ships" couldn't be more true.

In my case I was running 1000w between veg/flower. I used a carbon scrubber and all air exiting the grow room was "scrubbed" before venting outside. I never ordered seeds/grow equipment to my grow area, I never told anyone, I paid all my bills on time, I didn't leave grow equipment, bags of soil, etc laying around, and I wasn't a disruptive neighbor. I never had any issues.

Use common sense, control odor/light leaks, don't ship grow related stuff to your property, keep your mouth shut, and you don't really need to panic.

Smart.

Scrubbing to outdoor or the attic is the riskiest. But a hot spot at ground level is always assumed to be the dryer vent, and you get bonus points if you can route to it.

The last kid just left for college and is now in residence! That 12x20 basement bedroom is being converted into a nursery. Only it ain't for no human babies. Woot!

[Palindrome]

If you want to run cycles, in the shortest amount of time, at the lowest cost. You should grow SOG style with little to no veg, given you have a mother room and can make a lot of clones.

The plants yeild less, but you have more of them. And without the veg time, you save money on power from skiping veg. Running a good indica dom strain, you can harvest every 65 days give or take.

What I used to do, was just cut clones 3 weeks before harvest. The last week, I would double the light and feed them a mild veg solution.

Giving you 5 flower cycles per year, at a lower cost then 4 + veg. In total the lower yeild x 5 adds up to the 4 bigger yeilds at a higher cost.