Planning on doing an outdoor grow next year and doing all my research and prep now before its time to plant. Decided on outdoor grow because I can't afford the power bills if I started. Going to check out the greater forested areas round my place here in Mississippi, but wondering (as amateur as it sounds) whats wrong with just growing on my balcony (it does face east and gets hit with that morning sunrise). Live on second floor of third story apartment compromised of mostly university students. I'm looking to grow just for myself so only will grow one or two plants (that should be enough). Can't I just grow behind a couple of lawn chairs in a tupper ware bin (no lid) for concealment? Are there strains I can get that grow pretty short and not as smelly or do I need to just head into the woods?
I would say hit the forest or assemble a little cab indoor with CFLs/computer fans if you're that worried about the electric bill. Even my xbox is like 200-300 watts, some computers are like 700+ watts and run 24/7. As far as little plants, autoflowering strains stay small and flower quick. But there are heavy indica strains as well that stay small and can be managed to stay small, but I would NOT grow them on my balcony.
in an indoor grow with cfl lighting, pc fans and case, will there be a fire hazard? Been browsing indoor grows here and might just do that depending on how my outdoor scouting goes.
No as long as nothing is resting on the light itself shouldnt be a fire hazard. Above poster is right most have no idea about how much power is used on various things. A cool device you can get is Killawatt off amazon or home depot to see. If you run a Xbox/Ps3 thats 300 watts, LCD another 100-200, DVR 100watts, Surround Sound system 300-500 watts. Its nutty how much power stuff uses. To figure out how much would be added to your bill look at your power bill and figure out how much you pay per kilowatt hour. Here in in Atlanta its 11 cents. Then plug it in to this. Costs Calculator
Damn man power is cheap there in atl man, here i pay 23 cent man...and that's in Euro...and we still grow with HPS so, if i was prescot i would just put a a little grow indoors...250watt max. i'm not realy in to that pc thing ( I live in Holland and pc grows are not very popular), get a growspace a lil bigger than the pc case and you could yeald enough weed to last you till your next harvest. i don't know how much you might wanna yield.
ur outdoor idea is cool, ya u can get short plants to work for ya , or u can top em, pinch em or whatever to keep em stealth , but when things r stealth , usually so is the sunshine , so just take that into consideration.