so how bad exactly is the smell going to be? i'm trying to decide when to start closet grow. my roomate is moving out in a couple of months so i can wait for him to move out and not worry so much about smell or i can start now but i dont want him to smell anything. should i just wait till he moves out or will be easy to control? it will be 2-4 plants with carbon filter/ona gel.
Smell is generaly not that much of a factor untill later in flowering stage...depends on the strain also.GL
Sorry forgot to mention the strain info. I will be doing 1st grow with WW and ICE. 2-4 plants... I should also mention, if my temps are good, i WONT be venting to the attic but it will stay in the closet and using air from my room as intake... How bad would the smell be in veg and in flower? I'm basically trying to get an idea if I should just wait or if I should start my grow so that I enter flowering when he leaves... OR if it will be controllable enough to just start now? I don't want him, neighbors, or visitors to know.
I would start germinating now. You wont notice that beautiful auroma untill 3-5 weeks into flower. So I say you got 2 months to start worrying about it A little tip. Cover your furnace return vent in your room. This is the one near the ceiling. You dont want your furnace to be pulling the smell of your babies through your vents and dispersing it throughout your home. If you are in an apartment...GET A FILTER SYSTEM Hope this helps bro and GL
Ok thanks man!! when you say cover the return vent, I assume you're referring to the return vent close to the floor for the a/c? i don't have one in my closet...if I can keep smell away, then it shouldn't even reach the return vent which is on the other side of my room.
Not the one by the floor. In main rooms there is a return near the ceiling. Thats what sucks air in and sort of decides if the air or heat needs to go on. I live up north, maybe you dont have one if your down south. But if you do...seal it up or your whole house will smell.
I disagree, I think this is poor advice. First off, MJ plants can stink in veg. I had a grow a few years ago that I had to move from my normal garage grow space into my house for a week, 4 plants in veg, while I went out of town. When I came home and opened the door the odor hit me like a punch in the face from the other side of the house. And that grow included some Ice crosses. You don't know if your grow will smell or not until it's under way and too late to do anything about it. Second, it is always a bad idea to grow when there is someone else in the household who does not explicitly know about and consent to the grow. Not stealthy for you, disrespectful to them, trouble all the way around. What's your hurry? Wait until you have a secure situation, that's the first and last consideration in any grow op.
Since you put it like that...didnt think about the stealth issue much, or consent for that matter. Just thinking about odor very good points I overlooked
I just switched my plants to flower a week ago and they've been smelling 4 weeks before and mine is in a closet and even with door closed I can smell it. Also if you said you live in an apartment my house is small so I'm sure we have roughly same sq. foot and when I go to take a crap the bathroom door creates a vacuum and I can actually smell it in my bathroom with both doors closed. Don't get me wrong it makes a great air freshener so I don't have to buy any but it's something to think about with closet grows.