Guests coming over for 3 days

univ

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i got 4 plants total. 3 natural, 1 autoflower. my question is how long can my 3 regular plants go without light? i cant think of any other option but to put them in the closet covered w/ plastic bags all over till the guest departs in 2-3 days. then rebuilding the tent to put them back in. i rly dont have any other options. lol. and they are a big mouth too. lol. suggestions? opinions? comments?


THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
 

romano

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Sounds like you have my luck , This should have been thought of before start of grow. Goood luckk. Dont know the answer but stressing them might change there sex for the worst .
 

Jerry Garcia

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Are the regular plants in flower or veg? 3 days isn't the end of the world for the plants. I don't know about asphyxiating them with a plastic bag though.

I'd be more concerned about the smell...
 

univ

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Sounds like you have my luck , This should have been thought of before start of grow. Goood luckk. Dont know the answer but stressing them might change there sex for the worst .
the 2 regular plants are about 85 days old, the other regular plant is about 70 days old and the autoflower is like 55 days old w/ soon to harvest. all 4 are females.

Are the regular plants in flower or veg? 3 days isn't the end of the world for the plants. I don't know about asphyxiating them with a plastic bag though.

I'd be more concerned about the smell...
the 2 regular plants are about 85 days old, the other regular plant is about 70 days old and the autoflower is like 55 days old w/ soon to harvest. all 4 are females.
 

fatfarmer

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put a box over them. go with cfls to lower heat and go to lowes to get order eater for inside box {boxes}. appliance store, use your head , put in closet AND secure it !you can do it!! get airfreshener that puts out spray on timer. use your bedroom closet.
 

univ

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i have no time to do all this. wouldnt putting them in my closetwith plastic bags over them be good enough for 2-3 days till the guest leave ?
 

vtguitar88

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they probably wouldn't die but with a plastic bag suffocating them I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't make it. There's gotta be somewhere in the house where you can find a little privacy. Put em in the bedroom closet with a couple cfl's on a timer, and get air fresheners, it's better than killing them with plastic bags, especially when you're so close!
 

hwy420

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i have no time to do all this. wouldnt putting them in my closetwith plastic bags over them be good enough for 2-3 days till the guest leave ?
Seems like you might have to harvest early. Remember, a lot of people recommend 36 hours of darkness between their veg & flower cycles. I'm sure they won't DIE, but i'm pretty sure their growth will slow to a halt.
 

HoLE

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i have no time to do all this. wouldnt putting them in my closetwith plastic bags over them be good enough for 2-3 days till the guest leave ?
NO,,,,I agree with FatFarmer,,,do something makeshift fast
 

univ

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well they are already old females, i know the autoflower can do darkness since it grows without lights but the other 3.....are already like 1 lbs each, the youngest is like 65 days old. so she still has like another 30 days to go. lol i might just put them in the closet without plastic bags but they'll have to go without lights tho
 

HoLE

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well they are already old females, i know the autoflower can do darkness since it grows without lights but the other 3.....are already like 1 lbs each, the youngest is like 65 days old. so she still has like another 30 days to go. lol i might just put them in the closet without plastic bags but they'll have to go without lights tho
why,,these people aren't gonna be in your bedroom closet are they,,even if you have to fix em up while they are there,,,,I grow in my garage but my bedroom is still off limits to visitors,,,actually my HoLE main floor bedroom area is off limits to everyone,,,cept for the bathroom
 

tip top toker

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what size tent is it, can that be pulled up into an attic, etc.

l;ike others, tell them to stay the feck away from your private space :) can you not just turn the light off and tel them it's a cheap crappy wardrobe? i know that argos sell identical furniture to retail growtents, trim colour aside. they'd certainly not have a reason to go in there.

as also said though, at that age in their life, i'd expect them to be smelling greatly, so even if they don't see a light, they'll probaly work out something is up if they're in the same room as em.
 

univ

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why,,these people aren't gonna be in your bedroom closet are they,,even if you have to fix em up while they are there,,,,I grow in my garage but my bedroom is still off limits to visitors,,,actually my HoLE main floor bedroom area is off limits to everyone,,,cept for the bathroom
LOL i dont live in a house tho, i live in an apartment building. and my room doesnt have a keylock or anything. so the guest will be alone at home and eventually walk around the place. and obviously my room so instead of closing my room i might as well just leave it open. if i leave the door close which cant be locked, then they mayb think like its mysterious so lets open it up and see whats inside. the closet doors are very attractive, so opening that would be cool so they see how the doors slide. where they would simply see the lights but if i have them in the back behind the clothes, without the lights then i have a good chance that they wont see it. but even then. they prob will smell it. but even tho its hidden, they might not say anythin since they'll assume its my secret. but ill try to spray some scents and have odor eliminators. around.
 

univ

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what size tent is it, can that be pulled up into an attic, etc.

l;ike others, tell them to stay the feck away from your private space :) can you not just turn the light off and tel them it's a cheap crappy wardrobe? i know that argos sell identical furniture to retail growtents, trim colour aside. they'd certainly not have a reason to go in there.

as also said though, at that age in their life, i'd expect them to be smelling greatly, so even if they don't see a light, they'll probaly work out something is up if they're in the same room as em.

thats a fresh idea.....makin believe my tent is a closet and keeping the fans/lights off. and hang clothes around the tent ? and leave clothes on top of the tent too. and shoes in front of the tent? like look unorganized. n shit. leave my room unorganized. so because they see my room is unorganized, and the spot aorund the tent is unorganized, they easily might think that it is also a closet.
 
Putting a vegging plant into 3 days darkness will initiate flower. If you then take them out and back into veg, there is a very high chance of hermie or stunted growth due to light stress(some breeders use this to thier advantage to collect pollen from clone-only stains). The good news is that any amount of light will be interpreted by the plants and keep them in veg. Even just a flashlight or one light bulb. Thats what I do when guests come, one cfl and turn off everthing else. If your worried about them seeing light, stuff towels under the door. Get creative!:weed:
 

tip top toker

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i'm in exactly your kind of position. my flat is a bit of an open plan one and as such, my room is a natural place to poke your head into for a goosey. my cab is a walkin cupboard that is permenently under the guise of "box storage" to minimize ANY reason to op[en the door, i also have a fairly similar cupboard on the other side of the room so i keep that nice and open to try and minimize any suspision. if i have friends over, or oh i don't know my anti-pot flatmate, i just whack the fan off, and now have it in a position where the only need to turn the light out would be if there was a lass in my bed, but i think she'd be distracted from the cracks of light around the door :D

i say turn the power off and leave the tent be. open one zip slightly and have a jumper sleeve poking thorugh it, or just hook a handful of t-shirts on coathangers over the top of the front etc, you sould be able to pull it off fairly easily i'd have thought. i used to have all my nutes, ballast etc everything on the floor next to the cab door, so the moment i knew of comany, i'd just throw some obstacles in front of em and smiled through :)

oh, and inn terms of smell, i'll assume they know you smoke, so just keep a big bag of bud out in the open to place the blame on (what i do, i gave up on hiding my glass jars of weed, tell my flatmate i just buy in bulk to save money, and use that to be the scape goat for any smells that escape (which before i got a carbon filter was ALOT!)
 

worm5376

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if you are going to stash them, make sure you put a cfl or 2 in there with them.

idk if keeping them in the dark for 3 days is a good idea..
 

univ

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i'm in exactly your kind of position. my flat is a bit of an open plan one and as such, my room is a natural place to poke your head into for a goosey. my cab is a walkin cupboard that is permenently under the guise of "box storage" to minimize ANY reason to op[en the door, i also have a fairly similar cupboard on the other side of the room so i keep that nice and open to try and minimize any suspision. if i have friends over, or oh i don't know my anti-pot flatmate, i just whack the fan off, and now have it in a position where the only need to turn the light out would be if there was a lass in my bed, but i think she'd be distracted from the cracks of light around the door :D

i say turn the power off and leave the tent be. open one zip slightly and have a jumper sleeve poking thorugh it, or just hook a handful of t-shirts on coathangers over the top of the front etc, you sould be able to pull it off fairly easily i'd have thought. i used to have all my nutes, ballast etc everything on the floor next to the cab door, so the moment i knew of comany, i'd just throw some obstacles in front of em and smiled through :)

oh, and inn terms of smell, i'll assume they know you smoke, so just keep a big bag of bud out in the open to place the blame on (what i do, i gave up on hiding my glass jars of weed, tell my flatmate i just buy in bulk to save money, and use that to be the scape goat for any smells that escape (which before i got a carbon filter was ALOT!)
damn you gave the best idea bro. so i won't move them out of place. but they'll still suffer from light stress? since they wont get like 2-3 days of light? doesnt this give them time to use the last energy of light they received to grow? or does this energy runs out after like 8-12 hours where they would be demanding for more lights?
 
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