Is it dumb to grow in an apartment?

[Nightly1029]

I just got my own apartment, and I want to grow a couple plants for personal use. I have an entire empty room that I can do anything with, but I don't know how bad the smell gets, or how loud the fans are. I know to use a carbon filter with a fan, but I don't know how loud the fans get. I don't want everyone around me to hear the constant whirring of a fan, or to ever smell it. So, with the right filter and fan, would it still be risky growing in an apartment, even if it's only a couple plants? Thanks

 

[GanjaGod420000]

Ummm... Yeah... Unless u have gotten expressed consent from the landlord, and whether or not u r in a cool state and r "legit to grow"... They can and do come in all the time for random shit like sprayin for bugs n shit... I'd REALLY suggest finding a house where u can hopefully have more privacy....

 

[GanjaGod420000]

Even in cool ststes, the feds r tryin to intimidate landlords who have tenants that grow cannabis, EVEN if they r state compliant... No1 is safe from shit as far as I can see... Fuck the government... They r about to start the 2nd civil war, and Im for damned sure a cannabis Rebel, just like both sides of my family were in the first one!

 

[Nightly1029]

I can't afford a house, and I've got a lease that doesn't run out anytime soon. But I've been living here for 6 months already, and the landlord hasn't come by once. In fact, nobody has entered my apartment at all.

 

[GanjaGod420000]

Well, if u can set it up with utmost discretion and stealth, then go for it...

 

[phillipchristian]

I'd go for it man. Get yourself a tent for your flower room and keep 1 mom and some clones in a closet or get another tent for them.

 

[840/2]

Or change the lock....if he isn't coming around.

If he asks...."someone tried to break in one night and I got spooked and changed the lock" - just make sure to get a better and bigger lock to go along with the story.

As for the smell, my tent vents into the same room its located in and the smell is HARDLY there, if at all. Def. not as much smell as puffin in the room. If you puff and no one smells it....should be fine. Only real issue might be the noise as those fans are freakin noisy.

You could however build a box around it like many do to muffle the sound.

 

[GanjaGod420000]

There ya go... Where therez a will, therez alwayz a way! Awesome responses... Out grow the government!

 

[Nightly1029]

Or change the lock....if he isn't coming around.

If he asks...."someone tried to break in one night and I got spooked and changed the lock" - just make sure to get a better and bigger lock to go along with the story.

As for the smell, my tent vents into the same room its located in and the smell is HARDLY there, if at all. Def. not as much smell as puffin in the room. If you puff and no one smells it....should be fine. Only real issue might be the noise as those fans are freakin noisy.

You could however build a box around it like many do to muffle the sound.

Are they allowed to drop into your apartment when you aren't around? I heard they have to give 24 hour notice, unless you're like dead. I smoke in this room constantly with the window closed, and nobody says anything. I'm thinking about just buying a bunch of plywood and nailing it together for a box. I don't have power tools to cut holes for fans, though = /. How loud are the fans? Loud enough for people to hear on the second floor, or through the walls?

 

[tip top toker]

Nothing wrong with growing in an apartment Just gotta find a reason for folk not to want to go in that spare room

As to fan noise, it might be heard in the adjacent room, but certainly not in the adjacent flats.

It depends on your location, but typically by law a landlord must give you at least 24 hours notice, in written form (provable form) before he can come into your apartment. Once he has given you the notice though he can enter even wihtout you around. It is fairly easy to hide away a grow so long as you've not got huge 2m square tents in each corner of the room You can do anything from hanging lothes over it, piling things in front of it, plenty fo ways to hide it. Typically whena landlord gives an inspection he just gives it a curosry look over to make sure appliances still work and hat carpet don't have big stains and burns and such.

 

[Nightly1029]

Nothing wrong with growing in an apartment Just gotta find a reason for folk not to want to go in that spare room

As to fan noise, it might be heard in the adjacent room, but certainly not in the adjacent flats.

I think being a complete loner is reason enough. Thanks for the tip, man. Any idea what kind of fan to use for effectiveness, but low noise? I'm expecting a box about waist height and a little wider than it is tall.

 

[Ilovebush]

Hey, if u are 'legal' ud still wanna silence the noisy fans and kill the odour. U can buy a wooden cabinet or just buy a ready to assemble pantry type cabinet. If the fan is still noisy u can build an MDF box right around it and hang it from bungee cords to minimize vibrations. The smell is the hard part IMO. Air tight is key as in the case of an emergency, no notice is required for entry. Do ur homework and don't leave anything to chance...good luck.

 

[sandiegojack2]

If you can go small, and then when circumstances change bump it up if needed, grow if you possibly can........exhaust all possibilities!! shit grows wild no one has the right to stop us from growing! (Get a couple of new trash can's and if at worse you can put the plants in it while a visit occurs. make it look like camping equipment or...) good luck my friend and remember "Just do it"

 

[tip top toker]

I just bought a budget RPK(?) extractor fan that came with a budget filtration kit. I cut a hole in the celing of a cupboard and shoved it in the attic. They make noise, but not that much. That was with a 600w hps so i could have gotten away with a far quieter fan if i'd either spent money or not tried to grown as much as i could as opposed to a plant or two.

And you said it, loner. Without space to hide things away (i grew in a cupboard 1 foot from my pillow) it meant that for 3 years i've not been able to have someone in my bedroom let alone a girl in my bed, it seriously cripples your social scene. If you have a spare room to have it in though, it shouldn't have too much of an impact, just gotta find reason for people not to want to venture in, like making it clear (say by keeping the door open) that it is a room for nothing but storage etc, boxes everywhere etc, nothing too wrong with that. In my case i just made sure to have a computer on anytime someone visited, that overwhelmed the grow noise should they for some reason stik their head into my bedroom.

 

[840/2]

I just bought a budget RPK(?) extractor fan that came with a budget filtration kit. I cut a hole in the celing of a cupboard and shoved it in the attic. They make noise, but not that much. That was with a 600w hps so i could have gotten away with a far quieter fan if i'd either spent money or not tried to grown as much as i could as opposed to a plant or two.

And you said it, loner. Without space to hide things away (i grew in a cupboard 1 foot from my pillow) it meant that for 3 years i've not been able to have someone in my bedroom let alone a girl in my bed, it seriously cripples your social scene. If you have a spare room to have it in though, it shouldn't have too much of an impact, just gotta find reason for people not to want to venture in, like making it clear (say by keeping the door open) that it is a room for nothing but storage etc, boxes everywhere etc, nothing too wrong with that. In my case i just made sure to have a computer on anytime someone visited, that overwhelmed the grow noise should they for some reason stik their head into my bedroom.

Dag, no girls for 3 years.....how calloused were your hands?




And those fans are freakin' noisy. I live in a 3 floor town house type deal....and at night, I hear the faint 'hum' on the top floor. Of course, I know what I am listening for and it has to be very quiet...nothing on ya know.

Hence I keep the tv on all day long for the dog and as white noise to boot!

 

[tip top toker]

My extractor fan was 5 feet above my head at night through a 1" plasterboard ceileing, it was barely audible.

And no girls for 23 years i'm a 1 of a kind baby Fucking snakes with tits, nothing more nothing less i refuse to have anything to do with em

 

[Nightly1029]

My extractor fan was 5 feet above my head at night through a 1" plasterboard ceileing, it was barely audible.

And no girls for 23 years i'm a 1 of a kind baby Fucking snakes with tits, nothing more nothing less i refuse to have anything to do with em

Amen, dude. I'm with you.

 

[nick17gar]

i grow in an apartment in a high rise now, the smell isnt an issue from the plants in veg, but the plants in flower STINK. i have usually 2-5 in flower and smell is an issue, i use incense, carbon filters, and whatever else i can to eliminate that aroma. is it managable? yea sure. but more than a few plants in flower at a time would be a problem.

 

[tip top toker]

i grow in an apartment in a high rise now, the smell isnt an issue from the plants in veg, but the plants in flower STINK. i have usually 2-5 in flower and smell is an issue, i use incense, carbon filters, and whatever else i can to eliminate that aroma. is it managable? yea sure. but more than a few plants in flower at a time would be a problem.

I've grown plants such as exodus cheese and livers, arguably some of the stinkier ones out there, with nothing more than a budget carbon filter that didn't get changed for 3 years, smell was never an issue other than at harvest time.

Which brings up a good point. Unless you can setup a tent or bo with a carbon filter for drying your buds, do not think you will get away with a perpetual grow, i managed to get away with making a section in the top of my filtered cupboard for the drying bud, but if i didn't have that option, i would have to shut the flowering cabinet down every harvest for a week or so while things dried.

 

[Hempgineer]

i wouldnt go with a tent broski. snoop around the internets and try to fashion yourself one of those chest of drawer set ups with the fake fronts.