How long till it smellz?

I'm on 24/0 right now and at about 3.5 weeks from planting (indoor), and I swear I think it might be beginning to smell. It smells kind of minty up close and did for the past 3-4 days I think, and my other empty soil-filled pot does NOT smell that way, and also now I think I smelled it more when I opened the doors today. I swear. Maybe I'm just paranoid?

I have yet to build my carbon exhaust, but I plan to (soon) and am just wondering how much more time I have.

I plan to go 12/12 at 5 weeks (maturity) because I want to shrink my lifecycle. I want to get bud faster because this is just bag seed and I want to get a good, solid grow under my belt before I spend time with my expensive club seeds..

good question i would like to know this too, my ladies have been 2 weeks under 18/6 cfls and upclose they smell like yummy goodness

I have no idea as to why they smell but they definitely do to some extent. I was vegging two plants under my headboard for 3 to 4 weeks and they definitely had a smell to them. In fact I got the impression that the smell coincided with the light schedule. I felt like I they wafted smell at me right before the lights turned on in the morning. If I rubbed the stem I also got that minty leafy smell.

Some plant strains will naturally smell more than others, even in vegetative mode some can absolutely reek, the bigger they get the more they stink! Wait til its a few weeks into flowering, thats when the whole house gets stinkin

ok, so I have some time but I need to work on my carbon filter for sure ASAP!

Thanks!

that shits kinda wierd how it works. i got Blue Cheese, Northern soul, Whiteberry and Twilight in my tent. The Cheese and Soul both have Skunk #1 in their lineage somewhere man. Around week 3 my plants started to straight up SSSSSSTANK!, n it was hard to keep the smell contained, even with my carbon filter - by the way i was using a growbright Jr filter, and it basically didnt work for shit. I dont think they filled it up all the way with carbon.

Anyways, im 3 weeks into flower now, and while they stink still, they dont smell as bad right now as they did right before i threw them into flower, right up until about 4-5 days ago. The ladies are 4' from the ground up, and the leaves are HUGE. when i rub them i can smell them REALLY bad, along with the stem too, n the smells are all really distinct and potent as shit, but unrubbed, the smell has kinda died off. Now i got buds forming on the plants, and still, nothin really reeks until i rub a leaf, or pinch a bud top. Are you sayin that once in full blast flower theyre gonna stink even more than they did while they were in veg??? Im returnin the filter i got n claimin faulty, n pickin up one of those Canfilters that just stand up on the floor. Them things are fuckin gnarly man. i got that little growbright Jr still, its like 9 inches long, 6" in diameter, n i got a 480cfm fan suckin air out of the room through the filter, and then through my light and out the exhaust.


I actually just thought of somethin. Do you think that the reason the filter isnt workin is because my fan is too strong, and suckin air through the filter too fast - n as a result the air isnt given enough time to get scrubbed through the filter - before it comes out of the exhaust ducting? Is that possible or what, cuz if so im snaggin a dimmer knob tomorrow

With a scrubber and proper ventilation you shouldn't have a problem with it smelling up the whole house, just the immediate area.

well, thats part of the problem. I have the tent in my closet, but because its winter and i live in a complex, i cant set up an exhaust to the outside in the room im doin it in. So the exhaust basically just blows out into the room that the closet is in, n then i have a small window fan sucking air out of the room, but i cant run it all the time, cuz shit gets too damn cold in the room. Everything actually smells the most at night, when everything is still in my apartment. When i wake up every morning i got ganja in my nose man, n even tho i wake up with a smile, it still kinda worries me that its THAT pungent. You can only smell it REAL bad in the room that the tent is in, but theres a tinge of chronic throughout the house - at least there was, til we started burning nag champa and liquid blue incense man. that shit works. I would rather have people complain that my house smells like a headshop as opposed to a freakin growop, lol