Question on Odor Masking - Coffee - Too Obvious?

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I'm in week 3 of Flower and a wonderful skunky smell is filling my apartment.

The problem?

A wonderful skunky smell is filling my apartment.

My current setup isn't contained or airtight, so a carbon filter exhaust setup is out of the question. I have picked up an Ionic Pro, a Fabreeze air filter, a couple lava rock bags, and some assorted odor absorbers... and each item I add gets a little closer, but there's still an identifiable aroma.

I picked up a bag of gourmet coffee and dumped it into a wide-mouthed candy dish by my door... and now when I open my door a wave of coffee goodness hits me.

My question... is that suspicious? On the one hand... maybe I'm a guy that really likes coffee (I am)... but on the other... it is a HUGE coffee smell (I caught a hint of it on the ground floor - I'm up on 3rd)... is that a red flag that I'm trying to cover up some sort of odor? I have a catbox in my entryway... I suppose I could claim that I'm trying to mask that.

Thoughts?
 
Mr. Good

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Odor control is your top priority, or else you will get caught.

Where/how do you have your area set up?
 
Doctor Cannabis

Doctor Cannabis

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Your coffee idea is not bad, no one really gets suspicious with coffee smell. But filling the building with coffee aroma 3 months at a time can raise suspicions.

I have a cabinet grow, but the smell still fills the apartment. What I do, is keep some bowls full of water in every room and add some drops of aromatic oils, the one's you find in new age shops. They cover the smell nicely and make you just seem cool and feng shui.
 
communistcannabis

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can you possibley seal our grow box and use a carbon filter? odor is a big way of getting caught. The coffee isn't a bad idea, but you should work on a permanent solution.
 
Kruzty

Kruzty

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Grow strains that dont smell super bad. That would help.You can use a carbon filter like a scrubber also and not vent it outside just let it clean the air and re clean the air.Ya dont have ta just vent outside the scrubber will help just scrubbing.Combine that with a low smell strain and ya should be fine.....



good luck
 
edsthreads

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You can try using Ona Gel, this will work very well for your scenario.. I don't think a strong smell of coffee would raise eyebrows..as opposed to a strong smell of dank skunk!
 
robert 14617

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edsthreads said:
You can try using Ona Gel, this will work very well for your scenario.. I don't think a strong smell of coffee would raise eyebrows..as opposed to a strong smell of dank skunk!
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this is the product i was looking for i've heard great things about it
 
Johnboh

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keep in mind that your nose is trained to that smell cause you are ingulfed in it all the time. if you can smell the skunk when you open the front door and enter your house. other people who are not trained to that smell can smell it sooner than you can. These people are probably smelling it in the hallway, every time you open your door you are allowing smell particles to escape.
 
Bosson26

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what bout if you live in a house? can the neighbor smell it? the distance from the wall to my neighbor wall is estimate 25 feet away
 
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My current setup is in a closet that is not airtight at all. My initial focus was getting maximum light coverage as well as controlling heat and humidity. Once flowering hit, so did skunk city.

I bought a tall cabinet from Home Depot and I'm working on getting that airtight, as well as incorporating a carbon filtered exhaust, as well as in unit odor neutralizing... the problem is that this plant is too big for the cabinet right now. Future plants will be trained low and under chicken wire... but for now I have a stinky beast in my closet.

My future roommate swears she smells 'plant' when she comes in, even though the coffee smell is crazy thick... so me being exposed to it 24/7 is probably hurting my ability to tell how bad it is.

I have 5 - 6 more weeks of the current grow... after that I'll be in my new cab... and when my lease is up in June we plan on finding a place where I can be more secure in growing (multiple doors, further 'back' in the building, 2nd floor of a condo, etc...).

The next thing I'm going to try is the Ona bucket idea from the odor control thread... I'm just sick of competing odors... citrus, ozone-y burn, coffee, chalk, etc... and STILL skunk under it all.

Thanks for the input!
 
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You can try draping plastic around the plant like a mack-shift grow tent. Then put a stand alone activated carbon filter by the grow. It won't be air tight but it will collect the majority of the smell and doesn't require venting.
 
Mr ADHD

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Animated said:
My current setup is in a closet that is not airtight at all. My initial focus was getting maximum light coverage as well as controlling heat and humidity. Once flowering hit, so did skunk city.

I bought a tall cabinet from Home Depot and I'm working on getting that airtight, as well as incorporating a carbon filtered exhaust, as well as in unit odor neutralizing... the problem is that this plant is too big for the cabinet right now. Future plants will be trained low and under chicken wire... but for now I have a stinky beast in my closet.

My future roommate swears she smells 'plant' when she comes in, even though the coffee smell is crazy thick... so me being exposed to it 24/7 is probably hurting my ability to tell how bad it is.

I have 5 - 6 more weeks of the current grow... after that I'll be in my new cab... and when my lease is up in June we plan on finding a place where I can be more secure in growing (multiple doors, further 'back' in the building, 2nd floor of a condo, etc...).

The next thing I'm going to try is the Ona bucket idea from the odor control thread... I'm just sick of competing odors... citrus, ozone-y burn, coffee, chalk, etc... and STILL skunk under it all.

Thanks for the input!
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I have a monster 5' plant in a 6' tall cabinet rightnow. The cabnet is mostly air tight other then a few deliberate holes at the bottom to draw fresh air in. The cabinet has a 50cfm bathroom vent fan and a carbon scrubber. The do nothing other then venting hot skunky air lol.

I just ordered a gallon of fresh linen ona gel for $49 shipped. Id recomend doing the same... and trust me ionizors do little more then combine ozone and skunk in a very conspicous way lol.
 
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