smell, suspicious hydro bill, suspicious stuff in your garbage, suspicious behaviour, over-suspicious neighbour, heat signature, or plain old fucken bad luck
so ive been busted twice and ive learned sme things. mostly common sense & simple things..
smell - use carbon filter. spread a load of ona gel around the windowframe when you open windows
open windows, go outside, if there is a smell, use more ona, go back outside and sniff. works for me
and put some ona close to the letterbox, ive heard of coppers knocking a house, no1 answrs so they just sniff around literally! never happened to me (that i know of!!) but why take the risk, just put some ona around the lbox
bills - dont give meter readings dont answer the door. if you have to give them a readng, do some research and give them a conservative(ish) number
i get a prepaid meter installed every time
garbage - give the council all the stuff a 'regular' member of society would have in their rubbish bins. take all the other stuff (gloves syringes nutes soil bags seed packaging etc etc), then burn it all or chuck it all in a black bag and drop it into any pub/restaurant/offices wheely bins and go home. always wear gloves or at least give the rubbish a little wipe down
behaviour - do normal things. go to work, go to school, play golf whatever. do all your 'other' stuff as stealthly as possible. like a ninja! i bag up all the used soil, load it into my car at 3am and drop it somewhere it will simply mix in. always bring back the bags and just chuck em in with the stuff you plan to drop at the pub
neighbours - as far as im concerned each to their own but some people are just plain old fucking ignorant. i talk to each of my neighbours when i first move in, just a few minutes, but i can get a hand;e on the type of person they are. ive only had 1 that i thought would grass me right up. so 1 morning while they were out i posted some of my mail through their letterbox. on the reverse of the letter was a return address, 'cancer research uk, donations, account management department' something like that. which is all true i do donate to cruk. they might read this and think 'oh wow hes nice - i should donate too' and immediately their view of you changes from 'sketchy' to 'donates to charity'
heat - cool tubes, extraction fans, ac units etc but also youre at an advantage if you live somewhere remote. also put your lights on during the day
bad luck - no accounting for this one!
girlfriends - keep em happy !
and never ever answer the door to anyone that shows up unexpectedly
hope this helps at least 1 person to avoid detection and a bust. if it does, the last 25minutes of my life have been well spent
keep growing!