Busted Through Internet Purchases

just wondering if any growers in uk have heard of anyone being busted through buying off eb*y uk,cheers

I have heard of one person being busted buy an entire waterfarm setup with 24 or so buckets and the light and everything...

was this in uk ?

I believe it was in the states

heard the US Postal service ratted someone out buying seeds.

yes its possible to get busted from ordering online but if your smart only order online once in a while (maybe ever 2 3 months) so that it doesn't heat you out and never buy alot of stuff at once

so are seedbanks safe to use once in a rare while? i want to start growing soon but i cant get a hold of someof the seeds i want locally so i wanted to use a seedbank

Buy a small number of seeds.
Don't buy feminised seeds.
Buy once.
Pollenate your males to females on your first grow and you'll have stacks of seeds for later. (I know you want sinsemilla straight away, be patient)
Then do most of your work from female clones. You may never need to buy seeds again, and working from clones makes the whole setup so easy.
One day you may want to grow a different strain of plant, you may be able to swap clones from your strain with somone else.
Seeds will last 2 or 3 years so every year or so sprout a small batch and breed the males to females again.
That way you are effectively running your own seedbank and contributing to the perpetuation of the strain.

thank you sir thats very helpful and im not being sarcastic you can only read so much emotion through text lol.

Plenty of good hydro sites in the UK, try growell or hydrohobby... I never use ebay for buying grow stuff.... too paranoid
never heard of anyone getting busted from ordering online yet!

Ask Mark Emery, if you can get busted from using the internet?

Or Tommy Chong.

Ever tried buying from Canada??

I personally would never buy anything related off the internet but thats a personal choice, its just risky business and im paranoid.

Then again I have a luxury of walking down the street and picking the seeds I want out of a book at my local hemp shop

I have bought just about 90% of everything I need off E-Bay and using my credit card for the last 3 years. I do not live less than 2 hours from the closest hydro store. E-bay has been the place for me and HTGsupply. Whenever someone on here says where do you find that? I answer E-bay. Marc Emery got busted because he was selling seeds out of california and under U.S. Laws that is contriband ans illegal here. I like Marc and have kept up with his case and his fight for marijuana law reform here and in Canada.

i saw a guy on here where customs snagged his seeds, but insead of just sending a letter in his state some cops knocked on his door, said they wanted to look around cuz they had reason to think he was growing. he said no dice get a warrent

but he paniced and chopped his trees and ran out in the wood to toss them

the cops were waiting outside an busted him



but i think goin to the hydro shop is worse than ordering online because cops love to follow you home from those stores and your probably leading them right to your op

Sounds a little cooked up. Not to say you didn't hear or read that but the person saying that sounds like he was making up the story. If you think about it a good hydro shop may have up to 50,60 customers a day. If pigs tried to follow everyone and stake out there residence the cost would be outrageous! I think these claims are from paranoid people who worry about this. I have enough to worry about with out adding this. I have been doing this for about 4 years and the hardest part to me is keeping my paranoia at bay. One last thing if pigs really believe you have a grow they will stake you out for a long time. They never willy nilly bust on or knock on your door.

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Sounds a little cooked up. Not to say you didn't hear or read that but the person saying that sounds like he was making up the story. If you think about it a good hydro shop may have up to 50,60 customers a day. If pigs tried to follow everyone and stake out there residence the cost would be outrageous! I think these claims are from paranoid people who worry about this. I have enough to worry about with out adding this. I have been doing this for about 4 years and the hardest part to me is keeping my paranoia at bay. One last thing if pigs really believe you have a grow they will stake you out for a long time. They never willy nilly bust on or knock on your door.

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Hah never thought of it like that......I still park a block away when I need supplies

WWgrower said:

Sounds a little cooked up. Not to say you didn't hear or read that but the person saying that sounds like he was making up the story. If you think about it a good hydro shop may have up to 50,60 customers a day. If pigs tried to follow everyone and stake out there residence the cost would be outrageous! I think these claims are from paranoid people who worry about this. I have enough to worry about with out adding this. I have been doing this for about 4 years and the hardest part to me is keeping my paranoia at bay. One last thing if pigs really believe you have a grow they will stake you out for a long time. They never willy nilly bust on or knock on your door.

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I totally agree with you WW, on several points. First I buy most of my supplies off ebay, simply because it's cheaper. Plenty of people do it, and never had any problems, just buy legit things. Used my own credit card as well, never any issues.

I also go to my local hydro shop, and for the same reasons I'm not really worried about it. Too many people for them to stake out us all.

And lastly, my largest problem with growing is the paranoia. It kicks in to high gear usually once every two weeks or so. It gets so bad I have to physically restrain myself from chopping everything down and giving it a rest, usually due to something super small that is totally unrelated.