Will my flat stink?

avillax

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So I want to start small and cheap more as a hobby than for yields....

So I've come to the conclusion that I will buy 1x300 watt led lamp and that's going to be my only investment.
If I need carbon filter setup then my startup costs would go up so much, why? Because then I would have to buy a tent, vents, filters, which is about $250-$300 while the lamp itself is going to cost me only$150 including shipping.

That's why, I'm planning to grow 2 low odor varieties:

3 x Durban Poison
2x Blue Mystic

They will be in a storage room that is 1x1 meter x 3.5 meters tall that has 2 narrow yet tall windows (about 20 cm wide x 55 cm tall), they allow good light, the storage room has white walls so it is receives good light albeit not direct due to the narrow windows and it faces south, on top of that I will put reflective foil on the walls, this is in order to save up on energy costs so that they can receive natural sunlight during the mornings, then the LED unit turns on for 12 hours during veg phase.

The door to that storage room is not hermetical, in fact it doesn't close too well, the storage room has windows and one will be slightly opened (planning to start on early March in Czech Republic, so don't want much cold air) This storage room is directly in my room and that room is divided by a wall and an entrance that has no door.

Stealth level: This is Czech Republic, 5 or less Marijuana plants per person are not illegal and carry a maximum fine of about $650 USD and no jail, no arrest nor criminal record. People everywhere here are very light about Marijuana and most young people smoke, my neighbors on the same floor and the one below are young and some of them smoke marijuana, I don't know my neighbors on the floor above which is the penthouse.
Floors are tall.
I don't think a young person would ever snitch up on me, only old people could.

I hold meditation sessions in my flat twice a week, they are free and the people are really chill but could get disappointing or something if the flat stank like marijuana.

If it really stank I was planting to buy one of those marijuana neutralizers for $15, also in meditation sessions we use incenses.

Theoretically, the only problem would be if my neighbor upstairs (if we assume he's an old snitch) (flats are tall so his flat is 4 meters above mine) would open his kitchen windows and smell a very obvious marijuana smell every time and then would try to see where the smell is coming from and would go to the floor downstairs and find the smell coming out of the front door of my apartment.
In other words, what can I expect in terms of smell from growing 3 durban poisons and 2 blue mystics in a storage room with windows?
 
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SamsonsRiddle

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Your neighbors may be cool, but they may have friends who want what you have. Never do you want ANYONE to know what you are doing. Be more afraid of people trying to break in than anything else.

It will smell, even with "low odor" strains like blue mystic. It is not a low odor strain, unless you compare it to something like a kush or diesel. I would suggest not using blue mystic if at all possible.
 

avillax

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But we are talking about 4-5 plants low odor plants, not a large scale grow and low neutral smell varieties, isn't Ona gel enough?
 

wiethe20

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I'm sorry if I am off base here..but you have no idea how bad ( awsome in mycase) weed smells when drying, trimming nd all that...let a lone the grow....if you leave around people that close...it's going to be a must to get ascrubber....and the it probable won't work....honestly best way get a tent, look up passive air intake (negative pressure helps the smell the best!) And throw those cheap LEDs you find oh ebay out the window
 

avillax

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What if I do the drying and trimming work during a week nobody will be visiting? I mean, certainly that's a very short phase in the whole, right? I'm more worried about the growing/flourishing phase.
 

wiethe20

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I know you don't want to buy a tent....but have you looked up any DiY scrubbers? There is a section on this site for diy....there is a reallly cheap carbon scrubber made out of mesh trash cans and activated carbon from fish tanks...US it cost me only $20 bucks!oh yeah a panty hose aswell
 

avillax

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I can't believe it becomes that complicated, now let's say I only grow 2 plants: 1 Durban Poison and 1 Blue Mystic, both plants known for their low smell, can't the smell be fixed with some ONA gel from time to time and incenses when having meditation session?

I mean, I'm not looking to completely have no traces whatsoever, this is not North Korea, if the neighbors can smell it from time to time it is still OK, all I don't want to happen is to have neighbors intensely smelling marijuana all the time and wondering where it comes from. Can 2 low odor plants really create so much smell and havoc? Are we talking about Marijuana or live skunks?
 

Diabolical666

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I can't believe it becomes that complicated, now let's say I only grow 2 plants: 1 Durban Poison and 1 Blue Mystic, both plants known for their low smell, can't the smell be fixed with some ONA gel from time to time and incenses when having meditation session?

I mean, I'm not looking to completely have no traces whatsoever, this is not North Korea, if the neighbors can smell it from time to time it is still OK, all I don't want to happen is to have neighbors intensely smelling marijuana all the time and wondering where it comes from. Can 2 low odor plants really create so much smell and havoc? Are we talking about Marijuana or live skunks?
lol @ live skunks...keep them in a closed up room after trimming, i think you will be ok....like you said..fire up the inccense.
 

Chester da Horse

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if you are growing them right, you need a carbon scrubber. these girls stink up like shit...

I'm going with a second carbon scrubber in the kitchen, to double scrub the apartment air after it comes out of carbon filter>exhaust from the grow lab.

plus plenty of camouflage herbs/flowers growing on the balcony
 

dandyrandy

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So I want to start small and cheap more as a hobby than for yields....

So I've come to the conclusion that I will buy 1x300 watt led lamp and that's going to be my only investment.
If I need carbon filter setup then my startup costs would go up so much, why? Because then I would have to buy a tent, vents, filters, which is about $250-$300 while the lamp itself is going to cost me only$150 including shipping.

That's why, I'm planning to grow 2 low odor varieties:

3 x Durban Poison
2x Blue Mystic

They will be in a storage room that is 1x1 meter x 3.5 meters tall that has 2 narrow yet tall windows (about 20 cm wide x 55 cm tall), they allow good light, the storage room has white walls so it is receives good light albeit not direct due to the narrow windows and it faces south, on top of that I will put reflective foil on the walls, this is in order to save up on energy costs so that they can receive natural sunlight during the mornings, then the LED unit turns on for 12 hours during veg phase.

The door to that storage room is not hermetical, in fact it doesn't close too well, the storage room has windows and one will be slightly opened (planning to start on early March in Czech Republic, so don't want much cold air) This storage room is directly in my room and that room is divided by a wall and an entrance that has no door.

Stealth level: This is Czech Republic, 5 or less Marijuana plants per person are not illegal and carry a maximum fine of about $650 USD and no jail, no arrest nor criminal record. People everywhere here are very light about Marijuana and most young people smoke, my neighbors on the same floor and the one below are young and some of them smoke marijuana, I don't know my neighbors on the floor above which is the penthouse.
Floors are tall.
I don't think a young person would ever snitch up on me, only old people could.

I hold meditation sessions in my flat twice a week, they are free and the people are really chill but could get disappointing or something if the flat stank like marijuana.

If it really stank I was planting to buy one of those marijuana neutralizers for $15, also in meditation sessions we use incenses.

Theoretically, the only problem would be if my neighbor upstairs (if we assume he's an old snitch) (flats are tall so his flat is 4 meters above mine) would open his kitchen windows and smell a very obvious marijuana smell every time and then would try to see where the smell is coming from and would go to the floor downstairs and find the smell coming out of the front door of my apartment.
In other words, what can I expect in terms of smell from growing 3 durban poisons and 2 blue mystics in a storage room with windows?
Damn the Czech republic is more friendly to weed than the Bible Belt. Sheesh It gonna stink though.
 

undercovergrow

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welcome to RIU @avillax

a low-odor cannabis plant-is there such a thing? bongsmilie i know there are strains out there sold as such, but even if there really is a strain that does reduce the level of stink--cannabis stinks. if you live in a flat, you definitely need a filter. why do you think you can't install a filter in the small area that you are wanting to use? vegetative stage you could easily get away with just keeping them enclosed inside of their grow area, but once you start to flower, the girls will start to smell.
and when talking about cannabis and the level of stink from growing, comparing it to a live skunk is a good description on the level of smell you're going to be facing. am i the only one who isn't offended by the smell of skunks? :eyesmoke:
 

whitebb2727

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They will stink worse than you think. Some strains don't smell to much others you could smell from blocks away. Seriously, get or make a scrubber.
 

undercovergrow

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Oh and the stinkiest ones will start to smell in veg.
true-i don't have a filter in my veg tent and just passively remove the smell with the flower filter because they're close together and it works. i suppose then there could be problems for others with especially stinky strains now that i think about it.
 

whitebb2727

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I know
true-i don't have a filter in my veg tent and just passively remove the smell with the flower filter because they're close together and it works. i suppose then there could be problems for others with especially stinky strains now that i think about it.
There will be. I did the samething and stunk up the neighborhood.
 

whitebb2727

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seriously-how far away from your grow could you smell it?
On the whole six acres I live on and my neighbor called and told me he could smell it. He lives about 500 yards away.

On the other hand I grow outdoors to so late in the fall my whole holler smells. A stinky plant could produce smell that travels a half to one whole mile away.

Remember that they stink worse at lights out. You could put your fan on a timer so it doesn't run at night.
 
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