hey guys, im moving to jax soon and i want to do some outdoor grows, ill have a backyard and i was wondering if it would be odd to put a like 10x10 foot large 6-7 foot fence up against my house to grow in. the year already has a chain link fence around it.
Not only do I think it would be odd but I think it would be very obvious. Jax, like Gainsville, Tampa, Orlando, and the space coast to Miami all have the money for helicopters and they do use them. I wouldn't do an outdoor grow in a metropolitan area of this state unless you had some REALLY good camouflage plants to mix in and make it look less like marijuana.
A fence around your grow 'might' thwart neighbors and thieves but to a helicopter it'd look like a bulls-eye for your grow. If you want to hide it from neighbors and such I'd put a privacy fence around the whole yard, I know it's expensive (having just done it myself) but in the end it just makes you look like everyone else.
You could buy a good sized pre-made shed and setup a grow in there, but you'll have to insulate the hell out of it and seal it 100% to prevent the FLIR helicopters from detecting your grow. I was originally going to do this to my 10X20 shed but decided that the cost involved of not only sealing it but also cooling it in the summer would be too prohibitive. A brand new shed I could work with and make both sealed and economical to keep cool, but my 20 year old shed was just going to be too much work.
I would love to grow outdoor but unless we get legalization of some kind it's just too risky in the metro areas of Florida, now if you lived in the sticks or swamp I'd say different, but not in Jax or any of the other really big towns or cities.
-RT76