Huge dilemma!! My apartment will be inspected next week! Help!

I have 2 plants flowering in my closet. They have about 6 weeks left. I just found out that our apartments undergo annual unit inspections, which they inspect everything in the apartment, even closets.
They will be inspected either March 11th or 12th between 9am-6pm. It's a huge time frame and we really don't know exactly when the inspection will happen.

Right now our only plan is to keep them in our SUV during the inspection period and hope inspection is done early. However, that is almost 2 full days without light! Anyone else have any clever ideas?

How long will my plants survive without light?

I added a picture of our 2 plants.

been my experience that extended dark wont hurt them anyway, I think it is light leeks in flower.

If yur legal in Socal, hit up a club! Lol. Plant sitters.com.

kidmuffin said:

I have 2 plants flowering in my closet. They have about 6 weeks left. I just found out that our apartments undergo annual unit inspections, which they inspect everything in the apartment, even closets.
They will be inspected either March 11th or 12th between 9am-6pm. It's a huge time frame and we really don't know exactly when the inspection will happen.

Right now our only plan is to keep them in our SUV during the inspection period and hope inspection is done early. However, that is almost 2 full days without light! Anyone else have any clever ideas?

How long will my plants survive without light?

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change your flowering time light to seven pm to seven am and keep your plants covered in the suv. move back and forth twice.

desertrat said:

change your flowering time light to seven pm to seven am and keep your plants covered in the suv. move back and forth twice.

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Thanks, that's great advice. The light is set at 10am to 10pm. so changing it from day light to night light won't hurt?

feed them suprthrive from lowes and so on, auxins and vitamis and b1 so as the soil food web can hlep them handle any stress. I have had to move my plant many times and I still dont know what a hermie looks like. THat was when I was in organic soil.

ur gonna need to put them in the car. I would let them sleep, then put them in the back, they dont need full light for a day. that is some nazi shit i would be pissed if they tried to inspect my closets. next there will be drug screens to rent an apt, sign up for internet, or order a pizza.

well at lest they gave you warning and didn't just come in while you where gone which is legal where i live

katfish32 said:

well at lest they gave you warning and didn't just come in while you where gone which is legal where i live

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Yea i'm glad they gave us a warning a week in advance. I plan on putting a sheet over the mylar on my walls and hiding all my lights and nutrients. I really hope the inspection is done early on the first day.

So do u guys think that changing the light cycle from day to night is the best idea?

That is what I did I put towels on the edges of my hamper and put a jacket over the top to block out ALL light and when they came to do the inspection in my place they were sitting by the door and i just picked it up and walked it out to my car! easy as pie the part that was a pain in the ass was tearing down the 2x2x6 ft grow box i built and taking ALL my hydro shit out of the house my car was a fucking shed for a day haha. But when i heard they were coming I about shit a brick!

I just went threw this and broke my plants which is said because they were 6 feet and I broke off the top two!! be prepared get the big boxes first. Best of luck also call the office and ask them for an estimate, just say you have work but would prefer to be there that's what I did. Best of luck!

kidmuffin said:

Thanks, that's great advice. The light is set at 10am to 10pm. so changing it from day light to night light won't hurt?

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not something you'd want to do every day but a one time inspection you'll be ok

If you're growing in a place owned by someone else (any rental unit) consider getting a wardrobe closet from home depot to grow in. They can't look in anything you own; cabinets, dressers, etc... But by law they are allowed to look in any room or closet which is a part of the rental unit. Good luck.

WillMunny said:

If you're growing in a place owned by someone else (any rental unit) consider getting a wardrobe closet from home depot to grow in. They can't look in anything you own; cabinets, dressers, etc... But by law they are allowed to look in any room or closet which is a part of the rental unit. Good luck.

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Very smart. never thought of that

hey man, I just went through this recently... and had to chop my girl early because of it.
I was given 3 day warning... so what I did was on the very last night before the inspection (they gave me a time frame like jan 18 or 19th) so I did this both nights...
I got a big box, one big enough to hold the plant and then before bed ("I waited until it was my plants nightcycle") I put it in the box with all my lights and nutes and put my humidifer in my bedroom and stuff and I taped the box up and just put it in my storage room with a bunch of other boxes.

The motherfucker came in.... looked around everything.... even went in and looked at my storage room... saw nothing but clutter and boxes... complained that it smelled like weed... and I got in mad trouble and even had cops come to my house to ask about the smell... Not from the plants though, because I was smoking some bomb ass kush in there and that shit just lingers forever....... even with the windows open as much as I can (it's fucking cold).

If you can put them in your car, or box them up... they cant go through your boxes... and if they see a few boxes together... they think... oh its just somebodies shit......

Best of luck man... but be very careful... Growing in an apartment is sketched as fuck... I had to abandon my second grow, and can't grow until I move out of this apartment and into my first house in August!

allovher said:

ur gonna need to put them in the car. I would let them sleep, then put them in the back, they dont need full light for a day. that is some nazi shit i would be pissed if they tried to inspect my closets. next there will be drug screens to rent an apt, sign up for internet, or order a pizza.

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This thread always comes up about once a month here.

I've noticed a certain pattern in my local area with apartment complexes/buildings doing more thorough searches(inspections) than others.

Where I live, all they do is inspect the smoke detectors, and that's done by a third party, they have no interest in looking thru shit.

But in the 'rougher' areas, or where there's higher concentrations of 'foreigners', they do these inside-out inspections.

They do it because they have to. The stuff people try doing in apts is appalling. (not talking about growing weed in a closet of course)

The complexes that lease to the , more affluent renter, tend not to do inspections at all.

WillMunny said:

If you're growing in a place owned by someone else (any rental unit) consider getting a wardrobe closet from home depot to grow in. They can't look in anything you own; cabinets, dressers, etc... But by law they are allowed to look in any room or closet which is a part of the rental unit. Good luck.

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This is probably the best option, i would have never thought of that.

Well thanks for all the input guys! i solved my issue. My friend is letting me keep the plants at her house for the 2 days, so hopefully there will be minimal stress during that period

I just went through a power outage that lasted 3 days. I was able to power up the floros in the growroom with a generator, but I left the flowering room in total darkness over that time span and more, and I didn't see any effect. In fact, I believe they resined up a bit. Now these ranged from 2 to 6 weeks in, and they are fine....

Glad to see found a solution though.