Ok, grow tents...what do you tell the landlord/family/friends it is?

Or a sweat lodge...or tanning room...but then they'd probably want to see it...

You tell them you're growing Shiitake mushrooms. No, you can't open the tent and show them that would disturb the dark period. Actually you grow shiitakes in almost identical tents except for the bright lights and noisy exhaust.

Have some fresh ones on hand from the grocery store (unpackaged) to "pay off" any suspicious people.

I would say have other vegetables and plants around the house or balcony. I plan on telling the new apartment complex Im moving to that Im a vegetarian so when I have a balcony full of tomatoes, carrots, lettuce etc and if they then see my quite large grow tent indoors placed in my bedroom during an inspection I would simply talk about being a vegetarian and growing my own food since smell will be under control with a coal filter and other sprays. I've been thinking about this for quite sometime and this seems to be a good cover.

Quick question: What seems to be this issue with using a 1000 watt light in an apartment? Is this something that would be a red flag to a complex? I'll have a 1000 hps for flowering and an 8 tube fluorescent for veg that will run together. Thanks

buy yourself an old style camera, have a few lenses lying around the place, then you can tell them its your dark room for processing pics, the cables are for the equipment inside, and can you go in, no you fucking can't now go make me a sandwich bitch

Well, I've got houseplants and herbs all over the place indoors, and plan to have a full veggie garden outside in the backyard this spring...and I also have cameras and camera parts laying around...so now I've got options. Thanks guys...the only issues with a 1000w I can think of in an apartment would either be energy use or heat...I'm only running a 400w myself.

well here is my 2 cents...first, as far as explaining "what is that" to anyone...the key here is try not to have it noticed in the first place! as my grandmother used to tell me..;"pervention is better than cure"! second, didn't u say u have a back room?? well buddy u haved solved your own problem right there! put it in that room and set-up to your specs...the beautiful thing about that room is you can "lock it"!! go out and buy separate locks for it! it's your place, so it's your privacy! parents,friends, girlfriend,landlord whoever are included! and third, about that repair man....now seriously, what the hell would he have to repair in a regular bedroom??? the wall, cealing or floor???! NO! the main thing, lke a few ppl haved said in this thread is location! plan, plan, plan, then implement....hope this helps

Zoobear said:

I would tell them its a darkroom for photographs. for your new hobby oO

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If your LIGHT can't be seen from outside, this IS your best hope. this way you can say they can't look inside cause it will ruin the pics. in order for this to have any hope of working you have to start telling people who may see it, your gonna start photograpy, this is the only way to sell it, they have to think you started a new hobby. i have used this and it works, you just have to start tellin them now you are starting photography

Easy... You like to hire midgets to give you private shows in there !!!!

genfranco said:

you say " yo momma" and walk them out.



P.S. It has to be YO Momma. Not Your mom It wont work otherwise...kinda nerdy....ya dig? LOL... whatup Motherscratchers!... puff puff give the God bud here.

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or you can say "Ya mudda" like Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force would



Good to see you around the forums genfranco, you're the shit bro

Best Post i've read since i have been here, you are all fucking helarious. But seriously friend i think you should deff put it in a back room with a unique lock if that room has a closet that your new tent will fit in... EVEN better!!! no one is going into someone elses closet in a locked room there isnt shit in your closet probably not even wiring, That is great news... no repair man. But friend what your really need to think about is smell control, if your herb is that stinky you need a filter. I dont care if you got a medical card. You want your shiesty neighbor that everyone has smelling that and kicking down your door while you arent home to reap what your hard work and hard earned money has gone into for 2-5 months? No, nobody does. If you search filters or air control or something like that on this forum you can find several amazing, and amazingly cheap alternatives to the expensive carbon filters that most grow supply stores and sites sell. They are DIY but stuff that anyone could do (even a girl) believe me I am not very handy.. Anyway I hope this helps. And remember you can never be too careful. No one is sitting in Jail thinking man i wish i wouldn't have tried harder to not get caught.

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Yo man i would try to find something that is the same dimension as your grow box and that comes in a box. Like if the grow box was the size of a refrigerator, and somehow you could get a box that a refrigerator comes in (shit do they come in boxes?) and just slide the box over it. That way it looks like some appliance or piece of furniture just still in the box. PS. It sounds like a good idea in my head, worth mentioning that im blitzed off my mind on some Northern Lights...

put a military camo or ghillie net over it, trust me, even if they spot it they won't wanna go inside lol

I had this problem as well, as I rent my flat. I just decided to buy a cheap wardrobe off ebay that more or less fitted the dimensions I needed (they're actually cheaper than a grow tent). Then all you do is put a few posters on the doors, stick a coat peg or two on it and throw some jackets on there and bam - standard wardrobe that no one would bother looking in. Place it near a plug socket so you dont have power cables everywhere, muffle your fans appropiately (check icmag diy guides) and just make it as inconspicious as possible. Dont leave nutes lying around etc.

You can buy a small cabinet and use that as a veg chamber, and buy an old server case off ebay to store mother plants or male plants.

There's plenty of ways to be stealthy, just dont make it obvious you're growing - your landlord as no reason to suspect that your growing so he's not gonna see a cupboard n think omg stealth grow room.

Hope this helped amigo

Get into photography and tell them it's a black room. That will solve several of you problems, it explains the wiring, why they can't look in it and why it needs to be sealed. But IF your going to do this then you need to do some homework to back it up, look on ebay for a cheap camera, get some supplies for film development and leave them around the house.

Hope this helps.

tell them you keep your guns in there? lol

like said originally the tent is for contol of the enviroment not security.
What i would do .. get a wardrobe and rebuild it from the inside.. put it in aback room and no one will ask or think twice.

if you say a darkroom, where are the pictures?
remember the first rule tell no one -- a tent in our apartment is almost as bad ... dont let us read a thread or in hte newspaper saying i got busted....


be smart..

I told my landlady that it was a grow tent for my medical marijuana garden.
I then showed her my recommendation and told her all about how it worked.
I also asked her to never have any maintenance people in my apartment without me present as the contents of my grow tent are high value and a target for unscrupulous people.

vacation closet? as said, i'd use a wardrobe or something instead.

Zoobear said:

I would tell them its a darkroom for photographs. for your new hobby oO

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tried this one my mom called bullshit on me

disguise it, say its for clothes, throw some cloths over it and shit. turn off fans and set extraction on to lowest.

hid wires or place a small clock on top and discuise the wire so it looks like it goes in to the clock;

be creative