landlord issue, advice needed

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uallach

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So of course, after not seeing my landlord once since I rented my place 2 years ago, she says she is coming in with an appraiser this week. This is fantastic timing as I am six weeks into flowering on my first grow. My girlfriend is paranoid that she is coming because she suspects something (and she barely even smokes, haha) but I'm pretty sure she's just trying to refinance, or worst case scenario sell the place. Hopefully it's the former because if people are going to be wandering around trying to buy the house I live in I'd be furious even if I wasn't growing pot in my guest bedroom. Anyway, this is my plan: my flowering plants are in a bug UHaul wardrobe box. I'm thinking I will unplug the lights and fans from this and throw some heavy blankets over it to kill the smell a bit and hide the wires coming out of it. Hopefully the whole thing will be without power for 4 hours, max. My lights come on at 8:30 am and they should be here around 10 or 11, so I'm thinking I will just leave the lights off in the morning and turn them back on for the last 8 or so hours of the cycle when they leave. I don't think this will be a huge deal, but let me know if you have a better idea. My veg spot, in addition to 6 young cannabis plants, has two tomato plants that have become ridiculously big. I'm thinking about killing one actually because the blossoms keep dropping, but I figure I will leave the tomatoes and those lights on, and take the other plants out and put them in a box somewhere else for 4 hours. Do you think them being without light will harm them? I figure I'll just leave the tomato plants there and that way if she suspects anything is up she'll see that and just assume I am some sort of weirdo who grows tomatoes in his house. Which, well, I am, I guess. :) The lights are just a few CFLs which I really don't think your average person knows you can use to grow weed. I figure if I take care of that around 8-9am, air the room out, and then spray some ozium or something, I'll probably be ok. I know the last tenants were stoners and the dude downstairs smokes too, so a little weed smell probably isn't the worst thing as long as she thinks it's just from us smoking. I know she'll probably be in here for 2 minutes tops and I'm probably thinking about it too much, but any reassurance you might have that my plants and freedom will be unscathed by this visit would be wonderful, or any tips you might have to do a better job of keeping me and my plants safe.
 
snicol

snicol

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Sounds like a good plan actually mate...maybe douse the entrance with febreeze to kill their sense of smell right of the bat. They wont suspect febreeze and think you did it for them. I also live in fear of my landlord even though like yourself I have constructed the ultimate camo with a bunch of boxes also. I think your good mate, but let us know how it shakes out.
 
curious2garden

curious2garden

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The tomato plants are brilliant. I'd move all 'other' substances off the place until after the visit. I would not try to camouflage the tomato grow in the least. I would also not point it out. However if they inquired I'd be happy to tell them all about my tomato growing hobby and my dreams to one day be a master gardener and how I was thinking about trying a banana tree, vanilla orchid etc.... etc...... LOL I'd go on and on about eating organic and healthy etc....

My guess in in this day and age of science finding something else dangerous for us you will not be seen as odd at all. It will make sense :)

Do you have the Howard Resh book about Hydroponic Tomatoes? I love that book, anyway I'd have that sitting out by the grow if you do.
 
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uallach

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Nah, I should pick that book up. They're in soil, but I would like to stop the one plant from dropping blossoms. The other plant finally has its first ripe fruit! Hey, how else am I supposed to get through a New England winter?
 
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uallach

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yeah, i think i might actually put the veg stuff in my car but the flowering plants aren't moving. they're big and if i take them outside i'll probably just draw more attention to myself. i figure if she's just getting the place appraised she isn't going to be going through boxes, and if she is going through boxes i'm fucked anyway, but also sort of not fucked since she has absolutely no legal right to do that.
 
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bantos44

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my buddy had the same problem but on a bit bigger scale. He took everything out for about half a day and the girls stressed out a bit but nothing too bad. I would try and take everything out and be there during the inspection. I dont understand the appraisal part unless she is thinking of selling the house. You should be there ask questions and answer anything if they have any suspicions.

this is very darn stressful my friend and its what sucks about having landlords
 
SFguy

SFguy

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Sounds like a good plan.. I think they will be more looking at structure and things.. You should be ok
 
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uallach

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apparently appraising for a refinance or other reasons that don't involve selling the house is fairly common. they own like 4 buildings in a row on my block so i don't think they plan to sell all of them. i dunno, i'll keep my fingers crossed. i lived in a place once where an appraiser came and he just poked his head into my bedroom for like 3 seconds and took a picture so i think if i stash the box with the main plants behind a door and make the rest look like i'm just growing tomatoes i'll probably be fine. of course she has to do this now instead of like 6 months ago...
 
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uallach

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you gotta fight for your right to party, bro. with that attitude i'd still be waiting to own land so i could vote.
 
elduece

elduece

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Since they're almost done anyways now would be a good time to get the plants acclimated to longer nights just like the natural outdoors. After each day til harvest add an hour night before the lights on. Or maybe you can just subdue your plants to total darkness for the last five days to really ripen things up. I do it all the time and it doesn't hurt the buds one bit.
 
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uallach

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not a bad idea. i think i'm going to let them go a little longer, just want to make sure i won't kill them if they only get 6 hours of light one day. i should give still keep the schedule starting and ending at the same time, right?
 
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Wetdog

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uallach said:
also i was thinking about that blossom set spray, does it really work?
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Never used the spray.

Adding some dolomite lime will fix you up. BER (Blossom End Rot), is caused by a lack of calcium in the fruit/flower. Tomatoes suck up a LOT of cal. I add lime to my mix and still need to top dress with more ~3 months into the season.

Read the label carefully, I'd bet it's little more than a pre diluted cal/mag sort of thing. It will work, but a 40lb bag of lime is less than $5. No idea what the bottle cost.

It's a simple solution, just find the cheapest.

Wet
 
weedmastatx

weedmastatx

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just go to wal-mart and pick up some tomato plant thats already in bloom ive done it more than a couple times when inspecton time comes.. ive even just let them grow out in my tent and gave a few to my land lord.. been here for 2 years and no problems what so ever
 
LT1RX7 Drifter

LT1RX7 Drifter

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appraisals are done for insurance reasons too, we needed an appraiseal when my wife and I changed home owners insurance carriers, and every few years there after as well they get appraisals done to reflect inflation or in most cases deflation of property values
 
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