hyrdoponic store etiquette?

I am planning on making a trip to the hydroponic store to look for some lighting for a small closet grow op and i was curious as to the proper etiquette i need to use. How can i get the best advice from the salesman without leading on that i am growing cannabis?

in my experience seting up my system, he asked straight out if I was growing marijuana for medical purposes allowed by law and I said yes.
It gives the sales guy a better view of what you are trying to do, plus they arent stupid. 400-600HPS, soil and nutes are good signs of growing something inside.

Be honest.

Just act chill and there won't be any problems. I have been to my local hydroponic store dozens of times and not once have they asked me what I was growing. I have bought nutrients, inline fans, cloning gear, all sorts of stuff and no questions asked. Just act normal and everything will be cool

you could act like your growing tomatoes hydroponically

the owners of the stores know most of thier customers grow pot especially here in Cali. You can run into some store owners that dont want you to mention your cool medical setup. Im sure they all pay federal tax's and who knows what random people are browsing thru the shop at the time so i have been to a hydro store where it was hush hush.

Then you can go places like DH discount hydro in riverside and they sell weed jars to store your buds in and shit and if you ask for any advice they are always like man get this or that it will blow your buds up huge etc.

In the place shop in Ashville NC you better not mention weed or they throw you out.All this depends on where your at,I also had the other shop offer me free lights for percent of my grow

these guys are not dummies, their main business is us, the one by me is run by a total hippie.

the local shop in my town has to know what were using it for all of the customers are between 18-30yrs old all saying there growing tomatoes but if you mention anything about weed or anything drug related your out and can never come back.theres a worms way about 30 mins away and thay are all stoners there.the first time i was there i smoked a joint on the way so i was prettty blazed when i got there so i started asking him about what medium and nutes i should use in my ebb n flow he asked me what i was growing i said lettuce and tomatoes.he just looked at me a laughed and was like sure i bet that what your growing than was very helpful with what i needed.i guess i just depends on the place

KaleoXxX said:

you could act like your growing tomatoes hydroponically

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yea or strawberries........ that was my excuse, hydroponic strawberries, just buy a couple hydroponic fruit books when your there if you feel realy sketchy, thats what we did

Corbat420 said:

yea or strawberries........ that was my excuse, hydroponic strawberries, just buy a couple hydroponic fruit books when your there if you feel realy sketchy, thats what we did

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Spending money on books is an absolute waste of time and money. You bought the books just so that the hydro store employees wouldn't catch on to you? FYI they couldn't care less what you grow as long as you spend money at their store

I always pick up some random seeds when I visit my local shop. I like tryin different kinds of peppers, tomatoes, and herbs anyways. Its somewhat of a cover and provides munchies. Could it get any better?

tell me how a indoor cultivation supplier would benifit from sending its largest client-base to jail?


i swap clones with my hydro shop guy

tom__420 said:

Spending money on books is an absolute waste of time and money. You bought the books just so that the hydro store employees wouldn't catch on to you? FYI they couldn't care less what you grow as long as you spend money at their store

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the employees of the store dont mind, but the cops casing the blacked out building across the road were probably thrown off when they seen "modern hydroponics" and other shit on growing fruit..........

just remember, you never know who's watching the store you just bought your gear in......... is it a gang hydro dealer? if so then less chance of cops........ if there just normal people who knows what there up to.




personaly now-a-days i dont have to buy from "normal people" because of the skytek hydroponics shop they just put in (gang owned/opperated hydro shop, installed all-over the west coast......) go in, tell em you need gear for XX plants and they'll set you up.....

please explain 'gang hydro dealer'. do you mean a chain store? or are there actually shops run by bloods and crips?

I suggest walking in with a Cheech and Chong tie dye shirt, make sure you're really cooked, all pied eyed....yeah....

Always do research before visiting a shop, just so you have a vague conception of what you or need. If they ask ( which they normally dont, besides they are growing to) just say Tomato plants. From my expierance, tomato plants are the universal term for Miss jane. That and every grow nute on the face of the earth has " great for tomatos! " written somewhere on it lol Never mention pot or anything related. I got involved with my current shop becuase the old man down the street has an ACTUAL hydro garden in his garage. Yes, that means fruits and veggies and the biggest damn watermelons you have ever seen in your life.

you must bow to the clerk upon entry, if he bows back you may enter the store. if he does not bow you must then shower him/her with compliments about how great thier store is. only then will you gain entry to the secret world of hydroponics. you must also turn 3 times while checking out humming Y.M.C.A.(no arm motions! it freaks the clearks out!) or they instantly call the fuzz. once youve paid and have the goods in your possession you can then at that point scream, 'its all for weed bitch!' and run to your vehicle/ten speed.

SlikWiLL13 said:

you must bow to the clerk upon entry, if he bows back you may enter the store. if he does not bow you must then shower him/her with compliments about how great thier store is. only then will you gain entry to the secret world of hydroponics. you must also turn 3 times while checking out humming Y.M.C.A.(no arm motions! it freaks the clearks out!) or they instantly call the fuzz. once youve paid and have the goods in your possession you can then at that point scream, 'its all for weed bitch!' and run to your vehicle/ten speed.

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LMFAO!! I haven't laughed that hard since reading woolypudding69's sig.

SlikWiLL13 said:

please explain 'gang hydro dealer'. do you mean a chain store? or are there actually shops run by bloods and crips?

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chain stores? even worse, they have to conform to "standards".

stores that are owned by organized crime groups, the people willing to buy all your product, no matter the dry weight.......... unless its to small of course...... then again, this being BC "you" can go down to vancouver and trade 1LB of quality weed for 1KG (2.2lbs) of coke, which "you" then smugle down to washington and sell for $30,000...... $2500 in weed turns into $30,000 in coke............ those are the "gangs" im talking about.......

dude, my hydro store in Charlotte sells stuff for drying and they know exactly what your there for. Most of the people working there didnt get there experience from growing lettuce, atleast not the kind they sell at the grocery store. Just check out some of the hippied out labels on the nutes they sell, tell me there marketing to strawberry growers??

The hydro store can be a cool place to chill, but watch going there too often in the same vehicle, some desperate asshole cops will keep tabs from across the street or whtever... and I always try to take a different route home, make a a couple stops on the way.