Illegal outdoor grows

(I know this post may get some hate)

So I have a buddy who’s been growing outdoors near a DMV that’s off the highway in the woods for years, lol... I don’t want to do that but I was debating on trying out some outdoor “geurilla” growing and maby a greenhouse in my yard, depending on how risky it is.

First off I don’t know how much a few outdoor plants would smell. I was thinking about planting a bunch of other plants that smell nice to hide the scent. This may be a horrible idea but wanted your thoughts. I do have neighbors but rarely see them, I kinda live in the country. Don’t they have greenhouses that stay enclosed but the sunlight can get through? If that was the case, could you use a carbon filter in the greenhouse? Just random thoughts.

I grow inside too, so I have to be careful.

Kind Sir said:

(I know this post may get some hate)

So I have a buddy who’s been growing outdoors near a DMV that’s off the highway in the woods for years, lol... I don’t want to do that but I was debating on trying out some outdoor “geurilla” growing and maby a greenhouse in my yard, depending on how risky it is.

First off I don’t know how much a few outdoor plants would smell. I was thinking about planting a bunch of other plants that smell nice to hide the scent. This may be a horrible idea but wanted your thoughts. I do have neighbors but rarely see them, I kinda live in the country. Don’t they have greenhouses that stay enclosed but the sunlight can get through? If that was the case, could you use a carbon filter in the greenhouse? Just random thoughts.

I grow inside too, so I have to be careful.

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Hard to hind the smell from a greenhouse

In my experience smell is highly strain dependent. For example: there is NO way that I could hide the smell of my Dinafem OG Kush (eye-watering lemon-FUEL!), or the absolutely ridiculous late-season stank from the Seedsman Skunks. But I could see maybe pulling off a floral strain like a white widow.

How far are you from your neighbors distance-wise?

I’d probably try to find somewhere off property to attempt outdoors unless you live in BFE.

A carbon scrubber in a greenhouse sounds workable.

PadawanWarrior said:

He's talking about a gorilla grow, not a greenhouse with power.

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I think the part where the OP mentions possible greenhouse action is what they're referring to.

Kind Sir said:

outdoor “geurilla” growing and maby a greenhouse in my yard, depending on how risky it is.

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Killaki said:

I think the part where the OP mentions possible greenhouse action is what they're referring to.

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Ya, I missed that part. I deleted my comment. I guess too late though, lol.

I wouldnt risk it if u grow indoors. Why put a target on yourself?

I would think it's very possible to grow in a spot where no one can see onto your property, especially if you train and trim it. Depending on the space you have a little greenhouse build might be feasible. As stated before I would be careful about strain, some are too stank to be discreet.

firsttimeARE said:

I wouldnt risk it if u grow indoors. Why put a target on yourself?

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Ya I know, I guess I got a little overly excited and made a post. Had a few days of nice weather, able to clone some nice genetics and got a little greedy.

Let’s start off saying this is a bad idea. With that being, said aren’t there cheaper greenhouses where you don’t have to open them at all and the sun comes through the top? If I had some low odor strains, a nice carbon filter in the greenhouse and planted a bunch of fragrant plants I feel like it would be doable.

I’m more so leaning towards finding some remote areas and digging a hole and adding a bunch of soil. There’s a local nature preserve that I am going to scout out, has to be some woodsy areas where no one goes... but I don’t know about it bc I don’t go there either.

Kind Sir said:

With that being, said aren’t there cheaper greenhouses where you don’t have to open them at all and the sun comes through the top?

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Sometimes people get rid of old hottubs...

doublejj said:

Hard to hind the smell from a greenhouse

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Wait...did you say "hind the smell" ?

doublejj said:

Hard to hind the smell from a greenhouse

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Old coot at the borough council meeting in Fairbanks regarding a permit for a legal grow.

“Don’t do it I tell ya. There’s these hippies up near us growing that stuff in a building and by golly it smells like someone run over a damned skunk. It made the guests at the Lions Club 4th of July cookout purty near vomit!”

Kind Sir said:

Let’s start off saying this is a bad idea. With that being, said aren’t there cheaper greenhouses where you don’t have to open them at all and the sun comes through the top? If I had some low odor strains, a nice carbon filter in the greenhouse and planted a bunch of fragrant plants I feel like it would be doable.

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YMMV, but in my experience greenhouses need good ventilation to avoid heat and humidity problems, certainly not a sealed environment, not sure how effectively you could vent the greenhouse through a carbon filter?

Kind Sir said:

(I know this post may get some hate)

So I have a buddy who’s been growing outdoors near a DMV that’s off the highway in the woods for years, lol... I don’t want to do that but I was debating on trying out some outdoor “geurilla” growing and maby a greenhouse in my yard, depending on how risky it is.

First off I don’t know how much a few outdoor plants would smell. I was thinking about planting a bunch of other plants that smell nice to hide the scent. This may be a horrible idea but wanted your thoughts. I do have neighbors but rarely see them, I kinda live in the country. Don’t they have greenhouses that stay enclosed but the sunlight can get through? If that was the case, could you use a carbon filter in the greenhouse? Just random thoughts.

I grow inside too, so I have to be careful.

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Your thinking is right on point kind sir!
I have a 6m x 3.5m green house in my back yard, a carbon filter works great when hung up high and vented outside.
It obviously won’t mask all the smell but does dramatically reduce it from my experience, a super silent fan with decent m3 of air flow and some insulated ducting to reduce noise to a whisper outside of the green house is what you want.

Having multiple strains and selecting the right strains are the key to minimising smell imo.
Growing different strains means they will finish flowering at different times and you won’t have them all in full bloom at the same time.

Go for fruity strains as they smell more floral/sweet and stay well away from skunks/chem/diesel lineages.
When growing fruity/hazey strains be vigilant with caterpillars, the sweet smell attracts them.

I live in a suburban area (in Australia) with houses behind and on the left and right sides of my yard and harvested 15 pounds dry last season with no major smell issues...
Had plants outside of the greenhouse also.

The lowest smelling strain I grew which literally had no smell unless you squeezed the buds and smelt your fingers was reserve privadas strawberry banana.
smell comes out during curing and had very frosty resinous colas.
Great strain if your concerned about smell when growing.

Hope that helps!

Kind Sir said:

Ya I know, I guess I got a little overly excited and made a post. Had a few days of nice weather, able to clone some nice genetics and got a little greedy.

Let’s start off saying this is a bad idea. With that being, said aren’t there cheaper greenhouses where you don’t have to open them at all and the sun comes through the top? If I had some low odor strains, a nice carbon filter in the greenhouse and planted a bunch of fragrant plants I feel like it would be doable.

I’m more so leaning towards finding some remote areas and digging a hole and adding a bunch of soil. There’s a local nature preserve that I am going to scout out, has to be some woodsy areas where no one goes... but I don’t know about it bc I don’t go there either.

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Strawberry banana, greenhouse on the right (I paid $200 aud
Strong fan with carbon filter up high gets rid of smelly stale air from concentrating within the greenhouse.

Strain selection and running various strains is they key imo.
You will never have no smell outdoors but you can minimise it right down from my experience.

Kind Sir said:

(I know this post may get some hate)

So I have a buddy who’s been growing outdoors near a DMV that’s off the highway in the woods for years, lol... I don’t want to do that but I was debating on trying out some outdoor “geurilla” growing and maby a greenhouse in my yard, depending on how risky it is.

First off I don’t know how much a few outdoor plants would smell. I was thinking about planting a bunch of other plants that smell nice to hide the scent.


I grow inside too, so I have to be careful.

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i find the best place to grow near populated areas (back when it was bad thing to do) was to grow about a dozen plants tied down in LST mode and have it in some out of the way place surrounded by tall grass and thorn bushes.

another was having a wall of japanese knot weed in my backyard and planting my crops infront of it and planting other random plants infront of those. a wall of green at the edge of backyard just gets ignored if you keep it boring looking.

but the best idea would be to plant that knotweed around your grow (not too close) and thorn bush/vines. it will take a real special person to wander into the middle of that shit. use local plants and nothing exotic like bamboo.

Hydro4life said:

Strawberry banana, greenhouse on the right (I paid $200 aud
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Strain selection and running various strains is they key imo.
You will never have no smell outdoors but you can minimise it right down from my experience.

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that is nuts. and the neighbors dont smell it? i can imagine using different strains to change the smell but those plants just seem like a heart attack waiting to happen.

HobbyGrowArtist said:

that is nuts. and the neighbors dont smell it? i can imagine using different strains to change the smell but those plants just seem like a heart attack waiting to happen.

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Haha, smell was fairly minimal.
A couple of times after rain, as things started warming up and drying out, the smell increased. I found a few of my lemon og’s were the culprits.
I managed to swap a couple out with the strawberry bananas I had in the green house with the scrubber filter inside and chopped the other one a little early to be on the safe side did the trick.
Every now and then you could smell it about 10 metres away, but unless you knew what you were smelling, it could easily be mistaken for a very floral smelling bush I thought.

Im running the gauntlet and going all out with 1 last grow here.
And in Australia were in the middle of flowering.
I’ve harvested 2 small indicas and some of the sativas have probably close to 6 weeks to go!
Not the best pictures but heres a pic of this years lol.
They got too big for the greenhouse so had to feed them out the greenhouse windows on the garage side lol.


A nice branchy super lemon haze.


a head from one of the blueberry colas, hanging out of the middle greenhouse window lol.


I don’t recommend for anyone to go as big as what I have.
But keeping to a greenhouse and running a carbon filter with well researched low smell fruity strains is definitely do able!