neighbor problems

hey I just harvested my one plant i had in my backyard, chopped it in the middle of the night (thought it was in a stealth spot) anyways, brought it into my basement to hang dry.

the next day ( i live in a semi ) the neighbor from the house attached to mine, asked me if i could help her out with something, i say sure put my shoes on and she brings me to her basement and says "i know your plant is making this god awful smell please do something about it, i seen you pick it the other night and its in your basement right?"

so a big failure for the stealth i thought i had, so anyways she watched me bring everything out to my powerless shed, with 100% humidity out there i knew it had no chance of drying well..

soooo this morning i brought it all back in the house, brought it upstairs next to a open window with a fan blowing the smell outside.. the smell does not bother me one bit, can hardly notice it because i'm used to it, but i dont want her coming back over or even calling the cops.

I havent started clipping it at all, i think if i get rid of some fan leaves and alot of the stems should help with the smell? i dont know, i used to grow indoor in my basement (6-8 plants at a time) and she never complained. so i thought i'd be good down here.

I got them all hanging in this big cardboard box from a bathtub, so its kinda in a little cardboard closet as opposed to just hanging from my basement rafters. any advice would be recommended.

Get a large box, have one fresh intake hole, the other hole at the opposite side you should put a small fan with a carbon filter, that will eliminate any smell.


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Spend the $200 on a tiny blower and carbon filter.

It's worth the piece of mind.

I agree with these guys^. One of the few problems you can solve by throwing money at it.

It's good your neighbor comes to you with problems, rather than elsewhere. I would inform her of your effort to eliminate smell, especially around harvest. Keep the lines of communication open.

You're basically at her mercy, and even though it's a pain, imo she's being cool.

Bake her some cookies or a cake as a show of good will. Befriend her because making an ally is more profitable than making an enemy.

Tell her your a undercover cop working with the FBI ........or bake her some special recipe brownies that should calm her down .........lol. In a way you are lucky she came to you first it's kinda weird she watched you do everything though............the funniest part is you thought you were being hella stealthy and ninja like chopping at night ...lol.......sounds like my luck Good luck hope it works out well for you

yep, it's a good thing that you held off on trimming.. it's always a really good idea to have a carbon scrubber when you have indoor plants that are past the 3rd week of flowering. The worst smells occurs during wet trimming and initial harvest. However, it is important to not let the plant dry too much.. because the moisture can never be put in. This is the setup I use while wet trimming my plants..

Ona gel works wonders, cheap/easy fix. It kept my whole garage smelling fine even with outdoor plants finishing and drying there last year. I keep a tub in my basement and can have the family over even after harvest with no smell to worry about.

There's tons of diy carbon scrubbers on here. Build one out of a box fan, screen and a box of carbon from Wal-Mart. You can build one for cheap and it'll work for the week it takes to finish your plant up. Smell will be gone in like 20 minutes.
If not you might wanna just (as nicely as possible) mention it's going to smell for the next 3-4 days. Also bring up the fact that you owe her a big favor now. Make good on that favor. Change her brakes, mow her grass, fix her computer. Whatever.
Another alternative.
If you have jars on the ready just chop everything down to buds. Jar them up while she's at work. Dump em all out when she leaves. Toss them back in an hour or so before she returns and start doing something to kill the smell. Incense etc.
The outsides will dry. The remaining moisture inside will spread out into them when jarred. The whole stash itself will be dryer than before every day when you jar them back up. Slower drying process but it'll work. It should put them in the cure range in around a week. Inspect for mold as per usual.
You said the humidity in your shed was 100%
What's the RH inside of your place?