ROFLMAO...oh my GOSH!!!!!!!!!!!! ha ha ha I hope I never read about it!!! lol

That is just WRONG lol

But then, the same goes for our Brugs and what THEY are used for at times ha ha ha ha

Good luck for the future

Lucy

LMAO!!! I would have never thought about that...

For heaven's sake! What ARE brugs used for sometimes?? Maybe I'm missing out on something?

Ingrid.

Ingrid you are getting a mail abou that

Lucy

Lucy I hope included a Warning!! LOL
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!! ;O)

Too funny. I actually took a look around the shop and at the other customers when I went today. Duh! Here's this middle age woman in the midst of a bunch of teenage boys to young men in their 20's who look like their next stop will be the head shop. Brings back memories, very fuzzy memories. lol

LOL Karyn. And WHAT ELSE are you growing??? LOL

Linda

LOL! That was the first thing I thought of when you mentioned in another post that you do lots of shopping in a hydroponics store :-) I wondered about the other folks shopping there, not you dear Karyn!

Pam

I grew it in the front yard when I was a kid. My Mom had no idea and my Dad didn't notice it. My kids won't have that luxury. lol

When I was a kid I had a plant taken just at harvest from my Gram's garden. I always thought that it was my Dad, but he said no :-)

There was a grow-op busted 4 doors up the next street a few years ago. They hired a company to come in and dismantle it and huge piles of pots, lights, soil and fertilizers etc sat on the front lawn for a couple of days. Hubby stopped and asked what they were doing with the 5 gallon pots and everything was going to the dump so he asked and was allowed to bring them home for me for the Brugs. Our son said our house would be raided next jokingly but did say that the power usage and heat sources would likely be checked.

It's amazing how many people are doing that. You even see people posting on GW asking about soil mix, fert, and other growing info.

This guy might have gotten away with it if he hadn't stolen a race car....

Greenhouse bust

Ruth Ann I'm surprised that they didn't keep everything from the grow house as evidence. Here they would have. If I saw all that stuff on the curb and knew it was destined for the dump I would have taken it. As long as I'm not using it for illegal purposes who cares. The Feds use heat detection devices besides looking at power and water usage to find growing operations. They do check out the farm and don't try to hide it but I've never been approached at my home.

There was an article in the Post a few years ago about houses being rented in middle class suburbs but instead of anyone moving in they are converted into grow houses. A number of addresses had been listed and I was familiar with many of the neighborhoods. They must have been making a good deal of money because it's not cheap to rent in the DC suburbs. The average is 3-5K/mo.

Some counties in California almost every house is a grow house! There was a show on it the other day on TV. The feds fly over with infrared to detect the houses. Sometimes they make mistakes, like the lady who raises African Violets for her business in her basement. Imagine her surprise when armed men came storming through her front door and threw her on the ground then trashed her basement while yelling at her about the pot. She's suing. A few years ago SWAT raided a house in Houston, the landscaper had WHITE Texas Star hibiscus plants, in bloom, in the front yard. THrew the guy to the ground, held him at gunpoint. Duh, it had big white flowers on the plant.

I'd have snatched up all that equipment! Do you know how expensive those lights are?
Tally HO!

Karyn, they took pictures of all the stuff as evidence, those take less room I guess. I was out of town when this occurred and hubby called and asked what I wanted~~~~ I suggested a couple of the HD lights but those were destroyed by the police after being photographed, they were considered too 'grow op specific' the contractor cleaning out the house said.

A lot places, the hydroponic stores have to collect information from you if you buy a lot of equipment, and turn it over to the police. You then end up on the "watch" list. I'm not too worried about it. I'll be more than happy to show off my African Violets and Amaryllis if the police knock politely at the door.

Phoenix Ryan

Yeah Ryan...IF they knock POLITELY!!!! lol

Well Tally said it better lol

After reading my way up...I came to the conclusion, that I am sticking to dirt and sphagnum moss roflmao

I can just see the excitement in my neighborhood. Where mostly retired folks live ha ha ha

Lucy

Wow Karyn, I never would have thought this subject brought in so many responses, LOL!

Lucy, your neighbors would say, "no wonder she has all that energy," LOL!!!!!

I do sentinal beach combing, write down and keep track of everything that washes up on the beach. Years ago I went to Florida for the seabean convention, yes, it's real, every October in Coco beach. One of the attendees works cleaning the beach. She had found a "brick". Threw it in the dumpster at the park. Well, when we found out we all HAD to go and look. So we loaded up in 3 cars, drove across town, PAID to get into the park and proceeded to pull everything out of the dumpster she had thrown in. We were looking at bottles, big chunks of something we tried to break open by dashing it against the parking lot, the "brick", which was a very well-wrapped package of very high grade marijuana. It was pretty stinky and rotten. But did that stop us? Oh no, we all had to smell it, touch it. So here we are, a bunch of old farts in a parking lot, professors, lawyers, nurses, throwing around stuff that had washed up on the beach and playing with a couple of pounds of rotted marijuana. The people at the hotel had a good time watching us but luckily noone called the police. I do not know how we would have explained that one!! Honestly officer, we're out here in the pitch dark digging through a dumpster with a couple of pounds of marijuana because we're at a seabean convention!!!
Do you think they would have thrown us in jail or just the nut ward? I gotta make reservations for next year, that's a fun convention.
Tally HO!