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Security
Although growing marijuana is legal in many parts of the world, the need for a
well hidden secure garden to ensure privacy is still a necessity. An illegal
gardener will be arrested on-site if caught. For whatever reason it may be, the
need for a hidden properly secure garden as well as proper equipment
purchasing procedures are of utmost importance to ensure maximum security
and the basic human need of personal privacy.

Your activities where you go, how you go there, what you buy, how you pay
for it, who you talk to, what you say, are all things you can control. Your
surroundings; your home, growroom, outside property, electrical use, air
quality, and visitors are also parts of your environment that you are able to
control. Never trust anybody, not friends, not family, not even your own
children or dying mother! US conspiracy laws make it possible to jail victims
for what they say or what is said about them, regardless of truth.

What you say or what is said about you can land you in jail! The government is
not required to prove that the defendant personally did one of the overt acts.
Once you have decided that the defendant was a member of the conspiracy,
the defendant is responsible for what other conspirators said or did to carry
out the conspiracy, whether or not the defendant knew what they said or did.

A defendant's knowledge of and participation in a conspiracy may be inferred

from circumstantial evidence and from evidence of the defendant's action.
Acts which seem otherwise innocent, when viewed in the context of the
surrounding circumstances, may justify an inference of complicity.

The most dangerous places to visit or telephone include other growrooms,

stores that cater to indoor gardeners, and anywhere illegal drugs are being
used. Although very tempting, avoid visiting other growrooms. You never
know when or how they are being monitored by law enforcement. Your
presence at another growroom could tie you to it. Testimony by the grower
could implicate you and your grow operation even if they've never been to
your garden! Using your telephone is an obvious no-no! Technology today
makes tracking telephone numbers and their exact locations extremely easy.
Use a pay telephone to make calls when it involves a garden.

A case involving a police department that subpoenaed telephone company

records of a garden store is currently being heard in federal court. Phone
records showed the telephone numbers that were used to call the store. Narcs
tracked these numbers down and watched the homes where they were
located. More than 1000 arrests resulted! Was the police action legal? The
courts are determining that now. Meanwhile, a thousand POWs were taken
over a four-year period. Who knows how many police stations are using these
same underground tactics?

When calling or visiting an indoor garden store, never, ever mention

marijuana or anything illegal. Do not allude to growing anything illegal. They
will be forced to kick you out, hang up immediately, or even report you.
Stories about about certain individuals watching and stalking garden-store
parking lots and following clients home are quite common. Always assume
you are being watched.

If you must go to a hot zone, do not go there regularly and do not drive your
own car. Take public transportation or go in a car not registered to you or
anybody in your family. Cash tells no tales and leaves no trails. Pay for all
purchases relating to the growroom in cash. If you must order something by
mail or UPS, pay with a money order that was purchased in cash. Try and avoid
using a credit card unless the privacy policy checks out.

Do not take photos of your garden that show incriminating evidence such as
peoples faces, tattoos or anything traceable, such as telephone or licenseplate numbers, addresses on a magazine, furniture etc. When taking
photographs to be developed, do not list your telephone number or address
on the receipt. Pay for the photos in cash and do not drive your car to the
store. If you live in the United States, never, never, ever show your growroom
to anybody! Do not tell anybody you are growing or have ever grown! Always
deny growing. Such information in the hands of someone else renders you
powerless. The word "friend" rolls off the tongue so easily until the "friend" is

interrogated by law enforcement. Two of the major weapons professional

interrogators have in their arsenal are deception and intimidation. They lie
and intimidate petrified growers to extort information from them. When a
grower is arrested, they are interrogated - not like in the movies, but for real.
The interrogation is not over one or two sessions. It often goes on for months.
During this time, the accused(without being proved guilty) is very generously
coerced into providing information about other growers. Even if they do not
know anything about those growers, they are pressured to make up
information so the police can use this erroneous information to secure search
warrants. Guilt by association has blindsided more than one grower. A jealous,
spiteful or vindictive friend, lover or enemy has complete control over you and
your future if they know you are growing. Period. Imagine, just on the whim of
an excited comment about your latest endeavor, your life can be changed
forever.

Once law enforcement has stumbled across evidence, received solicited

evidence from spiteful snitches or coerced evidence from freaked-out friends
trying to save themselves or giving into their human instinct of pleasure and
reward, they go out and look for information by subpoena, phone records,
electric records, shopping records, etc., and then deploy more sophisticated
intrusive tactics, most often dogs trained to sniff marijuana and other
methods. Now of course you are growing legally, but one needs to be aware if
they want to exercise their human right for in-home privacy.

Indoor Growing Security

#1 rule - Keep your garden a secret. Always. Tell no one. No one.
Disguise the entryway to your grow room, unless that will make it even more
noticeable. Also, keep the door of the grow room locked. This will prevent
anybody from accidentally discovering your garden.

Always keep the outside of your house in good standing. This means mow the
lawn, make sure the house is painted and clean, clear off any old newspapers
or anything else, keep the garbage picked up etc. Keep to yourself, don't have
many visitors over and always be polite but short with neighbors.

Keep all electrical units, fuses, wires, connections etc grounded. Inspect wiring
regularly for old crusty heat-blackened smelly wires or melted connections.

Do not grow more than 100 plants, grow 99. In America Federal law enforces a
5 year minimum sentence with no parole when convicted of growing 1001000 plants.

Think ahead to any situation that will require outsiders to visit sensitive areas
of the house. Repairmen, solicitors, meter readers, neighbors, appraisers, and
pets should all be considered and contingency plans made in advance.

Keep a low profile. It looks a little suspicious if your neighbors see you hauling
ten 50 pound bags of potting soil into your home in January. Unload anything
that might seem suspicious from your car under the cover of darkness.
Remember to turn off the light in your car that comes on after you open the
door.

Anyone that wants in your home will need a search warrant! Sorry grandma,
no cookies in my kitchen this year.

Light

Light leaks are a tell-tale sign of a grow room. Be sure to check the outside at
night for any escaping light.

It is imperative that you keep any light leaks sealed from inside your grow
room that can be visible outside. Cover up interior windows with some sort of
material(fire board works good) and leave blinds inbetween so it does not look
suspicious from the outside in. Cracks, or anything else that will show light
from the outside. Having light leak is like inviting people to come into your
grow room. Light leaks are unacceptable and greatly reduce security.

Check any chimneys / vents for leaking light, as this is very suspicious.

Online Security

When posting anything online, especially images, make sure you do not claim
ownership or possession of any weed, grow rooms, or grow room equipment.
Also keep in mind your I.P. Address which leads directly to your home is being
logged everywhere you post or visit.

It is best to pay by cash or money-order, if using a credit card make sure the
site is secure with a sound privacy policy, and use a proxy to mask your I.P.
Setting up a proxy server ensures that the government can't track your every
web surfing move.

Never have seeds or grow products sent directly to your home where your
garden is located.

Don't give out your correct information.

Do not ever chat/e-mail about marijuana growing, or surf cannabis related

websites on a computer located in a grow house.

Set up a firewall. A firewall will block and inform the user of an unwanted third
party attempting to intrude.

Thermal Imagining Technology

Thermal imaging is used once authorities have good reason for further
inspection. This can be as simple as following you home from the grow store,
or any other miscellaneous records or indications that you could be growing
cannabis without legal documentation. Powerful infrared camera thermal
imaging technology or even dogs that are trained to sniff out marijuana will
be used at this point.

Light and heat energy warm objects, which then re-radiate excess energy.
Some of this excess energy is emitted as low-energy infrared. IR is invisible to
the naked eye, but can be displayed and measured by specialized cameras.
Think about the movie Predator, it literally looks like that.

The nosy are trained to look for hot spots on walls and windows, unusually
warm foundations, exhaust emissions from vents and chimneys, and warming
trends typical of suspicious grow operations.

As far as legal implications of these readings go; "A thermal imaging scan does
not intrude in any way into the privacy and sanctity of a home the privacy
associated with a home, are not threatened by thermal imagery." -US supreme
court ruling. In Canada, IR is used in the pre-investigation phase. Positive
results can then be used to obtain a search warrant.

Thermal Imaging is easy. All it takes is a hand held imager device. The imager
detects the heat and displays the "Thermal Image" as a picture. The cops are
not walking around the streets taking thermal pictures of people's houses
unless they suspect they are growing weed. In order to get a Search Warrant a
thermal picture might be used as supporting evidence. Cops use thermal
devices at night when the temp difference is greatest.

The most common Thermal Imaging devices can easily detect heat escaping
from structures such as windows, vents, etc. More expensive devices, less
commonly used but still available to many police forces, can actually see
through walls. Concrete is a good conductor of heat; after hours of HID
lighting, foundations will become abnormally warm.

Do not have hot, smelly exhaust air from your grow room pouring outside
directly. Searching IR helicopters can see the heat pouring out like a fountain.
The helicopters CAN NOT see through your walls and detect your grow lights.
They can only see heat signature readings on the outside of a building. So if
your growroom is insulated and the lights are not touching the walls you are
fine.

You can completely avoid these thermal imaging problems by turning your
grow lights on during the daytime. The daytime heat from the sun on surfaces
such as windows and vents will make for an accurate heat signature reading
impossible. The technology simply will not work in the daytime.

Another extremely effective method to eradicate any possible heat signature

reading is to line the inside of your grow room with material to keep the heat
inside. Any kind of insulation works wonders. Most growers flower at night to
take advantage of the naturally cooler air; unfortunately, a warm grow house
will radiate lots of thermal energy compared to the cool night air.

Further measures you can take are to insulate and shield the walls/windows
from heat loss from lamps, place your ballasts in a different room, spread out
plants, and properly cool and ventilate the air in your grow room. One or two
spaced out plants aren't going to give off a very suspicious heat signature
reading, but 50 lined up in rows will.

Small grows(under 2000w) would probably not emit enough heat to warrant
the effort or expense. Reducing grow room temperature will reduce heat
emissions; however, the grow room will still be warmer than surrounding
rooms.

For walls use interlocking 1.5 or 2 inch foam insulation along all exposed walls.
Place the insulation 1-4 inches away from walls, fit foam panels from floor to
ceiling (some cutting may be required), and blow cold air into the gap. Seal
seams and corners with tape. Cover walls with Mylar to reflect heat back into
the room. This technique creates a false wall to contain cold air. Interlocking
rigid foam panels prevent hot grow room air from contacting and warming
house walls. Cold air is blown into the gap between the foam and the walls for
maximum protection. The walls exterior will appear cold to an IR camera,
indicating a negative for internal heat.

Windows are essentially uninsulated, so you must fill the gap with insulation.
Draw the curtains/blinds, add black poly behind, then add insulation.

Safely exhausting hot air is difficult; those searching are looking for unusual
heat emissions coming from opened windows, chimneys, dryer vents and
other handy places. Running exhaust to outside sheds, barns and tree stumps
is well known to those searching. Venting through the sewer line is always an
option.

Running the exhaust through a long, buried pipe helps to cool the air.
Perimeter drains can be used for this.

Water-cooling is also an excellent way to drastically reduce heat signature

readings into the virtually non-existent levels. Running water cooled lights is
very effective; IR heat from the lights are washed down the drain. Water
cooled light systems are currently difficult to source, and have drawbacks
including cost, condensation and leaks.

Dealing With Waste

The best way to deal with organic waste is to compost it, even if that means
bury it in fertile active worm populated soil. It is the 100% stealth method. No
one will ever know and it will improve your soil.

Never throw Marijuana roots, leaves, or any other foliage in the bin because
that's a tell-tale sign of a grower. When throwing away your grow room
wastes, you must take extra caution. Do not use your regular trash for
throwing away cuttings, clippings, rockwool, or anything else that is a dead
giveaway. You can grind up the plants, compost them, remove them from
your property etc. It is legal for the police to go through your garbage!

Do not EVER flush any leaves or anything that has to do with your operation
down the toilet. It could end up in your front yard due to the overflow valve!

Electricity

Have a ready reason for excess electrical consumption.

The key to your electrical bill is to keep it near your neighbors or the previous
tenants. A sudden large spike will send up a red flag.

Install solar panels if you can.

Utility companies can tell your bill is way off from the same time last year, and
this way the police is finding people that are growing marijuana. More than
500 watts in the family home running constantly will show up as a regular
monthly increase in electricity use. You can claim space heaters, more people
living on the premises, too many television sets, and late hours, if they happen
mention it to you (innocently). If certain nosy people knock and ask you about
it, don't let them in, and move your plants to another location during the wee
hours in a vehicle not your own.

Upon moving into a new place, it may be desirable to immediately establish

high electricity use, so that your electrical use history won't reveal your
activities in the future.

Light leaks, open windows, heat expelled from rooms that would normally be
cool, and rip-offs are all serious issues to be concerned about. Don't use a
burglar alarm on when your away from the house. People are busted this way
when the kids try to rip off the garden and the police come. Lock the house up
well, and let them take it if they need it so bad. It's not worth getting busted
for a burglary.

Odors

Leaked odors are one of the quickest, most surest ways to locate a grow room.
You must keep strange odors under control, including ozone and other odor
masks.

Surround the outside of your property with cedar sheddings instead of bark
chips in the flower beds. This will greatly assist in reducing odors. Also use a
carbon filter in your ventilation system as well as an ozone generator to
completely neutralize the pungent marijuana smell.

Use a carbon filter on your ventilation tubing.

Noise

Some grow rooms are easily detectable by their noise, as well as odors. A great
way to stifle and muffle unwanted noises and odors coming from your grow
room is to seal and line the walls with sound board. Sound board muffles
sounds VERY well.

Install rubber grommets or feet on fan feet and blowers to eliminate vibrations
and noise.

Build a separate shell or soundproof box around ballasts, keeping fire safety in
mind at all times.

Place a thick pad under ballasts to absorb and prevent vibrations.

Outdoor Growing Security

Keeping your outdoor plants safe is extremely important. After spending
many hours planning, scouting, and preparing your outdoor plots for the
upcoming grow season, keeping your well hidden site secure is very important
if you plan on bringing in a harvest this year. You don't want them to be seen
so they can be stolen or discovered. One of the best easiest ways of doing this

is growing the cannabis plants among other large plants that mask the
cannabis. You can also construct a mini-greenhouse so to speak using
bricks and a pane of glass at the top to conceal your crop even more.

Another crucial thing to do when guerilla growing is to cover up your tracks.

Footprints are a dead giveaway leading right to your crop. Leave as little trace
as possible. Unsuspecting people love to follow tracks in remote areas to see
where they lead, and lo and behold! Your weed crop has just been stolen. Try
to keep the path you take to your crop as hidden as possible. Try not to break
any branches, step on rocks and avoid soft muddy areas, and if possible always
take a different trail to your patch every time.

If you are trying to camouflage your plants, plant them with some corn or
hops. These are the best plants for this purpose. Other tall plants will not work
as well. Another method is to feed nitrogen to your plants if they need to be
greener to blend in. Some growers even use plastic red flowers, pinned to a
plant, disguising it as a flower bush. Visit the plants at night on full moons, and
if your visible to neighbors, appear to be pruning a tree, mowing the lawn, or
doing something in the yard that makes you invisible. Dig a hole and put a
potted plant in it. This will reduce the plants height by at least a foot.

When guerilla growing the most important thing is to have a cover story. Take
along with you a bird watching book and binoculars, or a fishing pole and
fishing license etc so if stopped by any nosy people asking what you are doing
out there, you will be safe.

If you know airplanes and/or helicopters will be flying over your area make
sure you spread out your plants. Condensed patches are a red flag for aerial
targeting.

When guerilla growing it is critical to make sure your cannabis plants are out
of sight. Take a different route to get to them if they are not in a secure part of
your property, and cover the trail to make it look as if there is no trail. Make cut
backs in the trail, so that people on the main trail will tend to miss the cut-back
to the grow area. Don't park on the main road, always find a place to park that
will not arouse suspicion by people that pass on the road. Always have a good
reason for being in the area and have the necessary items to make your claim
believable.

Transporting vegetative starts to the growing area is a most tricky aspect of

growing outdoors, but germinating your marijuana seeds in spot is out of the
question. Usually, you will want to germinate the cannabis seeds at home,
keep seedlings indoors, or outside in your garden, then transport them to the
grow site once they are firmly established. It may be desirable to first detect

and separate males from females so that no effort of

transporting/transplanting/watering males is incurred.

One suggestion is to use 3" rockwool cubes to start seedlings in, then put 20 of
them in a litter pan, cover it with another pan, and transport this to the grow
site. The cubes can be planted directly into soil. If spotted inroute to the grow
area, with a tear in your eye explain your burying of your dead family dog
Baxter may be a good excuse for being in the area. Few mentally healthy
people would demand to see the rotting corpse!

When planting, try to plant under trees, next to bushes and keep only a few
plants in any one spot. Train or top the plants to grow sideways, or do
something to prevent the classic Christmas tree look of most plants left to
grow untrained. Tying the top down to the ground will make the plants
branches grow up toward the sun, and increase yield, given a long enough
growing season. Plants can be grown under trees if the sun comes in at an
angle and lights the area for several hours every day. Use shoes that you can
dispose of later and cover your foot prints.

Do not grow marijuana outdoors on your own land(unless it is remote), so that

you can show that someone could have easily trespassed on your property,
and violated your land by planting marijuana. A few marijuana plants should
be fine, but be careful. There is a constant threat of suspicious neighbors,

hunters/hikers/certain nosy people when growing weed.

Use the cannabis plant ability to blend in with other plants to the point that
they are unidentifiable by all but the most observant. Choose similar growing
neighbours for your marijuana plants like cleome, kenaf, a bunch of nettles or
blackberry vines.

Plants started outdoors late in the season never get very big and never attract
the least bit of attention when placed next to plants of similar or taller stature.
Even tall plants grown among several trees will be almost invisible in their
camouflage. Grow in places where people have nothing to search for.

Outdoors the security tactic is to control access to an area, and not to arouse
suspicion. Tuck them here and there, never in a recognizable pattern. Space
them out, and fit them in to the existing landscape such that they get full sun,
but they're hidden or blend in. Fence lines and groups of several together are
best. Try to find marijuana seeds strains that seem to match the surrounding
plants. Feed nitrogen to your plants if they need to be greener to blend in.
Some growers even use plastic red flowers, pinned to a plant, disguising it as a
flower bush.

Plant in places away from houses and farms where somebody could see you
from distance. Visit the plants at night on full moons, and if you are visible to
neighbors, appear to be pruning a tree, mowing the lawn, or doing something
in the yard that makes you invisible. Dig a hole and put a potted plant in it. The
plant's height will be reduced by at least a foot and it will collect and use more
rain water.

Choose the best high yielding cannabis seeds strain possible, put as much
time as possible to find a safe, surrounded by nature spot for your cannabis
garden. Start with germinating the marijuana seeds at home and replant
outdoors after 2 weeks. Never tell anybody about the location of your
marijuana garden.

Find a secure location where your marijuana plants won't be stolen by

rippers/hunters/hikers. Avoid heavy traffic areas, popular hiking trails, and
recreational roads.

At all costs, avoid making paths to your outdoor marijuana grow location.
What seems invisible on the ground may be very apparent from the air. Try a
new path each time you enter or exit your marijuana site; walking along fallen
logs, in dense areas and through streams, etc. Heck, wear snowshoes.

Although your shoes may not seem to be an element in keeping your plots
secure, if for some reason your plots are intruded upon, and busted, you could
possibly be put at risk because of your shoe size and brand.

To prevent this from being a problem, you can tape over the bottom of your
shoes and use shoes that are either a size or two too small or too large.

The vegetation directly around your plot offers a good deal of protection.
While entering and leaving, use anything you can to prevent a path from
being made (this can involve logs, stones, rivers, etc.). As long as you don't
make a noticeable path to your plants, you should be fine.

Planting in areas that you would never want to go is a good idea, because if
you don't want to go there's a big chance that rippers won't want to go there
either. Planting in a patch of stinging nettles or pricker bushes helps a great
deal to prevent any unwanted creatures from checking out your grow . Nettles
look very similar to cannabis, and when you so much as brush by them...you
get a nice surprise(burning sensation for approx 20 min).

Getting to your plot without risking your security can be a problem. Going
during the late afternoon when people would most likely be in the woods is a
smart thing. Park your car at an inconspicuous place with some distance from
your entry spot to the woods. It is good to have a story ready if anyone

questions you (such as picking wild berries, bird watching, or fishing) and use
props to fit the story. By going later in the afternoon, you can have ample time
to work, and the sun will begin to set by the time you get back giving you the
security of the blanket of twilight.

If you need to go to your plot at night for some reason, a flashlight with a red
lens can be very helpful. Red lenses help your eyes see better in the dark and
adjust your eyes to the setting.

During the course of a grow, you will mostly be watering and fertilizing either
via a local lake or stream, or possibly an irrigation system. There are however
some big trips that you need to take such as bringing clones/seedlings in to be
planted at the beginning of the season, and the harvest at the very end of the
season. Things to consider: when you plan to go, how you will bring in your
seedlings and bring out your final harvest, how you will get your harvested
plants to where you plan to dry it.

While in the field, ALWAYS STAY ALERT. This is a highly risky situation.
Hopefully this information will lessen the degree of danger, and help secure
your grow sites.

Lifestyle
Never tell ANYONE, even your friends, your pet chimp, your grandma, your
fellow cannabis enthusiast cronies, your dying mother, your uncle Ned, or your
smoking hot girlfriend, ANYONE that you are growing or even hint or half-joke
about growing. People get greedy and loose lips sink ships. Growing weed is
exciting, but you must keep this to yourself or you wont get to enjoy it for very
much longer.

Don't show or boast a large cash income. Do not suddenly buy expensive
assets such as houses or cars overnight. Always have a job and reason for your
activities. Keep a low profile.

Never show your garden to anybody.

Never set up in an apartment.

Did we mention never to show your garden to anybody?

Oh and Never show your garden to anybody.

Be careful when speaking or visiting other growers. Any advice you give to
them can be used as evidence against you and you will be legally penalized to

the fullest extent of the law as if you were the owner of their grow room!
A smart growers drives a street-legal car, with no warrants out for his/her
arrest(this includes overdue parking tickets), pays bills on time, is nice to nosy
neighbors, and doesn't throw any wild loud out of control house parties.

Avoid setting up in a place with gardeners, heavy foot traffic, or an area with
nosy neighbors.

Pay all your bills on time.

Do not show ANYBODY your operation. Not even your signficant other. Even if
it is your best friend if they happen to become interrogated by the cops they
WILL legally use deception and psychological persuasion / intimidation tactics
to get your friend to squeal on you. Interrogation can last for months.

The more people that know, the higher your risk of being raided. Privacy is
important - If you happen to run out of bud you're carrying and you have the
urge to hit the master stash and show back up with your friends with another
fresh sack of fine cannabis, suspicion will rise and so will the questions.

When taking pictures of your grow room always store the photos in a safe
place and never use traditional film. When film is developed they can discover
your grow room with ease.

Purchasing Cannabis Grow Equipment

Always pay with cash or make sure the company you are purchasing products
from is reputable and has a secure privacy policy to protect their customers.

Park your car away from the grow shop, or take your friend's car. If the people
in the grow shop suspect that you are growing cannabis, all they have to do is
look outside and get your license plate number. This may sound like a bit of a
paranoid thing to do, but park around the corner, or down the block! After all,
the less information they have about you, the better. Keep in mind that your
car is easy to trace and follow home.

Some certain nosy people have been known to tap into phone lines of local
grow shops to find unsuspecting suspects. Always use a pay phone with a
phone card or coins.

Pay all bills and purchases with cash if you can. It leaves no trails. Pay for mail
order merchandise with a money order sent to a safe address. When
making purchases online always have your equipment delivered to an address
that is not your grow location.

Don't look like you grow cannabis when buying in a store. This means that you
should not walk into the local garden shop sporting a "LEGALIZE IT" t-shirt.
Going into a shop stoned will not help either. Wearing respectable clothes,
and looking well groomed will eliminate the idea that you are the worlds
biggest stoner about to grow some serious buds, purchasing all this gear for
the cultivation of cannabis! Depending on the person in the shop, they could
alert the authorities and give them your name, a list of things you bought,
your house address, your car's plates etc all for a tasty compensation reward.
Its a cold world out there and suspicion of any kind is never a good thing!

When you leave the shop, ask them if they have a box you can put your gear
in. Walking from the shop to the car opens yourself up to all kinds of attention
if you're a kid in his mid twenties carrying an HPS, nutrients etc under your
arms in broad daylight.

Dont flounder about in the shop, you will get stressed and make mistakes
and might even call necessary attention to yourself. Know exactly what it is
that you want by making a TOBUY list before you enter the shop. That way you
can simply go in, get the stuff, come out. No problems.

If you can get a very trusted friend to get it all for you, then you can relax.
Obviously, they arent growing, since he bought the equipment for you.
Suspicious people can watch your friend sit in his home on the couch all they
want, they dont know that you are the one who is actually growing!

Unload all your grow room equipment slowly piece by piece at a time, or from
within a locked closed garage whenever available. Perhaps put an old
cardboard box in your car, and before going into the house, pack all the stuff
into the box. This just means that nosey neighbors wont have a clue.
Neighbors will watch you, dont be so stupid to think they wont. After all,
some neighbors can be very nosey. Carrying equipment in using black
garbage bags is a definite no-no! Try using either a backpack or an old TV box,
then everyone can look at you, and they'll just think you've got a new TV!

For the really paranoid, it might be a good idea to buy your lighting from one
shop, drive across town and buy your nutes/soil from another shop and so
forth. This will eliminate the people making a direct connection between you,
and cannabis cultivation. Of course, pay only with cash, as anyone specifically
monitoring your actions could see that you've made 6 different purchases,
from all over town, with the exact equipment for cultivating cannabis. This
would be a sure sign that something fishy is up.

Have a pre-determined reason and mentally rehearsed conversation about

why you are purchasing certain grow equipment. It is important to visualize
this occurrence beforehand so you do not appear nervous in any way shape or
form. If the person in the grow shop politely asks "What are you going to be
growing" and you fumble and say "UMM CAULIFLOWER", that could be a sign
that you're stressed, and are hiding something. Research other things that
require similar things to cannabis. For example, if you are wanting to buy a
few HPS's, find out what other plant requires a good HPS. Some serious
tomatoes thats what! This also relates to other equipment. This will help you
walk into the shop confidently, and have no paranoia during the purchase. An
idea (but be careful, this may not apply to every situation) is to say you are
buying it for your boss, and you were just instructed to go to the shop and get
it for him. HPS lights are used commonly as security lights, use that to your
advantage.

Take your time planning everything. I'm sure you've paid much attention to
ensuring your house wont smell of bud, that your grow room is light proof,
why would you go attracting attention to yourself when purchasing the
goods?

This is something many people overlook, and can result in paranoia attacks
later on in your grow(when it really counts). The means that you shouldn't
leave your wallet on the counter, don't give them your phone-number, don't
smell of weed, don't fumble when asked questions. The number one rule is
safety, and if these people have no hint of an idea that you are growing weed,
that is excellent! Just be careful, be calm, and be confident. Besides, you have
nothing to worry about!

If you can, buy whatever you need from non-grow shops, for example, buying
a HPS security light from a hardware store will save much hassle, no-one will
suspect a thing.

Remember, as far as they are concerned, you are buying this stuff to grow
perfectly LEGAL things remember? Relax.

Be safe.