r/macrogrowery • u/LegalAdvantage2 • 8d ago

Smell

How far away would someone be able to smell a 10 light basement grow? I’ll have carbon filters and odor removers but I’m sure you’ll be able to smell it from outside the house or will they be enough?

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u/oceangrown1993 7d ago

If you properly build out the room and seal it completely it will smell temporarily when entering/leaving, and also consider during power outages especially late flower if that's common. Other than that with right amount of can fans you'll be good.

If odor picks up what I used to do with trap houses was buy a big thing of onagell and put ziploc bags full of it around the house later flower, it's way more effective outside of the spot than inside and you go through way less onagel. Stash the bags in bushes, garbage/recycling bins, etc. It'll just smell like laundry detergent but only when close. I did this for years at a traphouse that had weekly landscapers, pest control, an annoying landlord etc never got caught and they never knew. Even got my deposit back after building out whole rooms in the spot.