Window Sill Growing

[FirstTimerPOP]

Hi all, thanks for reading hope you can help me out.

I want to grow because I have no budget what so ever right now and I enjoy a good smoke every now and then.
I cannot plant outside for various reasons. But I think I'm in luck because the sun shines on my window for hours a day, but that's risky I suppose. I want to grow on my window sill in my bedroom with some regular plants to make it look less supicious and so my family wont take a second look if they come in my room while I'm away.

Would this work for a nice bud if the plant can get sunlight for 10 hours a day?

Or would it be easier to do a closet setup, my closet space limit is 1 by 4 feet.

Please, any advice is appreciated.

[WashougalWonder]

You could, but you need to understand the light cycles. To flower the plant needs 12 hours of true darkness. Since you would not want a huge plant, I would plant about mid May. Then after solstice in June, the plant will slowly start to flower. An 8 week or more period of time for that.

With a closet grow, you can control all that perfectly, albeit it is costly and takes some time. Do not expect other plants to hide cannabis. It gets too big and is too different looking than a house plant.

[chapman1]

i suggest a one plant closet grow, iv tried countless times to windsill grow throughout my youth i wouldnt bother wasting the time

[FirstTimerPOP]

Thanks for the advice guys. I think I'm going to do one plant in my closet because it is less risk and from what I hear it works better. What kind of bulbs do I need and can I use them in a regular lamp? Will growing in my closet make my entire room smell like cannabis? Sorry, noob here.

[emilya]

Hi all, thanks for reading hope you can help me out.

I want to grow because I have no budget what so ever right now and I enjoy a good smoke every now and then.
I cannot plant outside for various reasons. But I think I'm in luck because the sun shines on my window for hours a day, but that's risky I suppose. I want to grow on my window sill in my bedroom with some regular plants to make it look less supicious and so my family wont take a second look if they come in my room while I'm away.

Would this work for a nice bud if the plant can get sunlight for 10 hours a day?

Or would it be easier to do a closet setup, my closet space limit is 1 by 4 feet.

Please, any advice is appreciated.

I will give you my advice ... don't try to grow in your parents' house. The things you may not have considered here is that this plant is a weed and it is going to get big. It is not going to look like just any other houseplant. Second, it is going to put out a smell at about 4 weeks that is going to let everyone in the house know that it is there. It's just not a good idea to do this. Wait till you have your own place.

Emmie

[FirstTimerPOP]

I will give you my advice ... don't try to grow in your parents' house. The things you may not have considered here is that this plant is a weed and it is going to get big. It is not going to look like just any other houseplant. Second, it is going to put out a smell at about 4 weeks that is going to let everyone in the house know that it is there. It's just not a good idea to do this. Wait till you have your own place.

Emmie

Not in my parents house just living with other relatives for now but either way your probably right I get what your saying, thank you for the advice, I appreciate it and will keep that in mind.

[chapman1]

:thumbsup:emmie wise words

[michaelpeg]

you can grow on your windowsill but have some other kind of light on when the sun goes down so you get 18 hours instead of 10 to prevent early flowering. I did this with about 7 hours of sunlight and cfls only during sun down. Ended up with a 4 foot plant but only about 1/2 oz. I would have yielded more but too much nitrogen in the miracle gro soil and the cfls did almost nothing besides tell the plant it is not night time. Hope this helps.

[rudy2010]

George Carlin once said the best weed he ever smoked was called Toledo Window Box. It can be done but is usually a light harvest.

[Rusty Trichome]

A window box is outside the window, not inside...and it was a comedy routine, not necessarily based on fact.

There used to be a section in the rules concerning growing in someone elses house without their permission.
There were two reasons...
If your grow is somehow discovered, the owner (or the parents) could be charged and lose not only their freedom, but their home as well. (asset forfeiture)
-or-
If anything goes wrong and you burn the house down...insurance wouldn't cover the losses since you were involved in an illegal activity that caused the incident...

Was also stuff about growing in apartments, but that's gone too.

Curious why these rules were dropped. Have never heard of a cannabis patient needing to hide their grow from their parents.

[rudy2010]

A window box is outside the window, not inside...and it was a comedy routine, not necessarily based on fact.
.

True and true. He also wore a shirt that looked like it had real buds on the front. Each time he appeared after a commercial some of the buds were gone and he looked a little more stoned.

Anybody growing needs to be discreet regardless of their license status. Getting busted is no fun.

[ml1979]

294867294868Well this bitch was grown in the window, I didn't expect anything to come of it, but it did. So it can be done. That's just the top cola and its good smoke. She's finishing at the same time as the outside plants. You won't get a fraction of what you'd get growing outside but its possible.

[Egzoset]

Salutations ML1979,


...grown in the window... ...but its possible.

I wondered about that same problem near the spring of 2011 (before moving), that's not a popular topic so i'm glad to read now that at least someone appears to confirm graphically that it's not totally impossible. Everyone isn't necessarily looking for yield after all, this sure feels refreshing to me somehow.

:detective1:

[Shovelhandle]

I had one or two windowsill plants (forget exactly, 25 years ago). The popo came with a warrant and grabbed them while no one was home. They saw them from the parking lot next door...the high school parking lot. DOH! Well, it could have been a lot worse. The let our two cats out when they came in and they chase down the cats and put them in the house with a note to come to the popo shop. I got court diversion, sentence expunged and $165 donation to Court Diversion. The plants were duff really.

[catbuds]

Damned Shovel! That would have scared me right out of growing for a while! Did you move? I've done some veg in a window with a 2' under cabinet fluorescent grow light as supplement lighting. Last time I did, plants, light & the whole kit n kabootal was stolen by a 'friend'. His brother came & told me & I went to his house with a baseball bat & never grew in a window again. Chris never stole from me again either :)
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[Shovelhandle]

yes, I moved, catbuds. At that time I was just smoking the leaves off those plants. They grew for over a year. It was simpler days, go to work, go fishing, repeat.

[catbuds]

Good move on the move! Haha! Saftey first. I'm not so spoiled that I won't still occasionally smoke leaf if I can't get anything else!:rasta:

~~~~~PEACE!~~~~~~