Closet Growing - Issues with Plant Smell?

[Transition Force]

So last night I picked up an ounce of weed, making sure to purchase a bag that had stuff with seeds in it. It was a half-decent mid-grade weed. Anywho, I got a decent amount of seeds from it and i'm going to start growing again (my last grow had to be killed early because of work on the house)

I'm not sure how many plants I am going to grow, but I'm worried about the smell regardless of the amount. What's the best way to keep the plant from spreading it's smell?

Also, I have a few coffee plants that i'm thinking of growing side by side (in different pots, of course) with the marijuana. Will that cause any problems?

Transition Force Reviewed by Transition Force on 10-22-2006. Closet Growing - Issues with Plant Smell? So last night I picked up an ounce of weed, making sure to purchase a bag that had stuff with seeds in it. It was a half-decent mid-grade weed. Anywho, I got a decent amount of seeds from it and i'm going to start growing again (my last grow had to be killed early because of work on the house) I'm not sure how many plants I am going to grow, but I'm worried about the smell regardless of the amount. What's the best way to keep the plant from spreading it's smell? Also, I have a few coffee Rating: 5

[MegaOctane12]

Answer would be ...... a controlled environment. The four walls that you grow in should be fairly tight and not suseptible to outside conditions. If you have a tight grow room, using an extraction fan into a carbon filter would eliminate your worrys completely. Of course, some strains don't smell like cannabis, they smell like mango, or mint, so it depends on the strain you go for as well. Extraction really takes care of two major obstacles you have to deal with in one go.

[jamstigator]

Carbon filters rock. I've had guys working on my house for the last year, no probs, they don't have a clue. Dunno about the coffee plant question -- never knew anyone who grew coffee. But...coffee and pot, I do love that combination!

[MegaOctane12]

Carbon filters rock. I've had guys working on my house for the last year, no probs, they don't have a clue. Dunno about the coffee plant question -- never knew anyone who grew coffee. But...coffee and pot, I do love that combination!

I like it too. Dunno about the carbon filters bit, depending on where you got it, the fan certainly ain't pin drop silent.

[BlueBear]

I am pasting this here because I think that anyone concern with fans, making holes for ducting and so on can really benefit from this. Sorry I didn't just post the link, but I use a special computer screen reader do to my sight problems and I can't never find the URL on pages without 15 minutes of work, but any ways here is what I have posted in the in door section.
The Vaportek Optimum 4000
Ok, Here I am again looking at this oder neutralizer and I look at this air purifier this way, this will be so nice compared to having loud fans and 25LB filters around. This thing is about as big as a box of serial and uses 16w.
Prices are $165 for unit, and approx $50 for a 90 day cartridge. I hope to use this to make things allot easier for my rooms, and I imagine for cabinet growers this would be a nice modification, many just put it in the same room that the cab is in, or and vent the smell into the room if they do need to use a fan to cool a light.
I think that I will order tomorrow if all go's well and let everyone know.
They use these things on crime scenes to rid the Oder of decomposing bodies and for building projects for rehab where the building has suffered from severe smoke damage, not to mention, hospitals and dog kennels just to name a few.

www.thegrowstore.com/
www.vaportek.com
Hear are a bunch of snips from people at IC Mag who are using this with their grows. I am not saying that this is the magic bullet, but I think that it has allot of potential. "I have a single VTek4000 in 1100sf house with more plants than anybody sane should have,and it covers the stink,101%.
Skeptics can be skeptics,but I can tell you,with about twenty years experience,that if you run sealed rooms,the VTek's the only way to go.
'Classic Neutral',imho,works best,and always get 120-day carts."

"I got one for my last grow to replace the ozone and it worked great. A setting of 4 was plenty to cover my 2000w grow (with some pretty smelly strains).
It produces a smell that covers up everything very well. The only drawback is the price of replacing cartridges, but in my opinion it's worth the cost.

"
"VTek's kick ass,I have several carbon-scrubbers sitting,ROTTING,unused....
No sounds of turbines in my grows,just a nice silent lil' machine,making everything smell
like a hospital."

"I use the Vaportek 2600 which is the little wall mounted unit that uses the scented discs inside it. I mounted this on the wall right outside my flower
closet and have used 2 to 3 discs in it (it holds up to five discs). And you can't smell a thing outside of the closet. However, I will say that I am VERY
surprised that the odor of my plants (Reeferman's Blue Thunder and Rez's Apollo Mist) have hardly any odor at all even with the door open. Until you actually
touch them there is no real detectable odor from them. My vegging plants stink WAY more than my flowering plants. I guess I just expected more odors eminating
from the closet and I haven't had any at all."
"On carbon scrubbers:
They work,and work well.
However,they are LOUD as hell,and the more air you need to filter,the bigger and louder your fan gets....and no,it doesn't matter what kind of money you
drop on the
centrifugal fan,even the most expensive (and 'quietest') scream like jet planes.
We used to run a downtube off of the exhaust,and from 6">4" using a reducer.
This quieted the scrubber about 70% over unsilenced,but it decreased the efficiencey of the unit by approximately 25%.
The VTek's are,essentially,SILENT.
You can run them in-room,with no ill effects to the plants,or the buds."
"I run STINKEY shit,and 1-2 VTek's kill ALL the odor,and we're talking Sour Diesels and Skunks,no small feat...."
"it's dry vapor technology....
and it IS a neutraliser,not a 'mask'....
So.... if you kill your girlfriend,say,and she starts to smell,a few days of the VTek4000
will leave your basement just as fresh as before you cut her into pieces and tossed her in the river "
"Trust me guys, since I started using the VT 4000 I feel very safe. On my small grow I had it set on "1" and could not smell anything. I have it on "2" to
be safe. My cab is 4' X 6' X 7'(H). I have to touch the plants to get a smell. :wave:"
"Picked mine up last week. Another satisfied customer, believe me. I only have it set on 1.5 and it's doing its job!

$182 for the unit, one neutral cartridge and tax.

I dont even need the Carbon filter anymore. :joint:"
"i concur, this thing has really impressed me...i got it when the odor overwhelmed the small can fan we have...the smell is a little 'weird' but it definitely
doesn't smell like pot...i thought it smelled like bubblegum at first but now it just smells 'sanitized' in a piney way...it is the neutral cartridge..."

"The best part is the thing is practically silent. I mean you have to put your ear up against it to hear any noise at all."
"Joined the club. I set up mine a while ago. Damn that thing is powerful. I had it set at 1.5 and it was way too much for plants 2 weeks into flower. The
whole appartment smelled like some cleaning chemical (not a bad smell though). Now I got it on 0.5 and it is fine."

"In small grows of say 15 or less flowering plants in a small area, say no more than 5 x 7, they work great, no need for anything else. Beyond that, I'm
not sure, never used one in a bigger area or grow than what I mentioned....."
"I been using the 4000 since last spring, and it is awsome, except when I open my barn door the whole valley smells like it... not ganj..... but the neutralizer!
ANY odd smell brings attenttion!!! so i found it is best to use a smell similar to the area, and to carbon scrub the air ventting out, AND to only visit
the room around 3 am... smell = zero!!"

[ManOHman]

Is a carbon filter better than an odor neutralizer, like Febreze? Before you call me an idiot, I was reading the thread about how to build a very inexpensive odor neutralizer using polymer crystals, water, and Febreze/ONA.

[hybridracers]

Hey Blue Bear..........have any more information on that vaportek? By information I mean places that have people talking about them.

Looks promising.............and Ill be needing something to keep the paranoia down soon enough