Most younger growers probably aren't thinking about portability of a grow, but for those of us with some real dirt under our nails and a couple scares behind us, we know how important it is to be able to remove all traces of your grow from your home in less than 12 hours.

When I broke down my last grow it took me 4 full days, and it wasn't a very large grow either; it had just really taken over my whole house and insinuated itself into almost every aspect of my daily life.

I was finding grow items in places I could easily have forgotten about and left vulnerable to a raid... fertilizer stains on the door to the bathroom... perlite under every throw rug in the house... foot-long stems that the dog had been playing with and stashed under furniture for later... papers, books, catalogs, magazines, seed envelopes... scales, hash residue in cookpots, rootballs in my compost heap, trim in the vacuum cleaner, you name it, it was there.

So this time I am going to do it all modular. There will be no mylar stapled to walls or neem-oil overspray all over the floor.

My plan for a flowering grow-pod is pretty simple... it has to be foldable down to a size that you can just toss into a pickup truck and get gone in minutes. My ideas for this mostly involve PVC pipe with the connection fittings rigged with pins so they can be taken apart fast. Then PandaFilm as a cover. Another idea would be to use 4x8 sheets of shower-wall particleboard.
I have to go to Home DePOT and think about it, lol!

Protecting the floor is really important. Not just to protect the rug or whatever, but because you want to be able to just roll up a tarp and have it be totally clean. The heaviest tarp you can find is an absolute MUST for floor protection. 2 tarps is even better.

For a backup plan, I was lucky enough to know a couple people who took over my flowering females and equipment. But that isn't enough. This time I'm getting a storage unit too, although they aren't especially safe, you can buy yourself a little time. Just don't EVER put living plants in there!

These are all things I wish that I had taken into consideration last time around. No one wants to think that they might get raided, but until our rather draconian laws change, it's a hard fact that a grower lives with every day, whether you are aware of it or not, so it's better to be aware and prepared.