Smh, I know I’m late, but I cannot believe you pulled the plug on those plants.
Though, to be honest, if you’re that paranoid, weed growing definitely isn’t for you.
Oh, wait, then you restarted?
I sure hope you finally realized you have nothing to be paranoid about. We are piddly nobodies. Unless you’re selling or being stupid, nobody will ever know what you’re doing. Keep it secret, keep it safe and your garden will be just fine.
Iam running 11 1000 watt led full spectrum 3 24/7 the other 8 12/12 and I sleep great. If I doing it the (old) GPS way I would worry, but with these money saving lights, there just great.
Just happen to come across this, by now I’m sure you realized no worries, but i did flip off my water heater breakers the panel, waters warm enough for showers! Lol
I know I’m late but I’ll add this here. $300 electric bill is NOT going cause alarms. I bet you could double that without concern. I have a 4x8x60 tent w/ 2 pretty powerful lights and it adds no where near the amount of money it costs to run my 200 gallon salt water aquarium. Never mind my 75 gallon on the second floor. If it went from 250$ to 800$ in a month, they might send someone out to see if there was something wrong on their end, but $300 is not gonna set off any flags. Good luck
One could be mining bitcoin for all anyone knows. Doing that pulls significantly more power.
Iran homemade inside for several years around the clock. No visits from the power company. Definitely ain’t worried about this. Way less amperage
My new space heater is 1500 watts and I only use it to heat my room from 5 PM to 5 am.imagine all the homes they would have to check because people bought a new heater for warmth or a new ac for cooling their living space. Will they track it Haha Haha.
This is a hilarious post. You have to have a huge garden consuming most the footprint of your home to warrant suspicion.
Or you sell . That’s enough there and a more likely way to get caught. The first a hole that gets busted snitches you out.
Just stay covert and keep it to yourself and you shall be fine.
Agreed, you would have to be borderline a commercial grow before any eyebrows would raise
I’m back LOL. Just read all this paranoia I had, my anxieties were at a very high level then 4 years ago. But started some seeds and plan a grow using RDWC under a different user name Oddee. I just wanted to look back on my pics i pulled the plug on which were clones and they weren’t very good but the mother plants were. Aphids were another reason i quit they were every where in my house drove me nuts
I know a few bitcoin miners. Mining requires massive amounts of electricity. None of these dudes have ever been questioned. Cops are overextended and have more important things to do than sit around looking at electricity consumption other than perhaps at large institutional grows. No one cares about a home grow for personal/family/friend use. It’s just not a priority.
I do work for a power company. This is how i know running one or mediocre sized hid lights or an air conditioner won’t get you jammed up. People have other hobbies that draw way more power on a regular basis. It’s having rows of lights in a home or rfi issues that will get you in trouble.