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TheThirdEye said:
So I want to take a break from mushroom cultivation and want to get back into the mj business. Well here's the background:

So the roommate doesn't care if Mary Jane is grown or not but wants it just anywhere besides in doors. ( Reason being that his parents drop by in the house often and that he is paranoid that the helicopters will detect the heat... -.-) i don't understand because the grow will be small, for personal use as in I do not burn much. I really don't care for yield as log as iget a couple grams.

Well anyways, for his sake, being him letting a grow happen on the property, I'd like to make the grow small and stealthy outdoors. (out of respect) is there any plants I should plant outside so his parents wouldn't recognize it in a glance? Like buy a bush or something and plant it next to that? And his rents never go outside much, just glance. Also it's from bagseed and don't know if it is sativa or indica so I would like to plant it close to the end of the season to induce flowering asap. When would that time be? This will only be my second grow. Thanks in advance! Much appreciated fellas. This is more of hobby with a small reward rather a goal to get bud.

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Wooo I love trying to answer questions when I'm baked
First off welcome to the growery!
So, hiding the plants from your roommates parents is probably going to be the biggest problem. As for helicopters with heat sensors, they would find the plants much easier outdoors than inside, because cannabis gives off heat like (I think it is) tomatoes and grapes. However I really doubt that the cops would bust you even if they happened to accidentally find the plants with heat sensors. That's some serious equipment and they wouldn't waste time with someone who's just got a garden grow. And you'll definitely get more than a couple grams if you know anything about growing lol

IMO there's really no way to hide a fully flowering cannabis plant just by planting other things around it. But there are some plants that you can buy that look just like it. Maybe buy an outdoor grow tent, the type with an adjustable shell you can pull over it. The one I'm thinking of is opaque white on both layers.

You should start your seeds as soon as possible. Planting them later will give you a much smaller harvest, because the plant will be a lot smaller than if you planted it earlier and won't be able to grow big buds Also if you plant too late than the buds might not have time to ripen before the first frost of fall, but that's unlikely.
When growing outdoors, the sun is in control unless you have a tent or something to cover your plants and give them a completely uninterrupted dark period, to mimic the shorter days of fall. When the light period drops down to 12/12 the plant knows or thinks that the winters coming and so needs to produce big buds with lots of trichomes to catch pollen from males to make seeds. I'm not really sure when the light drops down to 12/12 but I'm guessing August??

So I hope that helps and makes some sense lol