WEBVTT - How Grow Houses Work 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:04.520 Welcome to stuff you should know from house Stuff Works 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:13.440 dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.960 There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. We also want to extend 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:23.840 a welcome back to Yeddi. Jerry, Yeah, who just got 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.000 back from Guatemala. Yeah, herd second tour of duty with 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.800 co ED. Yeah, she just got back. Yeah. You know what, quickly, Josh, 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.000 I should mention because I promised an I would do this. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:37.839 Co ed uh still has their text donation campaign going. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:39.599 Oh yeah, you can still do it. Yeah, they left 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.000 it open. So if you wanna um buy um school 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.360 books for life for Guatemalan child, you can do that 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:50.520 for five dollars by texting the words stuff to two 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.840 zero to two two very nice, and texting data rate 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.920 supply and on that gobbledegook. But yes, we would raise 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:58.680 a lot of money and it's still open. So she 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.240 said you should remind people from time to time. That's great. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.200 Then Jerry just came back all like rosy from Guatemala again. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.600 I know she's that country gut under her skin. Yeah yeah, 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.080 now she's getting under its skin. I don't even know 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:17.720 what that means. Oh, I know what it means, so, Chuck. Yes, Um, 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.759 are you familiar with the state of California. I lived there. Yes, 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.760 you did, didn't you. Um, Well, Kelly's got a proposition 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.760 on the ballot that's November, right. Have you heard of 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:34.600 Prop nineteen? I have. Prop nineteen would make if California 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.800 passes it, it would make California the first state to 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:42.120 legalize marijuana consumption by adults. Yeah. What's on the ballot 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.640 right now on Prop nineteen is if you're over twenty one, 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:48.440 you'd be able to possess and consume and make a 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.120 hat out of up to an ounce of marijuana. Yeah, 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.280 just like alcohol. Would be treated much like alcohol. Um, 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.360 you wouldn't be You wouldn't be allowed to have it 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:02.240 around schools at schools, can't sell it, can't pick up 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.760 your kids with like, you know, your ounce tucked in 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.320 your front pocket or something like that. Um. But you 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.680 can also grow it in an area up to square 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:16.440 feet really if you can. From what I saw, this 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:21.919 was an outdoor garden. I didn't see anything about indoor gardening. Interesting, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.640 which just so happens to be what this podcast is about. 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.639 Look at you in your little intro. It's been a while. Oh, yeah, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.600 it has been nice. Sorry for the hiatus. That's right, 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:34.959 we're back. So what you were talking about was a 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.480 grow room if it's a t square feet. But what 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.000 we're gonna could be a very very tiny house, the doorhouse, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.160 a doghouse. We're gonna talk about grow houses. And uh, 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:47.880 Robert Lamb wrote this article and that's all I need 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.720 to say. You know it's good bam. Yeah, yeah, he 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.040 always gets real cheeky in his articles. He does. He 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:58.120 started out this article, which is a fine, fine article. Um. 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.440 And if you ever wanted to see a lot of 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.240 pop plants in an article on how stuff works dot com, 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:08.040 this is your chance. Um. He starts out talking about 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.360 how people like house plants. And you know, if you 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:14.240 have a house plant that could net you a thousand 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.400 dollars after harvesting once, why not do that? And if 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.600 one can do that, why not dedicate your whole house 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.679 to growing these plants? And that's pretty much what a 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.160 grow house is. Well, but because it's illegal, Josh, that's 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.040 the answer. That is the answer, actually, and thank you, Chuck. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.880 I think we should start this one off by saying 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:38.119 we how stuff Works Discovery or anybody were affiliated with 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:45.000 don't endorse grow houses in any way, shape or form, 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.080 And this is just about how they operate. That's all right, 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.640 nothing else. I've got a load of stats. Can we 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.760 start with that. Let's do it, man. I dug out 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:57.440 some stats on marijuana use, uh Josh from a u 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:04.320 N report. Worldwide, a hundred and forty seven people, A 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:10.280 hundred and forty seven million people use marijuana regularly as 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.880 of two thousand two, and percentage wise, it has led. 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:20.680 Guess what country would you think percentage percentage percentage wise Luxembourg, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.600 it's a good guess. I would have guess Jamaica, just 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:25.840 because I'm an idiot and I'm like, yeah, bub Marley, right, 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:31.800 Papua New Guinea of their country regularly uses marijuana, the 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.279 only country in the world where an outbreak of CURU 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:40.000 has occurred, and followed by Micronesia and Ghana, and then 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:43.159 I think South Africa is right after that. South Africa 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.960 is pretty populous. Yeah, well, they're smoking a lot of weed. 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.320 Well that's about worldwide. That's about ten times the number 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.320 of people that smoke it in the US. Right, Well, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.280 there's different stats when you talk about pot use. Um there. 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.760 You can't leave the pot heads a compile decent stats. Well, 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.760 there's always the one stat where they're like, have you 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.479 ever tried it? And so if you're talking about that, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.440 um of the American population over the age of twelve 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.280 has tried marijuana one time, jarringly eight percent of the 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.600 population under the age of twelve has tried it. Not true. 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.120 Well you didn't see that one coming. Not true. But 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:22.600 as far as use regular use, I think fourteen point 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.840 eight million Americans regularly, I'm sorry, I do have that 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.320 they use marijuana in the past month. Fourteen point eight 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.440 percent and twenty five percent of Americans report that they've 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.360 used it in the last year at least once. So 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.880 don't you always feel bad for that one person who 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:41.200 like hasn't used to smoke pot all the time and 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.320 then quit smoking for years and then smoked it and 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.440 then like three and a half weeks later survey and 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.960 it's like, yes, yes, I have r Really, that's not 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.640 an accurate reflection. It was a college thing. And then 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.120 again three and a half weeks ago, but that was it, right, Yeah, 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:02.000 when my college friend visited anything. So those are the 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.600 stats on marijuana use. If you're talking grow houses, Um, 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.680 Robert included a couple of cool ones in Humboldt County, California, 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.760 which is known for its good marijuana and lots of it. 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:17.000 They I think it says one thousand out of the 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:22.359 homes in that county are grow homes. Yes, because they 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.960 supply a lot of the medical marijuana in California. Yeah, 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:29.120 and they enjoy some protection from the government, at least 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.279 the county government, if not I guess the state government too, 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:39.240 because California has had uh legalization of medical marijuana sin. So, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.760 but apparently that covers the growers and the sellers, but 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:46.000 not the people who transport it. Yeah, which is interesting. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.559 It is, which is it's gotta be a nerve wracking job. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.760 You know. It's like you're the only one left out there. Uh. 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.919 And I think Vancouver is the other cool stat was 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.960 in Vancouver, Canada, one out of every five house this 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.159 is a grow house, they say. Apparently the um the 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:06.040 the grow house. The pot growing industry in British Columbia 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.360 employed an estimated twenty thousand to sixty thou people in 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:15.480 two thousand and Um, they're two thousand. Yield was like 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:20.160 four billion dollars worth or something. Wholesale jeez, I've got 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.800 one more stat because I promised in Atlanta stat when 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.120 we did our prison podcast and Georgia was like the 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.360 number one in prisons. Either that or you will eventually 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:31.000 that promise. I'm not sure which order we're releasing these, 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:36.360 but Atlanta, Georgia. Of the people arrested in Atlanta, uh 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.400 say they have smoked pot within the past month, arrested 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:44.400 for whatever? Really? Yeah, and that leads the nation in 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:50.239 the A T L. Yeah, Stone like them white boys 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:54.600 smoking them white buds. All right, Josh, grow houses, let's 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.880 do this, all right, Chuck. If you are a grow 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.520 house operator, like you said, it's not just grow room 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.320 you got going. Your entire house is dedicated to growing marijuana. 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.960 It's a big business. It's a huge business running your 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.320 own business essentially, right, and you have a lot of 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:11.320 stuff to pull up, put up with. It's a very 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:14.040 high stressed job, especially in areas where it is in 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:16.800 no way, shape or form legal, which is most places. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:21.120 Not only are you um prime for being robbed by 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:25.080 armed gun men who just want to basically take all 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.760 your pot or your money, or unarmed potheads you just 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.040 want on your rippers, is what they're called of yours 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.760 homegrown Billy Bob Thornton. Oh, yeah, is that what they're calling. Yeah, 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.080 I haven't seen that in a while. Um. Let's see. 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:40.079 You've so you've got being ripped off or being shot 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.400 while you're being ripped off. You've got the cops. Um, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.840 you have basically the people who are buying from you 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.000 that you have to keep happy. Um. But really, at 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:55.880 the center of this, from what I understand, is the plant, right, 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.040 and it's this isn't just a this is not The 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.200 operations are not just I've got some plants growing around. 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:09.280 These are incredibly intense farming operations. Um, very sophisticated, and 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:14.280 they are very people have figured out what the ideal 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:18.840 conditions to grow marijuana is and we will share them now. Yeah, 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.040 and not only grow marijuana, but they figure out the 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:24.840 ideal conditions to grow the most potent um, the most 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.240 dense marijuana per plant, so you get the maximum bang 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.640 for your buck when you get a cell like apparently 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:37.240 a well informed indoor operation produces pot with fifty more 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:43.920 THC than the stuff growing outdoors. Really that's what I read. Uh, So, Josh, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:45.720 there's a couple of ways you can do this. Um, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.040 you can grow it um in soil like just a 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.360 regular role plant, or you can grow it hydroponically, which 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:55.000 is pretty popular these days. Hydroponics Josh is um. You've 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:58.080 probably heard that name on the news, and if you 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.160 didn't know what it was, it it means that you're 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.280 not using soil. It's a plant growing without soil, right, 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.160 they use a nutrient rich water. Yeah, it's not just 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.520 pot plants. You can grow anything hydroponically or I don't 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:11.800 know about anything, but yeah, I think pretty much any 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.120 plant you could grow hy Anybody who's been Epcot has 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.920 seen hydroponics in action exactly. Yeah. I think they grow 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.760 big old hydroponic tomatoes down there. Really. Yeah, but basically 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.559 you're you have you are showing human domination and exploitation 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.440 over a plant when you grow it without soil and 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:33.680 just a nutrient rich solution. Yes, and uh so, what 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:38.920 you're talking about are containers and trays, drip systems, automated 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:43.959 watering systems or manual humidifiers humidifiers and I mean these 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.680 are just a few of the things you need for hydroponics. Well, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.160 and not just not just hydroponics. I mean you're probably 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.200 gonna need a dehumidifier, a drip irrigation system. No matter 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:58.280 how you're growing, the plants can be fairly demanding, right yes, Um, 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.800 And you're also going to need light, lots of light 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:06.120 because with a grow house, you'll find, as we keep talking, um, 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.320 most grow houses are totally sealed off from the rest 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.960 of the world for very good reasons. So they they're 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:17.160 creating this artificial environment and so there's no sunlight whatsoever 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:21.960 that ever touches these plants. Um. It's all basically thousand 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:26.320 horticulture bulbs, UM. And apparently those can sustain twelve to 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:31.200 fifteen plants. And as Robert puts it into perspective, this 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:35.800 is a thousand wat bulb and the average incandescent light 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.440 bulb in a house UM runs from forty watts to 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.040 a hundred and fifty watts, Right, chuck, have you ever 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:46.520 turned a hundred and fifty what light off and unscrewed 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:50.000 it real quick? It's very hot, And that's a hundred 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.319 and fifty These guys are using a thousand watt light 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.040 bulbs and that's just for twelve to fifteen plants. So 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.120 if you have a couple of hundred plants in a house, 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:03.200 that's sealed off her medically. It's gonna get kind of hot, right, Yes, 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.319 it is. Let's talk about those lights for a minute. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.400 Thousand wants a piece. What you're doing is trying to 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.800 mimic the sun, so obviously you want it to be 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:16.120 very powerful. And the other thing you're doing is you're 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.960 you're affecting how this plant actually grows. The life cycle 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.280 and the growing and the budding cycle of this plant. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:27.040 You can completely control if you're growing indoors, because the 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:28.440 sun is not there to get in the way. You 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.680 can fake it all. Yeah. You can use reflectors to 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.320 get as much UM light as you can, so it's 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.160 it's being exposed to light directly by the bulb and 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:42.360 indirectly from this some reflective I guess material. Yeah right, 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.000 um you I think they've figured out that what is 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.960 sixteen to eighteen hour days are optimal to get them started. Yeah, 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.920 that's the beginning of the of the growth period. And 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.680 then when you want your plant to flower, you slow 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.920 it down, you shorten the days, and then all of 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:03.680 a sudden boop. And this also may for bigger, denser buds. Yeah. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.200 And for those of you not hip to the cause, 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.520 that's where you That's that's where the money is. That's 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.800 where the Yeah, it's a flowering plant and the flower 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.400 is the bud and it's the female that flowers. So 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.320 all the plants in there in the grow house are female. 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.800 They weed out all the males, and they're essentially controlling 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.480 the sun to to an extent where they can produce 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:29.560 this super potent pot. Right, And if you look for 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.480 this article on hostaff Works, you will find it very 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.960 appropriately in the flowering plants subchannel. Is it? Yes? Interesting, 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.240 This could go on a lot of sub channels. It 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.600 definitely like the adventure channel or entertainment. I don't know. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:50.120 So you talked about the heat. That is the big 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.280 it is a problem also, um electricity is a big 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.760 problem to chuck because think about it. Remember we said 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.960 that averaging cadescent bulb is forty two hundred and fifty watts. 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:04.760 You're running several thousand wat bulbs and like your average 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:09.000 living room is just wired to handle one most living 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.439 rooms can handle one one WA bulb, which means you 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:16.719 better known electrician A and be that electrician. Better love 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.520 free pot because you're gonna need to rewire your house. Yeah, 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.880 rewire the house a lot of times they'll jack into 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.040 the A lot of times I'll hire former or current 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.840 power company employees to help him out. Current power company, 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:34.360 very nice, Bullett, and uh they will sometimes they will 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.920 rewire that the home or the grid on that street. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:42.520 That will re reroute power to your house, which messes 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:47.160 everyone else up and potentially maxes out the grid in 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:51.400 your area. Yes, it does do that also exposes everybody 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.720 to electrocution. If you didn't use a power company guying, 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:59.040 you tried it yourself. Yeah, which is a really bad idea. 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.600 No matter what you're stealing power for to grow pot 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.240 because you don't like paying utility companies, it doesn't matter. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.960 Rewiring the electricity that's coming into your house is a 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.440 really bad idea. Yeah. That's how my granddad died. No, 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.680 it's not, Yeah, no, it's not. Yeah, he was. He 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.800 was knocked from a telephone pole. He was electrician. He 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.600 wasn't like rewiring for grow houses. But he was like 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:25.320 thirty feet up in a telephone pole. And you know, 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.720 you you test out the wire by hitting the back 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.440 of your hand to it, or you did back then, 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.400 because if you did the front of your hand, it 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.920 can grasp ahold of it, so he hit it on 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:35.120 the back of his hand. It was a live wary 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:36.360 and it knocked him out of the pole and he 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.880 landed on his head and then spent the next like 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:42.600 a few years in a hospital bed was ruling, and 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.680 then he died. What a little kid. I didn't know. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:51.920 That's the most amazing dead grandfather's story. I know, very 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.840 sad well, and I never hardly knew him. So h 0:15:55.360 --> 0:16:00.280 Getting back to the heat though, Um, finally, marijuana. If 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.360 you have a house, a girl house full of these lights, 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.360 it could potentially be a hundred degrees fahrenheit inside your 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.800 house at night at night. So that's a problem because 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.440 it's really hot and that's not comfortable. And by the way, 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:14.600 that's thirty eight degrees celsius for friends who don't live 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.040 in libraria. But it's also a problem because marijuana grows 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.840 best between seventy and eighty degrees and can do okay 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:26.480 up to about if it's a CEO two rich environment, right, 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.200 and they have to do artificially. They figured out that 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.560 that's kind of what you want, I guess from indoor 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.840 grow houses. These horticulturists to figure it out that you 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.160 do want to keep it hot, because you do want 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.720 the CEO to environment Richard, because again it produces thicker, denser, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.800 bigger buds, which is bigger money. Again yes, uh. And 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.960 so to combat the heat though, what they do is 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:49.880 they put a lot of a lot of air conditioning 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:54.800 units ventilation fans uh to maintain their temperature. And Robert 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:58.560 pointed out that one one thousand what bulb requires a 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:02.080 fan and tw eight a single fan and twenty hundred 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.840 British thermal units of cooling and a typical five tons 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.440 a C unit puts about sixty b t u s 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.760 out right, so you're you're central A C unit outside 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.480 of your house could conceivably handle you know, a small 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:20.680 house grow operation, right, but it has to run constantly, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.200 which again means that you are using up the juice 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.520 and a fan on each plant. So if you've got 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.679 two D plants, you've got two hundred fans running on 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.040 top of the a C unit. Like you can assign 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.480 a fan to a lot more than one plant. Well, 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:39.200 if you don't know what you're doing, check just proved 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.120 his innocence, that's right. The other thing that's a problem 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.240 is just like any plant that you're growing, is insects 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.560 and mildew and spores, fungus. I got more on that 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:51.920 in a second, but yes, well let's hear it. No, well, 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:56.360 the way they combat that jerk is uh charcoal filtration, 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.800 Uh increasing CEO two levels that kill these things. Yeah, 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.000 it's also good for the plants. Yeah. I thought that 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.760 was really clever because you think about it, an insect 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.000 needs oxygen to live to right, so you just jack 0:18:09.080 --> 0:18:13.960 up the CEO two levels suffocates everything and um, but 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:17.560 your plants are like, oh yeah, bring it on. And 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:19.280 the other thing you'll do is I'll just seal it 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.520 off from the outside world. So you're domatically sealed off. Yeah, 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.680 as a few insects as possible. Yes, So chuck. Um. 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.520 Not only does seiling off your plants, your whole grow operation, 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:35.320 your entire house um from the outside world good for 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.679 your plants. Number one, you don't have you have completely 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.800 climate controlled conditions. You have a natural gas burner to 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.760 introduce more c O. Two. You um, you know exactly 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.280 what the temperature is going to be because you know 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:50.840 how many lights you have going. You have your a 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:55.840 C set to the perfect temperature. Um. It also prevents 0:18:55.880 --> 0:19:00.080 the cops from getting hip to your operation, right, is 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:03.639 it's illegal? Well, yeah, you mentioned the charcoal filter for 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:07.640 outgoing air. You still have to vent your air, right yeah. Um, 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.000 so you you have a charcoal filter, it's gonna cut 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.200 down on the smell of pot because, as Robert points out, 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.960 pot has a very distinctive smell, and hundreds of pot 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:21.840 plants have a really really strong distinctive smell. Right, So 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:24.480 the coffee can isn't going to cover that up. No 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:27.679 downy or a paper talel toe with downy seats on 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.120 the end, Now, that's not gonna work. So you're right. 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.560 They used the filtration systems to send the air back 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.119 out and hopefully your neighbors are never wise to the 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:38.560 fact that their their person living next door to them 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.320 probably isn't even living next door. It's probably just full 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:44.240 of marijuana plants. Many times it is. Well, remember you 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.760 said that you want ideally, if you're going to steal electricity, 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:50.520 you want a guy from the power company to do it. Um. 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.080 And one of the reasons why you would steal electricity 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:58.000 is um because the power company will notice if you 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.560 have a power bill that's six to seven times the 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.879 average for the house your size, and it's like that 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:06.960 every month that's gonna tip them off. A lot of 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.720 growers will stagger the days. Like let's say you have 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.560 a grow house, but your house is is set up 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:17.280 into several different rooms, so each room would represent you know, 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.280 you have a day going in one room, and then 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:22.120 it's nighttime and a couple other rooms, and it's starting 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:25.040 a day in another room. So you're you're using the 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:29.399 least amount of electricity at once, right, Um, and it's staggered. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:31.679 Powered companies know to look for that kind of thing 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:33.919 and they'll turn in they will. So a lot of 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:39.520 growers will um use generators. Right. But these, first of 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.840 all are very expensive ten thousand to twenty tho bucks. Right, Yeah, 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:45.640 that's that's for the big, the big daddy that can 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.880 like run your whole house. Right. Apparently a fifty light 0:20:49.480 --> 0:20:55.120 fifty light thousand watt grow operation needs about eighty kilowatt, 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:58.080 so you do need a big daddy generator. Problem is, 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.960 big daddy generators are super super loud. And again if 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:04.520 you are you know, not in a rural area, which 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.879 most grow houses are not out in the sticks, just 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.320 because there's not that many houses out there right there 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:14.240 in the suburbs. So you really have to figure out 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.399 how to deftly steal your electricity, or you have to 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:20.160 figure out how to mask the noise of your generator. Yeah, 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.480 the other problem with the generator is it can break down. 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:24.760 You're not tied to the grid. And if your generator 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.440 breaks down at the wrong time and you've got two 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:29.960 hundred thousand dollars worth of pot growing in your house, 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.600 that means your business is in jeopardy. So it's a 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.720 fire hazard. I mean, generator is not necessarily the smartest 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:39.000 way to go. No um. And in the same way 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:42.199 that that electricity or the need for electricity presents a 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:47.320 problem and a requirement, so too does a need for water. Right, 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:49.880 you gotta water your plants. Even if you have an 0:21:49.880 --> 0:21:55.920 extremely efficient system, right, an automatic drip system, you're still 0:21:56.320 --> 0:21:58.840 going to use a lot more water than you normally 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.000 would in a house. So number when you get the 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:05.240 water company keeping tabs on this water usage that in 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.360 the house's history has never been remotely like this, they'll 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:11.320 turn you into right. Um, But again, people have figured 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:14.919 out how to steal water. Um. Those water meters they 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:19.520 actually there there. They have paddles that are spun by 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:22.280 the water that's coming into the house. So people have 0:22:22.320 --> 0:22:24.600 figured out that you can drill holes in these paddles 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:28.320 so more water passes through than its detected, and that 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:32.000 just primitively ingenious. Yeah it is. Yeah, I didn't know 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.440 that until I read this. Josh. Let's talk about managing 0:22:34.760 --> 0:22:37.800 a grow house a grow house and how how you 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:39.840 how you would do that. There's a lot of factors 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:42.720 because it is a business. Um, you've got a lot 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:44.640 of money coming in out, You've got people you've got 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:47.439 to manage. Yeah. I didn't really realize this that a 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:50.960 lot of them are set up by secret investors. It's 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:55.520 not just organized crime or really really ambitious potheads. It's 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:58.240 very likely not a very ambitious pothead. If you've got 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:00.840 a grow house, like a grow room, maybe, but a 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:04.439 grow house is very likely run by somebody else in 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:08.200 a larger organization, right, and that person probably will never 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:11.800 set foot in that house. No, they'll fund it right 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:14.879 with cash that can't be traced back to them, but 0:23:14.880 --> 0:23:17.639 they will probably never go near it right through. They 0:23:17.720 --> 0:23:21.000 probably don't smoke pot that's my guess. They look at 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:24.199