Growing Legal Plants Under Lights?

[Toleman]

Hi everyone. Im growing lots of chilli plants this year some of which take a long time to mature so I started them just after christmas. Due to lack of bright sunlight in Dec - Jan - Feb I have been growing under daylight fluorescent tubes and now under a big compact fluorescent light called an 'envirolite'. As you may know the envirolites are pretty bright (mine is 14,000lm) and lights up the garden in early hours and after sunset.

If any neibours were to suspect me of growing cannabis and report it but giving little information where the light was (in my summerhouse) would the police knock the door down or just ring the bell. Maybe I have been watching too many police programs but they always say on them 'we have had info that they are growing cannabis'

Just for refrence - If the police knock your door down wrongly, do they pay for a new one?

Chris

[cassa333]

Why not pre-empt any knocked down doors and go and ask at your local police station?

Invite them round to inspect it that way if there is trouble later you can in all honesty say they knew and gave approval.

They might be able to tell you if you are causing a nusance by having such bright lights.

[Toleman]

Thanks for your answer.

I've thought of the neighbours and adjusted light cycle so its not on during dark periods outside.

[Buenchico]

I'd like to think that the police wouldn't break your door in (rather than just knocking) on the basis of nothing more than a vague suspicion from a neighbour but, with some of Britain's police forces (especially the Met), I wouldn't like to guarantee it.

The answer to the last part of your question is clear though. If the police were to break down your door and find the entire annual output of drugs from both Colombia and Afghanistan, together with the bodies of the dozens of people you've murdered while building up your drug-dealing empire, they still have to pay for the door!

Chris

[gonzo00]

lol..my stepdad suffered just the fate you describe! he was growing chilli plants in the conseveratory under metal halide (600w) lights...guess what?? the filth kicked his door in at 5.30 am and turned the house upside down looking for drugs..this guy is in his early seventies ffs. they still haven't paid for a new door.