Approach to buying supplies

[PHC]

Hi Canna Nationals

 

I'm a new member and this is post #1. I've been lurking in this excellent forum for the past couple of weeks, absorbing knowledge to help with my first grow. After a fair bit of research here and on other boards, I'm taking a micro, indoor, stealth, cfl, soilless-mix with nutes approach. I hope to journal my progress on this site.

 

Now I'm about to start purchasing, I have a question: when you're in a garden or hydroponics supplies store, how honest with the staff are you? Do you flat-put pretend to be growing tomatoes, or is it a <wink> tomatoes affair? I may need to get some advice from the suppliers, but I don't want to be thrown out of the store.

 

I live and will be buying within Melbourne. How cool are the shop keepers here in people's experience?

 

Cheers, PHC

[pisspotgrower]

Its like buying a DVD player, does the shop assistant ask u if ya gona watch sound of music or donky porn i think not

[PHC]

Buying a DVD player would be no problem at all It's just that I live in an upstairs apartment with no balcony and don't grow anything except facial hair.

 

If I walk into a garden store and start asking what pots, mediums, nutes etc. they stock & recommend, they may well ask 'what do you want to grow'?

 

What would you say to them?

[pisspotgrower]

i say read up hear first mate, all the info u need is round ask em nothin but for what ya after

[PHC]

Hmm safety first yeah? Sounds good. Cheers for the advice PPG -- I will take that onboard.

[shirt]

You are growing plants, maybe lots of plants can't really name which plants specifically, I prefer not to say tomatoes, I have been takin literally. If people start talking about illegal things at a shop, I don't like it.

[flatcat_auz]

My suggestion: Grow some balls first.

 

 

If your to soft to buy equipment, how are you going to handle a crop two weeks from harvest?

 

Fuck me.....no such thing as a dumb question?

[flatcat_auz]

Well at my shop I talk quite freely about what I'm buying. It's all about common sense, which isn't to common.

And for the record I actually use 3 shops.

[datamunky]

just be sensible, you can be specific about items and equipment without saying a word about weed

 

or.... just use the internet to get your shit.

[PHC]

Flatcat. You may be a free-talkin', dope-growin' veteran with a massive set of cahonees, but I'm just starting out.

 

I don't know what I'm doing so I'm researching as many parts of this illegal enterprise as I can. As far as I can tell, this is the first time this "dumb" question has been asked on this forum.

 

For some reason I thought this was a friendly community.