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Guest 18340
Hey 'whiskey, I'm shooting for some of your NCDG. How do you think they'll do outside?
really good n fast here man...they havent been grown outside ever, but a few people are doing em out now...I think youll be fine. They are Killer Queen (G13 x C99) x Joey Weeds NL/C99. Good luck!
good vibes
GrizzleGrind
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The sh!t is going down if FL. Today!
toasted1
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GrowKindNugs
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yeah what shit!!?? i did hear a bunch of heli's flying around this morning, in southwest florida...i'm not worried, i've only got a single 400 watter running, you've gotta be fucking insane to run thousands of watts in this state, it's just beginning to get popped....be safe and happy growing..
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GrizzleGrind
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what part and details please
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Every part bro... all 64 counties
hippiegrower18
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Hey all!
New member here, and repin the FLA all day
showin some love, check out my gj
hg18
New member here, and repin the FLA all day
showin some love, check out my gj
hg18
DETAILS man...a link? kinda shitty to be this bland about something effecting EVERYONE in this thread?
GrowKindNugs-...I grow with 7kw...guess I am insane?...if your scared, go to church!...lol. 25 plants is a felony....you can have that with a 600w SOG. Us INSANE folk are what keeps this state "green"...ya dig?
good vibes
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Guest 18340
Is this what you're talking about GrizzleGrind?
13 arrested after authorities raid suspected marijuana grow houses
By Eliot Kleinberg | The Palm Beach Post
7:09 PM EDT, June 11, 2009
PALM BEACH COUNTY - Authorities have charged at least 13 people with operating marijuana grow houses in the Loxahatchee area after raiding five homes within hours Wednesday and finding grow rooms and dozens of plants and clippings weighing more than 200 pounds.
Federal authorities would not comment on the raids. But the U.S. Attorney's Office and the South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force have scheduled a news conference for Friday afternoon in Miami to "discuss the statewide results of Operation Eagle Claw, a statewide law enforcement effort to curb the spread of hydroponic marijuana grow houses throughout the state," according to a release.
According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office report, on Wednesday morning, members of the agency's SWAT and narcotics units descended on a home in the 16000 block of Prestwich Lane, where they smelled pot from the driveway.
Inside, agents found nine people, including three kids, and arrested Yamisleidid Garcia, 33, and Luis Tomas, 36.
They seized 20, 7-gallon pots with harvest-ready pot plants and another seven of which plants had been cut at the root. The report does not say how many pounds the plants totaled.
Around the same time, agents raided a home in the 15000 block of 81st Terrace in suburban Palm Beach Gardens, where they arrested Lissette Quintana, 37, and Andre Dieguez, 39. They seized plants weighing 60 pounds.
Agents also went that hour to a home in the 15000 block of 99th St. in Loxahatchee, where they detained Alberto Miranda, 28, of southern Miami-Dade County, David Bayona, 29, of Loxahatchee and Milton De Los Rios Jr., 26, of Miami.
Inside the home, authorities found black garbage bags containing cut up, dried marijuana plants totaling 28 pounds.
All three said Rios and Miranda had come up from Miami-Dade County and the three spent the last two days breaking down the grow house.
Later that morning, agents raided a home where they arrested Rene Perez Batista, 43, of Greenacres, and found 11 plants weighing about 14-1/2 pounds.
Around the same time, deputies went to a home in the 4000 block of Sunny Lane in suburban West Palm Beach and detained residents Francisco Alvarez Valez Jr., 21, Angelo-Pena Mendez, 23, and Laura A. Casado, 26.
Inside, agents found pot plants and "clone clippings" totaling 86 pounds.
Then, on Wednesday evening, deputies raided a home in the 7000 block od Mandarin Blvd. and detained residents Fernando Mata and Mercedes Mata, both 45.
Outside, agents found black garbage bags filled with dried cannabis stems and leaf clippings and weighing 17 pounds.
Eleven of the 13 were ordered held without bond. Yamisleidid Garcia was ordered held in lieu of $8,000 bail and Luis Tomas in lieu of $25,000. Besides the drug charges, both were charged with child cruelty.
13 arrested after authorities raid suspected marijuana grow houses
By Eliot Kleinberg | The Palm Beach Post
7:09 PM EDT, June 11, 2009
PALM BEACH COUNTY - Authorities have charged at least 13 people with operating marijuana grow houses in the Loxahatchee area after raiding five homes within hours Wednesday and finding grow rooms and dozens of plants and clippings weighing more than 200 pounds.
Federal authorities would not comment on the raids. But the U.S. Attorney's Office and the South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Task Force have scheduled a news conference for Friday afternoon in Miami to "discuss the statewide results of Operation Eagle Claw, a statewide law enforcement effort to curb the spread of hydroponic marijuana grow houses throughout the state," according to a release.
According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office report, on Wednesday morning, members of the agency's SWAT and narcotics units descended on a home in the 16000 block of Prestwich Lane, where they smelled pot from the driveway.
Inside, agents found nine people, including three kids, and arrested Yamisleidid Garcia, 33, and Luis Tomas, 36.
They seized 20, 7-gallon pots with harvest-ready pot plants and another seven of which plants had been cut at the root. The report does not say how many pounds the plants totaled.
Around the same time, agents raided a home in the 15000 block of 81st Terrace in suburban Palm Beach Gardens, where they arrested Lissette Quintana, 37, and Andre Dieguez, 39. They seized plants weighing 60 pounds.
Agents also went that hour to a home in the 15000 block of 99th St. in Loxahatchee, where they detained Alberto Miranda, 28, of southern Miami-Dade County, David Bayona, 29, of Loxahatchee and Milton De Los Rios Jr., 26, of Miami.
Inside the home, authorities found black garbage bags containing cut up, dried marijuana plants totaling 28 pounds.
All three said Rios and Miranda had come up from Miami-Dade County and the three spent the last two days breaking down the grow house.
Later that morning, agents raided a home where they arrested Rene Perez Batista, 43, of Greenacres, and found 11 plants weighing about 14-1/2 pounds.
Around the same time, deputies went to a home in the 4000 block of Sunny Lane in suburban West Palm Beach and detained residents Francisco Alvarez Valez Jr., 21, Angelo-Pena Mendez, 23, and Laura A. Casado, 26.
Inside, agents found pot plants and "clone clippings" totaling 86 pounds.
Then, on Wednesday evening, deputies raided a home in the 7000 block od Mandarin Blvd. and detained residents Fernando Mata and Mercedes Mata, both 45.
Outside, agents found black garbage bags filled with dried cannabis stems and leaf clippings and weighing 17 pounds.
Eleven of the 13 were ordered held without bond. Yamisleidid Garcia was ordered held in lieu of $8,000 bail and Luis Tomas in lieu of $25,000. Besides the drug charges, both were charged with child cruelty.
toasted1
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its“Operation Eagle Claw,” a drug raid effort carried out by state law enforcement officials along with authorities from Georgia and Tennessee has concluded, and officials have released figures from the day-long event. 
i just googled about grow op stings fl and its all over the place today
i dont know why dude didnt just say it if u know sumtin that might help a fellow grower spit it out man
stay safe
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i just googled about grow op stings fl and its all over the place today
i dont know why dude didnt just say it
if u know sumtin that might help a fellow grower spit it out man stay safe
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Guest 18340
Read THIS shit!!!!
Truck At Hydroponics Store Traced; Pot Raided
By STEPHEN THOMPSON | The Tampa Tribune
Published: March 18, 2009
A Pinellas County narcotics detective kept seeing the same black Ford F-150 pickup truck parked behind Simply Hydroponics, a business that sells grow lights, nutrients and other products designed for indoor agriculture.
The detective saw the truck five times between Jan. 6 and Feb. 19, according to court documents released last week, and that got the detective thinking. He checked to see who that truck belonged to, and where the driver might have set up an account with Progress Energy Corp. for electricity.
This is how the Pinellas sheriff's narcotics squad was led to a string of warehouses behind a U.S. 19 strip plaza this month. There they found 460 marijuana plants and more than $12,000 in cash, the court documents say.
Allan Bednar, co-owner of Simply Hydroponics, was taken aback when he heard Tuesday that detectives identified a suspect by jotting down the license tag of a truck presumably driven by one of his customers.
"If they don't have anything better to do, there's not much I can do about it," Bednar said. "I'm surprised … it seems there are more problems around of a more serious nature."
Bednar wondered aloud whether the sheriff's office was exposing itself to potential lawsuits though the surveillance technique. "We're a gardening supply store," Bednar said. It caters to professors, students and teachers, as well as homeowners, and if detectives begin showing up at their doors, it could be considered harassment, he said.
The F-150 was registered to the man investigators initially believed was running the marijuana grow operation at the warehouses, the documents say. He is identified in the documents as Stephen E. Sweetwood, 51, of Seminole, the court records say.
The warehouses – located behind the Four Seasons Plaza, 39070 U.S. 19 N., Palm Harbor – were raided March 9 after sheriff's narcotics investigators obtained a search warrant.
That day, authorities said a man had been taken into custody and was cooperating with them. They would not identify the man then and they are not doing so now. Pinellas sheriff's spokeswoman Cecilia Barreda said Tuesday that no arrests have been made in the case, and the investigation is ongoing.
According to the affidavit accompanying the search warrant, however, the focus of the investigation, at least before the search, was Sweetwood.
Sweetwood became a target after his truck was spotted repeatedly at Simply Hydroponics at 7949 Ulmerton Road in Largo, the court records say. Investigators then looked to see where a power bill might be in Sweetwood's name, and they were told by Progress Energy Corp. that Sweetwood had an account for one of the warehouses behind the plaza, the affidavit says.
When the narcotics detective and another detective went to the warehouse complex, they found five air conditioners mounted to an outside wall that were in operation the entire time the detectives were there, with a generated temperature of 44 degrees. They also smelled marijuana coming from the exhaust of four of the five air conditioning units, but the smell of marijuana was evident no where else outside, the affidavit says.
Detectives then found the four warehouse units that were emitting the smell of marijuana were not in Sweetwood's name, but rather in the name of Jeffrey G. McCubbins, 46, of Hudson, the affidavit says. The one air conditioning unit that was in Sweetwood's name was not emitting the smell of marijuana, the affidavit says.
The three warehouses for which detectives obtained their search warrant – and which were using inordinate amounts of power – had accounts for electricity in McCubbins' name, the affidavit says, and McCubbins had previously been suspected of distributing marijuana. Still, detectives noted that Sweetwood had access to one of the three warehouses, and he is "involved in the cultivation of marijuana within said warehouses," the affidavit says.
Efforts to reach Sweetwood and McCubbins were unsuccessful. Neither man has a listed telephone number.
Reporter Stephen Thompson can be reached at (727) 451-2336.
Truck At Hydroponics Store Traced; Pot Raided
By STEPHEN THOMPSON | The Tampa Tribune
Published: March 18, 2009
A Pinellas County narcotics detective kept seeing the same black Ford F-150 pickup truck parked behind Simply Hydroponics, a business that sells grow lights, nutrients and other products designed for indoor agriculture.
The detective saw the truck five times between Jan. 6 and Feb. 19, according to court documents released last week, and that got the detective thinking. He checked to see who that truck belonged to, and where the driver might have set up an account with Progress Energy Corp. for electricity.
This is how the Pinellas sheriff's narcotics squad was led to a string of warehouses behind a U.S. 19 strip plaza this month. There they found 460 marijuana plants and more than $12,000 in cash, the court documents say.
Allan Bednar, co-owner of Simply Hydroponics, was taken aback when he heard Tuesday that detectives identified a suspect by jotting down the license tag of a truck presumably driven by one of his customers.
"If they don't have anything better to do, there's not much I can do about it," Bednar said. "I'm surprised … it seems there are more problems around of a more serious nature."
Bednar wondered aloud whether the sheriff's office was exposing itself to potential lawsuits though the surveillance technique. "We're a gardening supply store," Bednar said. It caters to professors, students and teachers, as well as homeowners, and if detectives begin showing up at their doors, it could be considered harassment, he said.
The F-150 was registered to the man investigators initially believed was running the marijuana grow operation at the warehouses, the documents say. He is identified in the documents as Stephen E. Sweetwood, 51, of Seminole, the court records say.
The warehouses – located behind the Four Seasons Plaza, 39070 U.S. 19 N., Palm Harbor – were raided March 9 after sheriff's narcotics investigators obtained a search warrant.
That day, authorities said a man had been taken into custody and was cooperating with them. They would not identify the man then and they are not doing so now. Pinellas sheriff's spokeswoman Cecilia Barreda said Tuesday that no arrests have been made in the case, and the investigation is ongoing.
According to the affidavit accompanying the search warrant, however, the focus of the investigation, at least before the search, was Sweetwood.
Sweetwood became a target after his truck was spotted repeatedly at Simply Hydroponics at 7949 Ulmerton Road in Largo, the court records say. Investigators then looked to see where a power bill might be in Sweetwood's name, and they were told by Progress Energy Corp. that Sweetwood had an account for one of the warehouses behind the plaza, the affidavit says.
When the narcotics detective and another detective went to the warehouse complex, they found five air conditioners mounted to an outside wall that were in operation the entire time the detectives were there, with a generated temperature of 44 degrees. They also smelled marijuana coming from the exhaust of four of the five air conditioning units, but the smell of marijuana was evident no where else outside, the affidavit says.
Detectives then found the four warehouse units that were emitting the smell of marijuana were not in Sweetwood's name, but rather in the name of Jeffrey G. McCubbins, 46, of Hudson, the affidavit says. The one air conditioning unit that was in Sweetwood's name was not emitting the smell of marijuana, the affidavit says.
The three warehouses for which detectives obtained their search warrant – and which were using inordinate amounts of power – had accounts for electricity in McCubbins' name, the affidavit says, and McCubbins had previously been suspected of distributing marijuana. Still, detectives noted that Sweetwood had access to one of the three warehouses, and he is "involved in the cultivation of marijuana within said warehouses," the affidavit says.
Efforts to reach Sweetwood and McCubbins were unsuccessful. Neither man has a listed telephone number.
Reporter Stephen Thompson can be reached at (727) 451-2336.
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I know that was 3 months ago but this article sheds some light on how these fuckin pigs work...
GrowKindNugs
Member
haha, yes, you are insane!! i'm just playing man, you've just got wayy bigger balls than me....i wish i had friends like you, i really don't know enough growers in my area, in fact, none, but i've only been here 2 years...it's really hard to meet new folks...keep doing what you're doin my friend, and hopefully one day our paths will cross...be safe everyone...
GKN
SlowCalaToker
Member
All the shiznit when down on Thursday with clean up on Friday from what my boy in the Sheriff Office told me. They got a couple of big ops and a few small ops in my area, but it looks like the small personal growers escaped the dragnet this time, except for a couple of houses that had plants in pots outside that the pigs saw. The other personal grow that was busted was on a snitch (DON'T TELL ANYONE!!!!!!). They were, for the most part, profiling a lot of the Cubanos who left Miami for North Fla and set up the big house grow ops.I thought about all of you guys when the news broke.
Are all the regulars here accounted for? Trop? Where you at? They hit Dade pretty hard...
Are all the regulars here accounted for? Trop? Where you at? They hit Dade pretty hard...
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Guest 18340
Yeah no shit, everybody here accounted for? Roll Call!!!
GrizzleGrind
Member
i dont know why dude didnt just say it if u know sumtin that might help a fellow grower spit it out man
Hey dumb ass I was one of the first to discover and say something about the raids, and I have posted links on other sites. All you had to do was goggle it. I expect something like this from the people on this site. Next time I wont say shit to yall! And one more thing, Fuck yall!
if u know sumtin that might help a fellow grower spit it out man Hey dumb ass I was one of the first to discover and say something about the raids, and I have posted links on other sites. All you had to do was goggle it. I expect something like this from the people on this site. Next time I wont say shit to yall! And one more thing, Fuck yall!
toasted1
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hey fuk boy i dont know what your problem is im just sayn why didnt u just say its "Operation Eagle Claw" when asked for details? then we coulda google'd it instead of being so vauge like a lil bitch with gossip when your talkin about sumthin goin down that posibly effects some1 on this forum
and fuck us
go fuck yourself in that sperm sponge u call a asshole bitch
stay safe
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and fuck us
go fuck yourself in that sperm sponge u call a asshole bitch
stay safe
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hey fuk boy i dont know what your problem is im just sayn why didnt u just say its "Operation Eagle Claw" when asked for details? then we coulda google'd it instead of being so vauge like a lil bitch with gossip when your talkin about sumthin goin down that posibly effects some1 on this forum
and fuck us
go fuck yourself in that sperm sponge u call a asshole bitch
stay safe
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