Sacramento’s power company and law enforcement agencies have been running an illegal mass surveillance scheme for years, using our power meters as home-mounted spies. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is seeking to end Sacramento’s dragnet surveillance of energy customers and have asked for a court order to stop this practice for good.
Something like that wouldn’t be flagged as suspicious. If you were using a large amount of power for 16 hours a day for a few months and then for 12 hours a day for a few months, that would be suspicious because that usage profile matches a marijuana grow.
They can also “fingerprint” certain power usage like a refrigerator and filter out that noise from the power usage profile to eliminate other innocuous things to build a stronger argument that an illegal grow is happening. The profile of an electric car charging plus tracking data on your phone would eliminate the power usage from charging as being suspect, but that would require a competent detective actually doing their job properly…
Grow autos and have 24/7 lighting. There’s more than one way to avoid even competent detectives.
Nobody they are concerned about grows autos and the market for those is as small as those plants.
Yes, I know autos aren’t tiny anymore, but they can’t pull 4 zips off of one as easy as an actual strain.
? There’s no difference between the end yield of autos and photoperiods. They even flower faster so you can get more.
These aren’t you grandparents genetics.
Also, why is the market different? Bud is bud lol.
The amount you get off a plant is directly tied to interstitial node density and number, which autos can’t control. You have to do twice as many harvests to yield the same weight as a photo in the same period.
Not to mention you can’t clone autos, so your genetics are way too variable.
For personal use autos are a nice and easy option, not for commercial chasing consistency and yield per dollar. Some commercial growers will do auto for res, but all the flower grows are photos for good reason.
Remind me to look at both of your power meters.
Also, if you arent feeling those cassandra vibes hard rn, thry absolutely have detailed tracking data on your phone.