One of my plants got damaged in high winds so I chopped it yesterday. I'd give you a Bizzle for scale but I can't fit both of us in the frame ๐ I'd reckon she's about 5 feet high, though, and I'm about 6 feet, so imagine I'm standing next to it but it's so massive and bushy that you can only see my feet and a few inches of calf. I have tremendous calves, I walk a lot and I never skip leg day, so feel free to let your imagination run wild.
You may notice the root ball at the top. The reason is, I left it in a plastic nursery pot since January. I know that sucks, but the roots were coming through the holes so densely that I couldn't remove it without damaging them and I got scared. Next year, I'm going to use a paper pot so it breaks down in the soil and I wont have to worry about it. I think that would mitigate a lot of the problems I had.
My whole house smells like weed, which I think is sweet. Mrs Bizzle, on the other hand, is paranoid as fuck that she's going to smell like it at work (she's a middle school teacher).
I don't have an opinion. It isn't my house/weed/job/etc.
If you are concerned about smells and the garage is a suitable place for drying the question becomes are you more worried about your wife's clothes smelling like weed at work or your neighbors smelling your weed drying? If the garage isn't a suitable place for drying then the question might be is it worth risking a job for better drying conditions? I don't have the answers to those things.
It sounds like you're getting a preview of a much larger problem to come when the rest of your plants are harvested.