[Ganja•Ninja]

irishgrass, on 25 April 2012 - 01:27 AM, said:

Nice post ganja ninja

Cheers dude. It did take me half an hour to write. I type slow.

Ganja•Ninja

[illegal-porpoises]

+1 ganja ninja. good thoughts, thanks for sharing.

I use 1.5L water bottles with the bottoms cut off.
plant wrapped up in a folded piece of skinnysheet newspaper, pot and all(a 2" disposable cup). treating the cup like the roach and the newspaper's the rizla. then plonked into the water bottle to get a tight fit.

I've literally rolled a rucksack with 4 of these down a tunnel with no casualties. also doubles as a cloche(with a copper flex spiral on the lip of the bottle for the slugs and a stick pushed through a pair of slits to peg it down) good for two weeksish unrestricted growth on a small plant.

[Brambles-R-Best]

Planted out some of my girls this weekend, I used cardboard tubes. About 3ft long, got 3 plants in each tube and were separated by bamboo stoppers. Managed to get four tubes in my rucksack for some runs, with no other equipment in there. All girls made it safe and unharmed, even though it was some rough terrain to get to the sites.




Peace
BRB

[joe blow]

Nice tip brambles are best. Im gonna be making some of those tubes for sure. Would be great for rooted out clones in 2-3" pots, maybe able to stack them 4 or 5 high in the tube and could be put in the same rucksack as compost without being crushed if you used plastic pipe or strong cardboard tube.
Thanks for sharing pal!

Joe

This post has been edited by joe blow: 07 May 2012 - 11:32 AM

[greenguerrilla]

i find buckets with lids perfect ,i get ten in a bucket in my rucksack and ten in a bucket to carry,oh and my fishing rod so it aint to sus

[The Sinner]

Brambles-R-Best, on 07 May 2012 - 06:59 AM, said:

Planted out some of my girls this weekend, I used cardboard tubes. About 3ft long, got 3 plants in each tube and were separated by bamboo stoppers. Managed to get four tubes in my rucksack for some runs, with no other equipment in there. All girls made it safe and unharmed, even though it was some rough terrain to get to the sites.

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Peace
BRB

Spot on this is what I use but bent wire thru the plastic sheaths get 4 plants too one sheath luckily found a couple piles of those plastic sheaths there hundred and hundred lying around to be used.


TS

[Ganja•Ninja]

Ganja•Ninja, on 25 April 2012 - 12:45 AM, said:

That is definitely my preferred method "Box In Bag". Works especially well if you use square pots. With a bit of hunting you can find a cardboard box the right size for your required plant numbers and pot size. If you find good ones, the plots will fit so snug that they don't even rattle.

I use Waitrose green hessian bag for life bags. I have two sizes, one narrower but taller and one wider but a bit less tall. I have gone over the white embroidered Waitrose logo with permanent marker to make it a bit more stealth. Even so, it is still a largish shopping bag, which is a bit sus to be carrying on a footpath miles from any shops. (Taking some "insert innocent items here" to a mates house or on my way home from a mates house officer.) I am planning on getting a 30 or 40 litre rucksack for this year as I want to look even more subtle. Tricky finding one wide enough without it being giant. Choice of bag is important. Fishing bags/boxes are ok, unless there is no public fishing near where you grow, in which case they are well sus. Still better than brightly coloured laundry bags, that's really dodge and would make me quite para, especially in the daytime. Big bags in the countryside generally look sus. Better to do less plants per visit but more visits than take a bag that makes anyone who sees you wonder wtf you're up to. Probably not such an issue in urban/semi-urban, but be careful not to look like a burglar.

I have 4 different boxes, each with it's own purpose. One for 2x 4" pots. One for 3x 4" pots. One taller 7" square box for a larger single plant. One 4" square for a regular size single, this I put in my small rucksack with a folded up cage, a hand trowel, a carrier bag of well nuted compost mix, a 1 or 2 litre bottle of water with PM Root Stim. I call this my single hit planting pack. I can go to a site on foot, prep it and plant it in one hit. I always reccy the sight first on a separate trip.

Boxes in bags look fairly subtle and hide the shape and smell of the plants. There are almost limitless reasons to be carrying a box in a bag. Make sure you know what you will say if anyone does ask where you're going. Make sure your excuse/reason fits with what you are carrying. Boxes in bags feel safe, both from prying eyes and from crushing/squashing. You may think you can just stand plants in a bag and they will be ok. You are probably right. But, how many times have you slipped going down/up a steep bit or climbing a fence/stile or crawling through a hedge. Accidents happen, and if they happen when you're carrying precious carefully nurtured plants, you want to be sure they will survive unharmed. At least 3 times now, this method has saved my plants from damage during fence climbing / bramble tunnelling etc.

Keep those plants safe and those bags subtle.

Peace. Ganja•Ninja

Another point is to get boxes which open from the front, just like a book. Top loading boxes make getting the plants back out quite tricky. Front loading boxes make loading and unloading much easier and with less likelihood of damage to the plants. You can easily bend over the tops of plants that are to tall and tuck them under the "ceiling" of the box one by one as you load them. Top loading boxes can be hard to close when you are trying to (delicately) bend over the tops of 4 plants whilst simultaneously closing the box flaps.

Just to give some perspective, I should also point out that the plants I am moving are usually in 4" (10cm) pots and are usually 11"-15" (28-38cm) tall including pot. Mostly with 2 to 4 main stems, so fairly bushy. That way they are quite slug proof and have a very well developed root ball, so get going quickly. I don't know what size plants the rest of you are transporting, but looking at the methods and pictures in here, I assume they are a bit smaller. There is no way mine would fit in those cardboard tubes for example.

Ganja•Ninja

[Freda Weed]

HappySADhu, on 22 April 2012 - 01:21 PM, said:

i think this is a good idea also..

grogirl, on 07 July 2006 - 03:22 PM, said:

my technique worked a treat!

unpot plant
roll tightly in a couple of sheets of newspaper
pack together as tightly as poss

not one broken!! the newspaper tubes are suprisingly strong! best of luck! x

how do you "repot" on site? would you not damag the roots?

always wondered about this, never had the guts to even "prick out" a seedling for fear of damaging roots.

what size plant can you get away with "unpotting" and repotting?

and how to? seems the best solution all round?

[I-Love-bud]

Mr Herbert, on 23 April 2012 - 10:35 AM, said:

I transported mine in a ps3 box inside a bag for life last year..

That is what i do =D

I took one out today inside one of my audio component boxes i keep for resale
packed the tools needed around the box

that inside a backpack and it will take many bumps and dings (some of me forgetting what was in the bag )

I like to open the pack once im in clear space so i can let light back too it ..no idea if it makes a difference but im sure the plant would be happier that way

PEACE

PS: I start my plants in shopping bags. much easyer to fit in a pack then a hard pot

This post has been edited by I-Love-bud: 24 May 2012 - 01:44 AM