I went out to recky a new site today. Its a good site in general but its not very big a whack bang in the middle of it is this

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What do you rekon?

Not worth the risk of being discovered by workmen??

All credit for not ripping that plant mate, you'll be rewarded handsomely next year for doing the right thing

I like that site, good thick natural vegetation .. good enough for 2-3 plants by the looks of it. The chances of a workman doing some maintenance on the power cable is very slim m8 .. why not take a chance?

.. and regarding the Coco Coir blocks go here to get them .. very cheap and they do mulches as well all with free P&P too

Finding a new site and setting it up is always a compromise.

On the one hand you don't want to put too much effort and too many plants into a site that is going to be found and ripped off. On the other hand if it isn't found then you want to put the maximum effort into the site so as to get the best return. My motto has always been "if it looks like it can fit five plants then I can definitely squeeze in twenty..."

Seriously if you grow five plants and nobody goes anywhere near them all summer then at harvest time you are going to wish like hell that you had put 500 plants there. Outdoors you can do S.O.G. on a giant scale planting as close as half a metre apart. Especially if you have to pull males later anyway.

I have a very simple approach now. The first season I do a seed crop only to get all my seed. Then the next season I start planting in spring and I don't stop till midsummer when the plants start budding. That eliminates the whole "shall I plant here or not?" conundrum. Simply plant everywhere that looks even remotely feasible. Don't even try to waste time figuring out if it's a good spot or a great spot. Just plant it then move on to the next spot.

The results are often interesting. Sometimes it's the obvious plots that don't get found. The ones in the places that you thought were really stupid.

johndoe

If it had been me 2 years ago, I would have took that plant without a second thought. The fact my shoulders were aching when I came across it made me apreciate the work that goes in to doing this. Hell it might have been a medicinal users only surviving plant for all I know.



If I dont find anywhere better I'll drop a plant in here.



That is a lot better value than my local garden centre unfortunatley I cant get anything delivered to my house as I live with my rents. I will hopefully move out before harvest time otherwise I'll have to get a stonner friend to dry+cure it. Which leads me on to a problem I have with getting seeds. I could either

1) get seeds sent to stonner friends address and give him a free bean and bit of the harvest (more of the harvest if hes drying it for me)
2) My local head shop only stoks nirvana but I could ask them to order me different strains
3) Gorw shit overpriced indoor nirvana
4) Grow 2 year old bagseed from an average smoke (but plenty of seeds from an ounce I lost nearly a quart in seeds)

Thanks for looking in Marcos what are you growing next year?

W + B

I put a lot of effort into some sites early in the season. They're my best sites that I hope won't get found. By the end of the planting season I'm planting the same way pine trees are planted. Plants are in wet root bundles wrapped in moss. Plants in one hand (more in pack on my back) and spade in other hand. Whack in spade, push to make a split in the soil, place plant, tramp in with foot, move on. If it looks a good spot, maybe add a handful of slow release fertiliser. Best done in the rain for maximum plant health but beggars can't be choosers.

Just move through the bush planting everywhere the sun gets in. I mean everywhere too. I like to totally flood a location while avoiding areas where people might go. The problem with this approach is that if somebody finds a few then they find a lot.... then some more... then some more. So the more isolated the spot the better.

On the plus side, it's usually four months into the season by then so you have a pretty good idea if there is other people using the area.

Think of it this way... you really just need one bit of bush that nobody will look in for just one season. A slip face, a deadfall area, over a bank, a stream edge.... then maximise it because you may not get to use it ever again.

My best ever guerilla site just totally rocked. I cut hand and foot holds up a sheer cliff to a plateau that couldn't be seen from down below. On the way down each time I put moss in each hand hold so you couldn't see them. It was very dangerous climbing up and down but no animals to worry about and a natural spring. Just had to worry about being spotted from the air.

Another time I planted in a swamp where nobody would ever think to look. I carted in fifty litre buckets in the winter and potting mix. I sat the buckets on top of the mud. They sunk in a few inches and the plants sucked up water through the bottom of the pots. I thought the water would be toxic but instead I got huge plants that got way too big for the pots. I had to take them out and just dump the root ball on top of the wet mud so it was like a mound. Then I had to tie the damn things up or they would've fallen over. Some of the biggest plants I ever grew. That was back when I used pots and stuff. Those pots are still there.

I had heaps of rippers trying to find that crop. They knew I was a grower and they saw my car at this patch of bush all the time. The cops put a chopper over the bush but to this day that spot has never been found. See I was hiking all the way through the bush, then out the other side into bare farmland with a huge stinking wet muddy swamp in the middle of a paddock. In full view. All swamp grass way over my head. Had to slosh through mud up to my knees to get in. No animals. Nobody ever thought to look there because there was no way you could grow dope in wet mud aye.

johndoe

And theres a nice little stream by this site which swayed me to use it despite its smallness.

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Hey wakenbake,

Dig a large deep hole in that stream to act like a sump, It will let you submerge your buckets to fill em quick.

Hey wakenbake,

Dig a large deep hole in that stream to act like a sump, It will let you submerge your buckets to fill em quick.

I've got 16 strains on my list but I'm waiting until I finalise where exactly I'm growing then I can choose the plant type to suit that particular site i.e. if a site is open with large shrubbery and small tree's about then I'll choose something like Night Shade from Barney's Farm, these grow small and bushy and should suit that site well hiding them behind the big shrubs and bushes. If a site is very secure with a surrounding fence & large tree's ect I'll choose a tall big yielding strain like EL Nino or Himalayan Gold.

Keep on plodding away at your plots fella, you won't regret it!

Keeping an eye out for any bind weed amongst the root/soil matter your adding there mate.

If linking to Seedsman's is OK, then they list the places that stock their seeds:
http://www.seedsman.com/en/retailers/seedsman-stockists

how many strains are you intending to grow? because that looks like alot of work.