this year i've decided to give my bezzy mate a chance on the old outdoors with me as he's been busting do do a grow with me for a while after seeing that last 3 yrs results, he's safe as houses and i'd trust him with my life. we're prob gonna go for a mix of dp,s durban, trance, twilight, passion 1, and female seeds easy sativas. there gonna be in 6 x 10 plant plots. locations as yet unknown, i'm gonna grow mothers this yr and take cuts with a view to planting the clones mid april time instead of doin em all from seeds purely for econonmic reasons, i had planned to use some regs in this grow, guerrillas gusto, biddys sister, and tnr but i just haven't the time to sex them so they will have to be kept for next year. i'll be doing 9 plants at my own sites just for myself so if the coop goes a bit pete tong i'll still have some backup, or thats the plan anyway. i'll start another thread for my own grow as it'll get confusing if not.
happy growing everyone

Right on man, that'll be a big haulage come Oct, all the best dude. Be nice to share the load eh?

good luck with this years campaign.
Joe

Been reading your posts and admiring your plants the past couple of years funki and its amazing how much work,time and thought u put in.A true hardcore guerrilla grower inspiration 2 us all .Hope its a scorcher wish u and every other guerrilla a fruitful harvest.

Best of luck with ur grow. I'll keep an eye on this one. Indoor man myself but thinking of a couple outside as well this year

Sounds good munki, nice to see you're subverting others into the ways of the guerilla

Good to see another familiar face again this year! All the best to you funki and heres hoping its a good one!

Your growing in pots instead of straight in the ground? Or is that just your mother plants your talking about and the cuts will be going straight in? I always thought you were anti pot growing (no pun int) as it means more watering and the roots cant get as big. What are the advantages of growing in pots?

wakenbaker

Yeah munki's back last years diary was great to follow. Your mate is lucky to have you as his mentor.
All the best with it

mungo

PLOTS not pots

AAAAhhhhh

hehe - i read it as 'pots' too - i was like, fuck me 60 plants!!!

e2a: i have been waiting for this too IAFM - last years grow was an inspiration.

thanks all for the positive vibes. the mothers all came thro nice. i managed to sneak 3 of each of the regs into the grow and they are sexing on my attic window sill as we speak,
so the strain list is now as follows
females:
passion 1 (dp)
durban poison
trance
twilight
easy sativa (female seeds)

regulars:
biddy early (magus)
guerrillas gusto (sensi)
swiss outdoor mix (unknown)
bag seed from my best plant last year

i'm looking to take cuttings in 3 weeks from now

Looking nice. Hope it goes well for you.

Good luck with ya mothers Munki, we salute you

well all the cuts have been taken and are now happily rooting in the props. the mothers will be going out april 1st/2nd with the cuttings following on around the 15th of april. all is going cock on according to plan so far. the mothers promise to be juicy plants as they have 2 weeks to re grow some fresh shoots before planting out. hopefully they will be huge.
thanks everyone for looking in. good luck

Glad to hear your on track brother So your going to challenge the "Nirgerian Nightmare" plant this year then Funki?
All the best mate

maybe, lets put it like this matey the mothers i'm gonna be planting april 1st will be the biggest plants i've planted out by far plus they're going out earlier than normal. i reckon when i plant them they'll be around 4 or 5 times the size of the big powerplant i did yr before last and a fortnight earlier out.

looking nice mate will keep poping in as your a guerilla warrior. always got something good going.

This is probly a stupid question but has anyone ever won Cream Of The Crop with an outdoor grow?

i do believe they have. ouncy boy holds a cream of the crop trophy allthough i don't know if its outdoor but i reckon it is. Malana cream also holds a cotc trophy for a beautiful pink bud and i think thats outdoor also but again i ain't certain. outdoor if grown well can be as good as indoor and imo better in some instances, if the weathers good and the grower has a decent working knowledge of growing and is using a good strain its not out of the question to better the average indoor weed. look thro hazys 07 diary imo some of the bud shots at harvest time ish deserve a fooking medal. quality pictures and quality herb. outdoor does tend to be lower quality on the whole as are summers are poor, look to spain and beyond where the sun is stronger and the outdoor pisses all over a lot of the average growers indoor imo. i mean surely weed grown outdoors under the sun in naturally fertile soil must be better than something grown under what equates to a giant sunbed, at the end of the day looks aren't everything. i've grown some shit looking herb before and its blown me away when i've cured and smoked it. cotc is a very visual thing so a bit of camera skills come in handy

all the best with this years grow funki.
we will be watching.

after my week long holiday this is what i return to in my outdoor mother room. planting of the 13 mothers will be starting mid week with a view to them all being out before the cuts are all rooted properly. ie the end of the week.
i'm looking to grow some monsters with the first wave of plants. thers is 4 easy sativas, 3 passion #1, 1 twilight, 1 durban, and a unknown strain from my fave plant last yr, 1 biddy sister, 1 swiss outdoor unknown and 1 guerillas gusto

lastly

looking good funki, i look foward to seeing it all unfold

good luck

O yes, a multi-headded beasty or 12 in the making. Someone has been very busy indeed. Good luck for the monsters.

Any tips on your topping method, as a few of my seedlings are due.

You sure are the master of low lying multicola madness.

Cheers!

tbh mate i do the same every time like a habit. i wait till i have 4 visible shoots under the grow tip and remove the tip, the rest the plant does itself. it can stress them a bit and slow there growth for a week or so. but i prefer to get it out of the way early and let the plant have a smooth ride from then on. the mothers have had a load of cuts ripped of allready and grown back within a fortnight

Lookin good. Some of mine are nearing that size, got mine off to a 1st of March start
Where did you take your cuttings from munki? Iv topped my plants and thinking of taking clones off the two main branches once they develope a bit more?
Growin easy sativa too this year, they seem to be the most bushy, indica looking plants iv grown so far
Wish you luck for this year!

gert lush them ladies

all the mothers are now out and i'm half way through the cuts, so all is going reasonably. i had wanted to be fully planted out by now but i'm not that far off schedule. should be an interesting summer

Your out there big and early this year my friend,start your climbing lessons now your gonna need them to get to those top buds,i wil be keeping an eye,best of luck.

gonna be a hot one funki according to my weather afficiandos

Finally

It never got above 25 last year, rained as much as the year before. I give this bitch 1 last chance for a decent summer, or I'm off to live in the South of France. [At least i still got some half decent results].

I'm really impressed Mr Munki, you were one of the inspirational GG's which got me started. Do you prep your spots as you find them, or are these sites well prepped months in advance? I'll be watching this one.

a lot have been done on the fly due to the scale of things, 30 percent are my own prepared sites i use and the rest done as we go along. i was gonna do my own grow but have sacked that idea as i'm too busy with this

not too hot i hope, i'll be burning some serious shoe leather if its a real schorcher. nice to see you pal

. i've hired a helicopter for the top buds ..... best of british to yourself good sir

good luck with it this year dude, and keep up the good work.

wait till you shmoke it, its one of the best outdoor sativa based plants i've smoked. it does have an indica look to the buddage and early on in veg, and its a bit body mashing too, but the sativa high shines through quite pushy on the old grey matter sometimes too intense for me. nice choice imo
sorry for the late response, i take cuts from wherever i can but the most vigorous come from the bottom, soft thin stems root better than the woody main branches but they'll root from wherever you take them it'll just take a little longer

Good luck this year funkimunki
Glad to see your still growing....

Funki....... havnt had the chance to do cutttings yet but im lookig to do some this year with some fem plants, Would it be possible to grow cuttings from scratch in the ground by the rest of the plants. i mean like litrally do the buisness at the plot and let them grow?

can't see why not pal. take yr cuts like normal and bang em in a propagator next to yr plants. kepp it out of direct sun and mist with water occasionally as required and they should root like normal. i rooted all mine on the window bottom so outside should work just the same
if you mean take cuts and plant straight into the ground it could work, however you'd still need to place each plant uder a plastic bottle to keep the humidity up whilst it roots. i would reccomend rooting them in a prop on site and then planting, you will get a higher success ratio imo

all my digging is now done, i have still to plant the last hand full of clones but the soil is prepped its just a matter of dropping them into plae and putting the cages up. its been a real chore getting all the new sites prepped, we've used a few very heavy clay soil sites and improved it best we could by mulching in organic matter and solid feeds. tbh its hard finding sites were no one will go so quite a few are very cheeky to say the least, i'm playing a numbers game this year but with any luck we'll be smoking all next year in exchange for a bit of back ache and a few blisters so up to now i'm very happy with progress. top marks to my grow partner whos been on call at a moments notice to grab his spade and come digging. good man. you know who you are

Game on

amen to that mate. A fine game it is too. bring on october

Can I borrow your mate for a weekend digging too??

Get yourself an auger Sticky,never complains its tired,nettles,aching,just does the job abd digs its holes

I usually encounter solid clay and alluvial stones the size of my head. Will need a BIG auger!!

an augers nice for turning any soil its kinda like a vertical rotivator, a big drill bit if you like. stones are not always a bad thing as rocks can help with drainage in heavy soils maybe not ones the size of a human head but anyway, all i did was dug over an area of around 2m x 1m to around a depth of 12 inches or so for four plants then dug in the organic matter, it clings to the surfaces of the clay lumps and prevents in bonding again then i put a couple of inches of matter and lightly fork in. it doesn't need to be super soil just so the roots can move through it easily. don't get me wrong clays a bitch but if you treat it right it'll do fine as it generally quite fertile.

I use an auger for my holes but I am working on an old abandoned market garden,if I were planting in clay even with an auger it would be very hard going,and decent sized rocks and boulders wouldnt be good for the auger bit nor the shoulders and hands if digging holes in number