Right then guerillas, here's my grow for this year. It's about time I started writing this thing, seeing how busy it is getting on this forum. I think I was quite successful for a n00b last year, nearly 7oz and some oil that looked like Marmite wasn't too shabby at all

I'm doing another grow again this year, but as I am about as good at managing finances as UK bank executives I haven't lined up any proper seeds this year - I'm using left over bagseed from last year's grow and seed that I accidentally made last year.

I have 2 sites lined up. The first is the same as I used last year - on the top of a bank along 1 side of a pond/pool in a woodland. Clay soil like something you'd use to make a pot, but I think it is a well hidden spot and it is a decent size, and water isn't an issue. The second plot is a new site I only found a few days ago. Its the edge of another pool, but this time in the middle of a field, but surrounded by a few trees. The spot faces due south, and should get sunshine all day, but is very blatant if the farmer happens to stop near the site. There isn't much space, so only 2 plants will be here.

I am really picky with my sites... I've been to recon quite a few and there's been something wrong with nearly all of them

I started germinating seeds at the end of March and growing them up a bit in a space fashioned out of computer case panels and cardboard painted white, under 3x 100w equiv. CFLs, all in the bottom of a cupboard. 9 plants are out at my plots already, done in 2 sessions of sneaking about in the dark! I've already lost track of when my first plants went out... during the first few days of this month, I think.

These photos are a couple of days old now, and are just the better photos of what I have at my big plot:
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The soil at my second site looks very good, to my totally untrained eye. This is a cheeky plot, but I think if what grows here isn't found, it could be very good

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I have 5 more seedlings in my grow space that are about 2" tall, there's 3 more popped seeds in compost that should be coming up soon, and I'm waiting for 4 more seeds to burst (I use the damp paper-towel on a plate method).

Once what I have going outdoors has gotten a bit bigger I want to do something about the males. I am thinking of taking cuttings, bringing them home, and forcing them to flower so I can identify the males before they get big. I might also clone some of the girls and put them out later in the season, to make the best use of space.

Damn, hope this summer's weather is better than last year though! All the best to all the guerillas out there

lookin good there m8, good luck

Cheers man. Increasing the size of my main plot this year is pretty cheeky of me, so I might need a bit of luck for it to not be seen if the woodland gets visitors this year.


It was a very nice morning today, so I put the plants I'm growing up at the moment outside for a few hours of sunshine, and took a snap:
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There's 5 tiddlers in an ice cream tub at the back, with the soil split up with bits of the tub's lid, and of the 5 in cups in the foreground I've had a go at topping a couple of them. I snipped off most of the top of the plant at the front, and it's turned into a bit of a mutant, but I'm sure it'll grow out as the year goes on. The other 2 topped are the one of the left, and the one at the back.

The bigger 5 will probably be going out this weekend, and I am germinating yet more seeds.

And someone I know growing some Jack Herer (under envirolights) has kindly offered me some cuttings, so I'll be guerrilling a few of them too. OK, they are very sativa-y, and take 14 weeks to flower indoors, but they might produce something smokable by the end of the year.

Keep it guerrillas

Looking good newt,I have actually grown sativas in the UK,and had them flower,dont know how JH will do though,but your not going to find out till you try

Thanks BP. It'll be very cool if the Jack does produce smokeable bud as I bet it'll turn out to be very tasty - it's spot on stuff when it's grown under enviros, and HPS in the past, but real sunshine is miles better than any lights


So I've been down to my main plot the night before last and done a few hours gardening.... in fact I lost track of time and it was about 7am by the time I left the site - a lot later than I wanted. But the light did mean the photos I took came out a lot better.

When I got to my woodland and was climbing over the fence I heard a loudish rustling from the direction of my plot, and when I got to my plot 1 plant was proper fooked! The top of a plant was lying on the ground next to a stem that had only half a leaf on.... the stem looked like it had been bitten clean through. I think it was a deer, cos of the noise and how it really look like the top of the plant had been bitten off in one and dropped. I'm gonna go for the soap on a stick trick, and might actually got round to putting up some wire at some point!

I had taken some shears with me, so trimmed back the nettles, brambles and creepers that were starting to grow up to give my plants an advantage over the local plants. Trimmed back the encroaching brambles and shit too to leave the site a bit more open - I have more plants to go out still - there's the 5 in the ice cream tub and another 6 beans are just coming up in plastic cups.

I planted out the 5 bigger plants from my last post, and this time I actually remembered to take my compost with me so they could have some better growing medium than just clay! I added compost around the bases of the existing plants too, and gave them a watering. The compost I have been using this year has just been out of a grow bag, as it was the cheapest way to get a reasonable amount of compost - 36 litres for about £1.50, whereas the 20 litre bags were about 3 or 4 quid, and I think the next size of bag up was about 75 litres.

Some of the existing plants were looking a bit pale - I should think it is from lack of nutes, so hopefully the compost I gave them will bring them along. I did some preparation of the land this year, but didn't add anything - just turned over the surface back in Jan, and loosened the ground a bit with a fork a bit in late March.

Right, on with the piccys.

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The mostly chomped plant now inside a 2 litre bottle for protection. There was the start of a tiny little branch on the stem too, so if this thing does survive it'll be dead wonky. But weed's weed

hi inter .. damn those deer .. good luck mate .. looking good ..

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The mutant due to my eager topping attempt.

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The stick has been jammed into the ground a bit more to ease off the tension in the string, though I dunno what I am trying to achieve with the sticks.... well, I don't want them falling over when they get bigger, but little twigs won't do shit to stop a weed plant blowing about in autumn weather! I think I'll pretty much stake down the flimbsiest plants at the end of the year if they need it.

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That's all 12 plants I've got at my main site. I've got 2 more at another site not far away, but I've not been to check on them since they went out nearly 2 weeks ago.

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A final shot up my plot. It may look rather in the open, but it is along the top of a steep bank and if you are approaching from the left of this picture then you really don't see the plants until you get on top of the embankment. Of course, the plot is totally visible from the other side of the pool, but that way is deeper into the woodland, so hopefully won't get any people!

Until next time.

where you get water you get wildlife .. i'd get some cages round them babes sharpish .. good spot if theres a drought but ..

hi ya , can i offer a few tips

soil , take your own , a grow bag with a couple of bags of perlite mixed in does the trick ( £1.29 from wilkinsons )

ferts , grab a tub of organic fish /blood / bone from wilkinsons whilst your there ( about 3-4 quid ) and bird shit pellets ( quid or 2 )

mix this all together and bag it to take with you

on site , cut through the local plant life with a spade in the shape of a capital I ( or a H ) , peel back the grass but leave it attached , dig out a hollow and back fill with your compost , drop the plant in the middle and carefuly drop the grass back over so it looks undisturbed , trim back the grass and your done , remove the old soil in a bag to be dropped around the area , now you have started off the process every year you go back to the same place and dig around to create quality soil all over this bit of hill , it doesnt hurt to take a bit of organic with you also to mix in a bit to spice up last years soil

other tips are trim the lower leaves off to 6 inches to stop slugs reaching up onto leaves , egg shell dropped around the place also keeps them off

use a green branch the same colour as the plant to stake it and use a blade of grass to hold it to the stick , it will snap off in time as the plant grows and doesnt look so raving as a stake

piss everywhere if you can to keep deer , rabbits and rats off , a couple of cheap container of powder garlic from asda ( 59 pence ) also doesnt hurt although dont get the garlic salt , spread this around to keep off to a degree mammal pests , seaweed concentrate and also a drop of garlic follage sprayed keeps off most things but will wash off easly

other than this good luck fella and i hope your not on the other side of the hill i use

Thanks for looking in lads, good advice all round.

I'm gonna head down my plots later tonight to check up on the kids and do a few things. I'm gonna fence off the plants with the chicken wire I bought last year but never used! Gonna trim back anything that's grown up in the last few days, and got something lined up for deer defence.

Taking on your garlic tip moggggys, and based on other stuff I've seen mentioned in a million places, I'm gonna make some animal deterrents I'm calling spicy sticks. I had a mooch through the drawers in the kitchen, and picked out spicy stuff that we had plenty of spare. Into a pot I dumped in mustard powder, garlic, ground cloves, curry powder, dried chilli flakes, cayenne pepper and dash of ginger. Mixed it up, filled up the pot with vegetable oil, few big shots of tabasco sauce, and gave it stir. I've poured this stinking mess into a 500ml pop bottle, and then down the plots I'll find some trees with thin branches, chop 'em off, dunk one end in the mixture, then stick the other end in the ground. I'll have these around my plot to simply stink the place up a bit.

Hopefully these things will stay pretty pongy for a few weeks - that's why I used oil, so the rain doesn't simply wash the mix away!

Hope no more plants have been munched - I have been taking a piss down at my plots since I started growing, and having a slash there a few days back might have been enough to keep the wild life away.... maybe.

sounds good internewt loving the spice sticks goodl uck mate we all need it.

looking good internewt. damn deer are a pest. might have to bring down there numbers somehow.but your spice sticks should drive everything away. your spot last year lead me to my spot this year, right by the water. hope it works out for both of us better than last year. you didn't do too shaby though. I could stretch that amount to keep me stocked for a year.for sure. I'm also gonna nick some of these tips.

So been out to both my plots, and things were interesting



You were right about the cages smeagol. Got to the main plot, checked along my row of kids, things were looking good until I got to the end, and there was a corpse, missing some leaves, next to a hole Looks like some fucking rabbit had been munching, and digging in the compost.

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And my other plot had had something digging at the bottom of 1 of the 2 plants




Heh, stranger things have happened

Poked the camera in the bottle..
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I dunno how effective or not it'll be.... by the time it was splated about a bit it was actually smelling alright though.... I could imagine it wouldn't be bad as a pork marinade, then slapped on a BBQ! But I can't imagine wildlife will like the smell too much.

I left 5 of these greasy things along the side of my main plot, and 1 at my other plot. I've caged up my plants now at the main plot, but other site still has none. If the plants don't get touched again at the 2nd site then the spicy stick might have done its job




Cheers dan, hope the grow goes well for you. Water's edge certainly solves a major issue for us guerrillas

What I grew last year barely got past new year though.... the excitement of my own bud lead me to battering it by building constant massive spliffs!

Mornin' Internewt,

Them lil fookers, get something round them ASAP, chuck a few bars of soap around man for the deer, with the wabbits I'd get Guano, they hate the stench of it, just sprinkle it around the base of ya plants

Magoo

This is the casualty from before.... it doesn't seem to have died, so it may make a recovery and still go on to yield a smoke!
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A healthy plant, now in a cage
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A random couple more
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I've probably made my cages too small though, looking at my pictures they look a bit tight. Well, I guess they stay in cages until big enough to fend off a rabbit or deer attack?

I'd give them a lil more room in there man, their gonna grow loads in the next couple of weeks

Magoo

2nd plot
This one has taken a few munches, but seems to be motoring on.
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This is the plant that had been dug under. The only thing to do was to fill up the hole, so used mud from the edge of the pond!
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I trimmed back the grass and other stuff that had grown up between these plants and their sky, so with some good weather and a spicy stick on guard hopefully these two will do well.


I'm feeling better now I've done something about the wild life though, and only one dead plant so far is fine by me. I've got another 11 under CFL currently, which will be going out soon, and I'm going to do another round or 2 of seeds before the summer kicks in fully.

Sweet, hadn't heard about the guano trick before.... nutes and deterrents in one, sounds cool.



Yeah, I'm kicking myself a bit now for not making them bigger, but I've still got a some wire so it's not too bad. 5 plants are almost big enough to go out, so I'll be going back in another few days anyway.

Oh yes, guano is a double hoofer, thats cool, extensions it is then dude

Magoo

Yer good tip about the guano i use it as a flower fertilizer,but may sprinkle some about earlier this year,they will be ok in those cages their soon be growing through the sides and over the top,get the plants in plot 2 caged up soon as they will be gone.

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Just back from my plots, and all the plants at my main plants had been ripped up!!

Motherfuckers.

All the cages had been put at the 1 end of the plot, and all the plants had been pulled out the ground

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My plan this evening was to enlarge the 11 cages and put out another 5 plants at the main plot. I ended up putting the 5 I had with me at my second plot, which is now all a bit tight for space.

I've brought the cages home, cos I ain't giving up and they are still useful

After going to plot 2, stopped back at the main plot to cram the cages into my coolbox, and had another look around. And fluke of flukes there was one of my babies floating in the lake, with most of the root ball and not looking dead. I fished her out with a stick, and went fuck-it, used the last of the compost that was at the site, and re-planted her. If I am really lucky, the rippers won't go back and maybe I'll get something from the main plot.

Well, back to Google Earth to get more places to check out. The season has hardly fucking begun!!!

Will upload some more pics later of the other plants.

Keep it guys and gals.... I don't think I did

Im proper gutted for ya mate, what a cunt.

Am I right in thinking it was the 'cheeky' plot thats been rumbled?

You just gotta regroup what babies you still have and try again.

My guess is a dogwalker or summit like that found em cos they were still youngsters.

TT

E2A: You never know who actually found those plants, It easily could be the sort of person who might report it, so be on your toes if in that area with your gardening gear, but it must be said mate, I've never done a guerilla grow so best not to listen to me and wait for the other guerilla pros to hit the forum.

Nah mate, it was the big plot, not the one I called the cheeky plot in post 4.

Thanks for the condolences.

Sorry to hear of your loss,youve gotta make sure you grow where no ones gonna go if it aint a real bastard for you to get to then you can almost be surtain someone else will pass through,pools are gonna atract kids,dogs and nature lovers,dig through some brambles or wade thrugh an ocean of stingers somewhere no one in their right mind would wanna go.Good luck on the rest of your grow dont give up.

man thats really unlucky. hope your other spots are good

Cheers for the kind words lads.

I'm trying to figure out what I did that got my site rumbled, and its possibly one of these:

I was seen coming or going.
I was seen at the plot, or moving torch light was seen from a distance.
The land owner/a farmer/game keeper found the site through some routine check of the woodland.

The previous couple of visits to the site I have left far to late - like 7am - so I could have been seen leaving. Setting up those cages involved me looking round the wood for suitable trees for strong/springy sticks (I tended to look for Sycamore), so maybe moving torchlight gave things away.

From now on I will be trying to get in and out of sites as quickly as possible. That means getting stuff prepared as much as possible before going to a site, rather than getting to a site, sitting down and skinning up, doing some stuff, another spliff etc..

And because I had had success last year at this site, I had a false sense of security.

Ouncy mate, you are very right about having to wade through brambles and shit, and getting to this plot involved some of that. But the woodland itself isn't huge - a fraction of the size of the fields that surround it. Round these parts the fields all fit together very snugly, with only the tiniest bits of woodland occasionally between fields. There is next to no land that is lying unused. I'm gonna have to look further afield I think.


But anyway, here's the state of my grow now.

My 2nd plot now has 7 plants, rather than the 2 I was going to grow there:
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This plot is in a field that has lots of new plants growing up, so the bunnies will be spoilt for choice - so I am not too worried about the lack of cages on a couple of plants. I think the digging that happened at this site recently could have been a badger looking for worms anyway, as the plant itself didn't look like it had been eaten.


And here's a photo of the plant I salvaged from the water at the big plot and replanted:
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If this plant doesn't get ripped again then it'll be a fucking miracle! But who knows, it may go on to be great - and I won't know for weeks. I'm not going to be going back to this site for a long time now.

Internewt, I'm gutted about that plot. Sounds very similar to my plottage, made good last year but this year I've seen motorbike tracks over my 4mx2m patch. The tracks told me whomever it was, they were quite interested in freshly dug soil...that was back in Jan!! So this year, I've planted 30 odd free seeds there as a kind of decoy.

I hear you about lack of unused ground, but don't give up, plenty of places to go.

Take the cages home and recoup some of your losses. Maybe even repot the little survivor elsewhere.

A few new rules for me, might help you too.

1. Never go stoned. [unhealthy and slight para does nothing to help the element]

2. Get everything ready and don't take chances with farmers/rangers spotting you.

3. Get to the plot an hour before sunrise, even if this means getting up at 3,30am.

4. Don't ever park or enter the plot the same way twice.

I think you problem is the guy who owns the land, not some passer-by who done good. Probably worried now, and doing weekly checks. Get the survivor out now, put her into a pot, and call her 'Hope'. Plant Hope elsewhere.

Cheers for the support SB.

I've trying to figure out who it may have been who rumbled my plot, even though it is ultimately pointless.

What was weird was how the cages were piled up next to the other junk at the plot. Surely a land owner/farmer would have removed this lot? But they may have just been planning to come back for it later.....

But if it were a do-gooder who had seen me coming out the woodland at early o'clock in the morning, then they may well have left that stuff behind.

But it's not like knowing who did this is very useful anyway.

I think ultimately what cost me this plot was greed and laziness. The plot worked last year, so this year I made it bigger, and started earlier in the year in an attempt to yield more bud. This has meant more visits and more time spent at the plot compared to last year when I got away with it - meaning more chances for me or my activities to be noticed.

Moving the survivor is a good idea, but it is only a bag seed plant, and by leaving it I will be able to tell if the raid was a one-off or not.

At least the site got busted now, and not mid-October or something. I still have enough time to find more sites for the 6 seedlings in my cupboard and get more plants under way.

Good luck with the rest of the year pal. Shame about the loss, loosin my guerrilla v plates this year and hope I don't have the same misfortune as u. I've found some "perfect plots" that "no 1 will EVER find"... I can only hope!!!:-) I guess u really can't b sure unless u own the land.

Reading every1's grows is insparational. Keep up the good work UK!! I might create a diary later on the season, umm, let's see how things go 1'st. For now I'll just blurb along in every1elses. Peace out. Mr.M

unlucky inter but hey .. what does'nt kill us makes grow stronger eh .. good luck ..

bad new mate.
as you said though at least it wasnt later on in the year. just think you have been about to harvest them buds then they got stolen=EVEN MORE SHIT. find a new plot and get some more on the go, still time to get a good harvest.

nasty news intetr.!
...cant imagine the shit you must have felt. ive had fun following your GGdairy
- well done for not putting all your eggs in one basket!

youve inspired me to get another plot sorted quick-time just incase,
ive put out a lil greenhouse, with a cammo-net loosely hung over and around but still lets direct light through extra
but to my amazement yesterday i found the embers from a small campfire about 150yds away..
it was cold to the touch so not that recent but recent enough to send a shivver up my spine!
dont belive it still...i live in the middle of nowhere, loads of forest etc, no public car parks, roads or footpaths for a good 5 miles!

whats someone doing having a fire in the middle of nowhere in the middle of my woodland!
anyway -enuf ranting in your thread.
best of luck with the rest mate!
BuddyP

Edit: Hope - Gotta love it.x

"I think ultimately what cost me this plot was greed and laziness. The plot worked last year, so this year I made it bigger, and started earlier in the year in an attempt to yield more bud"

That's how I got caught out last year buddy.

Sorry to hear about the loses mate

sorry to here bout your plants the fuckers hope the rest do well

The busted plot I liked, but I never thought of it as a place no 1 would ever find. I knew it was brazen, but then guerilla growing is! Hope your plots are as good as you think

Try and stick to only putting a few plants at each plot.... I couldn't resist the convenience of a massive great farm of weed, and I have paid for it already this season.

Good luck with your grow.... the first time is always an adventure

That's the fucking truth dude! Gotta take the rough with the smooth, and all that

At least I got a grow done last year.... I could imagine if I was a total n00b and my plants got found within weeks of them going out I'd have serious thoughts about carrying on.

And then I'd end up buying some or something, and get back to the mud, brambles and nettles in the dark!

Yeah, there's casualties every year, but it could have been much worse. I hope no one gets mature flowering plants nicked this year, but history tends to repeat itself It's one of the inherent risks of our hobby.

I felt pissed off, to say the least. As I approached the plot things didn't seem right.... the barbed wire fence was a bit too bent, the plants in the woodland seemed rather too squashed... It was fingers crossed as I approached the plot, but nah, the plot was fucked up.

Good luck with your grow. If your plot is in a remote spot then maybe the fire was from some kind of ranger who had stayed the night out there? Actually, someone responsible for the forest would probably stick to the rules of no fires, so it was probably just a random person camping and hiking.

Multiple plots are the way to go. Probably best to have some a decent distance apart too, in case a land owner finds a plot, then decides to have a look for more in the local area.

Thanks Marcos mate. I obviously didn't fully digest your diary from last year!

I hope so too lemzz. Still lots of the season left, so I should be able to get something grown!


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All the best to you guys and your grows this year. Don't fuck up, and keep it , but remember that there are always rippers. Have many plots, no matter how tedious it is to visit them all.

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I've been out last night to find new spots, and have found a few spaces around that I am going to try.

Found a woodland with lots of nettles and brambles on the floor, though not much visible sky (massive mature trees), that is going to get a couple of plants.
I'm going to put a plant on the south side of a derelict brick stable-like building in a field.
Gonna sneak a plant into a gap in a big hedgerow/small wood at the side of a field.
Found another field that has no gates and isn't being used to grow crops, so maybe it doesn't get much use at all? Gonna pop a couple of plants round the edge of that.
And going for a very cheeky plot in long grass just the other side of some trees right by a couple of roads. The plant going there will be getting majorly topped to keep the height down.

Oh, and I wouldn't mind trying a grow on top of a motorway's embankment. Anyone done a grow which is blatantly lit up by HPS street lights? (I think they're HPS - they are the light orange rather than darker orange street lights).

That's what I like to see, chin up Inter

Never done a street/motorway grow mate but I've read somewhere else the street lights are too dim (in a plants sensory eyes) to make a difference when it comes to hermi-ing if thats what you were pondering?

Thats too bad mate. People have said to me I should put more than one plant per plot. But the way I see it if the plot gets found you only lose 1 plant. Sometimes plants in obvious places make it through and "safe" plots get discovered. I think a couple of plants on a motorway, a couple on a different road, a couple in a wood, a couple along a river, couple on a railway ect is the only way to guarentee youll definatley get some bud at the end of the year. And like the others have said at least you aint lost them in October. Good luck with the rest of your grow.

Wakenbake

Go for it,the more spots the more chance of pulling some in,us guerrilla growers should never count our chickens before theyve hatched always have a back up plan.

'sup guerillas!

Since the ripping I've been feeling almost like I'm back at square 1 as far as the growing goes, as the plots I have now wouldn't have ever been a first choice type of spot, but I have been making progress nevertheless.

Since I last posted 6 more plants have gone out. 1 in undergrowth at the side of a field (north edge, south facing), 1 in long grass/nettles and trees by a road junction (should be a sunny spot), 3 in a woodland (not much open sky, but picked the area with the most openness), and 1 in a field by the side of a derelict brick stables-affair (another south facer, but a bit shaded by near by trees). WnB and OB, yeah the way forward is lots of plots with a few plants, though I am still going to be keeping my eyes peeled for a holy-grail type of guerilla site - something like Bad Penny has mentioned, a fenced off disused market garden. I've found myself googling all sorts recently to try an track down sites that are disused - bankrupt farms, derelict countryside estates etc.. Not much luck though.

No photos for the time being, soz. With the nights being short and clear cos of the good weather I don't want to jeopardise plots hanging about taking photographs - I'd rather get in and out as quick as possible. That, and the batteries were pretty flat in the camera

I've got more seeds soaking now for another round of seedlings, and I took a cutting of one of the plants I grew up recently. 1 plant was too tall for my CFL seedling grow space and I had never done cuttings before, so killed 2 birds with 1 stone by trying. The cutting hasn't died and seems to be doing OK, though I am really trying not to handle it too much so that it will root quickly. No idea if it will be a female, but another plant's another plant. I'm running out of good dark seeds and am almost down to the pale "probably won't germinate" seeds, so I could do with eeking my plants out as far as they will go.


Marcos, I was more concerned about the plants never flowering or flowering really late in the season if near motorway lights, but hermys are of course a concern too. But I s'pose when people grow under HPS the plants are a few feet from the light, but street lighting is much much further away, so it is understandable that they may develop fine. Searching this forum turns up quite a bit of speculation about motorway embankment growing, but nothing really documented. I'd better get out there and just try it!