1st Time Guerrilla Grow in the South Downs!!!

Waddup fellow tokers -
The sun is shining its about 22Celcius and summer is officially here
Going to be doing a guerilla grow this summer in the South Downs, Sussex
The purpose of this post is that I will be both documenting the grow and trying to get some good advice from you experienced members

I have a lot of seeds and will be planting 10 of them within the next 2 weeks keeping the rest for next summer. The seeds are feminized and a mix of photos and autos:
Hollands Hope and Frisian Dew by Dutch Passion, (proven to grow well in UK summer) along with Lemon Kush, Jacker Herer Autos ( from my harvested hermie indoor grow)and some other
freebies I got with Herbies - skunk and northern lights i think

So right now I am germing them in moist paper towels and will then be planting them in small/medium pots and either leaving them on my balcony which gets about 3 hours of late morning sun or
putting them under my CFLs for longer period (Which one do you reckon?) untill they are seedlings with a t least 3 sets of leaves.

Then comes the trickier part - prepping the grow site some where in the South Downs and then transplating my seedlings there.
Question, should I a) dig up a plot of ground to anout a foot deep and about 12 square feet, mix in good soil/ compost/ perlite and then plant the seedlings in this plot, covering them with upside down plastic cups (mini greenhouse)
OR transplant the seedlings to bigger pots and bury these pots in the ground. Should I use peat pots so the roots can grow through (I've heard some bad things though, like stunted growth from root problems and PH problems from the acidity of the peat)

When planted outside I will water a bit and leave a bunch of slug pellets around them .

Is there anything a guerrilla growing noob from England should know before going off and carrying out the above? When do you think will be havesting time seeing as I am planting late in the season?
Any mistakes growers have made that I could learn from would be appreciated too.

Will update weekly.

Start your ladies now. The longer you wait the more you will miss out on. What I do to insure that my seedlings will make it is start them in 16oz cups for the first 2.5 weeks then I transplant to a hole thats dug and filled with good rich soil. If you start seedlings now you will be able to put them out by july 1st or 4th. Start them under 20 hours on and 4 hours complete dark with the CFL then in two weeks just transplant them outdoors. Don't worry about them flowering because of the big time difference. They are not sexually mature so they won't flower any way. They will just adjust to the outdoor time and flower when ready. This is what i do and have been doing works with no issues.

Thanks for advice Megatron - I am going to plant my seedlings outside in the countryside within the next week
Below is a current picture of them
I have been hardening them to the sun by putting them on balcony when hot and sunny and they seem to like it.
Going to plant the majority outside and keep a few token ones so that if they all die or get destroyed I will at least be able to have some.
Fingers crossed it stays warm and sunny here and they aren't discovered!

Looking good man.

So I spent the last half of June germing and growing under cfl and have recently planted them in the beautiful British countryside! I really hope the weather holds and that I didn't plant them too late in the season.

Most are autos with a few photoperiods in there too. I currently have 2 sites, but plan to plant the 3rd batch in a 3rd plot, so will have 17 total once finished.


5 plants in this plot . planted July 10th . Over 3 weeks old. The bigger ones are lemon haze and smaller are Jack herer autos. They are well hidden amongst nettles but sacrificed a bit of sun exposure for this extra cover and security. Plot is filled with a bag of biobizz soil , a bag of compost and a bag of perlite, covered over with the clay earth that the hole was dug from.



Single plant here with good sunshine exposure on side of hill surrounded by brambles.



Worried these may be a bit close together - It was a bitch to dig the hole in hot conditions in wet clay so the hole wasn't as big as I would like and the plants are quite close - what do you guys think?
Shall I move 1 or 2 to another spot? Or do u think they will be ok together?

These 4 a nice n healthy mate if seperate them all if u can they will battle each other when the roots get more mature im thinking

LOLusernames said:

So I spent the last half of June germing and growing under cfl and have recently planted them in the beautiful British countryside! I really hope the weather holds and that I didn't plant them too late in the season.

Most are autos with a few photoperiods in there too. I currently have 2 sites, but plan to plant the 3rd batch in a 3rd plot, so will have 17 total once finished.

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5 plants in this plot . planted July 10th . Over 3 weeks old. The bigger ones are lemon haze and smaller are Jack herer autos. They are well hidden amongst nettles but sacrificed a bit of sun exposure for this extra cover and security. Plot is filled with a bag of biobizz soil , a bag of compost and a bag of perlite, covered over with the clay earth that the hole was dug from.


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Single plant here with good sunshine exposure on side of hill surrounded by brambles.


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Worried these may be a bit close together - It was a bitch to dig the hole in hot conditions in wet clay so the hole wasn't as big as I would like and the plants are quite close - what do you guys think?
Shall I move 1 or 2 to another spot? Or do u think they will be ok together?

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I think instead of moving the young plants (which would be difficult to do now they are established) is LST them instead - this will serve 3 purposes:
1 to encourage them to grow away from eachother
2 to keep the height of the plant low and thus reduce risk of them being spotted
3 to increase sunlight to lower extremities and encourage extra bud development

I will be visitng the site tomorrow to plant some autos and to check up on the plants above. I will update with some photos - fingers crossed they are still there and healthy.

yea they are very close, you can do the lst thing but the roots will still be tangled and fighting over nutes/water. you may have more room up top but the roots will be crowded. That hole you have 4 in Is perfect for one plant. IMO you will get just about the same yield if you pull 3 or leave them all. they only get as big as the roots allow so youll either have one decent sized plant or 4 smaller ones.

Love seeing someone new getting out there. they look very healthy and well taken care of. youll see how much they can grow. Good luck

Thanks for advice bud nug, 3 of them are autos so wont have as big root network as a bigger photo, so I think i will train them away from eachother and hope for the best.
I wasn't really thinking when I planted them , i had quite a few others to plant and the digging in clay was hard work so I just kind of made do with a smaller hole.
Im optimistic that the roots will penetrate the clay soil and find space that way.
Updates and pics coming soon

Here is a pic taken 1 week on from the 1st pic in this thread. They seem to be enjoying their new home in the wilderness!


I now have 3 plots with around 5 plants in each. Just need the weather to hold for a couple of months and fade pest destruction and im set for a big harvest!

Went to visit the 15 plants yesterday to see how they were doing and litter the area with slug pellets.
Here are some pics

I have LSTd the 4 plants below to get them to grow away from each other but it doesn't seem to have encouraged side growth much.


These are autos 1 month old planted outside 4 days ago

Went to visit my 15 plants yesterday and they are all still there which is cool, and they look healthy apart from that a lot of leaves have been ravaged by insects. What are these flies and how do I stop them eating the leaves ??

Can someone tell me what caused this leaf damage? I am going to my sites tmrw to spray them with some organic homemade pesticide of scotch bonnet peppers and veg oil brewed in water.
Do you think this concoction will have an effect?

It has been a while since I updated, but I have harvested some some of my autos and left the phenotypes to keep maturing
Here is a picture of the phenotype plants in one of my sites :
They are budding and look healthy but need at least another month to cook. Hopefully the nice September weather we are having on the south coast of England will continue.
If you look at my previous pictures in this thread, these plants are the ones that were planted close together. You may be able to see I LST'd them , tying them down away from each other
Not only has this created more room for them to grow, but it has created extra kolas and kept them from growing too tall and being conspicuous

This photo was taken yesterday - the plants are over 7 feet tall (!!!!) which you can see as I am 6ft
Unfortunately it is late septermber and they have only just shown first signs of white hairs.
It is unlikely that these plants will be harvestable unless by some miracle the weather remains sunny way into November.
These are the same plants as the 1st picture in this thread!!!! As you can see they have made some progress....

Awesome plants brother, can't believe how big they got from July!

Thanks codster. Yep, they are pretty huge plants. The bottom of the stem is as thick as my wrist, would need a saw to cut them down lol.
They have got a decent amount of sun over the 2 and a half months they have been out there and have been given bone meal and a combo of liquid and dry ferts.
Just need to hope the weather stays dry because quite a few of the autos which i harvested a week or 2 ago were ravaged by bud rot and I probably lost almost 1/4 of potential bud.
If it stays dry there is hope that these large phenotypes will be havestable.