Beaner
Well-Known Member
for those of you who remember me i'll be starting a new outdoor grow this season, my last attempt involved cops/geocachers finding some of my plants, many many being lost due to my spreading them out individually in an effort to hide them from said cops, then a serious drought hit, surely killing any that i couldn't find and drying up my only water supply for miles. in an effort to save my remaining plants i transplanted them from grow bags to the dried up creak bed that was watering my plants in the early season, of course after less than a month the drought ended and the creak flooded again, killing off nearly all of my remaining plants, it was a terrible year, followed by myself being raped of my freedom for another matter, so i wasn't able to finish them anyways, though i did let a friend know where they were, and he was lucky enough to find a few of the plants that i had lost and had miraculously survived a drought in grow bags. they were of a strain called roadtrip or something i believe from fd2blk's own garden...sadly i never got a chance to try the resulting bud though i heard good reports.
that was several years ago and since then i have never grown indoors or out, though i have been keeping an eye on the scene through a few fellow indoor growers, my father and my neighbor, so i'm not a complete newbe again lol. i intend to learn from my mistakes and come up with a decent harvest this year.
as i can see it my main issue was that my eyes were bigger than my stomach, trying to grow 200 plants on a 4X4 mile plot isn't easy, and the hundreds of hours i spent hauling hundreds of pounds of fencing and soil was all wasted in the end, this year i went back to my swamp to check on my stashes of equiptment, all my extra fencing, growbags, lime, weed block tarps, guano, pearlite and big gulps(seedling pots) were gone, a few big gaping holes were all that remained. i intend to fix these issues by only growing a few plants, i have 8 hardening off right now, that have been vegging for a month, and about 20 more germinating right now, depending on the germ rates i may end up planting more but i am paying quite a bit for these seeds, as they are grapefruit, semi acclimated to the area...if i can get away with 20-30 seedlings and 10 to 15 female plants i will be more than happy.
my second problem was counting on the creek for water, i have been morel hunting in the area the past 2 springs and it's become quite obvious that the water dries up every summer and floods again every fall, as even though it is spring now and the creak is full of water, i can see the dead stalks of last years summer plants that were growing in the dry riverbed. this year with only 1 or 2 plots i will not be relying on water brought from the creek, any water i feed them will be hauled in on my back. i will also be planting directly into the soil, after a month or so the plants tap root will have reached a point that watering in this semi dry swamp will not be necessary.
another problem i had was geocachers, i should have known better than to overlook them, they have found crops in the past, i'll be finding their stupid coffee can this year and possibly taking a number 2 in it, but i'll definitely be reporting it vandalized on the website either way, to keep them out of my swamp. personally i believe in letting people do what makes them happy but i draw the line when they snoop around my plants and report them to the police or steal them, as both have happens to me in the past, as far as i'm concerned geocachers and woodchucks are my enemy #1.im also growing on the north half of the swamp this year, as the geocache, as well as atv punks only seem to stay on the south half.(it's separated by the creek)
i am gearing up to go out to my swamp in search of morels as i type, i'll use this as an opportunity to scout out good growing areas, while maintaining the veneer of a person who has a legitimate reason to be sneaking around the bush...since i have lost a substantial amount of my grow equipment that i had buried and covered in sticks and bark i'll be looking for areas with good natural soil so i can keep the amending to a minimum, i have bought a minimal amount of dolomite lime, Mexican bat guano, and vermiculite.
i'll be planting 1-3 plots on the south facing sides of the interspersed bunches of common willow, the south side of a bush receives the most sunlight in this hemisphere, and the bushes will help break up the shape of the plants, so they wont be visible overhead by passing planes(near a small airport for private planes and crop dusters)or by passing people.(though there shouldn't be any of those, it's ROUGH country!)
pictures will come, though not as often as my last grow log, as a full-time parent, college student, and carpenter i don't have a whole lot of time to devote to growing and documentation, hence the low workload grow. i will take a few pictures while i am out today however to give you an idea of the area i'll be growing in.
that was several years ago and since then i have never grown indoors or out, though i have been keeping an eye on the scene through a few fellow indoor growers, my father and my neighbor, so i'm not a complete newbe again lol. i intend to learn from my mistakes and come up with a decent harvest this year.
as i can see it my main issue was that my eyes were bigger than my stomach, trying to grow 200 plants on a 4X4 mile plot isn't easy, and the hundreds of hours i spent hauling hundreds of pounds of fencing and soil was all wasted in the end, this year i went back to my swamp to check on my stashes of equiptment, all my extra fencing, growbags, lime, weed block tarps, guano, pearlite and big gulps(seedling pots) were gone, a few big gaping holes were all that remained. i intend to fix these issues by only growing a few plants, i have 8 hardening off right now, that have been vegging for a month, and about 20 more germinating right now, depending on the germ rates i may end up planting more but i am paying quite a bit for these seeds, as they are grapefruit, semi acclimated to the area...if i can get away with 20-30 seedlings and 10 to 15 female plants i will be more than happy.
my second problem was counting on the creek for water, i have been morel hunting in the area the past 2 springs and it's become quite obvious that the water dries up every summer and floods again every fall, as even though it is spring now and the creak is full of water, i can see the dead stalks of last years summer plants that were growing in the dry riverbed. this year with only 1 or 2 plots i will not be relying on water brought from the creek, any water i feed them will be hauled in on my back. i will also be planting directly into the soil, after a month or so the plants tap root will have reached a point that watering in this semi dry swamp will not be necessary.
another problem i had was geocachers, i should have known better than to overlook them, they have found crops in the past, i'll be finding their stupid coffee can this year and possibly taking a number 2 in it, but i'll definitely be reporting it vandalized on the website either way, to keep them out of my swamp. personally i believe in letting people do what makes them happy but i draw the line when they snoop around my plants and report them to the police or steal them, as both have happens to me in the past, as far as i'm concerned geocachers and woodchucks are my enemy #1.im also growing on the north half of the swamp this year, as the geocache, as well as atv punks only seem to stay on the south half.(it's separated by the creek)
i am gearing up to go out to my swamp in search of morels as i type, i'll use this as an opportunity to scout out good growing areas, while maintaining the veneer of a person who has a legitimate reason to be sneaking around the bush...since i have lost a substantial amount of my grow equipment that i had buried and covered in sticks and bark i'll be looking for areas with good natural soil so i can keep the amending to a minimum, i have bought a minimal amount of dolomite lime, Mexican bat guano, and vermiculite.
i'll be planting 1-3 plots on the south facing sides of the interspersed bunches of common willow, the south side of a bush receives the most sunlight in this hemisphere, and the bushes will help break up the shape of the plants, so they wont be visible overhead by passing planes(near a small airport for private planes and crop dusters)or by passing people.(though there shouldn't be any of those, it's ROUGH country!)
pictures will come, though not as often as my last grow log, as a full-time parent, college student, and carpenter i don't have a whole lot of time to devote to growing and documentation, hence the low workload grow. i will take a few pictures while i am out today however to give you an idea of the area i'll be growing in.
