Water for the Guerrilla Grow

Uvalax

Uvalax

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How do you get good water supply to yalls guerilla grows?

I need to remotely water my plants for a couple different reasons. Last year my
plants were found because of trails i left having to water my plants once or
twice a week. Also, ive been scouting out new spots, and my woods just don't seem ideal for a decent grow. I would need to scatter 1 or 2 plants at the most in 3 or 4 spots. The woods behind my grow partners house are a lot more secluded and open for a good grow. But, because no one is there often enough to water, i need a way to go out less often.

What are some tried and true techniques to watering your querrilla grow patches adequately without having to go out extremely often?
 
Gastanker

Gastanker

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Easiest way would be to fill up a reservoir and attach a drip line to it. Gravity can work wonders in your absence.
 
TheOrganic

TheOrganic

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Ive used a milk jugs and popped a small pinhole in it to slow the watering down and soak in more, gives you some time. Experiment in your yard with one so you get an idea how long it drips out. But only thing is you have a white milk jug sticking out like a sore thumb so you could camo paint it but paint will more in likely chip off easy.
Or you could make some type of gravity dripper. 1/4in Line running out some sort of res. with a dripper you can adjust flow.
 
anymouse

anymouse

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So nobody finds your trail next time you might want to broadcast some time release fertilizer granules along your paths the first time you take them so it recovers more quickly. Just don't do this near water, enough of our rivers and ponds are eutropic.

For water retention you can use some of those water gel crystals. They retain a lot of water and will buy you a couple days.

You can also try making water spheres out of PVC or bottles and paint it olive drab or whatever matches your area. Then I suggest breaking up it's profile with dyed jute cord and twigs or something. Stick a couple in the ground around each plant.
 
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UGA

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where the hell are you guys growing? i go back once a week and each time it is getting easier to find my spots but the 1st time i went back after scouting the spots to dig the holes and bring in dirt i lost the spots all together and had to find new one, then even after that it took me half an hour to find them the next time. now i am down to about 10 minutes, i would have to take a machete and intentionally cut the brush down to make it easy.

try and use the tops of the trees as landmarks so you take a different way in each time, that is how i find my spots, for instance i pass a huge dead pine tree with vines at the top of it and another tree that was blown over and is growing diagonally.
 
Uvalax

Uvalax

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TheOrganic said:
Ive used a milk jugs and popped a small pinhole in it to slow the watering down and soak in more, gives you some time. Experiment in your yard with one so you get an idea how long it drips out. But only thing is you have a white milk jug sticking out like a sore thumb so you could camo paint it but paint will more in likely chip off easy.
Or you could make some type of gravity dripper. 1/4in Line running out some sort of res. with a dripper you can adjust flow.
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I actually read on a guerilla grow guide to drill a small hole in the bottom of a five gallon bucket and it would slowly water it. I tested this out on my backporch and five gallons of water drained in 40 minutes. I feel like this would drown your plants and the water would evaporate just as quickly as you going out there every week and giving it five gallons yourself.

This is why i want to look into drip systems. Ive never liked the idea of watering your plants one drop at a time, but this would slow the rate of water flow so 5 gallons would last a lot longer.

Have any of yall had enough succes with drip systems that you could teach me how to do iy properly outdoors?
 
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newstrainnewrules

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ive had good luck with hoses conected to a small water pump that takes a 9 volt bat on a timer, have to be close to a water source tho, for me it usually works out pretty well till later in the summer when everything dries up, but its good usually threw the first couple weeks of july
 
karr

karr

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Uvalax said:
I actually read on a guerilla grow guide to drill a small hole in the bottom of a five gallon bucket and it would slowly water it. I tested this out on my backporch and five gallons of water drained in 40 minutes. I feel like this would drown your plants and the water would evaporate just as quickly as you going out there every week and giving it five gallons yourself.

This is why i want to look into drip systems. Ive never liked the idea of watering your plants one drop at a time, but this would slow the rate of water flow so 5 gallons would last a lot longer.

Have any of yall had enough succes with drip systems that you could teach me how to do iy properly outdoors?
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well yeah what you've done is paramount to just holding a milk jug upside down with the lid off. The principal behind the method you read about is that the bucket needs a real solid pressure with the ground around the plant. When the soil around the plant is saturated, no air can escape into the bucket, and as such no water can leave the bucket. As long as the contact between the hole and the soil is firm and the soil isn't too loose this method will work. Also make sure the bucket is airtight, there needs to be negative pressure inside the bucket for this to work.


I am interested in using the gel pack things that hold water for you, it really seems like it could help.
 
Metasynth

Metasynth

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I'm sorry, and I know it's not too helpful cause it's too late...A mate went out before winter and set up some big plastic totes like 1/4 mile from his grow, two 54 gal. containers if I'm not mistaken. He buried them up to the rim(thats about 3 hours of digging in soft soil, BTW) and let them fill during the winter rains...Went back, covered 'em up with the lids, then some brush, and voila...108 gallons of water at his disposal for the hot months. Personally, I'm assuming my outdoor grow is going to use at LEAST 1000 gallons of water, but he swears it gets him through the summer.
 
Uvalax

Uvalax

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1000 gallons!?!?!? Hot Damn man. I dont know how many plants your planning but im going to have 10 at the very most. Also, i still want to go out and check on the babies, even refill the resevoir sometimes, so i dont need anywhere near that much. If i used a drip system to prolong the time it takes to empty my resevoir, what would be a good rate of drip to provide ample water?

Please, if yall have anymore ideas on water systems, feel free to just post that.
 
plantvision

plantvision

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newstrainnewrules said:
ive had good luck with hoses conected to a small water pump that takes a 9 volt bat on a timer, have to be close to a water source tho, for me it usually works out pretty well till later in the summer when everything dries up, but its good usually threw the first couple weeks of july
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Small water pumps, or check valves with a timer work great. Do a search on here for Harbor Frieght Tools, I had posted about it back in January.
With this and a 5 gal pail, depending on how many plants, but 2 to 3 plants you should be able to make it quite sometime between fillings.
Also Moisture retention granules mixed into the soil work amazing.
Good Luck
 
Becorath

Becorath

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Add the moisture crystals or coco into the soil. Holds moisture better. Also, you can do the bucket thing, just bury about 3/4 of the bucket beside the plant. Allows for the good seal on the bottom hole. Also, by deep watering, you allow the roots to grow deeper to find natural water and little of your water evaporates.
 
jrainman

jrainman

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I use dryed broken corn cobs as my first layer (very lite to carry in) then I put a adult diaper , diapers hold extreme amounts of water.this step has served me well.
 
BeastGrow

BeastGrow

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don't put buckets near your grow they will compromise its security because they can be seen from the air. use water crystals. time your watering carefully... you will need to visit them a couple times until they get roots established... and then you will need to water more as they get bigger and also more during droughts. in a month with good rain you might not have to visit them at all (unless they are full of buds.. then you might want to visit them to shake the water off).
 
aseboy101

aseboy101

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another thing i dont think i seen mentioned was stringing up a tarp to some trees as a rain catch. keep security in mind. use a green tarp or camo, dont put it in an area that easy to see.
 
Liddle

Liddle

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get a indeterminate tomato plant and plant it in the same size as your holes .grow this at your house in the same amount of sun as the plot. water it when you water your plot. check it daily too see amount of water loss. so if its about dry its time to go water lol. or if you got some rain you can tell if it was enough. stoned i know lol
 
VanillaGorillaDwayne

VanillaGorillaDwayne

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I'm late af but whatever. I use a solar panel hooked up to a 12v car battery and a small eletric water pump from a trailer. I have it on a timer to pump water to a 200 gal resuvoir once every morning from a river . Then I rigged up a water timer valve to the base of the resuvoir then run 1/2in tubing to 30 plants on 1gph drippers. Keep my plants healthy and hydrated all summer without visiting(other than trimming and pruning the plants). All in 50 gal smart pot with water retaining crystals. Yee
 
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