rangerdanger's Guide To Guerilla Growing

Earlier in this thread you said to call the local nursery to see when the last frost is but I went to the nursery and they said they had no way of telling. It was a pretty small place and didnt help a whole hell of a lot. I live in Wa and lately the weather has been completely unpredictable. I plan on planting in mid to late april. Do you think this will be ok?

 

I'm amazed that a plant nursery doesn't even know when to order stock!
You can check an almanac which contains frost dates for the U.S. & Canada.

 

Allright I will do that. Thanks.

 

Youd probably find it online somewhere too.

 

Ranger, I started my plants in beer cups (due to lack of availability of pots and that's generally how I start things) but I'm worried they'll tip, any ideas to make them stable that don't require burying them (worried about too much rain)

 

Sorry to bust in am trying 3 plants outside for the first time in the UK. Can excessive rain be damaging during flowering. How can I keep pests off plants i.e catterpillas mites etc. Have started the plants indoors but dont know when to plant outside. In England we can get frost right through April. Can they handle a frostie spell?

 

WIWAH:
I don't understand. Why don't you plant them in the ground?

P.S. you can usually get used planters free at a plant nursery. Make sure to wash before re-using.

 

Bury the plants with the beer cups in the ground, or bury the plants directly into the ground?

I can't put the plants directly in because it rains a whole shitload in the summer in Florida (for about 45 minutes non-stop pounding rain at about 3 everyday, then sun for the rest of the day)

If I bury the beer cups, won't the plant get all the water from the ground?

 

First off, you shouldn't have used beer cups.

Here's what ya do:
Get an empty 3-liter plastic container and make a mini greenhouse for each one (detailed instructions somewhere on this thread).
Carefully transplant into the soil (ditch the cups).
Usually, by the time the young plant outgrows it's little home, it's put down enough roots to anchor it in place.

If you don't fancy downing that much soda, cut a deal with a local recycler.

buffoonman, while marijuana is a highly adadaptable plant, the UK is not pot cultivation-friendly. Not enough sunshine and warm weather.
Some strains of pot hold up well under frosts, can even survive a snowfall, but some die off from a hard frost.
I'd say give it a go. What have you got to lose? Maybe this year with all this global warming, the UK will have a long hot summer.

 

Cheers Ranger my friend grows outdoors in the UK and is quite successful. Ive now been told to plant out from the beginning of May and get the earliest flowing strain possible. Might try some Lowryders for a bit off fun. Nirvana claim to have a lowryder cross that is potent.

 

Anyone still with me?
Planting time is fast approaching, here are some things to help you grow massive quantities:

KEEPING DEER AWAY
There are numerous ways.
Most effective:
Get a roll of 4' chicken wire. It comes in rollss like 25' or 50' long. Cut 6' lengths of the roll (this takes a l-o-n-g time and you need snips). Make circle's of these (attach cut ends together with wire) then flatten them for easy transport.
Then get some uprights. These can be 5'--6' lengths of rebar or something similar. I used drapery rods since I had access to them.
When you get to your site, center the wire tube over the plant site and mark. The excavate a trench 6" deep by 1" (use a stick) and place the wire tube in place. Drive the re-bar into the ground with a hammer on the interior of the tube.
Now you have a little cage to protect your plant.

Other ways:
2nd best way is dog shit.
Feed your dog meat the night before and before you leave to tend your garden and bring your pooch and a bran muffin with you.
When you get to your site, give your dog the muffin.
Works on dogs just like people.
Deer will smell the shit and can tell it came from a meateater and stay away.

Get a roll of bailing wire. This is thin, easily bendable wire and is cheap. Get the dull non-shiny kind.
Using existing vegatation/tree's (or re-bar), encircle your grow area.
1 strand 18" off the ground, 1 at 30", the last at 4'.

Ask your local barber to save you some floor sweepings and scatter this near your plants.

Using 2 or more of these in conjunction will help keep your plants deer-safe.

If this seems like a lot of work, consider that each plant can yield as much as a pound or more of buds.

Keep in mind nothing short of a concertina/razor wire-topped chain link fence will keep starving deer away.

 

i'm still with ya...


just realized though me and my buddy who are gonna do it live in a far too suburban area, so we have to drive about an hour and a half away to get ours goin..

since we have to go so far, we kinda got an idea have u ever used like a timed water resoivior?

my buddy says supposidly there are like battery powered timed watering things which i guess u just attach 1 end of hose to from the resioivoir and another hose from it to the plants, i've never heard of anything like this being battery powered, but it seems like it could be decent if there is such a thing

 

I can tell you a way we automatically watered our plants at one patch we had going for years, but you need a water source, such as a year-round stream or pond.

You will need
-a 12-v battery preferably the kind used for trolling motors (deep cycle).
-1 or 2 solar panels (the kind used to charge car batteries)
-a small 9-v timer
-a submersable 12-v water pump
-a plastic 5-gal. bucket w/lid
-hoses of varying thicknesses
-drip emitters

Get the 12-v battery and solar panels at someplace like Kragens, Napa or large auto-parts store.
Get the small timer at Radio Shack.
Get the water pump at a RV supply place.
Get the hoses and drip emitters at any large builder's supply place like homedepot.

The solar panels charge the battery, the timer turns the pump on for 1 hr/day (bestt time is 8 a.m.). One hose (the largest diameter) goes from the water source (put a mesh filter or sock over the intake to keep out sediment) to the bucket in which sits a 12-v pump and filled with water (primer for the pump) with the lid on.
Drill 2 holes near the bottom of the bucket, 1 for intake 1 for outflow.
the main outflow hose goes to the garden area and using splitters run a line to each plant. Put a drip emitter on the end of each hose (1/2 gph in the spring and last 5 weeks of flowering, 1 gph in the summer).
You'll need to tweak it, and visit occasionally to add nutrients.

 

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You can even do this with gravity, and take the pump out of the picture. Hang buckets of water in a tree and run 1/4 hose down to a T that connects to a soaker hose placed in a ring with its emitters pointing down into the soil. Of course you still want a timed valve, but that would eliminate the need for a pump if you haven't got the resources. Guerilla irrigation is l33t.

 

Ranger, do you have any advice on how to get the large pots or any large equipment back to the grow spot? I find it hard to do it...I usually don't see people while I'm walking to my spot...but I'm worried if I'm walking with something suspicious people are gonna get...suspicious haha

Any advice?

 

Good question I have the same problem have found a spot but need to walk with soil spade plants e.t.c past fishermen and people walking there dogs. Then somehow I need to cross a small river.

 

I thoght of a good idea if you drag a dead body along with you people will think you are buring that and not growing plants.

 

haha good point

 

so i planted about 40 seeds on 4/20 in a 2ft long trench about 3-5inches deep. in loose soil thats on a hill next to a holly tree. gets sun almost all day. around here it rains somewhat frequently and has very high humidity. how long will it take for me to expect sprouts to start happenin? the seeds i had were collected from shwag and mids mostly.