The biggest piece of equipment you need is a folding shovel. I would bring my planters out to the site at dawn, when no one was around. If you're concerned about that, forget about planters and dig holes. You don't plant seeds in a trench. You dig holes 3' x 3' for each plant, 6' apart.
yeah, i realized that shortly after postin...went back out and scraped dirt off the top. now the seeds are an inch to half inch from the surface.
i germintated them and put them in the ground....i dont like growing them in pots or anything cause im a very poor feller. a couple years ago i managed to get some plants growin without germinating them....only problem was, a hurricane killed em all before they could mature...they were just beggining to flower too....
I know the pain of losing a grow to a hurricane... I was seperated from my plant haha...had no chance to move it because the park was closed for the week when they knew the hurricane was coming...but they had 1 guy at both enterances and I couldn't park my car on the side of the road...cops everywhere...civilians no where...
i didnt have it that bad....we just didnt anticipate the hurricane comin up this far....by the time we knew it was coming, the storm surge flooded the route to get to the plants. marijuana plants + hurricane =
Every day from here on out means less yield. You could concievedly plant as late as Aug. 1 and still get some pot but it'd just be a few grams of weak bud. But why wait?
Ok, rangerdanger, I read this entire thread and would like to first thank you for the time spent on it. If I just wanted to grow one plant on my deck in a pot, would now be a good time to start? I don't have an indoor growing area, but is there anything I can do before putting the seeds into the pot outside? I want to just buy some seeds and give one plant a try. Do I have to test the seeds first inside to determine if they are female by planting them in small cups? If I put one plant in a pot on my deck, how high will it grow? Would it be a bad idea to do this on my deck, I have one acre and houses on all sides, I am worried that it will grow tall and maybe be noticable. Thanks
Growing 1 lant on your deck will be no problem To keep it short, do Low Stress Training (google it) If you don't do training, it can grow anywhere from 2 feet to a monsterous 8 depending on the strain I wouldn't reccomend growing just 1 because if you grow for 2-3 months to end up with a male...it'd suck. With that large of an area, if you plant other shrubs and such around it, you can grow about 4-5 plants without anyone noticing...and then you'll have 2-3 females that you can flower that way. Is it a raised deck? If so, you may want to plant on the fence line (well, near it) because it will make it harder for prying eyes to see.
...Ps....be creative ...some of us wish we had the luxury of our backyards...we're out in the woods haha
You won't be able to tell sex until Sept. People with growrooms can take clones off vegging plants and sex the clones but it doesn't seem you have that option. You said you have an acre of land...why not plant out in the ground? By creative topping you can make the plant grow in a dome shape. Attach some fake flowers and berries and it won't even look like pot. If you plant in containers, use the biggest possible (at LEAST 5 gal.) and make sure you have good drainage. AND 1 plant per container. Just plant each seed sideways, 1/2" deep.
Grow an indica strain these tend to grow short and stocky whearas sativas strains can grow really tall. Afghani, kush, hash plant are a few indicas to name just a few. I would grow 3 or 4 plants to increase your odds of getting a female. As soon as they show sex you can remove the males. Theres also the option of buying feminised seeds wich are a little more expensive.
Just bumping this to the first page because it would help a lot of the threads that we've been getting from new people...which is ironically the reason this even ended up on the second page...
Ok you lazy little maggots have you been busy hiking trails, poking around for a good spot for your guerilla garden, or better yet do you have a site and all already to rock? I hope so because once the sire is located, the holes are dug/amended or planters in place and filled comes the easy part. All ya gotta do is go out every 3 days and water/fertilize the plants. If it rains that's great; it saves you a trip. If you are wise beyond your years you have a dependable grow buddy, and your location passes within driving distance to a campground. People who are in tune with nature make better gardeners. I don't have a green thumb. But as a backpacker of no little reknown I am in tune with nature, and know what my plants need and when. The best of all worlds is if there is a little-used backpack campground a few miles hike from your garden. Spark a fattie, crank up Get Together kick back and imagine... It's a warm summer day. You hike in and make camp. Then eat some shrooms and spash around in a cool stream. Late afternoon fish and catch a few tasty trout/bass/catfish etc. Start a campfire. When you have a gdod bed of coals toss in a foil-wrapped potato, then cook up the fish (or roast some wienies) while burning a fattie. Eat, roast marshmello's and get falling down drunk. Then get up at dawn and go water your plants. I did this for like 25 years. Some of my best memories occured while camping. Like meeting a girl who I later on had the best sex I've ever had with oh baby oh baby. Thanks Brenda. Like stumbling on a group of naked hippie's who I am still the best of friends with. Like my Kaos In The Kanyon mini-raves (35--50 people). Note: Don't talk about pot, especially about cultivation with anyone you meet hiking/camping. If you can't go backpacking, at least camp out at drive-in campgrounds.
damn that sounds like fun. I'm up in New England and I was talking to a gardener the other day and he said the last frost threat is this week so I guess it all depends on where you are.
i have been following this plan since the beginning. i have 12 plants that are about 3 weeks old now that i started inside. i was recently busted by the cops at school, and i was concerned about a search of my home. i removed the plants from my room and planted them in a temporary spot in the woods about 10 days ago. anyway. now that the heat is off me for a little bit i would like to move the plants to my permanent location. all 12 plants are at least on there 3-4th pair of leaves. do you think it is feasible to move all or some of them. i don't know how far the root growth is at this point, and i want to move them with the least stress to the plants as possible.
i have a question...when you say one plant per 3' by 3' hole, does that mean only one seed per that 3' by 3' hole i tediously dug? cause that sure is a lot of digging and the amounts of soil you would need for say six seeds would be very large (around 12 bags)