UK Outdoor 2008 Guerilla Style

[Guest]

Well, I think it was a Roe deer, it was one on it's own and I only saw it run off, I see a lot of deer all the time, but I think mostly Red deer and muntjac. It was a big one, probably a lone female as I think the white arse flash is far more pronounced on the females. I remember my first thought was shit, wish I had a rifle, as it was barely 40 metres away and I could have hit it clean in the head I reckon. I like venison a lot! lol

This set of woods has no evidence of deer presence at all, saw no poo or places where they had made beds and I was looking for such things. There are 3-4 well-walked paths in these woods and I saw dogshit, there is a footpath running along one side and obiously people walk through this wood all the time. This is why I chose to place my plants in one corner, there is a path 20 feet away but it's at the top of a small cliff/rocky slope and the plants are at the bottom, the trees hide the plants from the direction of the path, so as far as I'm concerned, the only risk of discovery in this spot is if the woodcutter returns and even so, he might not spot them as I think the trees will hide them pretty well once they are in leaf.

The problem with any kind of scent marking is the frequent rainfall, after everytime it rains, you have to replace the scent markers, and where I live, that would mean visiting the spots pretty much daily! In my other spots deeper in the forest, I will erect fences, but here in this small wood they would be too visible, sadly.

 

[houndog]

Hi BH, I can almost smell the rich aroma coming off of your good forest humus from here. Bending plants helps to contain them. Maybe that's why I prefer small plants for outdoors. Also, having them done before the other vegetation turns fall colours.

Around here hunting season is a time to have your crop out. Game isn't the only thing some are hunting for. I am naturally inclined to a plant growing in the outdoors. I will enjoy your thread, thanks

 

[Guest]

Dammit, it's 4 degrees celsius here tonight and we had some light snowfall, methinks plans to plant out some plants this weekend were a tad premature, gonna wait a couple more weeks I think.

 

[Paddi]

If the early out plants don't do well or even don't survive, I will replace them with more seedlings started indoors

Thats the true spirit bro

Peace
Paddi

 

[smokeymacpot]

Dammit, it's 4 degrees celsius here tonight and we had some light snowfall, methinks plans to plant out some plants this weekend were a tad premature, gonna wait a couple more weeks I think.

start them indoors now, more likely to survive when u put them out as they are bigger!!

 

[Elevator Man]

Yeah, you didn't check the weather forecast for this weekend? Put it this way, I've postponed more hole-filling in my plot till next week at least...

 

[Guest]

Well, this morning it;s bright and sunny but still very windy and only 4 degrees celsiud. If the rain holds off, I'm off to dig some more holes, after talking to a friend, I have discovered an awesome new locaion deep in a forest where there was an old farm that has long ago been demolished and there is now a large clearing left, confirms what I saw on Google Earth and my friend tells me that no-one is likely to go near that clearing due t havign to cross some boggy ground to get to it, so i reckon this spot is the one where I'll place the biggest holes and make some raised beds as the chances of anyone finding this spot are pretty remote indeed.

 

[Sammet]

Loads of snow here today, been snowing for the past couple of hours. Madness I tells ye.

 

[houndog]

There was one time we went to check on our plants and they were completely covered in snow. The only way you could tell them was from the mounds of snow. They were kind of a pale yellow colour but they survived.

 

[Guest]

We've not had much snow here, the fells are covered in snow so look very picture postcard pretty, but I'm at sea level so although there has been the odd short, light snowfall, it wasn't enough to settle on the ground for more than a min or two. Last ight driving home in my car about 10.30pm it was 3 degrees celsius, my thermometer at home said 4 degrees, that's been about average for the last week, so this cold snap has really derailed my original schedule and I've had to have a rethink.

I've set up four 20w CFLs in a temporary setup to keep my seedlings intended for outdoors vegging indoors for another 2-3 weeks as I see now with this unexpected cold snap that I need to wait till April before planting out. I've repotted all the seedlings into some of those 3 litre poly potslike I buried outdoors last week, I used Wilko's Forest Gold + compost which is peat-free, appears to be composted waste from a wood planing machine as it's made up of little bits of wood swarf like I get when I use my electric planer. It's surpisingly light and airy which I like, a 50 litre bag feels about half the weight of normal mineral soil/peat compost and Wilko's are doing a special offer of two 50 litre bags for 6 quid so I bought 4 bags.

Over the Bank Holiday weekend a friend and I took his dog (for camouflage) out and recce'd the forest clearing I had found on Google Earth. We found the path we identified on Google Earth easy enough and followed it, only to discover it led straight into the marsh and I had an unfortunate incident where I climbed over the wall at the end of the path and sank upto my testicles in freezing muddy water, my friend couldn't pull me out for laughing, I tell ya, I struggled like hell to get my soft, dangly bits out of that icy water, I tells ya!

Anyways, we quickly worked out that the path didn't lead to the forest in the middle of the march, it just led to the lowest point of the marsh where it was really sodden and wet, so we had walked right into the worst part of the marsh unwittingly!

ANyways, one change of pants and trousers later, and some time drying/warming my poor balls in front of the fire and drinking some cocoa laced with brandy and smoking some Mexican sativa, we headed back to find the right path into the forest.

I wish I could show you pictures to illustrate and explain the situation, but it would blow the security, so words will have to do. On Google Earth, I discovered that there is a large area of scrubby woodland with an area of dense forest in the middle. In the middle of this forest was a mysterious rusty red coloured clearing. After chatting to a friend who lives very near this area, I discovered that the scrubby woodland and the surrounding fields are free of sheep and farming because they are marshland, sodden with water all year round. The clearign in the forest is the site of an old, demolished farmstead and the ruddy red colour is bracken, the pictures on Goggle Earth must have been taken in autumn when the bracken had turned rusty red. My friend explained that the marsh was impenetrable unless you could find the old path to the farm and although he had found it and followed it all the way to the remains of the demolished farm when he has a child, he had not been back since and he says no locals ever venture into the marshland as there is no reason to and it's a good way of getting stuck and drowning.

From a nearby hill, we could get a good view of the marshland area, it is several sqaure miles in size and there are two farmsteads near it's edge, but the wooded nature of the marsh (scattered silver brich trees) means the farms are out of sight when approaching the marsh and no-one will see us entering the marshland/woods. It was clear that the forest area in the centre of the marsh was on slightly higher ground, in effect, a small island in a marsh. After walking around most of the perimeter of the marsh, we found there are three ways in, one being the old path my friend mentioned, this is hard to find as it's only just wide enough for an old farm cart and on the ground can't be easily spotted as it's also sodden and covered in reeds like the surrounding marsh, but it's solid underfoot and you can walk along it to reach the forest in the middle without fear of sinking. The second route is to follow a public footpath for a mile then turn right off the pah and walk through a small field to the edge ofthe marsh, here the trees of the forst grow all the way to the edge of the marsh and you can simply climb over the fence into the forest and walk through the trees to the clearing. The third route in is much more circuitous, there is a second long-abandoned farmstead on the far side of the marshland on the seaward side, we walked all the way around the marsh to reach the ruins of this farm then followed the tree-lined, overgrown cart track that leads from this ruined farmhouse along the northern edge of the forest/marsh then turns back on itself and leads into the forest, it originally led all the way to the other ruined farm in the middle of the forest, but now it just peters out a few yards into the trees, but you can just about make out it's former route on the ground. We successfully followed this old track all the way to the clearing in the middle of the forest and when we got there we dig a little jig of joy, for we were presented with the most perfect spot to grow cannabis guerilla style I have ever seen, a huge open space about 200 metres long and 40-50 metres wide running north-east to south-west, surrounded by dense forest and dangerous marshland. The soil is fantastic, very dark and rich, full of humates, it is obviously a mix of composted leaf and plant matter and centuries of animal shit from the sheep and cows that were farmed here. The entire clearing is free of bushes and trees, just being carpeted with bracken. At this time of year this means there is a 6-inch thick mat of dead, rotting bracken with fresh shoots of new bracken plants poking up through it all over the place.

I must re-iterate, the chances of someone discovering this spot are NIL, only a pair of madmen like my friend and I are crazy enough to venture into this marshland/forest, there are no public footpaths and the farmers never enter this area as it's sodden marshland useless for farming of any kind and the sheep don't venture anywhere near this marshy ground, they aren't THAT stupid!

So with an abundance of high quality soil, loads of direct sunlight, great shelter from the wind and a plentiful supply of water at hand from the surrounding marshland, I should be able to grow some huge plants here in absolute security. I'm not going to bother digging holes, we are just gonna make a load of clearing in the bracken, removing the rotting bracken to expose the topsoil, then we will dig over the topsoil, working in a laod of chicken manure pellets and slow-release fertiliser granules, then build a raised bed about 6 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep using the plentiful stones and fallen timber in the forest. We will then fill this bed with leaf compost we will dig from under the oldest deciduous trees in the forest and augment it with loads more chicken manure pellets and fert granules and some coco coir. I've bought 20 compressed bricks of coco, nice and compact to carry in a rucksack and they expand to 10 litres of coir. The plan is to expand these bricks using water collected from the marsh and then mix the coir with the forest compost to make it more light and airy.

The plan is for 6 of these beds and plant 6 plants in each bed. I'll still put a load of plants in some other locations as insurance, but I reckon this forest clearing we've found will produce many pounds of bud by November, and the chances of anyone finding the grow are as close to NIL as it's possible to get in the British Isles I reckon.

My friend and I are going back there this weekend to begin the work, just clearing the bracken and building the beds is a lot of hard work, but then digging up and carting soil from the forest to the beds in sufficient quantity to fill them is gonna be a lot of back-braking toil with just the two of us as workforce. I think it will take 2 or 3 days to complete all the work, although we will try out hardest to get it all done in 1 or 2 days to avoid repeated visits to the spot and increasing the risks of someone spotting us heading into the marshland.

Once the beds are completed, it will take several trips to move all the plants there as only so many will fit in our rucksacks in one go. I hope to have 3 of the 6 beds filled with plants by the end of April, and all 6 filled by the middle of May.

 

[Elevator Man]

Oho - this sounds wonderful BH. I may have to get my waterproofs out sometime soon and come and have a look for myself...

 

[Guest]

Yup, it's pretty perfect, you're more than welcome to come check it out and help lug soil about! lol

 

[Polle Pot]

That farmstead spot sounds amazing bro. Wish I could find such a spot, id grow the hell out of it..

Maybe i should pack a few seedlings in my backpack and jump on a ferry to the UK, lol.

 

[Guest]

I fully intend to grow the hell out of it!

I might need some helpers come harvest time!

 

[george j warner]

lol i find spots by cutting holes and areas out of enclosures and leaving item to irrasistable to leave alone to check if there are people in that area ... ie forestry commistion ,dog walkers , kids, farmers etc


items like footballs , frisbies, tennis balls , sex dolls and blow up aliens lol tired to trees... if they disapear move on ...

im happy indoor growing



but its nice to find large areas where multiple kilos are possible : )

 

[Guest]

Thats a good idea george, but the main spot I'm using is pretty much guaranteed to have no people passing through, in the other spots, it's all about careful camouflage!

 

[Guest]

Sorry about the shitty phone cam pics, but I figure any pic is better than just words. I've setup 1 30w CFL and 3 20w CFLs in aluminium reflectors to provide supplementary lighting to my vegging seedlings for outdoors. They are sat under a skylight so get a fair amount of sunlight during the day, the CFLs run 24/0 to add extra lumens. Basic but it works!

I have three nice big, bushy Ducksfoot x Afghan f2s and a Sweet Afghani Declicious S1 (Black Domina) under 1 30w and 1 20w in 3 litre poly pots of copost. I added 5 Baby Bio slow release plant food tablets to each pot.

The other two 20w CFLs are lighting another Ducksfoot a Afghan f2 in a 3 litre poly pot, 4 Bahia Blackheads in 1 litre pots of compost and 2 Biddy Early's in 3 litre poly pots. Yesterday I added 10 Lowryder x Apollo11's that just sprouted. I'm now officially crammed to the rafters with plants vegging an waiting to go outdoors when the weather improves.

 

[Elevator Man]

Are you just sleeping amongst the plants now?

I'm in a similar position - I just had to set up another fluoro strip in my living-room. So much for stealth - even my folks have seen my clones by now! It won't be for long, but there's only my office (no chance), or my bedroom (can't sleep with lights on!) as other options, so...

Still, I have 17 holes prepped now, with about another 20 to do over the next week, and then it's just a matter of getting many clones ready. My buddies are doing great with their seeds and clones, and so between us I reckon we'll have about 50 plants to play with, of at least 15 different strains. Of course, once they're in, there's still plenty of time up till the 21st June to get more in if we feel like it...

I'll try and visit you before then though, as it's always good to get more exercise, and I suspect there'll plenty...

 

[Guest]

Are you just sleeping amongst the plants now?

Pretty much. Basically the place is festooned with CFLs and every available surface area is covered in plants, there is even a Jamaican clone sat on my desk using up the spare lumens from my little desk lamp!

17 holes, eh? I have some catching up to do, tomorrow I am heading out to the forest clearing in the swamp to begin the construction of the raised beds and possibly dig some holes too. I bought four 50 litre bags of compost and to my amazement I used up a whole bag right away just repotting plants I already have indoors. I'll take one more to the forest tomorrow along with a load of fertiliser and coco and hope to get at least one bed prepared. I'm not sure whether I will go for lots of small beds or a small number of large ones, I'll see how things go tomorrow, pray for sunshine!

I plan to keep planting right up till the 21st of June, so many strains I want to try out this year and I figure the more plants and the mroe different varieties, the greater the chance of a substantial harvest!

My goal for this year's outdoor grow is to finance a tour of Europe to visit fellow growers and sample their harvests too, so I need to grow a fair bit of weed methinks!

You'll need you wellies if you come visit my spot tho, it's pretty soggy getting there!

 

[smokeymacpot]

Are you just sleeping amongst the plants now?

I'm in a similar position - I just had to set up another fluoro strip in my living-room. So much for stealth - even my folks have seen my clones by now! It won't be for long, but there's only my office (no chance), or my bedroom (can't sleep with lights on!) as other options, so...

Still, I have 17 holes prepped now, with about another 20 to do over the next week, and then it's just a matter of getting many clones ready. My buddies are doing great with their seeds and clones, and so between us I reckon we'll have about 50 plants to play with, of at least 15 different strains. Of course, once they're in, there's still plenty of time up till the 21st June to get more in if we feel like it...

I'll try and visit you before then though, as it's always good to get more exercise, and I suspect there'll plenty...

come dig my holes

how much soil did you use filling holes?