Rippers Found My Spot, So Now What?

[Sad But True]

Update retro???

I got ripped a few years ago... must have been a local kid, in their heist they dropped there torch and school supplies, rubber pencil a few pens etc.
I was gutted, the plants were only a few weeks into budding and one was the biggest plant i had ever grown... over 3mtrs tall.
Hope they had a great time smoking 2lb's of cabbage!

 

[the gnome]

so yeah, whats the scoop with your plants retro??
goodnewz..*fingerz crossed*!!

As someone inexperienced, let me ask, what do you do if you find your spot was compromised? Assuming the intruders were in process and if they took your weed and were gone, what happens?
I would love to hear stories about the moccasin adventures in greater detail, but you might agree that choosing more and more difficult locations depends on the goal and objectives of the party planting. Now 'bout those snakes......

well if they got it and they're gone the only thing to do is go home,
tail tween your legs and start on double shots of something strong...
thats why you find a spot that no one in they're right mind would just want to go.
one of my spots was a creek, tidal influenced but always fresh water so it was my water supply, always planted near creeks and streams for water, this one it averaged chest deep, 20-25ft across to the other side of the water
was low ground with lots of cypress trees and other typical swamp flora,
heavy with hanging spanish moss everywhere.
cypress always grow in marshy swampy areas,
it was pretty forboding to want to travel in that kind of territory!
you had to walk thru that for about 75-100' of prime moccasin territory,
a place no one would ever go unless they had a very good reason.
If you looked throught this swampy stuff way back there I could barely see what looked like some pine, and in pines growths you can find some prime planting in my neck of the woods.
but you had to really look to see it from the other side of the creek,
I saw it, did some recon and swam across, went through the snakey part and up a small 4-6ft incline into the nicest planting patch i had seen in a while and the closest road was a hwy a good 1500ft one way and a backwoods road at least 2miles the other way...

you like snakey stories eh SMG,
maybe in another thread, not this one...I have many a looong tale of growing erb
and hunting the fungi's in the deep south

 

[budman678]

good luck

 

[bagend12]

An update would be nice....

Some rules of thumb:

1) Visit your grow in daylight only to check up on things, and have some other excuse to be there (walking dog, photography, etc).

2) Watering, nutes, etc..are all best done in the dead of night.

3) As someone else suggested, the best grow sites are situated in areas the typical person would not want to go (i.e. hiking through blackberry bushes, poison ivy patches, etc.)

Hope the O.P. is ok.

 

[Jellyfish]

OP, where are you?

 

[santamartagold]

It sounds like your visits to your spot are kept to a minimum. If that's so, why do you have a potent batch and why can't anyone do it because it sounds like you plant, you feed, and harvest? So how is some outdoor awesome while others suck? is it all genetics with outdoor?

I was living elsewhere when I very young and was almost bit by a leaping cobra. Thus my interst in snakes. Since I've tried to overcome my fear by learning everything about them.

 

[the gnome]

It sounds like your visits to your spot are kept to a minimum. If that's so, why do you have a potent batch and why can't anyone do it because it sounds like you plant, you feed, and harvest?
So how is some outdoor awesome while others suck? is it all genetics with outdoor?

I was living elsewhere when I very young and was almost bit by a leaping cobra. Thus my interst in snakes. Since I've tried to overcome my fear by learning everything about them.

genetics is the main thing smg,
start with crappy genetics and thats what you will reap.

 

[RetroGrow]

So I went this weekend to cut my plants, and as I approached, I could see that they were still there from a distance, but my smiles turned to frowns when I got close. The plants were covered with black mold. Totally ruined. Lots of rain here, but no sign of mold last time I checked which was 3 weeks ago. But apparently 3 weeks is all it takes. I've seen grey mold on outdoor plants, but black mold is a first for me. So, as it turned out, those who said cut early were right, but for the wrong reason. My fear was of rippers, not mold. I had covered plants with antifungal powder, but I guess the amount of rain was just too much. So, luckily this wasn't a large commercial grow, but I did lose what would have been my head stash. Lesson learned. Plants have to be checked frequently for mold towards end of the grow. My bad.

 

[hup234]

excelent thread retro,everyone will learn alot from this...

 

[Headbandf1]

So I went this weekend to cut my plants, and as I approached, I could see that they were still there from a distance, but my smiles turned to frowns when I got close. The plants were covered with black mold. Totally ruined. Lots of rain here, but no sign of mold last time I checked which was 3 weeks ago. But apparently 3 weeks is all it takes. I've seen grey mold on outdoor plants, but black mold is a first for me. So, as it turned out, those who said cut early were right, but for the wrong reason. My fear was of rippers, not mold. I had covered plants with antifungal powder, but I guess the amount of rain was just too much. So, luckily this wasn't a large commercial grow, but I did lose what would have been my head stash. Lesson learned. Plants have to be checked frequently for mold towards end of the grow. My bad.

Bro, i really hate to tell you this but if you did put some type of powder on them that's what did it. Plants can make it thru wet but wet that never drys can cause exactly what your describing. Plus i provides the perfect conduit/medium for the molds.

 

[RetroGrow]

Bro, i really hate to tell you this but if you did put some type of powder on them that's what did it. Plants can make it thru wet but wet that never drys can cause exactly what your describing. Plus i provides the perfect conduit/medium for the molds.

This was a copper, copper sulfate & pyrethrins combo-anti fungal, anti mold, insecticide. I had used it once before halfway through the grow, to get rid of insects. Don't see how that would promote mold, but it was raining hard here daily for almost 3 weeks. The powder would probably have washed off in the first heavy rain, I would think. Anyway, it was just too much daily rain to overcome. Plus, the strain, Critical+ (reworked Big Bud) is known to have fat colas and mold issues in damp weather, but I have never seen so much rain on a daily basis.

 

[stihgnobevoli]

welp, sucks about the grow but glad you aren't in jail, you had us worried.

 

[santamartagold]

I am so sorry.

 

[ClosetAdvocate]

So I went this weekend to cut my plants, and as I approached, I could see that they were still there from a distance, but my smiles turned to frowns when I got close. The plants were covered with black mold. Totally ruined. Lots of rain here, but no sign of mold last time I checked which was 3 weeks ago. But apparently 3 weeks is all it takes. I've seen grey mold on outdoor plants, but black mold is a first for me. So, as it turned out, those who said cut early were right, but for the wrong reason. My fear was of rippers, not mold. I had covered plants with antifungal powder, but I guess the amount of rain was just too much. So, luckily this wasn't a large commercial grow, but I did lose what would have been my head stash. Lesson learned. Plants have to be checked frequently for mold towards end of the grow. My bad.

If you were on the east coast, you definitely need to check more often than every three weeks with this weather.

Most east coasters harvested early to avoid mold.