Smoky Mountain 2012 Guerilla Grow Show

[FunkBomb]

Looking good so far. Best of luck this season.

-Funk

 

[nephrosis]

Thanks you guys, I journal because I need that kind of support. Obviously I can't tell anyone about any of this, and my gf just plain doesn't get it, so I might as well not even tell her.

nephrosis:
I'm using basically 4 different areas. I'll post pics as I put plants out, but one has almost no trees, just shrubs about waist high, but it's near a neighborhood so I'm not going too heavy there. That's where my autos are currently.
My biggest spot is a steep large hill facing south east - it looks like it was cleared out about 5 years ago, not all the trees are gone, but most of them are. Very few visitors to the area ever since. Again, shrubs and briers knee- waist- and shoulder-high depending on area. I'm going to put at least a dozen on this hill, since it gets full sun all day long from very early in the morning.
My third and fourth spots have a lot more filtered sun, but not the full tree growth that covers almost every mountain here. They'll get 5 - 8 hrs of direct sun there, and plenty of filtered light through the rest of the day.

Some of these spots have water nearby, some do not. I'm going to try to spread out my strains so I don't lose all of one particular strain if they get spotted by heli (which I highly doubt, since I'm spreading them around so much), but at the same time I want my harvest to go smoothly and easily, and like plants will have like harvest dates. I'll have to compromise somehow, cross that bridge when I get there.

oooo HELL YEA, im already super excited to see whats up! now if only weed would grow in 1 week

 

[choptops]

hey man i just found you and caught up and subscribed so don't skimp on the pictures...............oh and i figured you'd have penis envy

 

[acene]

Good looking grow.

With the mushrooms, I recommend skipping working with cakes and going straight to casings. Cakes are more effort than they're worth and actually no easier. Casings will give you much better results.

 

[whythefnot]

Thanks, acene. That sounds like solid advice, I was thinking the same thing but I hadn't had it recommended to me that way. I'm perfectly capable of googling it myself, but is there a TEK you'd recommend for casing? I'm planning to inoc some more jars today or tomorrow (got my first spore print) so I'd like to know what, if anything, I need to do differently at this stage.

 

[sneaky101]

Whythefnot...have you thought about a monotub? That is what I'm gonna do (if I can ever start). Supposed to be set it and forget it. Easiest one I've read about and seen some nice results. If your thinking about changing things up a bit. Good luck

 

[RosettaStoned]

Very nice to see a shroom grow on here, too. I'm a huge psychedelic fan myself.

 

[whythefnot]

sneaky, I don't know anything about a monotub, but I'll look into it. as soon as I'm done tripping my nuts off.

 

[whythefnot]

Yeah, monotub looks like the way to go. I'm too broke right now to change my setup and I'm still working on my sterile tek, but I'll head that way as soon as I can.

 

[sneaky101]

I think it cost me about $100 give or take for everything except the P.C. Everything has been sitting in a closet for about 4 months now. Just been too busy growing and not willing to give up the room for the shrooms. Guess that is one advantage of growing outside...all the extra room inside.

Hope you have a good trip.

 

[whythefnot]

There goes the rest of MY day...

 

[boobs]

"I am old, older than thought in your species, which is itself fifty times older than your history. Though I have been on earth for ages I am from the stars. My home is not one planet, for many worlds scattered through the shining disc of the galaxy have conditions which allow my spores an opportunity for life. The mushroom which you see is the part of my body given to sex thrills and sun bathing, my true body is a fine network of fibers growing through the soil. These networks may cover acres and may have far more connections that the number in a human brain. My mycelial network is nearly immortal, only the sudden toxification of a planet or the explosion of its parent star can wipe me out. By means impossible to explain because of certain misconceptions in your model of reality all my mycelial networks in the galaxy are in hyperlight communication across space and time. The mycelial body is as fragile as a spider's web but the collective hypermind and memory is a vast historical archive of the career of evolving intelligence on many worlds in our spiral star swarm. Space, you see, is a vast ocean to those hardy life forms that have the ability to reproduce from spores, for spores are covered with the hardest organic substance known. Across the aeons of time and space drift many spore-forming life-forms in suspended animation for millions of years until contact is made with a suitable environment. Few such species are minded, only myself and my recently evolved near relatives have achieved the hyper-communication mode and memory capacity that makes us leading members in the community of galactic intelligence. How the hypercommunication mode operates is a secret which will not be lightly given to man. But the means should be obvious: it is the occurrence of psilocybin and psilocin in the biosynthetic pathways of my living body that opens for me and my symbiots the vision screens to many worlds. You as an individual and man as a species are on the brink of the formation of a symbiotic relationship with my genetic material that will eventually carry humanity and earth into the galactic mainstream of the higher civilizations.

Since it is not easy for you to recognize other varieties of intelligence around you, your most advanced theories of politics and society have advanced only as far as the notion of collectivism. But beyond the cohesion of the members of a species into a single social organism there lie richer and even more baroque evolutionary possibilities. Symbiosis is one of these. Symbiosis is a relation of mutual dependence and positive benefits for both of the species involved. Symbiotic relationships between myself and civilized forms of higher animals have been established many times and in many places throughout the long ages of my development. These relationships have been mutually useful; within my memory is the knowledge of hyperlight drive ships and how to build them. I will trade this knowledge for a free ticket to new worlds around suns younger and more stable than your own. To secure an eternal existence down the long river of cosmic time I again and again offer this agreement to higher beings and thereby have spread throughout the galaxy over the long millennia. A mycelial network has no organs to move the world, no hands; but higher animals with manipulative abilities can become partners with the star knowledge within me and if they act in good faith, return both themselves and their humble mushroom teacher to the million worlds all citizens of our starswarm are heir to."

-Terence Mckenna
From Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide

 

[sneaky101]

There goes the rest of MY day...



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Be there in 15 minutes!

 

[whythefnot]

well, something stole 2 of my autos, the other are all looking great. one was dug up completely, couldn't even find the soil, and the other was just missing. idk. I have photos, will post later today

 

[choptops]

shit!!... did it look like animals? or heathens(people)??

 

[botany]

well, something stole 2 of my autos, the other are all looking great. one was dug up completely, couldn't even find the soil, and the other was just missing. idk. I have photos, will post later today

Nice lookin' plants, dude! I hear you have all kinds of things in those smoky mountains. Bears, raccoons, fox, coyotes, and who knows what else. All of those guys are gonna be sniffin' out that organic soil. That would be my biggest worry with growin' out there.

Last year I found a box turtle had dug itself into a root ball and killed 4-5ft tall plant.

 

[whythefnot]

Yeah, it definitely looked like an animal did it. I couldn't tell what kind, but it was at least the size of a fox.
This is quickly becoming my biggest concern. I shouldn't have gone with blood meal, but I did. Any suggestions?

 

[Phantomx]

Put bottles filled with your urine near your plants, this will keep them away.

 

[whythefnot]

Well, I'm finally getting around to those pics. I put out some mothballs today and while I was out there I snapped some more. The autos look like they're around the second week of flower right now. They all looked really, really good, very nice and sturdy plants, next to zero weather/bug damage. There's been no digging since the last incident.

These are the autos now:

 

[whythefnot]

This one got damaged when the other two went missing:

This is the hole left by the assailant:

This is what the terrain looks like here, just perfect!

Here's the creek I walk down to get to my spot. It's beautiful here.

Apparently it was too early for that much super soil in the bottom of these cups! Quite a few have been burned. Water under the bridge, got a long season ahead of us still!