Field Grows Exposed By the Drought!

[BrnCow]

Aug 22, 1:20 PM EDT
Indiana police cite drought for marijuana finds

SELLERSBURG, Ind. (AP) -- Police say marijuana growing operations in southern Indiana are easy to spot from the air because of the drought.


An airplane pilot guided troopers on the ground through browning forests and corn fields Tuesday to uncover grow sites in Clark, Scott and Harrison counties. The troopers cut down more than 100 marijuana plants.


Sgt. Jerry Goodin tells The Courier-Journal the resilient green marijuana plants "stick out like a sore thumb."
Trooper Mike Bennett tells The News and Tribune that marijuana can flourish in harsh conditions, pointing out, "It's not called weed for nothing."


Bennett says the seized plants will be destroyed once a burn ban is lifted.


He says the owners of property where marijuana grows are rarely arrested, because most "have no idea that it's growing on their land."

 

[Avinash.miles]

bummer, good news story tho.... ty

 

[CosmicGiggle]

Drought and a large cornfield grow is what brought down the Kentucky Mafia all those years ago when they moved the operation to Michigan to beat the law.

 

[Iron_Lion]

Makes sense, gotta be easy to spot a well maintained patch of green when everything else around it is dead and brown.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

all those shiny trichomes & lime green bud leaves; in the sunlight....a blind man could see them

 

[Hank Hemp]

When the corns knee hi and the reefer is head hi hard to hide, hey. I said "hey" so everybody thinks I'm from the great white north.

 

[Littleleaf]

Resilient green marijuana plant..now thats a understatement,if it was HEMP growing in the fields were wouldn't be having a food, fuel,fiber, and medicine shortage.

 

[Stoner4Life]

we've had our share of the heat up here, it's never much but we got way more this year than most others I recall since being in northern MN ('88). we have however had enough rain to keep local crops thriving along with watering systems.

The state of Minnesota sits on a HUGE water table, thousands of aquifers of really fresh water @ various depths. Lacking any mountains aside from the few (Eagle Mtn is tallest @ 2301 ft.) nearby the north shore of Lk Superior MN is mostly flat, not desert-like flat but never much more than some rolling hills.

I get ground water @ 12-15 feet which is perfect for all uses including human consumption after testing but I only use it for watering/cleaning the property; my deep water well is @ 66' and delivers crystal clear awesomely clean tasting water while being just slightly hard, no iron, no sulfur (rotten egg) smell, none of that, just crisp and clean tasting.

BIG downside to living way up here is that the grow season is so short that our crops are limited to both yield and speed to market; corn for instance doesn't start growing in the morning until temps hit 53°F and some nights here are already in the hi-30s/lo-40s and our grow season is just as slow to start in May.

 

[Floridian]

Haha whats so funny is it is hemp!The dumb motherfuckers.Kansas Missouri Illinois and Indiana have more hemp fields than you can count.Especially kansas and Missouri,I was busted when I was 17 years old stuffing a big car trunk full and spent the night in jail in Bellevile,Kansas.

 

[TPFTFW]

i always thought about this. this year ive been giving surrounding brush cheap ass miracle grow to make it green and lush just like the pot. as soon as it purples though.. itll be a bit tough. haha