I'm being forced outdoors this year, so I'm doing a guerilla grow, additionally to this I'm planning an experiment.
(And I think it is a security relevent topic rather than a growing science one)
Webbed leaves - How good a concealment are they?
Webbing is a recessive genetic trait that should make webbed plants harder to detect than you standard pinate ganja leaf strains.
So I'm planting 4 autoflowering seeds with webbed leaf traits on well irrigated patches a long way from my proper grow. In fact I won't be able to check up on them until very nearly harvest time so I can't promise updates, I just want people to have a thread where they can speculate on the odds of getting a harvest the in the same way that I'm going to be specualting in the intervening months between launch and data collection.
I've picked overgrown areas maybe less than 20 ft. from the nearest "path" (though mostly they aren't really proper paths more like areas of overturned mud).
I'm hoping to plant them amongst nettles and other similar deterents so that they will not only blend in but have a level of protection.
I'm sure most of you agree that what most people know about cannabis is the leaf shape rather than smell or flowers, so mainly the risk is from rippers or police.
I'm not using fem seeds so I could get all males but luckily there aren't any other outdoor grows around as far as I've ever noticed (I wanted to pick an area where there'd be the least possible disturbance to others) but that's something I'd like to test during this grow.
The main risks to plants are - other growers who may target potential pollinators, rippers who may steal females and the police.
Possible Outcomes and interpretations:
1) No Plants Found on Return - Webbed leaves probably do not conceal the nature of cannabis effectively enough for this area. Animals may have depleted the numbers.
2) Some plants found on return -
2a) remaining plants males - No growers or police have found and removed the males for legal or pollen reasons. This is probably a safe place to grow webbs but the females may have been more easily found by police or targetted by grow thieves leaving only males behind. Animals may have depleted the numbers.
2b) Plants of both gender found on return - No growers or police have found and removed the remaining plants for legal or pollen reasons. Rippers have not taken all the females. Probably safe to grow webbs. Animals may have depleted the numbers.
2c) All Plants Females - No police have found and removed the plants for legal reasons. Rippers have not taken all the females. Probably safe to grow webbs. Animals may have depleted the numbers.
3) All Plants found on Return -
3a) All Plants Males - No growers or police have found and removed the males for legal or pollen reasons. This is probably a safe place to grow webbs.
3b) Plants of both gender found on return - No growers or police have found and removed the plants for legal or pollen reasons. No rippers have taken the females. Definately safe to grow webbs.
3c) All Plants Females - No police have found and removed the plants for legal reasons. No rippers have taken the females. Definately safe to Grow webbs.
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Female dependent Outcomes:
A) Plants found all (regardless of survival rate) female -
A1) Unpollinated - There are no fiber, ditchweed or cultivated males within a signifficant distance.
A2) Pollinated - There are fiber, ditchweed or cultivated males within a signifficant distance.
B) Plants found (regardless of survival rate) mixed genders -
B1) Unpollinated - Males were unable to pollinate females, this suggests that the female(s) must be in some way sheltered or the males unable to produce viable pollen. Leaves the question of whether there are local males open.
B2) Pollinated - There may be staminate (fiber, ditchweed or cultivated males) other than mine locally, if any germinated seeds show non-webbed leaf formation these are very likely f1 crosses with local non-webbed males (as webbing is recessive).
(And I think it is a security relevent topic rather than a growing science one)
Webbed leaves - How good a concealment are they?
Webbing is a recessive genetic trait that should make webbed plants harder to detect than you standard pinate ganja leaf strains.
So I'm planting 4 autoflowering seeds with webbed leaf traits on well irrigated patches a long way from my proper grow. In fact I won't be able to check up on them until very nearly harvest time so I can't promise updates, I just want people to have a thread where they can speculate on the odds of getting a harvest the in the same way that I'm going to be specualting in the intervening months between launch and data collection.
I've picked overgrown areas maybe less than 20 ft. from the nearest "path" (though mostly they aren't really proper paths more like areas of overturned mud).
I'm hoping to plant them amongst nettles and other similar deterents so that they will not only blend in but have a level of protection.
I'm sure most of you agree that what most people know about cannabis is the leaf shape rather than smell or flowers, so mainly the risk is from rippers or police.
I'm not using fem seeds so I could get all males but luckily there aren't any other outdoor grows around as far as I've ever noticed (I wanted to pick an area where there'd be the least possible disturbance to others) but that's something I'd like to test during this grow.
The main risks to plants are - other growers who may target potential pollinators, rippers who may steal females and the police.
Possible Outcomes and interpretations:
1) No Plants Found on Return - Webbed leaves probably do not conceal the nature of cannabis effectively enough for this area. Animals may have depleted the numbers.
2) Some plants found on return -
2a) remaining plants males - No growers or police have found and removed the males for legal or pollen reasons. This is probably a safe place to grow webbs but the females may have been more easily found by police or targetted by grow thieves leaving only males behind. Animals may have depleted the numbers.
2b) Plants of both gender found on return - No growers or police have found and removed the remaining plants for legal or pollen reasons. Rippers have not taken all the females. Probably safe to grow webbs. Animals may have depleted the numbers.
2c) All Plants Females - No police have found and removed the plants for legal reasons. Rippers have not taken all the females. Probably safe to grow webbs. Animals may have depleted the numbers.
3) All Plants found on Return -
3a) All Plants Males - No growers or police have found and removed the males for legal or pollen reasons. This is probably a safe place to grow webbs.
3b) Plants of both gender found on return - No growers or police have found and removed the plants for legal or pollen reasons. No rippers have taken the females. Definately safe to grow webbs.
3c) All Plants Females - No police have found and removed the plants for legal reasons. No rippers have taken the females. Definately safe to Grow webbs.
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Female dependent Outcomes:
A) Plants found all (regardless of survival rate) female -
A1) Unpollinated - There are no fiber, ditchweed or cultivated males within a signifficant distance.
A2) Pollinated - There are fiber, ditchweed or cultivated males within a signifficant distance.
B) Plants found (regardless of survival rate) mixed genders -
B1) Unpollinated - Males were unable to pollinate females, this suggests that the female(s) must be in some way sheltered or the males unable to produce viable pollen. Leaves the question of whether there are local males open.
B2) Pollinated - There may be staminate (fiber, ditchweed or cultivated males) other than mine locally, if any germinated seeds show non-webbed leaf formation these are very likely f1 crosses with local non-webbed males (as webbing is recessive).
Of course getting it back home will be the real challenge if the plants make it 
