A Guerrilla's Journey to The Promised Land

[GEMiNi GENETiCS]

Welcome! I make no promises how this will end. Go big or go home! To all my Guerrilla's in the struggle and those that have passed on....here's to you!

RIP silverback .. .. .. this ones for you!

I guerrilla grow with a set of flexible rules (except rule 1)

1...tell no one!
Loose lips sink ships

2...take your trash with you!
Trash evidence can ruin a pristine location and offers more chance for you to be busted!
As part of my cover story I actually will pick up trash and bag it as I just look like an eco nut hiking...bird watching...fishing...student doing a paper for a botany class catologing varies plants/animals/bugs.

3...Keep it Organic. Organic ferts, organic pest prevention and sprays

4...Plant 1 for the cops, 1 for the rippers and 1 for yourself.

With that being said let's gets the show on the road.

I will be growing in a few locations; a field adjacent to a stream, a fen and wetlands/swamp.

All plants will be in ground or mounds except those in swamp tubes. With .5m high chicken wire fence cage w locally sourced branches for the stakes. Plants will be visited bi-weekly when possible. During visits they will get a foliar of stinging nettle tea with neem oil and Epsom salts. I may test out fulvic and humic acid on a few plants as well but not sure (perhaps a test for next season).

I have 6 bales of peat out in the bush cooking. 6 more to bring out over the next month. As well as a dozen that will be brought out throughout the summer for next season.

The Base mix.
Currently each bale is amended with 2#espoma rose tone, 2# espoma garden tone, 1cup espoma holly tone, 3cups greensand, 2cups d.lime, 1 cup chicken shit, ½ cup Azomite plus 20L of vermiculite. Will be adding kelp, neem cake and diatomacious earth to each bale as soon as it arrives.

By individuals. Addition to the base.

2 cups of sand + 2 cups vermiculite are added to each swamp tube (2'h x 1' dia.)
2 tsp of water crystals added per mound/ground plants.
Plants in ground in clay soil will also have extra sand mixed in.

Strains will be:
MOB (clone only)
KKSC (clone only)
SFV OG (clone only)
PK (clone only)
NL5 x Haze aka #1 (clone only)
Melty's Pre98 x Cush (seed)

A few more will be added to the mix as testers to see what works and what doesn't. 75% will be MOB and KKSC.

If all goes well I'll have a pile of ganja come Autumn. And more importantly lots of data will be collected to get better next season with more soil, more diverse microbs and less prep time!

 

[GEMiNi GENETiCS]

Reserved for pictures.

 

[soil margin]

This sounds awesome, looking forward to seeing your spots. How effective do you find the stinging nettle neem tea foliar spray?

 

[Toxsik 8]

GL GG i see you have major skillz..

 

[GEMiNi GENETiCS]

This sounds awesome, looking forward to seeing your spots. How effective do you find the stinging nettle neem tea foliar spray?

This will actually be the first time using nettle....been worked well enough....found it kept the deer away more than anything else....bugs don't even bother my healthy plants...just the weak and sick....but I'm hoping not to have any weak or sick plants w the organic mixed up proper.


Thanks toxsik8 ... hopefully I can bring this one home. My best location can be seen in my Rez grow in 2010 in my SIG. Everything is perfect except the field is rocky thus the mounds of peat lol

I will also be practicing a few of silverbacks techniques this season....various mulches....cedar, stinging nettle, alfalpha and local leaf liter to see what if any differences there are. Guerilla water collar, force flowering a NL5Haze(doing a full season #1 to compare finish time and quality) and the horizontal grow (bend it over lightly shave stalk and now cover stalk) to effectively double the root mass once rooting begins...bigger roots=bigger plants!

 

[2 Legal Co]

I'll sit in for this one.

Enjoying the 'outdoor grows' vicariously.

 

[Toxsik 8]

i was lurking yr 2010 out... sharp training but after four years you have major work with grub out bush for more sun... peace

 

[GEMiNi GENETiCS]

Just ran 5 more bales of peat out to my field. 5 mounds each 3cubic ft of peat....have another 12 cubic ft of peat out there cooking for a few weeks. Plus 300 gallons of recycled soil from years past.

 

[Team Microbe]

Nice man!! Sounds like you're hitting the season with full-force!


I just bought a big bag of Espoma Plant Toner as well... how long are you letting yours cook before transplanting? Do you think 3 week old seedlings will burn if they're introduced to it un-cooked??

I'm about to start my thread for the season, yours is inspiring me! Be good out there, and stay safe

 

[GEMiNi GENETiCS]

I got me a seat in yours bro....lookin good out there.

I've let a majority cook for 3wks but a fresh batch has been out for 1 week. I'm mixing it VERY hot so mine would cause a young plant to self combust lol
Mix yours ½ strength and give it plenty of water and mix thoroughly to speed up the process then top dress hald way through the season. Also grab a few bags of rose tone as that's well balanced for flowers. I did 2# plant tone plus 2#rose tone plus all the extras per bale plus 1cuft vermiculite and ½cuft of sand.

Throughout the summer I will be making more mounds. Each mound will be 6cu ft each and looking to have 12 of them.

Beer cups of stinging nettles rooting up and will be brought out to locations without them for barriers and teas.

 

[Mar-Tay]

great soil recipe. will be checkin in on this one.. happy harvesting

 

[Team Microbe]

I got me a seat in yours bro....lookin good out there.

I've let a majority cook for 3wks but a fresh batch has been out for 1 week. I'm mixing it VERY hot so mine would cause a young plant to self combust lol
Mix yours ½ strength and give it plenty of water and mix thoroughly to speed up the process then top dress hald way through the season. Also grab a few bags of rose tone as that's well balanced for flowers. I did 2# plant tone plus 2#rose tone plus all the extras per bale plus 1cuft vermiculite and ½cuft of sand.

Throughout the summer I will be making more mounds. Each mound will be 6cu ft each and looking to have 12 of them.

Beer cups of stinging nettles rooting up and will be brought out to locations without them for barriers and teas.

I love how your stacking functions with the nettles man... I wanna order some seeds right now but I'm wondering how you go about it first. Do you find native nettles and clone? Or start seeds?

And if it is the germination route, is it too late for me to pop seeds if I'm transplanting within the next 3 weeks?

Thanks Gemini

 

[GEMiNi GENETiCS]

Gotta let nature work for ya.

Too late for nettle seeds this year or next....takes them a bit to build up to proper size. If I were you I'd just search locally and dig up small sections with 2-3 stems and a bunch of roots....plant and dose of water and they will be moving right on along. After I plant mine I will be transplanting from various areas throughout the summer to provide a very inhospitable area for people or animals. Trying to clone some BlackBerry bushes too.

 

[GEMiNi GENETiCS]

great soil recipe. will be checkin in on this one.. happy harvesting

Thanks. Enjoy the show. Will have pics when things get fun.

 

[OvergrowDaWorld]

Great idea with the blackberry and nettles.
I just use fishing line for now, and that keeps the deer away.
There are so many deer in my area that Ill actually have to repair the line all summer long cuz the males/bucks horns get all tangled in it and they break it. Scares em off real good though.

Would love to have a spot with blackberry bushes. We got a huge bush out in the back yard. Bears always come and eat at them before winter.
I could def take clones and plant them around my big spot.

 

[2 Legal Co]

Great idea with the blackberry and nettles.
I just use fishing line for now, and that keeps the deer away.
There are so many deer in my area that Ill actually have to repair the line all summer long cuz the males/bucks horns get all tangled in it and they break it. Scares em off real good though.

Would love to have a spot with blackberry bushes. We got a huge bush out in the back yard. Bears always come and eat at them before winter.
I could def take clones and plant them around my big spot.

Do Blackberries 'sucker', or do they send 'runners'. Raspberries sucker out sufficiently to string out a small patch to make a 'fence' rather quickly.

You might take a look at the big Blackberry bush out back. Might have 30-40 that can be dug now and transplanted, more easily and quickly than cloning.

Sounds like a great edible deterrent. lol Although out here the bears would show like clockwork when the berries did. Good luck with that.

 

[JointOperation]

Great idea with the blackberry and nettles.
I just use fishing line for now, and that keeps the deer away.
There are so many deer in my area that Ill actually have to repair the line all summer long cuz the males/bucks horns get all tangled in it and they break it. Scares em off real good though.

Would love to have a spot with blackberry bushes. We got a huge bush out in the back yard. Bears always come and eat at them before winter.
I could def take clones and plant them around my big spot.

we tried putting our normal line up around the spot.. then a warning line.. up like 20 -30 feet away.. hang a few cans spray painted and glue some leafs an shit on them to camo them out.. toss a few rocks our pennies in.. and anyone comes close u can bounce out.. and when deer hit the warning line and hear the noise they bolt and usually wont go near the spot again all year.. worked great last year.. not a single plant was eaten by the deer in spots we used this.

 

[rik78]

another one that is pulling a chair and watching the show!!

 

[fatsack79]

Right on... I'll have a set down too...

 

[dannykarey]

Sub'd.........Like yer ideas man.

Lookin forward to the show

Danny