[two heads]

It's nice to see so many legal outdoor grows in this forum. I'm still guerilla growing though. I hope that changes as of Canada Day 2018 but for now, Two Heads is still in the swamp. It's just one head now though. My long time growing buddy moved out west in 2013. I haven't posted much since then but I've been growing in our swamp all along.

This year I went with 10 gallon Root Pouchs as the Rubbermaid totes at the site were really breaking down after so many years of service. I planted two Critical + 2.0 and three Sweet Tooth, all feminized, on June 9.

Here's a Sweet Tooth before the chicken wire goes on. The mesh around the plant is copper, for slugs.



Here's a Critical after the chicken wire wrap.



I just returned to see how they are doing and they look great. I'll post pics next.

[two heads]

This is my first visit back to the swamp and all five plants are doing really well. They are all just showing pistils as well, which should mean a late September harvest. Here's the garden as I enter the site:



Three Sweet Tooth at the front:



Two Criticals at the back:



The Criticals are very sativa-structured:



All in all, a beautiful evening in the swamp. I probably won't be back till harvest.

[CannaFunk]

Beautiful growth and scenery... Big ups!

[pumpkinpie eyes]

We grow like that near a creek bed....youz look gr8 in the swamp

[OvergrowDaWorld]

Looks like a very wet, humid place. Have you grown here before successfully?

[Swamp Thang]

Fantastic grows looming with intent, above that glorious marsh, under the skilled hand of TwoHeads' remaining team member. Those puny little plants that looked almost emaciated at the start, went on to frigging EXPLODE while the gardener was away, having left the crop on auto-pilot.

Keep the swamp flag flying, brother TwoHeads. Steady as she goes. Looking real good. Swamp Thang reporting for taste-test duties per schedule, when the Big Chop occurs.

[PDX Dopesmoker]

I bet swamp water is something akin to some sort of compost tea, those are nice healthy looking plants.

[two heads]

Thanks for tuning in everyone. Cheers Swamp Thang, it's been a while.

I've been growing in this swamp for at least 15 years and, somehow, it seems to get more productive, with less work, each year. As I mentioned, the Rubbermaid totes finally broke down after all the years of UV light exposure but it looks like the Root Pouches will do as well or better. The soil is years-old Pro Mix which is supplemented every year with 200 grams of Osmocote, a handful of dolomitic lime and a handful of mycorrhizae.

It finally has become a 'set it and forget it' garden. This year, I made one visit to plant, one visit to check for flowering (July 27, everything looks like its on schedule) and I'll probably make two visits in September to judge ripeness and harvest. I think it will take two visits because I (hopefully!) won't be able to carry it all out in one. Each visit I cut away swamp growth around the base of the plants and spread Eco-Sense slug bait. Feminized plants have removed the need for several mid-summer visits and resulted in bigger yields as each container only needs to support one plant. Barring any mishaps (tipping over, a mold outbreak, slugs, deer in a very dry year like last year), the plants seem to yield 5-10 oz each in the swamp. PDX Dopesmoker, you're right, I used to have a 'dry land' site in a cedar grove till it was discovered. That site always got the same containers, soil and amendments but yielded about half because the swamp provides a great nutrient tea the cedars site didn't get. The cedars site was susceptible to drought and had to visited much more often as a result. (Maybe why it was discovered after 12 years.) I usually went in the night and hauled water from a nearby river, quite a pain.

[gorilla ganja]

Good to see you posting two heads or should I say one head.
Plants look like they are doing great. I used similar grow bags last year. I found larger ones about 20 gallons worked best.

Best of luck with the rest of your season and may all your Buds be huge.

Peace GG

[OvergrowDaWorld]

So you dont trellis up the plants to hold the buds up or keep them from snapping during a windy rainstorm?