[troutman]

It's best to prepare the patch the year before.

Never leave any garbage lying around.

[TychoMonolyth]

Originally Posted by Chunkypigs

I've had great luck hiding my weed by planting it to blend in or do late starts or topping in a way so the plants stay below the natural plant cover like these cookies.

patches that you can spot from the air seem much less safe to me in the days of cheap drones and google earth.
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I love how your plants blend into the goldenrod. Nice.

We have this long long grass that grows in the ditches. I keep saying it would be great cover. This year I'll do a few test patches.

[Easy7]

That is why I like autumn olive. It can grow 20ft high, covers low to the ground and gets thick. So it can be easy to tunnel in and clear out a section for a monster. Trouble is with getting the autumn olive to grow big fast. I have grown in it before that which was already there from an oil drilling operation 15 - 20 years prior. You can walk right past and would probably never think to go looking for ganja in it.

[TychoMonolyth]

Apparently autumn olive grows here, but I don't think I've ever seen it.

[Chunkypigs]

Originally Posted by Easy7

That is why I like autumn olive. It can grow 20ft high, covers low to the ground and gets thick. So it can be easy to tunnel in and clear out a section for a monster. Trouble is with getting the autumn olive to grow big fast. I have grown in it before that which was already there from an oil drilling operation 15 - 20 years prior. You can walk right past and would probably never think to go looking for ganja in it.

a few years ago scoping google earth near me I found a small patch of trees and invasives that had a small clearing in the middle so I cut a small tunnel into it and made some seeds outdoors, had to carry water to it every week or so but it worked great and you couldn't see or smell it from a small trail that went past.







this is the time of year that is best for planning out your swamp spot when there are solidly froze.

I look for patches of bushes that are 6-12" above the frozen water level that can hide a couple of plants and try to figure out multiple routes to them away from any trails.

last year was the 1st time I set plants out and didn't re visit until harvest time and more than 50% survived and thrived from June until oct with zero help. only set 12 could have been 1200 if I was young and healthy.

I look for public land a couple years after it has been logged off.
you can usually drive quite a ways off road on their trails to drop off plants and equip.

easy to harvest the best topsoil at the edges of the paths and roads they use while skidding and there are always areas where they leave piles of roots or trashy logs that can conceal smaller plants well.

I like to use their trails to get way out away from the roads and near a swamp then plant the backside of that swamp where no one is likely to walk without waders on.

carry loppers and I don't usually need to cut anything bigger than a sapling to use for stakes, training and scrogging.
often can find dead sticks that work unted the big trees where I harvest some of their myco infused topsoil

one big dead tree surrounded by some shrubby growth can conceal several large plants.

here I used dead branches and fresh willow saplings cut from nearby and fastened with twine so it would be somewhat camo.
it was tied into the dead trees branches.

planting into lightened amended swamp ground just above the waterline can produce monster plants and it's way better than growing in bags.



Boom!

[TychoMonolyth]

Nice.

Google earth Timeview is an incredibly powerful tool to find potential grow spots. You still have to do a walkabout though. But if you can get a November view, long grass is still green so it's easy to find open areas in the middle of some bush.

I found a neighbour's (dairy farmer) grow with it. When I told him about it, he just shrugged and said "They're not going to put a 70 year old in jail for it. Makes me sleep like I was 18." lol

[Hoypare.]

We strip everything right down to give the plant a fighting chance from the get-go,scorched earth policy.

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[TychoMonolyth]

Are those cages in the background? lol

I plan on using my 60v trimmer and have an extra battery. I don't want anyone to hear me. lol



I don't do a huge area either. That would get nicked from the air for sure. Everyone owns a fucking drone today. 5-10 smaller plots only.

[Hoypare.]

Yes mate,they are cages,we filled the plot

[TychoMonolyth]

Originally Posted by Hoypare.

Yes mate,they are cages,we filled the plot

Holly fuck. That's lots!
Do you have a recipe for easy pots?