Hi all,
I live in the Republic of Ireland and I hate having to pay 20 euros per gram (3 grams for 50 euros).
I thought the UK had gotten expensive (3.3 grams for £25) until I came over here...
I bought 5x Greenhouse feminized A.M.S seeds online in March this year and germinated them on my windowsill.
AMS apparently means "Anti Mould System" or similar, so I figured they would be ideal for Irelands wet summers (and ever wetter autumns).
I grew the plants for the first month in the back garden (in a blind spot which was not visible by any of my numerous neighbours).
Two of the seedlings got eaten by slugs at this time (though I always expected to lose one or two early on).
While the plants were growing in my garden, I spent many weekends driving around the countryside near where I live, looking for a good spot to grow them.
I had done a guerilla grow in the UK before so I have a little experience, specifically I was looking for:
I bought some garden gloves, secetaurs, pruning saw etc and crawled into the gorse bushes (about 3 metres in) and started clearing myself a little patch.
The patch is about 3 metres by 2 metres, all the large bushes I cut down, I piled against the sides of the patch to prevent people from peering through the bushes and seeing anything.
I used a compass and worked my way south, cutting the tops off all the bushes which were south of patch, to give my plants as much sunlight as possible (which is especially important in september as the daylight starts to reduce).
Once the patch was ready, I put the baby plants into 2 litre bottles so I could pack them in my Backpack.
I then planted them about 0.75 metres apart.
I then cut the plastic container bottles to make collars to protect the plants from small animals that may want to eat the leaves.
The plants had been a bit droopy for a few days, not sure if it was just them being confined to the small pots, perhaps the lack of light or some kind of deficiency.
All I knew is that as soon as they were living outside, I didnt need to worry about feeding them or watering them since mother nature would take care of everything
I am confident that the soil is of a high quality so I needent worry.
Anyway, see the photos below (Taken 2nd May 2011).
I live in the Republic of Ireland and I hate having to pay 20 euros per gram (3 grams for 50 euros).
I thought the UK had gotten expensive (3.3 grams for £25) until I came over here...
I bought 5x Greenhouse feminized A.M.S seeds online in March this year and germinated them on my windowsill.
AMS apparently means "Anti Mould System" or similar, so I figured they would be ideal for Irelands wet summers (and ever wetter autumns).
I grew the plants for the first month in the back garden (in a blind spot which was not visible by any of my numerous neighbours).
Two of the seedlings got eaten by slugs at this time (though I always expected to lose one or two early on).
While the plants were growing in my garden, I spent many weekends driving around the countryside near where I live, looking for a good spot to grow them.
I had done a guerilla grow in the UK before so I have a little experience, specifically I was looking for:
- A south facing hill.
- Thick gorse/bramble patches in an unkept field.
- Good soil quality (Not boggy, or heavy clay)
- Quite far up the hill, away from any streams (Ireland does not need water, or the accompanying damp).
- Far away from people (kind of difficult because Irelands countryside is dotted with houses).
I bought some garden gloves, secetaurs, pruning saw etc and crawled into the gorse bushes (about 3 metres in) and started clearing myself a little patch.
The patch is about 3 metres by 2 metres, all the large bushes I cut down, I piled against the sides of the patch to prevent people from peering through the bushes and seeing anything.
I used a compass and worked my way south, cutting the tops off all the bushes which were south of patch, to give my plants as much sunlight as possible (which is especially important in september as the daylight starts to reduce).
Once the patch was ready, I put the baby plants into 2 litre bottles so I could pack them in my Backpack.
I then planted them about 0.75 metres apart.
I then cut the plastic container bottles to make collars to protect the plants from small animals that may want to eat the leaves.
The plants had been a bit droopy for a few days, not sure if it was just them being confined to the small pots, perhaps the lack of light or some kind of deficiency.
All I knew is that as soon as they were living outside, I didnt need to worry about feeding them or watering them since mother nature would take care of everything
I am confident that the soil is of a high quality so I needent worry.
Anyway, see the photos below (Taken 2nd May 2011).
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