Home vegetable garden camouflage techniques

[Captain Ginyu]

Planting other veggies such as tomatoes, and beans helps. Also, don't forget herbs, such as basil, dill, and parsley. They grow fast, have pungent odors of their own to help mask the bud smell, and if placed right, your crop will be cloaked! Give it a try!

 

[Dignan]

1. If you use fake flowers, find small bland looking ones. Don't pick big, colorful weird-looking, attention getting flowers. Something like the small white blossoms that a strawberry plant gets work well.

2. Castor Bean plants. Grow fast, resemble cannabis somewhat. Get huge. Come in a variety of colors, most of them dark green to purple.

3. Start the cannabis plants late, so they stay small, and train them in odd shapes that don't look like the typical cannabis plant. (Not that the average person knows what the typical cannabis plant looks like, anyway tho. They know the leaf shape, but not the plant structure usually.)

 

[Dignan]

Bong- thanks for the Cleome tip. Excellent camo plant for the home garden!!

Check this out peeps:

 

[Dignan]

Some Cleome varieties even appear to have "buds."

And.... I just read a gardener's report of growing Cleome where she complained that they smell exactly like a skunk!

 

[Browser]

Hello folks,

Looking around I came accross these 2 plants, which I also thought could be of use:

One is hop (one of the main ingredients in beer making) this is a "climing" plant, that comes in males and fem gender. Only the female produces the hops used in beer.



This other one, unfortunately I have no idea of the name (any info on the name would be welcome) As far as I know, it's wild plant, that produces yellow flowers. Grows straight up, to about 1.60 mtrs /5 ft.



Hope that helps

 

[hunt4genetics]

I love those cleomes!
this is a great thread!

great cleome pics,
they look fun to grow on their own


peace,
h4g

 

[Dignan]

Yeah, now that I'm aware of cleomes I realize that we have a native wild variety here where I am. They're everywhere and cannabis would be invisible hidden in the cleomes, but the problem is that the wild cleomes here only grow in complete shade.

 

[elevate]

Any techniques for conceilling pot from a nearby street, in a vegetable garden ?

maybe try growing indica strains. or train the plants to be bushy from a young age (pruning/topping). i think smell might be a problem. have other plants that smell, but i dont know if you can out-dank mj...

 

[DimeBag65]

the odor off stinky strains will travel quite a ways especially when it gets hot and no air flow, the smell will just sit in the whole area.

this is when you need to find low odor strains to go along with your garden... if your worried about someone in your area pulling a ripper move i would suggest not growing numerous plants or very large ones, unless you can find a very low odor strain to put in.

a few nice size stinkers will put off odor 500 or more feet at times depending on wind change... lower odor strains wont be as detectable up to maybe 50 to 200 feet or so? im not sure exactly depending on size, strain etc..

i like those pictures... what are good plants to grow in direct sun? pungent smell would be nice too...

Dime

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

One thing I think should be kept in mind here is that patches of plants that look like Cannabis may actually atract peoples eyes even more. Especially if the plants are grown where people may be able to walk close by, or look over the fence easily.

Just something to keep in mind in developing your hiding strategy, for your specific situation.

 

[techattack]

exelent post mate. i've done some similar last year. had some tomatoes and pumpkins hiding, will add some sun flowers this year..

 

[mossy]

Spot the LR cross in the geraniums..




Jasmine flowers around the 12-12 mark..same as the girls.
Smell is so strong..and similar..it hides a multitude of sins..

Tried and tested.

 

[Gist]

This is a good thread. I use mostly bamboos to hide mine now.

Somehow I don't have much luck, even though I have a very wild garden with tons of different plants of all shapes and sizes, whenever someone is in the garden they always find a mj plant and say 'oooh what's this???'

So now I try to grow in the most inaccessible part of the garden as far out of site as possible--but that's tricky to do and get good sun at the same time. Also now I'm very careful not to let ANYONE in the yard--ever.

 

[fishheadbob]

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Somehow I don't have much luck, even though I have a very wild garden with tons of different plants of all shapes and sizes, whenever someone is in the garden they always find a mj plant and say 'oooh what's this???'

Yeah. it's embarrassing to get caught with weed in the garden. I always tried to have a few names ready ... "Oh, that's aspedester" or Cleotis. I watch a lot of baseball, you can pick up some great names from some of the players. But often somebody will suggest we roll up some of that cleotis and smoke it. Maybe this year some Bonzalion plants or clemenza ?

That cleome is some good looking plant, I'd consider some for the flower garden, but because it is an eye catcher I'd keep the weed elsewhere.

 

[Luther Budbank]

My favorite technique is to use Butterfly Bushes (Buddleia) as cover plants. I keep the Cannabis in 2 gallon pots buried below ground level to keep the plants small. I trim each leaf down to a single leaflet and it ends up looking just like the Butterfly Bushes. After blooming, the Butterfly Bush flower clusters look a lot like Cannabis flowers. The open structure of the Butterfly Bush doesn't shade out the Cannabis but still provides cover from any airborne prying eyes. It would take a PhD in botany to be able to pick out the Cannabis.

I'm going to have to try some Cleome. Some Japanese Maples look just like Cannabis.
I'm not sure if they would bring unwanted attention. Hops, used to flavor beer, is closely related to Cannabis. Pot and beer, proof that God wants us to be happy. ;-)

 

[happyherb]

Hello folks,

Looking around I came accross these 2 plants, which I also thought could be of use:

One is hop (one of the main ingredients in beer making) this is a "climing" plant, that comes in males and fem gender. Only the female produces the hops used in beer.



This other one, unfortunately I have no idea of the name (any info on the name would be welcome) As far as I know, it's wild plant, that produces yellow flowers. Grows straight up, to about 1.60 mtrs /5 ft.



Hope that helps

that plant in the pic looks like goldenrod to me.

one year while living in the country i had some plants that could be easily seen from the road....you would have to be going walking speed to really get a look at them from 200 feet away and really no one walked down this road but mainly drove fast ...but you never know?.....i used some left over xmas balloons mostly red and some white ones splashed with dirt..packed with some more balloons or some plastic bags to resemble toms .
At the same time i had a fruit tree covering some sativas ...the tree did a great job but sativas as we know has a longer flower time and lol i didnt think about the fruit tree dropping it's leaves before the end of flower.....man that was a scary view as i walked around checking from all points if my girls were covered...last check was from the drive way where ppl got out of there cars(and had been...chatted with the landlord days before with him facing the plants) ...and there they were 50 feet away sticking out over 7 ft tall plants....they hermed pretty bad and i ripped anyway....learnt a good lesson thou....whats hiding my plants now may not be hiding them later.

i also wondered if putting all these "weed" look a likes might bring someones interest to my patch????"hey man is that weed? naarrrr just some flower ....but that sure is just near it" HH. =]-~

 

[mr.brunch]

Good thread... Just what I was looking for.
An oldie but a good one.

Any more ideas, mainly for vegetable type cover?

 

[moses wellfleet]

I haven't seen anybody mention a 'vine indica' which is an old classic.

Basically you start removing the lower leaves from the plant early on in the season so that it grows tall with a bare stem. Then you place it next to a vine that is growing on overhead support. The combination of the bare stem and the flowering buds in amongst the foliage of the vine make it practically invisible.

https://books.google.co.za/books?id...YDkYQ6AEIJzAE#v=onepage&q=vine indica&f=false