Overgrowing the Planet -the use of Seed Bombs

[#1cheesebuds]

ive got a shitload of bagseed that i know what ill be doin with next year ... PEACE SM

yah me too. cept Ill be planting mine in more woods or mountain top areas. and in other local areas too.

the problem with doing it in local areas is that most of the businesses have lawn and garden crue and the plants would get mowed down anyway.

so yah everyone needs to keep seed bombing anyway.

 

[messn'n'gommin']

yah me too. cept Ill be planting mine in more woods or mountain top areas. and in other local areas too.

the problem with doing it in local areas is that most of the businesses have lawn and garden crue and the plants would get mowed down anyway.

so yah everyone needs to keep seed bombing anyway.

That's the concern Hash Zeppelin stated a couple of posts ago. And it's a very good reason to not drop seeds outside of more residential areas. Somebody nurturing a crop in the back-country for months would be justified in kickin' some ass if their crop was pollenated. Besides, planting it where nobody can see it, defeats the purpose of doing it to begin with. It's an act of civil disobedience and has nothinig to do with harvesting a crop. We want it found! We want it on the news! We want everybody to see it!

As far as any yard work done to prevent it, there are more than a few people like me who are a bit more "laid-back" towards lawn maintenance. And yes...lol...you know who we are! So, although most won't survive, a few will, and that is the point of seeding in urban and especially suburban areas.

 

[supermanlives]

ive been known to drop a few seeds in the local home of pot. you might get more than flowers in your plant sixpack. overgrowing the planet one garden at a time

 

[the END]

Great Ideas Everybody!
I've got a bag of about 200+ shitty fem seeds, I think I'll go plant them in various potted plants at the big box.

 

[LastWaltz]

Overgrowing Question

Overgrowing Question

What if anyone who had the means allowed the pollination of a hardy outdoor plant and collected all the seeds. Then after the last spring frost, took two nights of their time and sows 1000-10000 seeds in parks fields, campuses, basically any local green areas?

This is of course with no intention to harvest them, I mean I don't know if you guys have ever tried to eradicate a species of plant once it has established itself (ex. Garlic Mustard) but its a HUGE pain in the ass and consumes so many man hours that I don't think anyone could afford the time or money to remove them.

I thought about safety of kids in parks etc, but parks have so many dangerous plants anyways (ie wolfbane monks hood) it really isn't even comparable.

Thanks to Maj.Cottonmouth for linking this thread that answered that question https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=112582

Which I then compiled as follows thanks to all the original posters!

Overgrowing The Planet Compilation

By: Smoking Moose

Hey guys, I am posting an idea that I hope will inspire you to all go out and become guerrilla farmers. All it takes is a little preparation and you can contribute to overgrowing the Planet. It involves the use of Seed Balls.


And just what is a "Seed Ball"? You may well ask. They're cheap and easy to make. And if you do it right, they are completely self automated and great for the environment.

Seed Ball Ingredients
1) powdered clay
2) worm castings
3) 12 cannabis seeds
4) water
5) mixing container
6) stick

How to Make a Seed Ball
1) mix 5pt powder clay, 5pt worm castings, 12 seeds in a mixing container.
2) add just enough water to make a nice muddy clay consistency
3) roll up the mixture into little balls like gum balls
4) let dry in a cool dry place for like 3 days
5) throw them in empty fields.
*(In very arid areas, you may want to add some water saver crystals to the mix)

How they Work
A seed ball is a little capsule with everything you need to grow a plant all bundled up. The clay has lots of root-encouraging nutrients. The Worm Castings will give the seeds a nice fertilizer, good for land that hasn't been cultivated or worked on for a while.

Now all they need is a nice rain. The perfect time to throw these is right before a light rainy season. The rain will melt the clay to expose the seeds, and your seed bombs will grow.

A lot of craft shops will carry the clay you need.
No they do not germ. The trick is to use minimal amounts of water to make the mix stick, then drying quickly. The thing to remember is not to make the seed bombs too big.

-Once you throw them somewhere, never go back to water or even look. Spread them far and wide.

-Rain will dissolve the ball into a mound giving the seed a good start with food and something to build roots into. No soil prep, no follow up.

I don't think just going out and doing it will result in a movement.
-If the idea is not maintained and kept fresh in our minds, it could fizzle as short term memory is a bitch around here. The longer you can push this, the more people will jump on board because it's just crazy enough to have an effect.

-It's so easy that anyone can do it. One day's work is really all it takes. That's why I think this idea is do-able. Worry-free guerrilla gardening you can set and forget. Throw and just go?
-The point is to throw as many as possible around over time and don't look back.

-A lot of previous posts seem to be missing the concept that these plants aren't for YOU or anyone in particular, just everyone, and it isn't for any kind of yield.

- Tons won't germinate or will be mowed down, that's a given.

-I have a massive amount of home-made dank seed and Im sure many people do. strains i don’t want anymore and what-not, seems like this is good use as I KNOW I won't grow them.

B.Grant

It is not about genetics or yield. It's about getting it to grow everywhere, especially in town where it can be seen and talked about, or out of town for that matter, where the cops can chase "dummy" fields. I don't care just plant it and let it grow! And don't over-think this with the soil, and watering, mowing (try planting in landscaping or close to buildings), etc. Remember, Cannabis has done quite well growing thousands of years without our help.

Funkervogt

Seedballs seems like a great mechanism if you have a TON of seeds, like thousands and thousands of them.

I have a few hundred. I intend on germinating them, putting them in a peat pellet until they sprout, boxing them up and taking them for a hike in a few shoe boxes and planting them. I figure 4 or 5 trips like this and I can get quite a bit of coverage in my nearby state forest.
All we need is the help of you, telling all your little stoner buddies that all bagseed that doesn't pop when pinched should be mixed as directed.

Blunted skyline

This isn’t a profits thing, it’s a cultural movement put weed in public view, everywhere you go... maybe then people will realize it’s not a big deal and it’s just a plant I think of it as desensitizing people, but unlike movies not too gore and sex, but rather cannabis.

Che

About making F2's for the task at hand, is an honest suggestion.
Seedbay, Bou, and other* seed retailers have crazy deals on some sick genetics. Bagseed are great, but to really get a start on this it would take some good genetics back out in the wild to give the hemp a loving hand back to potency, as well as generate enough "Free" seeds to be able to do it with.

If each of us decided to go crazy pollen chucker on some cheap beans, it would facilitate the process.

McSnappler

Good thing is, the plants that manage to survive & breed are going to be the ones that have the most chance of establishing themselves in your area. This isn't a bad way of finding the hardiest little bastards you can!

No sense in holding back, one seed run of the best genetics and you find and you can seed your whole town.

Indica Jones

Look for the 15 and 20 bean deals. Or strains like Skunk #1.........or cheap ones like Cannacopia. Just a couple bushes of open pollination will give you the desired amount of second generation beans. It might be good to start with an IBL like Skunk #1. Pretty uniform to start off with and very hardy.

Dank Frank

What about landrace varieties? Do you really just want to have them come into contact with all the modified/mixed genetics that are currently out there. Doing something like this could be the end to "pure" strains as we currently know them.

Melvin2

Landrace varieties, where? That may depend on where you live. If you have landrace varieties around, you don't really have a need to overgrow your area, but if you do just use the landrace seeds.

Outdoor crops here are seeded so I don't care about stray pollen.

The idea is to have it growing wild. It doesn't have to be dank as long as it grows everywhere.

What would people do if cannabis was never outlawed and the plant grew everywhere it wanted? I hear too many cries about stray pollen. Nature is bigger than someone's outdoor grow.

TENNESSEE

Most of this is going on in the US..where there is no landrace...surely some guerrilla growers won't like their crop being seeded but I don't think places with landraces would need something like this.. America is in desperate need for a guerrilla grow though! Make our own landrace, survival of the fittest.

Jack Kerouac

I don't know why there's all this talk of buying commercial or feminized seed for seed bombs. Open pollination using choice clones yielded a quart jar jar of viable seeds. It's not hard to get rolling on this guys.

 

[Warped1]

It's far from the worst idea I ever heard of, or had myself lol. It's pretty cool

 

[Maj.Cottonmouth]

There is a great thread about it here

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=112582

 

[geopolitical]

moderately positive, but you'd better be sure you can do it w/o being noticed. I would expect less than a 5% germ rate, better have a TON of seeds.

 

[LastWaltz]

Well after all that reading I'm sold bring on Spring 2011

 

[LastWaltz]

Not letting this go unread bumped for the best of reasons.

Will be joining you all for spring 2011

 

[shawkmon]

haha i like the idea put seeds in the lil six packs at lowes and home depot, lol people waiting on their hot peppers, baby thispepper looks like weed!!!

 

[ibjamming]

I've been doing this for years...sprinkling seeds here and there...driving by and seeing them get bigger and bigger...until one day they're gone. I get a big smile thinking how happy somebody is who "found it".

I got the idea when I was a kid...we "found" a 5ft plant growing right next to a big department store. Right there in the open..."hidden" in plain sight. I hate to say it, but my friends and I took it. We figured it was there for the taking. NOBODY wanting to keep it would plant it there. Actually, we couldn't believe it was STILL there...it was 5ft tall!

Well, feeling guilty in case it WAS someones stash...we all decided to "pay it forward" and we started planting seeds all around town. We'd all get a kick driving around and seeing them getting bigger and bigger. I remember a few times, having to go back and get one because we were out of weed!

Great idea...do it!

 

[Space Case]

Anytime I get any hermie seeds, I toss them around...why not...probably better to wait for the spring time though...

 

[Guest 26753]

Spring is coming soon so get your seed bombs ready!

 

[Yes4Prop215]

Anytime I get any hermie seeds, I toss them around...why not...probably better to wait for the spring time though...

i do the same thing. ive been tossing my hermie beans into little dirt plots around the neighborhood but nothing is sprouting. even after a ton of rain and even in one plot that had some old Fox Farms soil in it......weird. gotta try these clay bombs.

 

[Shady Smoka]

well, spring 2011 is here. we have about 2 weeks until 4/20/11....lets get those seed bombs/clones/seedlings ready to plant.


OVERGROW!!!!!!!!

 

[PhenotypeX]

i wish weed had airbourne seeds like dandilions, then weed would be everywhere and theyd have no choice but to make it legal. I think some mad weed scientist should genetically engineer a weed strain that has airborne seeds, then we could REALLY overgrow the planet

 

[vonforne]

This method is just like what birds have been doing for millions of years. Good job man.

Overgrow!!

 

[SOTF420]

Spread the seeds for 2011! You still have plenty of time!

BUMP!

 

[supermanlives]

i just restocked homedepot LOL. while there i spread a shitload of seeds