Plain Sight Experiment

[DemonPigeon]

Keep a trowel in your pocket perhaps?

Yeah I've got 4 seedlings an inch or two tall now from the Pintura (still waiting on the duckfoot) I 've kept them in soil plugs, going to do just what I did for my first site, just find an area where people walk past and where there isn't much evidence of mowing or pruning (we don't want them getting cut down by an overzealous gardener), go around sunset or mid day, when most people are at work or back home, (I took some scissors and used them to remove any potential over shadowering rival plants) then stick the trowel in, small hole, soil plug in, brush soil back around the plug, walk to next site

Would love to see if you guys manage to pull a crop in

 

[BullDogUK]

Public land and forestry parks are a pretty good bet I'd say, anywhere with definitive 'paths' but with large areas of undergrowth that you can hide a plant in/behind.

Some pics of the Kaly seeds Mex Sativa in flowering:

 

[Canniwhatsis]

Public land and forestry parks are a pretty good bet I'd say, anywhere with definitive 'paths' but with large areas of undergrowth that you can hide a plant in/behind.

Some pics of the Kaly seeds Mex Sativa in flowering:

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Wow,.... Ummmmm.... how far into flower were those pics taken? Certainly doesn't look like a high yielder.

 

[BullDogUK]

Week 6, expecting a 14 flowering cycle total. Let's not forget that it's the appearance of the plant and not the yield that is going to be important

 

[Canniwhatsis]

Damn,..... I certainly can't run that one here!!!! Gets cold WAY too fast here to get anything out of a plant that runs much longer than 8-9 weeks unless it's in a greenhouse,.... then it's not exactly "In plain site"



Last outdoor season's FAIL! :

 

[DreamsofTesla]

Public land and forestry parks are a pretty good bet I'd say, anywhere with definitive 'paths' but with large areas of undergrowth that you can hide a plant in/behind.

Man oh man, you should see where I walk my dog. Everybody knows where it is, but almost nobody knows where it goes or what the deal is. I'll get pics next time we go.

 

[BullDogUK]

Maybe it would be an idea to 'scout' locations; stand around for an hour or two (read a book or something?) and just see how many people come past or close enough that they might see something.

 

[Canniwhatsis]

That's not a bad Idea,..... tho I wouldn't sit where I was going to plant,.... maybe just in sight of it (from where I was sitting)

But if someone does happen out there, and they see you sitting somewhere way off trail,.... they're gonna be looking next time they're out and about.


So if they see you sitting at the top of the hill, but never went in eyesite of the gulch your looking at your probably good.

 

[DemonPigeon]

That's not a bad Idea,..... tho I wouldn't sit where I was going to plant,.... maybe just in sight of it (from where I was sitting)

But if someone does happen out there, and they see you sitting somewhere way off trail,.... they're gonna be looking next time they're out and about.


So if they see you sitting at the top of the hill, but never went in eyesite of the gulch your looking at your probably good.

No worries, they'll probably just think you're a dogger or something ;-)

Mine were all within 10 feet of a footpath, I went for a walk to scout an area during the busy time of day
went back a few days later in the evening

I like the amount of interest in IPS growing

Particularly liking the revegged plants and the idea of matching strains up with similar looking plants

In a slightly off topic idea, I was also thinking lately that it'd be good to collect together as many images of leaves as possible and look at things like petiole length/leaf area and leaf morphology and inheritence of characteristics in crosses and such, aswell as how they compare in seperate environments etc.

Here's samples from my current grow

It's immediately clear bruised nuts has the longest petiole compared to leaf area, the VBT has a more rounded leaflet-array shape with the center three leaflets being almost the same length.
And the BN and VBT both show small amounts of "sharktoothing" or "double" serrations on some leaflets

 

[DemonPigeon]

The Pintura Ruderalis

Only one leaflet with a sinlge point, future leaves will still only have one leaflet but they will have multiple points in a three pointed ducks foot of 5 pointed flipper or maple leaf shape depending on the underying genetics of the plant (obviously different pinnate leaves have different shapes and sometimes the central leaflets are the same length like the VBT sativa in the leaf pictures above and this is more likely when they're webbed together)

 

[Canniwhatsis]

 

[DemonPigeon]

Unfortunately there was a bit of a disaster getting the seedlings planted out :-( yeah... it went pretty badly as far as the webbed plants are concerned... 3 out of 4 Stems got snapped in transit...


So we're down to only one Pintura Ruderalis in site B so any seeds it produces (if it's even female) will be open pollination and not display webbing (though they will carry it)
Also got a single ducksfoot from my seeds (bad germ rate) but since they're not easy to come by I'm keeping it inside for now, I'll decide what's best for it later

hopefully 4 pintura in site A though and posibly 3 ducksfoot there too

All site B will tell us now is vaguely where the rest should be... So it's a bad day for the IPS plan at site B

 

[BullDogUK]

We got a good number of plants in several locations though!

 

[DemonPigeon]

yeah but I didn't really get any webbed plants hidden at the side of paths

in terms of yield it'll be good but the "does webbing work?" question isn't really going to be resolved by the plants on this site, possibly by plants at the other site...

It does mean we should get a good harvest just not one that's really IPS.

(For the record we did manage to plant Bruised Nuts and Panama in concealed locations just no luck on the public webs)