Share Your 2022 Guerilla Plans, Strains and Tips.

[djonkoman]

ha, looks like I'm doing stuff a bit different from most, in my circumstances I disagree with quiet some tips in the OP.

for example, I've never ever caged plants. in the area of my spots there are big animals, but they barely bother my plants. I have had plants trampled to the ground, then rotted, but never eaten by big animals. I did lose everything to slugs last year, but a cage won't stop those.
caging would just make the plants more noticable at a distance, if anyone ever comes close. (the slugs were never a problem there before, so I already counted myself lucky I never had to do anything about slugs. but last summer was very wet, and suddenly that area was full of slugs)

I also never dig holes. previous years I did dig/loosen/till an area before planting, but last year I didn't even really do that, just loosen up a small area well enough to be able to plant a plant in it, nothing more. then just throwing some chicken shit pellets on top of the soil around the plants.

I've also topped guerilla plants, never had issues with splitting or anything. I don't really have a preference for topped/untopped though. topping can spread the budrot risks a bit since if it attacks one of the main buds there's still a 2nd left.

my biggest tip would be to get some good tools, preferable small/lightweight. my biggest asset are my leather gloves. I can just grab brambles and pull them out with their roots.

I like a get in-get out approach. minimise labour so I can plant more plants and be done faster. visit almost never (one or two visits halfway the season to remove bindweed climbing into my plants is very helpfull, and if using non-fem seeds one visit around beginning of flowering to remove males. then a bit more visiting towards harvest, to determine the right moment to take everything home).
I like to take entire plants home, I'll only cut out majorly rotten buds, but I don't trim on the spot. usually harvest at night, and just want to get out quickly with my big bag full of smell. I seperate plants in seperate garbage bags, which go into a bigger bag (or I seperate strains/crosses, depending on how well I labeled the plants. if I'm not sure which is which I keep individual plants seperate, and usually along the whole process of trimming>drying>smoking I figure out what it is by the smell/high/looks).

as soon as I get home first thing I do is take everything out of the bags and lay them spread out on top of the bags. Then I take a shower and check myself for ticks. have a beer and a joint, and then I'll start preparing the plants for hanging: remove all the biggest fan leaves, remove all budrot I see, attach labels to the stem what's what, and hang it up. I like to do the leaf/budrot removal on plants hanging upside down at eye/shoulder level, so I can do the cleaning up while standing next to it.
usually finish somewhere late in the night. have another joint, and go to bed.

 

[goingrey]

Hey everyone,
just a photo of another quick, easy and cheap support l use for plants that have stretched far enough though a cage to need more support but not really worth the trauma to the plant, extra time and mucking around of more nets/caging etc. for a plant that’s nearly finished.
This is just a stretchy support material loosely wound around the cage to hold everything in place so the plant doesn’t destroy itself in flower. Extra weight in buds due to heavy rain along with high winds, with no support are a recipe for deviation for plants and people.
Cheers,
40.

Very good.

Why don't they sell this stuff at the garden store but intead that coated wire that damages your stems by cutting into them.. If you buy that stuff get the thickest kind btw.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Hey Tycho,
I surely agree with not topping guerrilla plants (yeah might be OK for the guys who have two layers of support, and looking for multi-pound plants), I hate to see them split, and broken.
Also agree no cage / fence to keep out / deter the rabbits, and diggers then don't waste your time.

If you don't mind where you getting the Super Silver Haze x Blueberry, and strawberry cough ? I want to get some sativa into the mix this year. (and I am in Canada)

I did 73.5 grams of hash this year. Goal for next year 100 grams.

Hey Joe.
HempDepot has the Haze and blue kush. They're in Canada and shipping is fast. I got them in 5 days.
I had a strawberry cough seed run two years ago so I had them already. They're not pure though. I think they were touched by WW. That one short pheno shines like a diamond.

 

[hamstring]

I have been around long enough to try just about everything. I have grown trees and tried to stretch out the season to late October. In the end my best results are with the earlier finishers and smaller plants. In my experience trees are to hard to take care of if you limit your visits. Hunting season starts in October so I have lost many late season plants to hunters.

I just dont like doing all that work and risking my freedom to have broken branches laying on the ground rotting or a hunter chopping my plants.

Here is the sativa I will be growing outdoors this year.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Then don't go for huge open spaces. A small clearing in a forest will do. You'd be surprised how little direct sunlight you need to grow. This grow was in a small clearing with only the sky open for 3-4 hours of full sunlight.

 

[ion]

Then don't go for huge open spaces. A small clearing in a forest will do. You'd be surprised how little direct sunlight you need to grow. This grow was in a small clearing with only the sky open for 3-4 hours of full sunlight.

That is quite excellent, hard to believe it got such little light but i've heard stories like this before and mostly disregarded them. i wont do that again. could you tell us the orientation of that slope? i have ample space for such a grow but it's got considerable slope to the north......43Lat, NEngland

 

[hamstring]

Then don't go for huge open spaces. A small clearing in a forest will do. You'd be surprised how little direct sunlight you need to grow. This grow was in a small clearing with only the sky open for 3-4 hours of full sunlight.

Very nice grow!! Looks like smaller plants 4ft?. Did you cut down the fallen tree or did nature do that for you?

We must be growing in quite different environments. Different grows for different geographiesSilverback planted single plants spaced very far away from each other. He went for the large trees and small numbers .

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Thats a huge grow in my area with little to no cover for me. In the midwest farm belt we don,t have large tacks of land that are untouched by humans. That kind of grow, unless on private land with owners permission , would not last a season in my area. Prime deer hunting grounds are treasured by hunters. Guerrillas in my area are left to small tracks of land near crops. Every grow I have ever done has been in swamp, field runoff or otherwise trash land.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

More of a little rise in the middle and a stream on the backside.

About 75 autos. 3'-4' tall.

Nope. This was someone else's grow I discovered on my land while exploring on my quad. I have about 500 acres of forest and wetlands. I left the grower a note nailed to the log. "I watered your plants, but don't chop down my trees or I'll fuck you up. I won't touch them so don't pull them up until they're ready." I didn't take his shit because it could have been his meds for the year. Still, it was a douche move. He never came back so he must have found another spot.

I don't allow hunting and have warnings at every trail entrance. I'm not a prepper, but I look at it as my emergency food store. I had one guy charged for shooting up my sign (trail cams). He probably lost his hunting licence over it. There are lots of turkey, deer, grouse, pheasant, partridge and more here because I feed spring and winter.

I let quads and snowmobiles on my main trail. I don't care. Just not with guns or saws. lol. One thing that pisses me off are the fuckers who are too dumb to carry their garbage out with them. They have fucking pockets. Chip bags and coke cans on the trail make me go ballistic.

 

[big315smooth]

tycho did you atleast cut a nuggie to try it. land fee i woulda a small one tho

 

[TychoMonolyth]

lol. No. I grow more weed than I could ever smoke. I give most of it away to friends and our boys (mid to late 20s). I smoke, but only rarely, and I'm a one-hitter-quitter anyway. Being out in the wild growing weed is my drug of choice.

 

[big315smooth]

wish my dad would give me weed. somehow he got his grows figured out to where i take care of them haha i dont mind tho i smoked alotta his bud when was younger

 

[hamstring]

More of a little rise in the middle and a stream on the backside.

About 75 autos. 3'-4' tall.

Nope. This was someone else's grow I discovered on my land while exploring on my quad. I have about 500 acres of forest and wetlands. I left the grower a note nailed to the log. "I watered your plants, but don't chop down my trees or I'll fuck you up. I won't touch them so don't pull them up until they're ready." I didn't take his shit because it could have been his meds for the year. Still, it was a douche move. He never came back so he must have found another spot.

I don't allow hunting and have warnings at every trail entrance. I'm not a prepper, but I look at it as my emergency food store. I had one guy charged for shooting up my sign (trail cams). He probably lost his hunting licence over it. There are lots of turkey, deer, grouse, pheasant, partridge and more here because I feed spring and winter.

I let quads and snowmobiles on my main trail. I don't care. Just not with guns or saws. lol. One thing that pisses me off are the fuckers who are too dumb to carry their garbage out with them. They have fucking pockets. Chip bags and coke cans on the trail make me go ballistic.

Exactly what I am saying brother, land is gold . First off I never cut down any trees and I have never met a land owner, but I knew and respected they were just like you.

Its not my property either way but I choose field runoff or forest preserves. Not the kind of forest preserves most people think of but there are many forest preserves in my area that are no trespassing. Old farm land that was either given or bought by the local government. Field runoff is basically a place farmers cant grow crops so they leave it be for nature. Its usually ,but not always , not very good for hunting because of the lack of cover. Deer come and go but there is no where to put a tree stand. Again thats not always the case.

By the way, I have never had any ill will to any land owner who chopped my crop, never. His land his crop, thats the only way to look at it. In over 25 years I have only been truly ripped once and that was early on. Anything I lost was to hunters/land owners or mother nature. Mother nature is the pot mafia, she always takes her cut.

If you want to deter this guerrilla "quad tracks/trails" of any kind are my number one guerrilla repellent . I can usually spot them on google earth and thats a big red flag to me. The dude that grew on your land was no guerrilla. He was a rank amateur.

 

[Goldboyd]

Live in your patch. Sow many seeds.pray for a succesful harvest.

 

[Swamp Thang]

More of a little rise in the middle and a stream on the backside.

About 75 autos. 3'-4' tall.

Nope. This was someone else's grow I discovered on my land while exploring on my quad. I have about 500 acres of forest and wetlands. I left the grower a note nailed to the log. "I watered your plants, but don't chop down my trees or I'll fuck you up. I won't touch them so don't pull them up until they're ready." I didn't take his shit because it could have been his meds for the year. Still, it was a douche move. He never came back so he must have found another spot.

I don't allow hunting and have warnings at every trail entrance. I'm not a prepper, but I look at it as my emergency food store. I had one guy charged for shooting up my sign (trail cams). He probably lost his hunting licence over it. There are lots of turkey, deer, grouse, pheasant, partridge and more here because I feed spring and winter.

I let quads and snowmobiles on my main trail. I don't care. Just not with guns or saws. lol. One thing that pisses me off are the fuckers who are too dumb to carry their garbage out with them. They have fucking pockets. Chip bags and coke cans on the trail make me go ballistic.

With a rural spread that size, TycoMonolyth, an ideal way to closely watch what goes on throughout your property is to acquire an eye in the sky, namely a used but airworthy Phantom 3 Standard, or a used Mavic Pro, which are priced at $400 and $700 respectively on eBay. With those older drones, you can then use the free Litchi Mission Hub flight planning software on your desktop, coupled with the $25 Litchi app on your smart device, to plot flight plans that run a maximum of 27 minutes as estimated by Litchi, but which actually return to base 5 minutes before Litchi's estimated time for all lights of longer than 15 minutes duration, meaning that a 27-minute flight plan set up with Litchi Mission Hub will see your drone arriving back at the launch point precisely 22 minutes after the launch time.

The beauty of Litchi is that you can set up camera orientations and highly complex flight plans with multiple circular orbits over areas of interest, which the drone will fly repeatedly day after day without any control operations required on your part beyond opening the Litchi app, selecting the saved flight plan you wish to launch, firing up the drone, setting your alarm to remind you of the arrival time, launching the drone with a tap on the start icon in the Litchi screen on your smart device, and then returning indoors while the drone flies the programmed course on full autopilot, recording footage as it goes. When your alarm goes off, you then step outside and execute a normal landing. When flight plans are initially made, go with a uniform 240 feet above ground level, and then lower the altitude by gradual increment after you have viewed the footage of the first exploratory flights and ensured that adequate terrain clearance is factored in.

The price of a used Phantom 3 Standard is well worth shelling out considering the detailed look you will get of your landed property from the air any time you choose. Now, you're probably aware that FAA rules forbid flying drones beyond the signal range of the RC controller sitting on your desk, but since you reside in a rural area, and are flying over your own property the entire time, I cannot envisage a reason why the FAA would be any the wiser as you fly those missions. A final note to remember is that the Litchi app audio warning that intones the phrase " Warning, disconnected", is no cause for alarm because it simply means that the drone has traveled out of reach of the controller, and is thus under GPS guidance that works autonomously with the on-board memory of the flight path you programmed with the Litchi Mission Hub, that was then linked via the Litchi app, to your drone's onboard memory.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

Huge help Swamp. I had a little Mav combo but flight time was like 5 minutes and lost signal at 100 feet. Sucked lemons. Worst 150 bucks I ever spent. I'll go bigger this year.

A few years ago someone was using a paraglider to spot and radio coords to a ground crew. Lol

 

[Swamp Thang]

Huge help Swamp. I had a little Mav combo but flight time was like 5 minutes and lost signal at 100 feet. Sucked lemons. Worst 150 bucks I ever spent. I'll go bigger this year.

A few years ago someone was using a paraglider to spot and radio coords to a ground crew. Lol

You cannot go wrong with an old workhorse Phantom 3 Standard. Its battery life is 23 minutes, as is that of the first generation Mavic Pro, which allows plenty of time to loiter and film lots of landscape. Even if cost were no object, I wouldn't recommend buying any of DJI's newer drones, because they no longer have that crucial capability of flying out beyond the range of the handheld controller, and will simply head home the instant that signal link is lost. Litchi works primarily with DJI drones, and only a select few others from different manufacturers, hence my mention of these specific models.

I've flown over 2,500 miles cumulatively with my old Phantom 3 Standard, most of it well beyond signal range, and accumulated hours of crystal clear footage. I generally take a gander at my usual grow spot each year before setting foot there, as a precaution. I very nearly posted an example of the film I've posted on youtube, but then realized there were too many clues about my geographic location that could be picked out, which wouldn't be a good idea, given the subject matter of this forum.

 

[Swamp Thang]

I clean forgot to mention that even before you decide whether or not to buy a used Phantom 3 Standard or Mavic Pro from eBay, you can download the free Litchi Mission Hub flight planning software and then practice creating and saving any number of flight plans over your property. Litchi Mission Hub works with Google Earth, so you will be able to locate your home and your entire property in order to set your launch point at a convenient point right outside your front door. I use a low plywood table 4 feet on edge as my landing pad, so there is no worry about tipping the drone over while trying to land on uneven terrain.

Finally, if your drone flying skills need polishing, used copies of Real Flight 7.5 RC drone simulator run about $75 on eBay, including a controller, whereby you can practice your piloting and landing skills with the drone pointing in all directions until all your reflexes become second nature, thereby reducing the chances of pilot error crashes to near zero. Here is an example currently on sale, but they show up on eBay all the time.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/384752386435?hash=item5995078183:g:VJwAAOSwpYBiF-Wd

 

[Chunkypigs]

for so many years i've been carting my current "supersoil" mix into the swamp and making mounds or patches or planting in bags. last year I took several soil tests and began learning how to mineral balance the existing soil to optimal levels then lighten it up with rice hulls, perlite, or composted wood chips. sometimes I've used materials that I find in the woods, forest duff, sticks and leaves and logs covered in moss that you can break up by hand.

I had a massive improvement in quality, faster finish on clones that I've grown for years in the same spots. resin , terps, and potency were way beyond what I typically see and I've been pretty happy in the past with my herb. it's not the kind of thing that shows up in pictures but when you get the minerals better it makes a way bigger difference than I expected.

I've always used lots of lime, gypsum, bone meals, rock phos, kelp, alfalfa, guanos, EWC, even borax but balancing my soil also required Potassium, Zinc, Manganese, and Copper sulfates which I had never used before and way more P than i had provided in the past.

I was able to come up with a mix of all the amendments that I can carry into the swamp and then apply the correct weight per square foot of native soil that i till up.

the plants are able to crush it on water only and provide a shocking quality for swamp weed.

It took a lot of study to get comfortable with the math but it really paid off last year.

my big patch

Platinum OG

Runtz was ready mid Sept and hella potent and frosty, gonna be half of my production this year if I'm smarter...

Josh D OGK Oct 7 harvest.

Forum Cookies Oct 14th harvest, had a warm fall last year and my cookies loved it.

Gushers

 

[Chunkypigs]

I worked up a new patch for plants from seed in late june next to a creek and it flooded before I could plant, I stuck 12 plants into the muck not thinking that they would survive but...

I tilled in perlite and the minerals to balance the soil.

the next day it flooded hard and washed off most of the loose soil and perlite, it left a real mess.

I had 70 way overgrown females ready to plug but I quit after putting in a dozen and didn't think they had a chance to survive in the wet sludge that I transplanted them into.

3 weeks later they were looking pretty unhappy.

then boom we had 2 more floods.

surprisingly they came back from the flood drain fiasco and finished strong, a little budrot but it did rain hard last year here. 2-5" a week all summer

couple of ECSD clones in the patch with the seed run.

92 OG x Blueberry x Triangle Mints

 

[TychoMonolyth]

I like your style Chunky.

I always amend. Notice the little 2.5 gallon bucket for this spot. That one stays and has finely ground amendments. I use a 5 gallon with unground amendments when I plant. I have a dozen spots so testing them all would be an effort, but I let the farmers take care of the testing and amendments in a few spots. lol

https://www.icmag.com/filedata/fetch?id=18067983&d=1644423901