| Re: Outdoor Grow Guide
If they get 4-5 hours of direct sun (as babies, 5-6 as adult plants), and they're protected from frost, animals and slugs (and people), they'll all do fine. Just don't over water them (wait until the soil dries out a little) and don't use too many nutes on them. It's better to get all 10 going, that way it's not complicated and done with. The main thing is keeping a low profile while your plants have plenty of good food, water and sun. The nute thing may sound a little complicated but stealth, water, sun, a good soil mix, a few nutes (N, P, K) at the right time and some trace elements will work just fine.
Important: you MUST have prepared your passage way to the plot before starting.
During the day, (if this is a place without houses : your spot can be lost before you even dig the hole if people see you crawling in some bushes or you wreck it just checking the spot the 1st time). Discretely find a passage way you'll be using the night (imo) you bring in the pick ax and horse manure/meals... I bring in the soil (if nec.) and the plants on other nights. I use my car to get closer only on the nights I transport the soil mix and the pick ax.
The passage way or access MUST be invisible in broad daylight so if there's a nice hedge or branches hiding the place, don't just go through it and destroy the spot. Go around and find a natural or artificially made discrete entry you'll use (use rocks and existing paths to get close, go around before getting too close). Rippers follow paths. Don't invite them in!
That's why I choose this entry route carefully during the day. I mark my digging spots with some rope/thread I'll recognize at night and I make sure to remember the way in. I don't want to be lost and wrecking veg. on the night I dig and fill up the holes.
I mark my parking spot with Google Earth, where the containers/wheel barrow are (hidden on the way to the water springs), where the spots are, and what road is better to get there. I calculate the distances between grow spots and water springs, is it possible or is that too many plants for 1 person (before digging). I'll have under 10 going (means 2 nights of digging and enough work hauling water considering the distances -hence the wheel barrow I'll hide well). I really prefer using water springs (even a little far off: one spot has 30 minutes minimum walk with full wheelbarrow to a nice spring I know will stay all summer). Some spots are closer to the water springs luckily, and I won't need the wheel barrow and can also quickly drop off water (very remote place anyway), in case the springs dry out during the summer.
After parking/hiding the car, the plan is to ride my bike for 10 minutes (or walk 30 mins) to the water source and hidden containers, WITHOUT the car. It'll probably be just me and the wild boar anyway: this place is infested with them. They scare the shit out of me with their grunting and running away but they never charged me or bothered my mj. Plus I don't want to wreck my car (ok dirt routes but still some rocks) so I prefer doing it at night and on foot. Even if it takes more time, it's safer. I just can't work peacefully during the day.
There may be some military training some nights in the summer here. Anyway, don't keep your car related to the op for long, or at all. The night you dig has to go smoothly without breaking any veg. If the path is well chosen, it is possible to hardly break any vegetaion around until the end of the season and stay discrete. But sneaking in is part of the plan, right?
Good luck to everybody.
Last edited by Corto Malteze; 01-23-2009 at 10:25 AM.
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