@GMan back in the day that is how most of us farm boys did it, hell 40 years ago it was the only way we knew out here in the sticks. We just sowed bag seed when it got warm and let er grow. We did choose good soil and probably fertilized some with manure tho, I remember doing that and I remember using 10-10-10 too. Your soil must be better then you thought, it is doing a nice job
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Yeah, the soil actually has a lot of worms but when it gets dry the clay really sets up. I want to send in a sample to get a good baseline of what my natural dirt is. I’m impressed at how it went through the last two weeks of mid 90’s heat and no rain at all. It never drooped at all. I could dig not buying nutes, lol.
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I just went and checked the BC Pinewarp. They took a beating in the storm. They are in the middle of a big patch of some kinda tall (10 foot), hollow stemmed weeds. Well the wind broke them all over on top of my plants. When I first seen it I thought it had broke them all down, I could only see a couple plant branches and there where 9. After about 30 minutes of clearing to my surprise they had all survived but looked awful.
Well 5 days after clearing they have all come back with a vengeance. I was surprised they looked so well. 7 of the 9 are thriving and the other 2 don’t look bad, just not as nice. I need to make a daytime trip to check these and see if I can get them sexed.
Please excuse the poor quality photos, it’s hard enough getting good ones in the brush in daylight, dark is even harder
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Short story I feel the need to share. I’ve got a friend I went to school with and Partied with in our younger years who started contacting me last year with growing questions. He got popped 25 years ago growing in a corn field and hasn’t grew since. Well he grew some last year having a little success with lots of failure. All winter he had growing questions. I told and told him not to plant in the farmers fields, and explained why, that the farmers use “Roundup Ready” corn and soybeans and how they spray up to 3 times after crops are up. With the new GMO crops it is impossible to plant with them.
Well he hadn’t told me where he had planted but he was going in watering at night and working his ass off. He contacted me the other day saying he lost 50 PLANTS! I’m like WTH? And he admitted he had them in a corn field…All I could say is “Dude, I told and told you”. Makes me think all my time mentoring has been a wast of time.
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Did they die out or got destroyed? Not good, agree completely!!
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Some people just never listen, lol.
Maybe someone just doesn’t appreciate the solid advice like that from a seasoned outdoor grower like you. Really hope he listens next time, if he’s lucky enough to receive guidance from you again.
So many times I gave people solid advice and it ends with me saying “I told you…” I usually could care less, but if someone comes to me for advice and in the end does the complete opposite, it stings a bit. Just hate having my time wasted, it’s the one thing I can never get back.
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They got sprayed with either Roundup or Crossbow. Depending on what type of GMO corn was planted.
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Sure poison!!
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Agree! I’ve spent hours trying to help this guy. To top it off he told me he had a certain strain left that we had discussed at least twice, that is a solid 90-100 day strain and has huge buds and would be an absolute waste of his time here outdoors. When I told him that agian his exact text was “WTH”. He needs a 70 day strain max, I like 60 that is mold resistant. I even offered him good seed but he didn’t bother, now I’m glad he didn’t waste them.
I think I’m done with helping him…it literally goes in one ear out the other, I have better ways to waste my time
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I got a buddy like that just won’t take instructions always does shit then wonders why his plants die .
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Maybe this time he’ll “get it”. Do they spray from a plane? Those pilots probably already know how to spot weed, and maybe give the pot an additional spray, lol… Farmers aren’t dopes. People have been growing in their fields at least as long as I’ve been smoking, and that’s 71. Bet it’s been going on since corn has been grown, heh.
Fence lines are the other no no. It is a great place for lots of reasons, but cops have been walking fence line since I was a teen. If you grow guerilla, you gotta think that way. You can’t be lazy or stupid.
He’s probably lucky they sprayed it now rather than somebody finding and rippin it just before you are gonna harvest it. Gotta really get clever when finding the right spot. I bet he listens to you from now on. If he hurries, there’s still plenty of time to get them in the ground to flower this year.
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A wise decision…but I might suggest that you handle it in a way that won’t create any resentment. He got busted once and that wasn’t enough teach him a lesson, and your advice wasn’t enough to teach him anything, so it’s not a stretch to think that he might continue to do sh!t that will get him busted again. If THAT happens, and if he has resentment towards you at that time, you might be his leverage for leniency, you know what I mean?
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Most of the farmers in the area use these type of sprayers. The seat is 8’ and they do have a good view. It would be easy to see wear someone cleared a few plants and replaced them…They do use crop dusters some but not this early. I think the planes usually spray fungus side
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You are 100% right, that has already crossed my mind. I give the guy a chance, and he has proven that age doesn’t improve everything. I’ll handle it and he will never know there was a problem…
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Here’s a thought…tell him you’ve pulled the plug and are stopping all growing. Say it’s because someone you’re close with “on the forums” got busted and started turning people in to reduce his sentence - and it freaked you out completely. This way, unless he sees your grows, he will have no reason to think you still have plants.
Oh, and don’t forget to bitch about the price of weed! 
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Unfortunately. that’s exactly how you have to always be thinking if growing illegally. You need to be able to play things out in your head and always be thinking of the worst case scenario, and make plans to never let it happen if at all possible.
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@GMan most people have no idea how hard it is to do a guerilla grow. Lots of things you have to consider. It takes a lot of work and planning. Your plants are constantly in jeopardy and it’s not easy to bring a crop in. Hell I’ve got a couple people who look for my crop every year. I’ve been lucky…I hope that continues. I think he took the easy route, planting in a farmers worked field is as easy as it gets but anymore it’s impossible. Lazy ass lost a lot but probably never learned a thing
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It probably takes more thinking than work when it all comes down to it. I had to do all of my watering late at night on the last one I did a good while back. Harvest was all done at night. And it still made me a wreck. The reason I ultimately choped them is I had a plane circling over my property one morning when I was outside putting my boots on.
I had already seen the plane one day flying up in the mountains (western North Carolina, in a remote valley village just below the Blue Ridge Parkway) looking for grows. I rode my mountain bike up the mountain and then up a gated forest service road, and I stopped at a dead end cul-de-sac to rest and eat my lunch. Once the plane saw me, they circled over me for good bit and was a little unnerving. I’m sure I looked like a guy on his way to water his grow (the locals have been growing pot in the hills forever. It’s either shine or weed, there isn’t much for work in the Appalachians).
They flew all around where I was to see if they could spot my patch (which I didn’t have), and then went back to cruising around. I heard them flying the whole time I was up there that morning.
Then that one morning the same plane circled over me while I was outside and it freaked me out. I was afraid they could see my plants but they were all in spots by themself, and scattered all around the property I lived on. I had to keep telling myself there was no way they could spot a single plant in knee to waist high grass and taller brush. But they sure circled a lot.
That night I chopped every one. Luckily it was time, and my dumb ass just couldn’t bring myself to trash them, lol. I had a unattached garage on the property and put every plant in the attic of that building to hide… probably the first place they would look.
Thank God I never heard anything from it all and it turned out to be some of the best smoke I’d ever grown. My neighbor and his wife were the only ones who knew I had grown it all. We smoked great all winter and I had enough to earn some beer money any time I wanted as well.
I’ll never forget that grow. My paranoia sort of came from my neighbor next door. We all lived on places with lots of property, it was in the country, and one day he was telling me a story of a day when a black helicopter suddenly landed on his place, behind the house, and a bunch of guys in all black and guns, jumped out and ran down to the creek and scurried all around, and found nothing, so they all jumped back in the chopper and it took off… 
Yeah, one of the best places in the country to grow but one of the worst for having a bunch of commandos full time looking for it. Scared me good.
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Real happy with this Guerilla Ghani. It is just over 5 feet tall. I’m in fertilizing, topping and a little LST
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Edit, went to fix an auto correct and lost my picture…damn phone
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