[dkmonk]

Well I for one had a horrible problem this year outdoors, granted it was my first big time venture, but it completley failed.

My lack of experience accounts for most but heavy rains almost everyday in June killed my 50 plus seedlings, and the ones that survived had to be culled because there was a lot of damage done by the rain.

When I finally had 3 nice plants that I started early July they got stolen by the police about mid August.

All in all I'm not too shooken up, I didn't get arrested or investigated, and I learned a lot about what I need to change for next year.

So for all the other people who failed tremendously like me this year, chime in on your experience, because the only thing to do is reflect.......

[Tolpan]

Sorry to hear that dkmonk, but next year will be a better year!

Mine have to go one more week until I harvest most of them. This year nothing was stolen, but I will first sleep well, when they're at home.

My best plants I ever had were 15 tall Northern Lights that I had on a side of my house! The night before I wanted to harvest them, some bastards stole them! Sad but true!

Life goes on!

Cheers Tolpan

[Moe Danks]

i didn't have too much luck this outdoor season.
i poped 7 seeds for in/out door plants. ended up with one female, that i put back into veg for a big indoor plant.(you can see it in my grow diary thread) so i got no outdoor plants for myself.
so then i was helping by buddy with his outdoor grow. started 15 seeds and ended up with 8 females. they had some trouble when they 1st got outside. but after a few weeks after they showed their sex it was all gravy.
a week before they were going to get chopped my buddy went to check on them. and when he gets there its just the stalks sitting there with all the breaches/nugs snipped right off. total bullshit. the plants were all frosty as fuck and starting to get really nice purple hues.
but better luck next year i guess.

[trichburner]

Didn't get ripped , but I had to abandon two locations and my third last ditch effort late season grow didn't survive the drought like conditions of July .

Of the first two abandoned locations , one was around a rock quarry that had been out of business for years , but suddenly started up again this year and the other was going to be a cornfield grow , but on the way out one night , walking down the road to it , a police officer happened to drive by and stopped to question me , his backup arrived and I was drilled by five officers for a good fifteen-twenty minutes about what I was doing out "jogging" (had to stay out of sight long enough to dispose of a bag of seeds) that late at night . Yeah , I was wearing BDU pants , boots , black t-shirt , and had a small flashlight , gloves and a camo do-rag in my pockets . Gardening tools were already on location .

All a part of guerrila gardening , some years you win , some you lose . Pick up and try again next year .

[Limeygreen]

I know all too many rippers who pose as growers in my neck of the woods. They will steal from their mothers if given the chance. Other problem is some people went and told people I was growing, luckily had nothing going at the time, later this season they say they got ripped off. They got ripped off plant material that they had stolen from someone else. Rippers should be dealt with by the police before they get hurt, if they made it legal the ripper problem would be a whole lot easier to deal with, but until then fuck em all.

Sorry to hear about any problems you guys had but there is next year.

[moggggys]

ive been ripped but not on a big scale thankfully and not this year , i guess its a mixture of luck and experience which teaches you where you can grow without issue , perhaps a few words will help

when you go looking for a place consider there's 2 ways of getting away with it , first is the most hidden exclusive possible place , its amazing how busy these places can be with people , lots of time and effert can amount to bugger all as plants will be stolen before the last stages of harvest , the other is out in the open ,as a rule theres nothing more stupid than people so to have plants growing as the natural then they simply become invisible , places such as railway embankments work nice but are a royal bastard to tend to the plants and rabbits can eat the lot ,the sides of motorways are wonderful , across a field into the natural sound deafening of the trees and plant to your hears content , unless someone breaks down in that exact spot and ventures through the trees to find yours planted up then theres almost zero chance of being ripped , canal paths can also be good as theres always a screen of trees between the path and the fields , if planted where theres miles of bugger all then people zone out when they pass along and its only smell that may draw them , very unlikely mind

another little happy helper is strain choice , mighty mite , guerillas gold and vrs others can be cut and dried before the end of aug so that beats the rippers and choppers , the longer there out there the higher the risk , plant using known auto`s or serious fast finishers and your sorted

mine are in a SSSi ( a nature reserve ) between natural thorny bushes , the site has been inspected and isnt due to be inspected for a few more years yet so theres not going to be anyone popping in there , theres next to a path that has a small water course next to it so that draws the eye away from the plants opposite , theres half way up a hill with trees down below so its simply not possible to see them from the path and the surrounding bushes are evergreen reducing the sticking out like a sore thumb , the thicket there in has been blocked from all side by careful pruning and manipulation of the natural foliage to enable just 2 ways in and one of these ways has been blocked by one of my plants , the other requires hands and knees under a tree to get in so ive in effect created a bowl about 75 foot across to drop the plants into , i also have others elsewhere on a just in case basis

its also soon time to start soil prep for next year and ive another site to try , i retain the root balls and stick um in a bag which i use as soil rather than buying dedicated soil for the outdoor plants , if it all goes wrong then theres been little investment to worry about

[jah_hoover]

out of paranoia i give all my outdoor plants away coz i thought i was going to get raided but no feds have shown up yet but im not sorry i give em away coz its not worth the risk

[Green81]

unless your in the countryside you might as well forget it with outdoors, years ago i did an urban garden grow, with amazing results. Luckily neighbours couldnt see into the garden due to large trees either side. Its always a gamble whatever the situation.

[dkmonk]

Well thank you for all your words of wisdom, my plants were in a cow pasture about 1/4 hike through the woods by my house, and the farmer never checked there, because i use to camp in his pasture when i was in high school with my friends to drink and such. Well one thing i didnt account for was him mowing it and finding it.

Next year i think i shall try just 2 maybe 3 plants tops in 5 or 6 different locations, and will veg them a lot better.

I will tell you one of the worst places is public woods, were hunters put tree stands and cameras, because first of all there are redneck hunters (not all are redneck but most round here are), then there is the theives that steal the hunters cameras and treestands, and then you have the motion sensor cameras themselves.

My step dad is an avid hunter and owns a hunting outfitting businesse, so he tells me stories and has shown me pictures of people that his cameras have caught trespassing.

One thing that i did think of was make a treestand and put your plants up in it in pots, anyone tried this?

[moggggys]

there are bags on the market for growing in that can be hung , shaggy man where you at

i once grew in a field along side corn in the space between the hedge and the corn , the strain in question was lowryder as i was trying to take advantage of the size before the corn got a squirt on , i carefully veged the little ones untill sexed and then it was on the mountain bike with 6 plants at a time to drop off the 200 ( yes you read that right , man was i fooked after all that ) baby girlies , a few weeks past as did blood from my arse after riding that bastard bike so many milesi thought id pop out to see them as it had rained earlier that day so they would look so very nice , la la la as i paddled away and little did i know what i would find , must have looked odd some fuckwit throwing round large chumks of plant matter toward the farm and kicking out at the corn plants like a 2 yr old with the odd lauch of a blue raliegh moutain bike , turns out the bastard farmer had decided to spray his crops so run his tractor down the side of the corn , not one survived , i was absolutely furious at the time , looking back im just a little pissed off but such is the life of the grower

then there was last yrs floods , that cost 150 lowryders ( unsexed this time ) , id planted them into the raised section on a river bank in full glorious sunlight , i worked it out at one point they must have been under 12 foot of water , oddly they simply got sucked out of the ground thanks to the soil being so light and perliteie ( new word for you ) still that was bugger all to the other grow at the same time i had going on , 200 mikado and A11 all planted up in a bit of forest thats worked by a friend , he didnt mention the deer or rabbits , i thought sod all about it untill afterwards as its pine and there sod all for the deer to eat apart from tasty cannabis plants , firns killed off another 50 or so

after reading this back im giving advice about growing outdoors ?!? , how daft is that