Hiding in the gardens

[Deadhead13]

I’ve seen a lot about hiding plots with guerrilla style methods in public places but I’m wondering about experiences with hiding plants in gardens and yards. I was curious too if anyone had ever did a SOG type grow by planting late in the year outside and letting small plants flower, if that’s possible.

 

[xtsho]

 

[etownpaul]

The trick is to not have your plants silhouetted against a wall or fence. That makes them identifiable. I have mine in pots and find if I have some greenery in front of the pots they disappear as well. To people who don’t know your plants are there, they just look like a blob of green mixed into other blobs of green.

 

[Deadhead13]

The trick is to not have your plants silhouetted against a wall or fence. That makes them identifiable. I have mine in pots and find if I have some greenery in front of the pots they disappear as well. To people who don’t know your plants are there, they just look like a blob of green mixed into other blobs of green.

Thanks for the reply and info. Your sentence that includes “people who don’t know the plants are there” is one of the main keys I think. Structures that support the other plants seem like they would be beneficial as well.

 

[vostok]

Many plants can look like weed

growing a bunch of look a likes can work in your favor

just be ready for any extra bug hassles

cheers/

 

[hotrodharley]

Topping and supercropping. That’s what I did growing guerilla. People look for 1) the Christmas tree shape and 2) the unique color. Air pork look from above for the perfectly round shape and the color.

Reshape the plant and plant among other green crops. Forget sativas for this. Think short indicas.

 

[hotrodharley]

Get chickens and let them have free run of the grow area. Or ducks. They’ll handle every bug except spider mites or thrips. All hoppers, beetles, caterpillars etc. No geese! Those damned things not only bite but they love eating weeds. FYI. Chickens and ducks won’t.

 

[xtsho]

Get chickens and let them have free run of the grow area. Or ducks. They’ll handle every bug except spider mites or thrips. All hoppers, beetles, caterpillars etc. No geese! Those damned things not only bite but they love eating weeds. FYI. Chickens and ducks won’t.

I had chickens and they loved eating my ferns.

 

[vostok]

I had chickens and they loved eating my ferns.

where did you get that 'sexy' string

cheers/

 

[Moflow]

Get chickens and let them have free run of the grow area. Or ducks. They’ll handle every bug except spider mites or thrips. All hoppers, beetles, caterpillars etc. No geese! Those damned things not only bite but they love eating weeds. FYI. Chickens and ducks won’t.

I love my Geese!
They make Great guard dogs.... and are very tasty at Christmas. ...

 

[Dr. Who]

Told the wife one time that, "Most people are blind to it in plain sight..."
Try and hide it and they find it right away..

we have a deck on the back of the house. The fire pit is down from that about 15 yards and the main barn is to the left and ends just equal with the back of the house.
There is a space about 20 yards from house to barn.
Now in the center line of that space. We had a wood pile to feed the fire pit. Against the front of the wood pile, and open to the street (about 50 yards from the woodpile) we let the weeds grow as a a view blocker of the pit area.

One year I set out a 25 gallon potted GHOST OG plant and said nothing.....I just had to see who would notice... We also had various plants numbering around 16 spread around in the lilly's and bedding plants.

Of everybody coming over to party or dine. The bulk of the hidden plants were seen by everybody at some point.....
The now 11ft tall plant (The roots traveled into the ground from the pot's air/drain holes", out in the open and in plain sight....Was discovered by only a very few. Even while it budded!

Those who did find it. Saw it when looking back at it, when at a bonfire and not at all when standing by it or walking past to go to the fire pit...

Keep them in plain sight and in an area where weeds naturally have been.....

 

[Deadhead13]

This is all great info, I hope there is more out there. Thanks for the replies.

 

[deej2]

I've had zero problems blending them in with my tomatoes. Sunflowers also make a nice screen, as do vine-covered trellises(a mix of annual vines will give a good range of colors and textures so your plants just blend in). And as noted above, it's amazing how people don't see them if they're not looking for them.

 

[Deadhead13]

This isn’t a cheesy way to bump my own thread bit I did hear what I think may be a good addition to the garden, sunflowers. They get tall, have good color and when blooming, they can keep ones attention focused up. Maybe others have experience?

 

[AngryPirate]

Some of the garden ideas are good. But one has to consider the plant is going to be there longer then most garden plants.

 

[Deadhead13]

Some of the garden ideas are good. But one has to consider the plant is going to be there longer then most garden plants.

True. I had some peppers and tomatoes, sunflowers too, that died back last year while I had plants still finishing the flower.

 

[spliffendz]

Wouldn't this be where creative LST would come in handy?

 

[Deadhead13]

Wouldn't this be where creative LST would come in handy?

I tried on one plant and it snapped.(it was already 3ft) I figured it was dead but within 48 hrs, the thing stood right back up. But yea, training works from what I’ve seen. I myself don’t train, clip, defoliate, or anything. I’m lazy I guess.

 

[spliffendz]

I tried on one plant and it snapped.(it was already 3ft) I figured it was dead but within 48 hrs, the thing stood right back up. But yea, training works from what I’ve seen. I myself don’t train, clip, defoliate, or anything. I’m lazy I guess.

Well i was thinking if you trained them from young to be close to the ground and in rows it would look like a cabbage patch