2010 South Carolina Outdoor Grow Show

Well I finished spray painting a camo like paint job on the orange 5-gallon buckets.

It's sad I'm gonna have to leave this buckets here and not be able to use them again when I move next spring back to the midwest.

This camo will give me some peace of mind though, so I guess you can't put a price on that.

Also watered them with 15 total gallons of plain water. I'll feed them nutes again on Wednesday.

Here are the pics:

Here is a quick video of the plot:

[video=youtube;o3-9UkxTD5I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3-9UkxTD5I[/video]

Great grow you have going. I live up above u in NC. I was wondering if you havean opinion on when flowering should start..I was thinking right about august 1st. Thanks for your time..

there looking good bro hope u get lots of bud u got a nice place to grow to

Abusive Kush said:

Great grow you have going. I live up above u in NC. I was wondering if you havean opinion on when flowering should start..I was thinking right about august 1st. Thanks for your time..

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Thanks man.

Yeah, we should start noticing flowering around August. The closer that we get to 12 hours of light/12 hours dark, the closer to flowering we'll get.

Keep an eye out for it if you have males like I probably do. Gotta pull those if you don't want seeds.

jfa916 said:

there looking good bro hope u get lots of bud u got a nice place to grow to

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Thanks!

I hope I can yield a pound from all these. Still don't know how many males I have...another month at least before I'll know I guess.

The buckets weren't completely covered, but covered enough that from a distance they wouldn't look like much.

I was able to produce a camo-like mix with the spray paint that hopefully blends well.


Here's what the buckets looked like before the camo paint:





Here's what they look like after the camo-spray paint:





I probably could touch up the rims of the buckets a bit more.

It was difficult to use what I was using to shade the plants from the spray, and get detailed paint around the rim.

I have an idea how to fix that when I go back out though, so hopefully it'll look even better.

100% better, when you compare the two.

The plants are lookin great dude! Good thing you got those buckets camo'd. The police start their heli searches of the countryside here around the 1st of august, and go all the way through the end of November. Make sure your plot is not gonna be obvious from the air once most the foliage starts to die off later in the season. They have already started searching here, they just found one of my friends 15 plant plot the other day and ripped it. His where planted in the ground, about 6ft tall, and well camo'd in a patch of trees as well.

I'll be sub'd and watching. Be careful and stay safe bro, the cops don't fuck around here in the south.

Awesome grow and looking great. One thing I would consider and suggest....from my own experience....is to group them tighter and set along the perimeter of your sweet site. I group mine into 2 or three sets and go to the edges of my grow area. It allows for appropriate shade and will protect from frost if set to receive afternoon light and in direct morning light. It will also promote earlier flowering due to less indirect light. Hunters and aerial are big concerns....and hunters dont scan perimeters as much as open areas. Just a thought. I set copper wire in between the edge of the grow and my buckets....keeps the slugs away if it gets rainy for a few days. Peace and looking forward to your end results!

ColaFarmer said:

100% better, when you compare the two.

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Yeah, that orange is too glaringly bright, from any vantage point. I'm gonna repaint a few spots I missed on Wednesday.

D3@d End Friend said:

The plants are lookin great dude! Good thing you got those buckets camo'd. The police start their heli searches of the countryside here around the 1st of august, and go all the way through the end of November. Make sure your plot is not gonna be obvious from the air once most the foliage starts to die off later in the season. They have already started searching here, they just found one of my friends 15 plant plot the other day and ripped it. His where planted in the ground, about 6ft tall, and well camo'd in a patch of trees as well.

I'll be sub'd and watching. Be careful and stay safe bro, the cops don't fuck around here in the south.

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igrowwithleds said:

Awesome grow and looking great. One thing I would consider and suggest....from my own experience....is to group them tighter and set along the perimeter of your sweet site. I group mine into 2 or three sets and go to the edges of my grow area. It allows for appropriate shade and will protect from frost if set to receive afternoon light and in direct morning light. It will also promote earlier flowering due to less indirect light. Hunters and aerial are big concerns....and hunters dont scan perimeters as much as open areas. Just a thought. I set copper wire in between the edge of the grow and my buckets....keeps the slugs away if it gets rainy for a few days. Peace and looking forward to your end results!

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Good advice guys, I appreciate it. Keeping a heads up in the bush (and out of it) is a concern always. My location is a very unlikely spot for flyovers, for reasons I can't get into to avoid giving any solid clues for the pigs that puruse RIU.

But in keeping with the spirit of both your responses, I will be reconfiguring the alignment of the buckets. The problem with where I have them now is that they're located in a spot that I originally dug up, when I planned to plant directly into the ground with new soil. All the soil that I dug up (the clay) is laying all around my site, giving my plot a very tan and plantless appearance.

I like your thinking in grouping the buckets along the perimeter of my grow space IGROW...I've been thinking about that too; most especially because the ground is so tan and barren where the buckets are at now. Along the perimeter of my plot, where I've erected the deer netting, there is a lot more foliage. I think I can align the buckets along this perimeter of vegetation, while still keeping the privacy shield of the pine trees.

I really like the pine tree perimeter I have with this plot. It protects from sight even a rogue walker through the area in seeing my plot. Its so unlikely that anyone would even be in this valley, especially with all the thorns and hellish vegetation they'd have to walk through.

But if they do walk down there, the pine trees provide a great visual barrier.

Biggest concern is being sighted from the air. After I move the plants in a few days along the perimeter of the deer netting, and after the camo of the buckets, I'm hoping they'll be as indecipherable as possible.

Again, I'm in a very unlikely location for direct flyovers by pig heli's.

It's all a crap shoot though, so I'm gonna need as much luck as anyone growing guerrilla.

YES!

Just got a bunch of much needed rain today.

Love when it rains and saves me from humping water out there.

I'm not gonna go out into the plot until Sunday, just because we've had so much rain lately.

It's a good week to flush out the Fox Farm nutes to prevent nute lock/burn.

Sunday's pics should be pretty cool though, after a week of growth.

Right... Like jumping into a time machine.

So...? How was it yesterday?

your babys looking good

Well, just got back from the plot.

The plants look pretty good, overall.

I think I might have powdery mildew on some of the lower leaves. I removed as many of the leaves that had this as I felt was necessary. I didn't wanna get leaf-pulling happy. I also removed most of the leaves that looked sickly and yellow (which wasn't many).

I'm probably gonna have to go out there with baking soda/water mix and spray down the leaves just to make sure next time I go back out.

As far as the health and overall vitality of the plants, things look good. The G13/Haze is almost 4 feet tall, and the Sour Diesel isn't far behind it. It's kind of funny, the G13/Haze was supposed to be short in stature, but it's the tallest of the two strains. The Hawaiian sativa heritage is really dominate in this G13/Haze.

My 7 Sour Diesel seedlings are really doing well. Thick stalks, and healthy looking leaves. The 7 seedlings have actually almost caught up to the original Sour Diesel, which is pretty remarkable, considering how small these seedlings (now plants) looked 10 days ago.

I think this is in large part due to how many times I transplanted the original Sour Diesel seedlings from patch to patch, when I was still attempting to grow in the ground. One patch would get flooded out, and I'd move a few seedlings, and then a week or two later, the same thing would happen. All this stress undoubtedly affected how those original Sour Diesel recovered.

I gave them their first dose of Fox Farm nutes in 2 weeks. These plants were thirsty despite the rainfall we've had in the past week and half. It took a while for the water to soak on down through the hardened soil mix. 15 gallons of water + Fox Farm nutes evenly distributed among 22 buckets.

I'll be going back on Saturday to water and feed again...and probably spray down any leaves that look funky.

Here are the pics:

Here's a 6 minute video update of the plants:

[video=youtube;mwgOVvRzIN8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwgOVvRzIN8[/video]

looks real good man!