Did I discovery an old grow op?

I moved into my house two years ago. It has a bunch of woods owned by myself. Behind it there is a giant field that a farmer owns and grows corn on. I'm a new outdoor grower and today started looking for good sites to grow on my property. After some searching I found a good area. It's in the middle of dense plants yet gets a ton of sun. The odd part about it is that it would appear a previous owner of my property might have grown in this very location! There is a PVC pipe that runs underground into my well water. There is a hose tied to several trees that has several small holes in it that appears to be connected to the pipe to provide water. There are several VERY old, rusted, five gallon plant containers. There is even three garbage bags filled with plant material that I can't really identify. Am I just being paranoid or does this sound like someone elses grow op from years ago? What was pretty trippy about it is that in the same area I located a couple beer bottles that have the old sixties design. I'm guessing the grow op, if that indeed what it was, happened decades ago. Being a newbie outdoor grower does this sound like an old grow site to you too? It's actually got me pretty excited considering I'm new to all this and if someone went to this much trouble to do a grow here apparently I've found a good site for my grow.

wow, nice, kind of sounds like it. good luck.

it's hard to tell if the previous owners were growing pot or just had a normal vegetable garden but either way it's good for you because it means that it must be a good location to grow plants. just make sure that your spot is hidden from your neighbors and you should be fine. are the pipes/hoses still able to be used or are they too corroded to function? sounds like a fun project though. good luck

Well if it was just for vegetables why wouldnt they have just had it by their house? sounds like a grow spot

Although possible it really doesn't seem likely it was used for regular veggies. Here's why:

Judging by the stuff found it looks like it was in operation around the 60's-70's. When this house was first built it had a ton of land. The massive field was actually nothing but forest and was owned by what is now my property. After the massive field was also tons of forest. (It's now executive style homes. The field was eventually sold to a farmer) This grow op would have been in the middle of dozens of acres of forest at the time. Judging by the work put in to it it must have been a big grow. It even looks like trees were chopped down so that there was good sunlight. Now a days the woods are much smaller. It's a strip of about 100-200 yards of woods and its only 20-30 feet deep. On one side is my house and a neighbors and on the other side is the farmers field.

Unfortunately the piping looks like its way to old to be used. Luckily it isn't a major deal for me. I'm only doing about 10 plants and will be able to water them by hand. It's funny though, here I am looking for a spot to grow on my property and suddenly discover someone else was doing the exact same thing decades ago. Now hopefully they had a great harvest and their karma will roll over into my harvest.

That is funny. I live on this 7 acre farm and really want to grow and am yet to check out the woods out back, i would be stocked to find a clearing as you have, i can imagine you must have confidence through the roof with your find.

did they have PVC in the sixties? either way, its always nice to have some of the work done for you. that plant material is probably great compost now too.

ALX420 said:

did they have PVC in the sixties? either way, its always nice to have some of the work done for you. that plant material is probably great compost now too.

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Good question. I looked it up and apparently PVC was invented in 1925 and PVC pipe wasn't invented until the late 50's. Maybe the grow was in the late 60's or 70's? Or perhaps its much newer than I thought. The plant containers are medal and are extremely rusted. (So much so they've got holes) That'd tell me its got to be pretty old.

Once my seeds arrive and start the grow I'll be sure to take some pics of not only my grow, but the previous growers work as well, lol. (I've got to invest in a digital camera too! )

Be Careful around that farmer because they can spot weed a mile away.

good shit...

That is my only big concern in regards to security really. While the the woods isn't that deep when spring hits its like a jungle in there. You can't see through it at all. The other great part is that the farmer doesn't live on or near the field and spends very little time on it. He commutes to it via a tractor and I only see him a couple times a season and all he's doing is driving along planting seeds or harvesting corn. Basically I was going to plan it by ear and see how big my plants get. Obviously security comes before everything else so I'll either move them (i'm using pots), prune them, or worse case scenario destroy them if I think the farmer has any chance whatsoever at spotting them. During the grow I'm going to sneak on his field and check out my grow sites from areas he's normally around to make sure everything is hidden at all times.

yeah, if you want to keep them low, just lst the shit out of them, thats what im going to be doing, i plan on keeping them like 2 feet high max but probably 4 feet in diameter