Growing From The Tree Tops!!

ok.. so im pretty stoned and iv been thinkin about growing outdoors next summer, i live in the north east of england so weather and shit aint the best but iv heard from my friends that it can be done....i got a road legal quad bike and i no quite a few far off places that i think are good grow spots rite out in the the countryside 10miles from the nearest roads places that not many people go to... heres an idea that just popped into my head i used to build lots of tree houses and shit when i was young so how about if i build a platform in the top of some trees in quite a dence area of trees, the platform or platforms would be about 20foot from the ground and about 6 foot by 6 foot square i would put a rail around the platform to the height of the pots and probably tie the pots down or sumthing.. also paint the hole thing green so it blends in with the trees, is this a good idea or shall i scrap it and smoke anuther bowl

there used to be another site called Overgrow,and a Washington State fellow had his in buckets with pulleys and was succesful! and just about everybody has thought about it , so try it.

That is an awsome idea! Haha

I've seen the 'tree-house' growing idea before and one thing I have always wondered is how easy would it be to get adequate amounts of water up to the plants? Will very large water collection barrels be up there to catch and hold enough rain water to keep the plants watered and if they cannot catch and hold enough water how easy will it be ti haul water to the location and them get it up to your tree-house grow? Will it be easy to secure the pots and even secure plants in the pots to withstand the winds that whip through trees and the way trees will sway in high winds? The plants might be half difficult to see from a distance from the ground but anything built in a tree stands out like bollocks on a bulldog from the air even at distance and also from the ground if someone gets only half close. Unless you build your stand very close to the top of a tree, where it will sway the most, there will be a lot of leaves and branches from the tree above your stand giving your plants a lot of shade. If you build very near the top to avoid shading, up where a tree will really whip around in the wind, even if you paint your stand green or some combination of colors to camouflage it, it will be anything but unnoticeable from both the ground or the air. When I go walking in the woods around the lake I live on I can easily spot a hunters tree stand in a second even if they have camouflage colors, and they're a lot smaller than 6' X 6'. Often times just the trail left by the hunter going to their stand will be enough to give away that a stand is near. Will you be able to go to and come back from your tree-house grow without leaving any signs of anyone having been in the area? Will you be able to climb the tree like Tarzan while carrying pots filled with soil or empty pots and bags of soil or buckets of water or will you need to bring a ladder with you each time you go to water and feed your plants or will you stash one close by or maybe just nail pieces of wood on the tree to use like a ladder? Will you haul fertilizers to the location and carry them with you as you climb the tree or climb a ladder of some sort to feed your plants when needed or will you build some sort storage box to store them in up in your tree-house grow stand?

Have you really thought your idea through very well?

solar water pump on a timer might be the ticket, rain buckets too

thanks for the feedback - first of all i would like to say that this will be a 2 man operation if i decide to go ahead with it. bricktop, i had already thought about half the things you asked and i have pretty good answers for most of them.. firstly about the apperance and it being found by someone, there is noway possible you can hide your grow from every1 when growing outside on public land, that is the reason iam going to find a place pretty far from public roads ect.. that i no that dog walkers ,farmers dont go to only people i can think of going are hunters.. WATER, i will beable to carry ruffly 10 gallon per trip, i can make up to 3 trips a day if necessary. securing the pots ,i would probably just tie them down with rope,as for the winds, iv had a tree house built on 3 diffrent trees with a triangle frame for the base it worked quite well that way because each tree was able to sway and aslong as i use good strong 4 inch coach bolts i cant see it the hole thing will be made out of scaffold boards that are about 2 miles away abandon.. i got my quad i can get a lot of shit near the place and then carry with my friend on foot to stop tracks, as for the tree foliage above my plants blocking light,a pair of garden sheers will solve that problem, u say it will stand out alot from the sky, yeh maybe for 2 or 3 weeks when its full of plants you wont see the platform, i dont think that is a big threat anyways... and for gettin shit up that aint a problem i got a little pullywheel on a big hook i can hang from a tree branch put a rope through and pull up like 20kg of shit at a time.. 1 person on the platform 1 on the ground wont take long as for gettin up to the platform that will be a rope ladder with a peice of string to get it down.. the string gets put through anuther tree and hangs down so it is a few meters away from the actual platform no storage box it will just be the plants on the platform nothing else i will bring everything i need everytime i visit

that sounds like a great idea.. lots of work but totally do able

there was a thread on here about 3 years ago that some guy was growing from the tree tops.

supermoto said:

That is an awsome idea! Haha

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This whole concept sounds a bit 70's. Make your plantpot in a plastic bag using about two gallons of soil, of course you'll have to leave a three or four inch hole at the top of the bag. You'll get it. Tape the bag tightly around the top leaving a three or four inch opening, using electrical tape. Once you have your plant secured punch small holes in the bottom of the bag for air and drainage, and fold the top up like a funnel. Wire tie limbs(from trees), bows branches etc. to secure plant. Putting them out in plastic bags on the ground works without watering, never tried it in trees on top of mountains.lmao

it totally works man, i vegged a couple plants up in a tree, u just gotta find a good spot where it can get the sunlight.

couple of pictures i found http://www.eco-action.org/rr/gifs/platform.gif http://www.eco-action.org/rr/gifs/pole.gif iam thinking on building either 1 suspended platform or many little 1s

I had a buddy who lived in Vermont and he hauled 5 gallon camouflaged buckets up into tree tops and fed them with very small gravity fed drip lines from a 55 gallon plastic drum buried uphill from the trees (rain and stream fed) and pulled over 5 pounds one season just screwing around. So it's totally possible! =)

ok i changed my mind about the location and picked somewhere ALOT closer to home, i can see this place from my bedroom window it is very hard place to get to.. unless you no how to get there, they are railway lines and a big metal spikey fence around the hole area and it is dence trees about 30-40foot i no this is a very secure place, ino there is soon to be a big building site within 100meters away that i will beable to acquire enuff scafold boards to build my platforms, iam going to build a few platforms about 20-25feet above ground level each platform will have enuff room to hold 2 big 5 gallon pots and have enuff room to stand on and tend to the plants.. iam going to camouflage these platforms with tree branches and leafs they should only be visable from the air, i will cut away any tree branches that are blocking light to the platforms. Iam going to go and check out some good trees this folowing week and start buying a few suplies, i will be using coach screws, screwing directly into the trunks, will upload pics of the winning trees next week, peace.

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