Guerilla growing tactics???

wannabe grower

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Bear with me please. I drive a lot everyday for work and have a ton of time to think about odd stuff. I also have started growing this year and am currently on my 3rd grow which is by far the best so far.
My question is this, what do you think about utilizing strips of land that are elevated from view in the middle of state highways? The only drawback I can think of is that they could be spotted by flyovers. Since they are in mostly rural areas in a state that has little to no budget to fly aircraft for this specific purpose and has no real outdoor growing epidemic, I figure if you placed 2-3 plants in several different locations you could get a reasonable harvest, have less chance of getting caught, almost zero chance of getting ripped, and a convient way to see if you're being monitored and escape if needed.
Your thoughts if you please. :)
 

NJgrower187

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I suppose you could...but I wouldn't. Would never grow my babies around all that carbon emision and junk which cars let out. I'm pretty sure they trim/cut those medians every once in a whilso to make sure it doesn't overgrow.
 

Johnnyorganic

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NJgrower187 has a good point about maintenance crews cutting down your plants when they mow.

How would you get there to do routine maintenance without being spotted? If you leave your vehicle at the side of the highway on a regular basis, an observant state trooper will get curious.

If you park you car far enough away you still have to get there without detection.

Interesting idea. It would require some advance reconnaissance to ensure success.
 

asher187

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NJgrower187 has a good point about maintenance crews cutting down your plants when they mow.

How would you get there to do routine maintenance without being spotted? If you leave your vehicle at the side of the highway on a regular basis, an observant state trooper will get curious.

If you park you car far enough away you still have to get there without detection.

Interesting idea. It would require some advance reconnaissance to ensure success.
Plant near water, get a fishing license, carry a tac box and rod. know what's to catch in that water. Mission accomplished. I don't think he meant in the median guys. I think he meant over a high hill/rise like in hilly parts of Ohio/Kentuky they have passes where the highway is much lower than the landscape.bongsmilie
 

wannabe grower

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The draw back to fishing spots is if you found it someone else will. As for maintenance crews mowing my babies down first they'd have to be All terrain vehicles with hill climbing abilities to get to what I am thinking about. They were hills that were blasted to make the roads level. So you have a sheer face on both sides with a 2-3 lane highway on either side that is approximately 20-30' high. Lots of "No stopping except for emergency only" signs. I figure 2 peeps- 1 drives, the other farms. Drive up at night wait til no traffic, jump out get to your spot. The other guy drives off to the next exit and waits for you to call to come get you. Then he comes back travelling the opposite way. Wait for traffic again then jump in quick. No lights in use obviously that'd be a give away until at the top then very dim LED lights. Wear camo/ghillie suit just in case. Sounds like a Seal Team grow or CIA operation to me but that's what I think when I drive :).
 

shoottokill

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Thats a pretty good idea! You can check if there are maintenance crews coming by seeing if the foliage is cut/ mowed.
 

norcalkronic

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you can guerrilla grow anywhere that is accessible, has no human traffic, cant be seen from a distance, cant be smelt from a distance and has lots of sunlight from spring to fall. a spot that is water accessible or near the water table is ideal but not mandatory because if its accessible you can always truck in water like fast pine over at icmag does. oh yes and check out these links:


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International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - 500+ out: High Desert guerilla growing Vol.2
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International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - 2007 Oregon Guerrilla Outdoor, with BACKCOUNTRY
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - 2008 Oregon Guerrilla Outdoor Adventure, with your host BACKCOUNTRY
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Evaluating Sunshine potential in your plot
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Protecting your plants from Deer
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Evaluating your plots soils: Soil texture
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Evaluating your plots soils: Testing your PH
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Outdoor Strainguide-Please contribute!
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Guerrilla auto-Irrigation (Watering your plants when you aren't there)
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - BACKCOUNTRY builds a Guerilla Water reservoir
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.p...71#post1648971
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.p...2&page=1&pp=15
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Pipeline Gardens--2007
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skywalker1

New Member
read this post and thought id register and add to it-I no longer guerrilla grow because im satisfied with my indoor output,not to mention the labor that goes into a decent outdoor setup, but i will say that nothing ive ever read worked as well as the methods we used:1:your spot-I always heard you have to trek out into the woods away from roads etc.-not necessarily.find a semi steep hill,directly off the side of a road,(ill explain why) away from hiking trails, that is dense and is surrounded by brush and growth that nobody would just decide to roll down for a hike.brush thats almost impossible to walk through.You ideally want a hill that flattens out a bit downhill,yet is still surrounded by growth-this will be your plot.2:Rodent Control-your plants WILL get eaten by woodrats,rabbits,deer etc. if you dont do this-start your rodent control at LEAST 2 months before you bring in clones(and have a solid number of backup clones in case your plot gets
eaten.)Critter Ridder from Havahart works insane-get the spray instead of the granules,and apply it once a week.Use Shake-away as well, or get some mountain lion urine,preferrably from a male, or similar, if you can find it.Last but not least is traps-get the Vector rat traps and use peanut butter-ive prob killed over a hundred huge wood rats with those things.you can re-use them,but handle with gloves.Also, rubber rattlesnakes work as well-move them around your garden regularly.Build cages for your plants out of chicken wire WITH TOPS, or the rats will climb right in and get down on your plants.Once your plants are a couple feet tall, remove a few cages to see if they get grubbed.if you did all of the above, they should be left alone.
3:WATER:this is why you picked a spot off the side of a hill.Buy a portable water tank,preferrably green or black.(UV Rays wont penetrate like they would a white tank and algae is less likely to grow.)you want a big one-at least 500 gallons, with a one or two inch drain hole at the bottom for your garden hose.Secure the tank with rope, drive up at night w/a friend, and lower the tank down the hill out of sight as quickly as possible.Since its off the hill and out of sight,you can go up the next day and maneuver the tank into place(at least ten feet uphill from your garden)Check out watertanks.com for a good tank.Next you want 4" corrugated pipe-secure that to your tank and dig a trench up your hill, and bury the pipe-you want the end sticking out in a place that still has good cover,but that you can easily get to to hook up your other pipe(we capped off the pipe when not in use and threw a piece of camo netting over it and some brush to hide it-which
brings us to the next step-Get another tank to fill the tank thats on your hill-you can use a smaller one-like a 250 gallon rectangular truck tank-your going to need a truck-your also going to need another pipe,but this one needs to be more flexible,so you can quickly hook it up to your buried pipe.Check out flex-drain.com-Now you have your tank on the hill,your drain pipe buried up the hill with the tip sticking out uphill(which is capped with a pvc cap,and hidden by a camo net and some brush),your flexdrain, and your truck tank.The flexdrain and the corrugated pipe is both 4'', so you need to order a 4"fitting on your truck tank-now you need a 4 inch gate valve to hook up the flex drain and control the flow of your water when you do your waterdrops(btw i have one im selling)-theyre a hundred bucks new from aquaticeco.com.When you get your valve and all the fittings(from home depot)-attach it to your truck tank.Your now ready for a water drop-this is
where we ran into a problem and on our first water drop,the flexdrain came unattached from the drainpipe and all the water went everywhere except the drainpipe.-the flexdrain is 4" diameter on the outer edge of the pipe, and the 4" corrugated pipe is 4" on the inner edge,if that makes sense.The flexdrain will fit flush with the drainpipe,but you need something to hold it in place when the water pressure comes-We used velcro on the inside of the corrugated pipe and the outer edge of the flexdrain.Maybe you can come up with a better method but velcro worked for us.Now the system is ready,and this is where it gets sketchy-not gonna lie -the water drops are the gnarliest part and work best if you have a friend uphill and downhill in hiding,each of you having a two way radio or walkie talkie to alert the person doing the drop of oncoming car.We did this at night around 10 pm, and I was able to decommission the system in less than five seconds and drive off
before a car passed by(only to turn around down the road to come back and finish the drop.)Forgot to mention-same velcro setup on the opposite end of the flexdrain so you can shut off the gate valve and quickly throw your hose out of sight before you bail.This sounds complicated but its easy once you know your system, and you can be gone in seconds-Just a recap-your hose is buried,connected to the tank downhill.Your truck tank and your section of flex drain that your going to quickly connect to the waiting drainpipe, are connected together in your truck with the gate valve secure-You drop your friends off,get the okay over the radio, pull up and connect the flex drain which will hold with the velcro you installed, and lift the gate valve-the 250 gallon tank will be empty in about 20 to 30 seconds thanks to gravity-you now have 250 gallons of water in your tank.when the truck tanks empty,shut the valve,reel in your hose quickly,throw it in the truck and
your gone.Works like clockwork once you have the system down.4:digging holes and bringing in soil-now that youve done a water drop, soil drops are easy-same rules apply-friends in hiding,radios, throw the bags and tools over the hill and out of sight.If your hill has good soil, amend it and use it, but we chose to bring in our own soil-bought two pallets of happy frog from the local nursery-i think they were 600 dollars a pallet with around 50 bags per pallet-get a storage unit and tell the owner your family owns a nursery and you need to store some extra supply-do soil drops in cycles.dig holes at least 2' by 2' preferrably 3 by 3 feet.line the bottoms of your holes with around 3 inches of perlite for drainage.if your lazy, you can use pots, but make sure theyre hidden and dont go any smaller than 15 gallons.5:Nutrients and bringing in clones-now you have your holes dug, all of your trash is out of sight or you hiked it out of the site,your water
source is full and ready with a garden hose and waterwand attached.If your doing the numbers I did, theres no fkn way your going to mix nutes every time you water.get HeavyHarvest from Advanced-stuff works insane.But dont believe the label about it being foolproof in regards to burning your plants-I burned the shit out of some blueberry clones.Scatter about a half a handful in a 2x2 area and dont feed again for at least another 2 and half to 3 weeks.Its time released, so thatll be plenty-if your using a good soil like FFOF or Happy frog, i would do half of that if your clone is still in early Veg.6:insect control-get Azatrol-THE best shit for spider mites.Its expensive.Try wrapping a piece of duct tape around the base of your stem and buying some anti-insect glue-its organic,forget the name-crawling insects like spidermites,caterpillars etc. cant make it past the glue, and the duct tape prevents your plant from absorption.All of the following steps are
just basic growing techniques-training, watering, etc.If your going to attempt a real guerrilla grow, the main setback is water and a good spot-Use this system and water is no longer an issue.
 

skywalker1

New Member
for the record,when i said hose, what i meant was the pipes-your corrugated pipe and the flex drain.the only hose is your garden hose.
 

skywalker1

New Member
you can guerrilla grow anywhere that is accessible, has no human traffic, cant be seen from a distance, cant be smelt from a distance and has lots of sunlight from spring to fall. a spot that is water accessible or near the water table is ideal but not mandatory because if its accessible you can always truck in water like fast pine over at icmag does. oh yes and check out these links:


International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - For All The New Outdoor Growers
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Guide for Insects and Pest Prevention
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - preventing early spring flowering with clones
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Making cages to keep animals away from plants
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Outdoor Growing Ethics
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - striking your seedlings at the patch !!!
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Finishing times, Photoperiod, Latitude, and how it all works!!
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - 42° Guerilla Grower - outdoor 2007
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Gas powered pump thread..
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - 500+ out: High Desert guerilla growing Vol.2
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - High Alpine Guerilla Growing.......
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - BACKCOUNTRY's 2005 outdoor season
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Oregon outdoor 2006, with BACKCOUNTRY
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - 2007 Oregon Guerrilla Outdoor, with BACKCOUNTRY
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - 2008 Oregon Guerrilla Outdoor Adventure, with your host BACKCOUNTRY
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Evaluating Sunshine potential in your plot
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Protecting your plants from Deer
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Evaluating your plots soils: Soil texture
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Evaluating your plots soils: Testing your PH
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Outdoor Strainguide-Please contribute!
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Guerrilla auto-Irrigation (Watering your plants when you aren't there)
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - BACKCOUNTRY builds a Guerilla Water reservoir
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.p...71#post1648971
http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.p...2&page=1&pp=15
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - Pipeline Gardens--2007
International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums - 350 clones are out!
Perhaps its a coincidence, but thats an awful lot of advertisement for Gypsy Nirvana and ICMAG lol. If your not affiliated with them, no worries, it just had to be addressed. People arent too happy with GN (aka ICMAG) right now...
 

skywalker1

New Member
which tank? the truck tank?From a hose- the heavy harvest from Advanced is ph buffered so you can get away with water thats not ph-ed and it balances out. The other tank on the hill is filled with the truck tank
 

skywalker1

New Member
Heres another idea for anyone interested-Ive never done it but were going to attempt it this season-My chick lives in this apt. complex right next to a dense field of brush/forest.Theres is a large flower bed that has an automatic sprinkler system directly next to the brush field-Nobody ever goes back there and probably hasnt in at least 20 years-The plan is to cut the sprinkler line, install a "T" and run a hose off of the T, bury it, and run it into the brush field attached to a drip system. If all goes as planned, our plants are going to be watered for us all season until harvest.The only question remains-How much are they going to water? Underwatering wont be an issue, as the sprinklers come on every day during the summer,but overwatering may be a concern.If the sprinklers stay on for a long period of time, we should be fine with more perlite for better drainage.Gonna try to start a journal of this in the next cpl. months.
 

South Texas

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I like the idea. I've had 7 plants in weed field. Had a Buddy stand in a certain spot where all plants was in sight, and ask him to point out the plants. He couldn't "see" any, until I pointed them out. He freaked. Look careful for trails where people walk. Take a stupid-ass kite with you, play with it while checking out your Babies.

Heres another idea for anyone interested-Ive never done it but were going to attempt it this season-My chick lives in this apt. complex right next to a dense field of brush/forest.Theres is a large flower bed that has an automatic sprinkler system directly next to the brush field-Nobody ever goes back there and probably hasnt in at least 20 years-The plan is to cut the sprinkler line, install a "T" and run a hose off of the T, bury it, and run it into the brush field attached to a drip system. If all goes as planned, our plants are going to be watered for us all season until harvest.The only question remains-How much are they going to water? Underwatering wont be an issue, as the sprinklers come on every day during the summer,but overwatering may be a concern.If the sprinklers stay on for a long period of time, we should be fine with more perlite for better drainage.Gonna try to start a journal of this in the next cpl. months.
 

skywalker1

New Member
thanks well see how it goes-gonna miss my outdoor guerrilla plot(my tools and 600 gallon tank are still down the hill, never to be used again) but i figure ive gotten away w it this long and I dont wanna push my luck-Had some helicopter scares as well.If this idea works Ill laugh my ass off. Prob gonna do around 50 plants, planted late in the season so they stay around 5 or 6' tall. Well see how it goes.
 

MediMaryUser

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Heres another idea for anyone interested-Ive never done it but were going to attempt it this season-My chick lives in this apt. complex right next to a dense field of brush/forest.Theres is a large flower bed that has an automatic sprinkler system directly next to the brush field-Nobody ever goes back there and probably hasnt in at least 20 years-The plan is to cut the sprinkler line, install a "T" and run a hose off of the T, bury it, and run it into the brush field attached to a drip system. If all goes as planned, our plants are going to be watered for us all season until harvest.The only question remains-How much are they going to water? Underwatering wont be an issue, as the sprinklers come on every day during the summer,but overwatering may be a concern.If the sprinklers stay on for a long period of time, we should be fine with more perlite for better drainage.Gonna try to start a journal of this in the next cpl. months.

i like that idea just make sure to water more than just the marijuana so its not the only green thing in the field.
 

StickyNp0t3nt

Active Member
All i can say is this. Many people like hunters that like ganja may stumble across your plants and snatch them. Another factor is pulling over on the highway and getting out of your car. If a cop rolls up your done for, i would suggest finding a place close to home that you can walk to from your house, but find an isolated area where people dont walk by. Thats what i did and it worked out perfect.
 
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