Corn field ganja guerrilla growing

GunnarGuchi

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this thread is to discuss the pros and cons of growing cannabis in corn and sharing info on this genius way of guerrilla growing.

im new here but im in no way new to growing the MJ

Some people might recognize me from various other forums under the same username and also its not secret that have become very exited about doing guerrilla growing in corn cause it in my view has many pros compared to other growing ways.

last year on Icmag i started a thread about growing in corn and it has become a valued thread to find and share information on this kind of growing.

this year i started guerrilla growing for the first time in many years as last year was the first for a very long brake from growing but it was just some diffrent strains and crosses in my own garden..

But then i stumbled upon the guerrilla farming videos by BDW on Youtube YouTube - brwndirtwarrior's Channel and got very fascinated and watched each new episode with great expectations and inspiration ( bought his HQ dvd later), and this season i decided not to limit my grow to a few plants in my own garden, but i had 8 guerrilla spots besides that

7 spots with early danish and Nordic genetics in corn and one later finishing afghan strain in a forest

all where seeds grows as i then had seeds for many years and can concentrate in sensimilla and also make some of the seeds available on Seedbay later so that ppl outside Denmark can start enjoying the benefits of the early mold resistant genes we grow up here and is they key for us harvesting great potent MJ in an environment thats not suppose to letting that happen.

i hope this thread can develop into a great resource for other corn growers and ppl who might pick this up.

i start by saying the info on my grows is related to growing MJ in Corn in Denmark at 56 northern latitude but with local adjustments the knowledge should be able to be used in many countries.

first of all make sure you grow your plants in a corn field that is going to produce cattle feed instead of sweetcorn as the sweet corn is harvested a lot sooner.
the corn used for cattle feed is normally harvested here at first or second week of October, so make sure to use genetics that finishes at the end of September.

Here the frost has left the soil in mid May so thats a good time to start germinating and pre growing the plants in pots.

here the farmers use weed killer early in the season but planting them out in the corn mid June is considered safe as long as you scrape the top soil off around the plants to avoid contact with remaining weed killer.

once in ground give it a good start by watering it with a mild fertilizer solution, also ad some pellet fertilizer for a long term effect unless you plan to visit them several times a week.
a word of advice is DONT use pellet fertilizer just before heavy rain as it will wash down to many nutrients at once and can lead to the plants suffering from too much nutrients at once

when transplanting them out in mid June the corn is only knee high so work at night with use of only discrete and careful lightning from a flashlight or similar
i had to hit the ground belly down many times when transplanting but later on as the corn gets higher it becomes a lot easier as you only have to be sure not to be seen entering the corn field and once in the corn field its safer to work.

if you want seeds just let the best looking males remain and remove the rest but if a sensimilla grow is desired you have to visit often once sexing start to remove males

unfortunately i was without camera in the important period around harvest but ill soon post some of the earlier pix from my grow in corn this year and some from other corn mj growers.

i hope ppl will contribute with their own experiences and pix with mj guerrilla farming in corn.

personally i prefer growing in corn fields instead of forests as its easier, safer and much less work and the soil is way better and even fertilized to some degree by the farmers.

keep the info flowing
have fun
take care and stay safe
 

GunnarGuchi

Active Member
heres some of my own pix from this season in corn
i had a little more than a total of 100 plants in the corn this year but next year im going corn canna bananas for sure

Royal Danes in corn




Thyphoon ( local danish sativa dominated land race)



leb27 in corn


Royal Danes and Erocket x Danish passion f2 for a cross im making special dedicated for a potent sticky corn suited strain
RD on the left ( females) and ERxDP on the right males and females


pix from other growers













one notice
if you have flyovers in your area beside to plant between the rows instead of removing corn to let the mj have more space.
its a lot easier to spot the mj from the air unless there are more hidden between the rows
also it attracts less attention from the farmers when harvesting if there isnt a lot of empty spots in the corn once the mj has been removed.

i did my grow this year with removed corn but next year im going for the safer way of planting between rows and make up for it in numbers instead
 

tusseltussel

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nice job bro but arnt you worried about the amonium nitrate and roundup that feild is sprayed with........ ya know if you use roundup on a watermelon patch before its planted you can taste it in the resulting melon and it will give you mad cancer... in fact an old farmer once told me a story about when your out sprayin with roundup if you accitently inhale it at all it will colapse your lungs and you gotta poke a hole in the tractor tire and suck on it to inflate your lungs whew nasty shit but anyhoo how did it turn out
 

SlikWiLL13

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you dont end up with mad chem taste from all the shit they use on cornfields? ive heard that theres so much shit in the earth in farm fields that earthworms can no longer inhabit the soil. i dont know if i want my weed growing where worms cant live(unless its hydro)
 

Picasso345

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Very interesting. I've often pondered this while driving through cornfield country for hours and hours on end.

What about digging a hole for each plant and sticking in a bag of soil so you aren't using any of the farmer's herbicided/insecticided soil? A lot more work I guess.
 

tusseltussel

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Or find an Organic farm and plant there.
i find weed planted on my organic farm i will be pissed thats all i need sumone to draw attention to me... but at least on my farm i walk each row every day and would prolly find it so it wouldnt really be a good idea... an organic farm is much diffrnt you dont just spray chenicals and wait for it to grow you get out their and care for every crop and spend time with it every day if you dont you will end up with a overgrown bug infested mess gotta keep em all healthy and balanced
 

Picasso345

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i find weed planted on my organic farm i will be pissed thats all i need sumone to draw attention to me... but at least on my farm i walk each row every day and would prolly find it so it wouldnt really be a good idea... an organic farm is much diffrnt you dont just spray chenicals and wait for it to grow you get out their and care for every crop and spend time with it every day if you dont you will end up with a overgrown bug infested mess gotta keep em all healthy and balanced
Yeah, I purposely ignored the karmic implications to that plan too.

So how do corn and beans work? Do they handle chemicals like round-up differently than ganja? Less uptake?
 

tusseltussel

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Yeah, I purposely ignored the karmic implications to that plan too.

So how do corn and beans work? Do they handle chemicals like round-up differently than ganja? Less uptake?
??? the indians used to grow pole beans up corn stalks... beans grow nitrogen fixing noduals on ther roots and fix nitrogen from the air to a useable form in the soil
 

Picasso345

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??? the indians used to grow pole beans up corn stalks... beans grow nitrogen fixing noduals on ther roots and fix nitrogen from the air to a useable form in the soil
I guess my question is if the ground is considered safe enough for edibles like corn and beans why isn't it considered good enough for marijuana? What is the difference?
 

norcalkronic

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great post gunnar! RIU needs more guerrilla stuff!

I have never grown in a corn field but have grown in the forest the last 4 years. This next year i plan to have a lot of my crop in corn fields. Just wondering, in the spring is there an easy way to tell the difference between a sweet corn field and a cattle corn field?

Here are some obvious pros and cons:

Pros:
Water is readily available and supplied for you
Soil is already fertilized
Guaranteed sun light unless the corn over grows your crop
Farmer controls the bugs
No weed eating animals like deer
Corn provides cover for your crop

Cons:
Huge risk as with any guerrilla grow
Season ends early
Have to grow with synthetic nutes
In the beginning all access must be done at night
Farmer could find your crop or harvest before you do
 

norcalkronic

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if the ground is considered safe enough for edibles like corn and beans why isn't it considered good enough for marijuana? What is the difference?
Great question! Scientifically it is claimed that there is none. Marijuana growers, including myself, claim otherwise. Many notice a chemically smell from synthetic ferts and a natural smell from organic. Also i have noticed organic to be a smoother smoke that burns more thoroughly than chem weed, organics leave behind a white/ grey ash whiles chems leave behind a lot more black. As far as round up and weed killer goes, these chemicals will kill marijuana. they should not come in contact with the root system. It has already been recommended that you move a few inches of the top soil away when you make the initial plant.
 

tusseltussel

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I guess my question is if the ground is considered safe enough for edibles like corn and beans why isn't it considered good enough for marijuana? What is the difference?
i dont consider it safe for edibles at all people dont relize how much chemical it really takes to kill them earworms thats why when you get it at a farmers market it may have a worm in it ppl that really know wouldnt touch the stuff cause they know what it takes to kill them basterds.. and most corn isn't grown to be eaten by us its fuel and animal feed and the grain i guess we do eat but its still nasty shit in ther
 

norcalkronic

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heres a quote from wikipedia. these are proven differences and problems regarding synthetic fertilizers:

The high solubilities of chemical fertilizers exacerbate their tendency to degrade ecosystems, particularly through eutrophication.[citation needed]
Storage and application of some nitrogen fertilizers in some weather or soil conditions can cause emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). Ammonia gas (NH3) may be emitted following application of inorganic fertilizers, or manure or slurry. Besides supplying nitrogen, ammonia can also increase soil acidity (lower pH, or "souring"). Excessive nitrogen fertilizer applications can also lead to pest problems by increasing the birth rate, longevity and overall fitness of certain pests.[17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22]
The concentration of up to 100 mg/kg of cadmium in phosphate minerals (for example, minerals from Nauru[23] and the Christmas islands[24]) increases the contamination of soil with cadmium, for example in New Zealand.[25] Uranium is another example of a contaminant often found in phosphate fertilizers, also radioactive Polonium-210 contained in phosphate fertilizers is absorbed by the roots of plants and stored in it tissues. Tobacco derived from plants fertilzed by rock phosphates contains Polonium-210 which emits alpha radiation estimated to cause about 11,700 lung cancer deaths each year worldwide. [26][27] [28] [29] [30] [31]
For these reasons, it is recommended that knowledge of the nutrient content of the soil and nutrient requirements of the crop are carefully balanced with application of nutrients in inorganic fertilizer especially. This process is called nutrient budgeting. By careful monitoring of soil conditions, farmers can avoid wasting expensive fertilizers, and also avoid the potential costs of cleaning up any pollution created as a byproduct of their farming.
It is also possible to over-apply organic fertilizers; however, their nutrient content, their solubility, and their release rates are typically much lower than chemical fertilizers.[citation needed] By their nature, most organic fertilizers also provide increased physical and biological storage mechanisms to soils, which tend to mitigate their risks.[citation needed]
 

GunnarGuchi

Active Member
great post gunnar! RIU needs more guerrilla stuff!

I have never grown in a corn field but have grown in the forest the last 4 years. This next year i plan to have a lot of my crop in corn fields. Just wondering, in the spring is there an easy way to tell the difference between a sweet corn field and a cattle corn field?

Here are some obvious pros and cons:

Pros:
Water is readily available and supplied for you
Soil is already fertilized
Guaranteed sun light unless the corn over grows your crop
Farmer controls the bugs
No weed eating animals like deer
Corn provides cover for your crop

Cons:
Huge risk as with any guerrilla grow
Season ends early
Have to grow with synthetic nutes
In the beginning all access must be done at night
Farmer could find your crop or harvest before you do
i agree on most but have a few notes in the pros and cons from my own experiences

pros:
much safer than other guerrilla places here
chemical fertilizer and weed killer havent been a problem for me.
taste isnt affacted and weedkiller isnt a problem if you just dont plant out before mid June and remember to scrabe the topsoil away around the plants


Cons:
in one of the 7 spots i had in corn this season i had deers chewing up 1/3 of the harvest
but in total the loss wasnt big
i lost one of 7 spots to a farmer harvesting atleast one week earlier then the others
so using several fields instead of one is best i think ( might have something to do with the exact date the corn was planted but theres too many corn fields here to keep track on so i use the start October harvest as a guideline and apart from that single field the others were harvested from first week of October and onwards)


i must admit i dont know how to tell the difference between sweetcorn and cattle feed corn.
farmers here only grow the cattle feed corn anyway
if i compare the safety and work for the forest spot and the corn field spots i prefer the corn spots

im going to harvest the forest spot with some late Afghans in a few days ( too late for corn thats why i did them in a forest)
for the forest spot i choose a fenced in area with young forest.
the fence is there to keep deers from eating the small tress and therefore also keeps them away from my mj.
also the fence keeps ppl from going there ( unless some wood workers find and harvests the mj but i keep my fingers crosed)

ill only use forest spots if i really need to make some seeds on a late strain as the corn grows are much easier with better soil, less work and a lot more safe.
 

GunnarGuchi

Active Member
its vital that you use early potent and mold resistant strains and crosses that are guerrilla suited and can keep up with the corn without becoming to tall and visible but also not too slow so they get overgrown by the corn

this year i had good results with some of the best danish land races
heres a few of them i used
though pix not taken in the corn and they where not shot by me either

Danish Passion




Royal Dane




RD in my garden last year
 

scruffmcgruff

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sweet corn fields are a lot shorter than standard corn, and the tassels on top are more prevalent than on regular field corn, also sweet corn is harvested months before field corn, because field corn needs to develop into a hardened seed
 
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