Back in the early 80's, we had a crop of about 40 plants, grown outdoors, spread out all over a big island in the middle of a fresh water lake. We did this 5 years in a row. We were experts on how to not get caught, but we were not expert growers. We used walkie talkies, and we pretended to be fishing in the spring and summer, then we pretended to be hunting in the fall. We didn't know half of what we know now about growing. Like the best most perfect time to harvest to us was when the weather man predicted the first frost was coming. We didn't know anything about color of trichs. We thought we were experts cause we knew to pull up the males. We got very little sensi-bud tho, and we got a lot of seeded buds. $$$ was our goal, saving the few virgin buds for ourselves. We used commercial columbian bag seed. Anyway, we would harvest about 20 to 25 5 to 9 ft tall plants, (sativa) and we hung entire plants from ropes and limbs of trees in the middle of the woods. We gave away the males and the shade leaves or used them for mulch, and we'd harvest 10 to 12 lbs of good looking buds, sun-air dried. Yea, we got a few spiders and spider webs and a rare twig of pine straw mixed in, but we'd manicure them good and we'd clear $10,000 - $12,000 selling lbs wholesale and about another $2500 in qt lbs and bags.
We were such fools but we never got busted.
