Cornfeild Questions

if i was gonna throw clones in a cornfeild could the farmer or somebody spot them? and would i have to lay down my own soil?

some friends of mine used to plant in cornfields. i am not sure if they still do, i have lost touch with them. anyway they would go into the cornfield after the corn has started to grow. they would clear some of the corn and plant them in there. then a few weeks or so later they would go back and knock down anything that was shading the plants. they used to drive by the field everyday on the way to work. once the farmer started cutting the corn, they knew they had to harvest within a day or 2. they always had good yields and tastey buds.
im not advising to go and chop someones corn down mind you.
this was also years ago, and nowadays i think in some places choppers fly over the cornfields checking.

ONTGROW said:

if i was gonna throw clones in a cornfeild could the farmer or somebody spot them? and would i have to lay down my own soil?

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I'd wait till corn s at least16-18'' high for most farmers will run a cultivator over corn while it's short enough to pass over it, in order to lossen up the soil to promote stronger stalks! (I"m an ex-farmer) of corn, and found growing reefer is more profitable and easier. corn fields are excellent to grow in though!

I have to agree with Space Angel on this one. Maybe wait even longer until it is 24"-36" tall as by then it will be too big for him to use a cultivator and/or topdress the corn. A small area cleared out (6'x6') or so will not affect the yield on a large-acreage field so he won't miss the corn. Just be sure he isn't using one of the new "Roundup ready" hybrids that are genetically engineered to resist glyphosate applications. One application of that and your plants will be DOA. Consider the western edge of a field along a fence row facing East or North as an alternate site. The farmer will check his corn frequently in the fall for moisture content and the condition of the field to see if his combine will harvest without getting buried up to its axles. The drier it gets the more likely he will harvest...plan carefully.

ok, one question, i have tried this recently with three plants from seed. the curled up and died, and i put my own soil in the ground and everything, DO THE FARMERS PUT HERBICIDES ON THAT MAKE ONLY CORN ABLE TO GROW? and the herbicide allows the corn to grow cuz it is genetically enginered to survive it( the corn not the weed)//......anyway i need to know because i wanna make it hapen

pot plants in cornfields stick out like a big red flag to overpassing choppers and planes, esspessially if there is areas cleared out. This is how the cops find them, and they just walk out there and rip them out.

Also, farmers spray special herbicides on the ground so only corn can grow. Trust me on this one.

ok rip...what if i put bags in the ground, and filled it with my own soil....will that work...?, thats alla i wanna know nothing about herbicides, will it work yes .no?

Sure it will work. problem is it gets pretty hot in those fields and your pots will heat up.

Heres a tip. When the corn planter makes a turn, rather than a straight line, a space opens up in between the rows. You can find these rows in the corners of the headlands (the rows that run the oppisite way surrounding the field). sometimes this space can be pretty big, and it looks normal from above and there is more sunlight is in these areas. drop your pots in these areas. from above your plants will look more like weeds, and you dont have to chop down plants which gives you away.

Ill try and get you a picture of what I mean.

Here is what I am talking about. This is sort of a bad example because its smaller than what I was describing, but sometimes these spots can be twice this size. You can clearly see how much more space is between the rows.







This is how close the rows are normally



And here you can see a spot were the sprayer missed. without the herbicide, the corn would be overcome with weeds and have to compete for light and nutrients.




I still advise against planting in corn, but I understand why people do it. I think a woodland setting is better, and the soil is much better suited for marijuanna.

ok thanks, ill do some thinking

theMONSTER said:

ok thanks, ill do some thinking

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the only way choppers are gonna find them is if you clump them together all in one tight little spot, spead them out and grow right in the soil that corn grows in. pesticides fade after a while and will not hurt your crop. the pesticides they use works great on weeds for the corn to grow without being choke out by weeds, but after the corn gets high enough 2-3 ft tall and a couple of rains on it, the pesticide is so duluted, it doesn't harm NOTHING! do what you want, but cornfiels are excellent to grow in, I've got several out in them this year too.

Space Angel said:

the only way choppers are gonna find them is if you clump them together all in one tight little spot, spead them out and grow right in the soil that corn grows in. pesticides fade after a while and will not hurt your crop. the pesticides they use works great on weeds for the corn to grow without being choke out by weeds, but after the corn gets high enough 2-3 ft tall and a couple of rains on it, the pesticide is so duluted, it doesn't harm NOTHING! do what you want, but cornfiels are excellent to grow in, I've got several out in them this year too.

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Actually, you are correct. But why take the chance of planting in a spot where herbicides have collected enough to kill your plant?

what if you took a few gallons of water with you, like 10, dug your holes, poured the water out in them, to dilute it, and come back a few days later to repeat, then come back with miracle grow soil and trashbags, put the bag in the ground, throw a handfull of lime stone in the bag to weight it down and for a place for excess water to stay. then fill it with soil and transplant seedlings..even if there was the herbicide in the dirt naturally in the feild, after a weed has its root system established i dont think the herbicide could kill it, but i aint a farmer so..

simply put i did some research how it works, the herbicide just keeps the weeds from growing untill the corn has an established root system and the weeds cant get a foot hold in the ground while * the corns root system is growing

Ripshot said:

Actually, you are correct. But why take the chance of planting in a spot where herbicides have collected enough to kill your plant?

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didnt kill mine and it was sprayed and planted memorial day weekend. corn's knee high now and I have had them out for a week and looking great so far! I do this ever year, I just don't get crazy putting a zillion of them out there. 8-10 plants.

theMONSTER said:

simply put i did some research how it works, the herbicide just keeps the weeds from growing untill the corn has an established root system and the weeds cant get a foot hold in the ground while * the corns root system is growing

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there you go!!!! you absolutely right! the same freaking weeds will come up again later on this year and next year too!

Why don't we have Roundup Ready pot??

haha good one round up ready pot...round up is nasty shit i got some on me while i was spraying around my house and in the cracks in my driveway, burnt like hell, i considered going to the hosptial cuz it left a big ass rash...however what they put in the feilds is prolly stronger, and rip though does prolly know a bit if he s a farmer, and he gave me good info on finding a good spot in the feild, headlands or something like that, i found one in a turn in the feild thaqt has like a 3 foot space between the rows..

If you put it in the turn, wont the cultivator just run it over?

Or does the cultivator just run twice a year?