Growing outdoors is a pain in the ass.

I just got back from putting some plants outside, and when I got back I was full of mud from head to toe.

A friend of mine gave me some clones awhile back.
Well, I grew them. Made a mom out of one them, and took some clones.
I grew 7 new clones all the way into the 3rd week of bloom and they were already over 5 foot tall and still climbing.
Needless to say, they outgrew my grow room due to the fact my cieling is only 6 foot 3 inches tall.
Well I called up one of my friends who has a ton of property and asked if he could help me out with my dilemma.
He said sure, but your gonna have to wait until it's pitch black outside.
I understood.
He at least said it was ok' for me to dig the holes in the daylight.
He just didn't want me lugging 5 foot tall plants through his backyard.

The first problem I ran into was, my friend told me I had to put the plants across the creek.
Which is good idea.
My friend owns like 50 acres, which includes an island that is in the middle of the creek. That's where he wanted the plants to be.
Getting across this creek is a huge pain in the ass.
You have to slide down a hill which is about 20 feet to the creek.
Then you have to walk through knee high of water just to get to the island.

The second problem I ran into was his tenant that lives above his garage.
His tenant is a Police Detective, that get's home from work around 10pm.
My friend wanted me to wait until his tenant was home at least an hour before I started lugging the plants through his backyard.

I started working on it around 11:15pm
Getting the plants down that hill one by one and across the creek and into it's new home was a huge pain in the ass.
I couldn't see a damn thing.
I must of fell down the hill at least 3 times.
I fell in the creek everytime I crossed it.
There were pricker bushes and all kinds of other thorny bushes that poked me on any exposed skin.
I finally got done around 12:30am.

I still have to go back and stake everything and make sure all of them survived the shock.

But I am sore as hell.
Just thought I'd share what I did this evening.
I used to grow outdoors every year. I stopped because I enjoy growing indoors.
There are just too many obstacles in growing outdoors.
Here are just some of the reasons why:

People
Bugs
Animals
More bugs
High winds
Downfalls of rain
Alot more bugs
Putting your plants in a secure location.
Harvesting your plants and lugging them all the way back home.
Taking care of them, The fact that you have to leave your house, drive there, and walk through a whole bunch of crap just to feed them.

I think this will be my absolute last time I ever put plants outside.

understandable it can be a pain, but hey sometimes romping in the woods is fun!, what about building a brige over the creek, maybe something you can move. for bugs what about spraying them down with beer, better yet malt liq. cheaper, high%, if that does not work try some seven dust, it none natural friendly, kills a ton of bugs

isn't it a little late in the season to be planting outdoors???

CrispyFried said:

isn't it a little late in the season to be planting outdoors???

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not for me

i have never grown outdoors cause i havent found a spot but i will once i do. I feel like it will be more work but sometimes fun work and also the yields you can get are nuts.

but hey thats good. .. if its hard for you [with motivation.]
who else is going to be there... com on suck it up bro...grow on.

Just a few suggestions, about the hill into the creek. When no one is around take a shovel and see if you can make shift your self some stairs. Dig into the earth and cut out about 5 inches or so and maybe use a piece of 1by6. And if you can get some garden stakes. Now the creek, this is the harder part, could you get some big flagstone or small bolders and lug them back to put in the creek to step across, does it have a shallow spot? You could try walking up stream a ways and damning it the old school way but I haven't seen the stream so that may sound insane. Best suggestion is get your self some hip waiters and maybe some easy to carry fishing tackle. Lets you cross the creek and gives you a good excuse, plus some of the tackle may come in handy for tying things and such. Hope that island dosen't flood or your gonna be very sad, should have found that out first. If you have access to a quad you could use it too. Except for it being really hard to miss a quad and it's tracks. Cant think of anything else right the moment have a good one !!

emerl56 said:

Just a few suggestions, about the hill into the creek. When no one is around take a shovel and see if you can make shift your self some stairs. Dig into the earth and cut out about 5 inches or so and maybe use a piece of 1by6. And if you can get some garden stakes. Now the creek, this is the harder part, could you get some big flagstone or small bolders and lug them back to put in the creek to step across, does it have a shallow spot? You could try walking up stream a ways and damning it the old school way but I haven't seen the stream so that may sound insane. Best suggestion is get your self some hip waiters and maybe some easy to carry fishing tackle. Lets you cross the creek and gives you a good excuse, plus some of the tackle may come in handy for tying things and such. Hope that island dosen't flood or your gonna be very sad, should have found that out first. If you have access to a quad you could use it too. Except for it being really hard to miss a quad and it's tracks. Cant think of anything else right the moment have a good one !!

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Thanks for the suggestions.
But I don't think I'll be growing in this location next season.
For harvest time, I'll just take my canoe and go that route.

you get a way to harvest your laddies yet?