Outdoor plot prep?

Just wondering if anyone does patch guerilla growing vs individual holes? Live up north and didn't have great luck with strains finishing so I was going to do autoflower patches. 8x8 foot with 16 plants spaced two feet apart. Just wondering if anyone grows like this and if so how do you prep your patches vs holes? Just can't see me lugging a tiller out in the bush lol. Thanks in advance. Blitz

A good shovel and a strong back is all you need. A tiller will do nothing of significance, it will just stir it up maybe 10" deep. You need to get down there a couple feet or more with a shovel, just do individual planting holes. Dig em out and add amendments and put everything back in the hole. I've done several hundred of these over the years.

AimAim said:

A good shovel and a strong back is all you need. A tiller will do nothing of significance, it will just stir it up maybe 10" deep. You need to get down there a couple feet or more with a shovel, just do individual planting holes. Dig em out and add amendments and put everything back in the hole. I've done several hundred of these over the years.

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Thank you. I was going to do plots like that for ease of feed/water but not too big too be spotted from above. Plan on using the espoma line of products. But again thank you.

what he said get that shovel out

I would give it a try. Do a single plot with autos and see how you do. Mix up the soil and add to it as you wish. Only way to learn is to give it a try.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket though. Mix it up. Different places, different techniques, and different strains.

Go go for it and have some fun.

But how remote a location would it have to be to prepare a 8' x 8' (64sq ft) plot, then have 6, 8, 12....plants growing there for most of the spring, summer and early fall...???

Unless you live in a log cabin and have an existence like Grizley Adams or Dances with Wolves, that plot is going to be a tourist attraction.

One hole here, another hole there....
Seems far more realistic, to me.

But I live in England and I am unused to the sheer space that many Americans can utilise.
At some point I hope to spend a year on an uninhabited Scottish island and do a plot grow.

Just me, at first sleeping in a tent while I do basic renovations to an abandoned cottage.
Then, motor boat to nearest inhabited Island to buy groceries, every few weeks.

I would take camera equipment and wildlife books - make people believe I was doing some kind of National Geographic study.

I think I would actually enjoy the solitude of living alone on an island....

I like doing rectangles making a fence with that plastics green stuff with 2x2 inch squares, put four stakes up and fill the inside with as many plants that fit nice.
I did 3 good size autos last year and had extra room in my fence, this next year I plan on 2 50 foot rolls of the stuff and filling the inside with 20 mabey do 2 of these set ups.

Last year was just one roll that was 50 feet

You can make a good 18foot x 7foot rectangle.

What about a polytunnel ???

What about them?

There nice but big white flags ha

doubletake said:

There nice but big white flags ha

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A 64sq ft plot with 9ft high Sativa's growing on it is a big GREEN flag.

If it's on private property at least a polytunnel can obscure what you're actually growing....

A high, razor wire fence and a few rabid looking Rottweiler's strolling around and I'll wager GOOD money that most folks will tolerate their curiosity and not attempt to see the inside of that polytunnel....

(A compound like the neo-nazi's had on Breaking Bad....That's what you need).

Haha yea dude I'm all for it

Im not scared of people's curiosity I'm out there during harvest ha.

More scared of the pigs if anything if I'm doing it real big


And a 64 sq ft green patch isn't shit compared to the corn rows they got going of weed in Fresno
or up in the mountains all over NorCal people doing patches of 1000 and stuff way bigger then my little 64 sq ft thing.

I have to agree about 64sqft being really small.
It all depends on your perspective.

No offense intended, but here in Canada that plot is nothing really. My vegetable garden is 50'x50' = 2500sqft. I could add another garden the same size and fill it with Autos that would look very similar to my tomato and potato patches. Add a section or two of corn/Sunflower (6-12' tall) and it would all look like vegetable garden from a distance. Hell I could add in some Jerusalem Artichoke and mask it even further (they grow 6-10' tall). I also grow different stuff in different areas of the property each year so the neighbors wouldn't notice much difference.

Most of the old farmers have gardens that are 1/4-1/2 acre in size. Mine is small compared to those. Imagine a garden that is 110'x220' = 24200sqft!!

Agreed.... Ha

there things you can do.. to hide the poly... shade cloth do low tunnels you can also just cover them with clear rubber made containers. keep them low.. rap a fence around them keeping it a foot out side of the plant and wrap that in plastic. but planting indica is alot easier

AimAim said:

A good shovel and a strong back is all you need. A tiller will do nothing of significance, it will just stir it up maybe 10" deep. You need to get down there a couple feet or more with a shovel, just do individual planting holes. Dig em out and add amendments and put everything back in the hole. I've done several hundred of these over the years.

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That's exactly what I have done this year, glad I have done something that has been done many times before

Whats the latest the plant can stay in the woods
Month wise i know some that will finish early
I callit early end of august to second week in september
but im in south so i think it shouldnt be to diff

I plan on doing 2 site guerilla grow and most of the material is compressed coco and peat and liquid fertilizer. I know of a place with many, many hills and lakes for fresh water at a reasonable distance. The worst part is only being able to visit once every week or couple of weeks. This is my first Guerilla grow so Im not really sure of the issues I will encounter or things I need.

DrOctopus said:

I plan on doing 2 site guerilla grow and most of the material is compressed coco and peat and liquid fertilizer. I know of a place with many, many hills and lakes for fresh water at a reasonable distance. The worst part is only being able to visit once every week or couple of weeks. This is my first Guerilla grow so Im not really sure of the issues I will encounter or things I need.

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all depends on mother nature. sometimes i have to go too my plot 2x a week in later summer bc lack of rain. and last year i couldnt even go give them water bc it rained so damn much. root rot killed all 20 of mine bc the clay soil was so wet. got about a half ounce total off all 20 combined lol. And Last yeari got at least a qp per plant(witch is nice for my low light area.) all about finding that happy medium brother.
Happy Growing!!!!

BCJohn said:

I would give it a try. Do a single plot with autos and see how you do. Mix up the soil and add to it as you wish. Only way to learn is to give it a try.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket though. Mix it up. Different places, different techniques, and different strains.

Go go for it and have some fun.

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Thanks for the input bc, and ya I kno to never put all eggs in one basket. Never done it from the get go. Only issue I had outdoors really was plants not finishing. Hence the autoflower route. Just didn't want to do a bunch of individual holes for one ounce plants ya kno