Where I live there are a ton of massive corn fields and I was wondering if it's a good idea to throw some in random corn field spots. I've heard of a bunch getting found by police but they were in bunches of 5-10 plants. I was thinking of putting single plants(indicas so they finish quicker), a few rows back, each spaced out at least 20ft, possibly around 15 plants total... I wont have to go there all the time because farmers water with massive water cannons and they crop near the end of October so they have time to finish. If I plant/crop at night time nobody will see me going in there cause there's like one house and its a couple kilometers away from the field. This outdoor season I WILL post a ton of pics since, unlike my indoor grow, it's all mine! Got a little wait still though... I don't plant on planting until mid May.
Did you read about the swiss using the new google earth finding a big ass patch of marijuana hidden in a corn field? The green is was what stood out. I was just stunned that they could do that, so I had a look myself, and damn I could almost read my license plate number on my car in the dooryard. Other than that I don't know much about planting in another guys fields. I was just surprised they could just scan the sky and pick them up... Ain't technology wonderful.:icon_scratch:
Yes, you gotta love technology, but the satellite images in my area only zoom in so far.... you really can't see shit, I checked... also they are very old images. check out Beamsville, ON on google map then go up Mountain rd which is south and check out the fields everywhere. plus my plants will be by themselves and spaced out quite a bit.
What about other things f overhead - planes, helicopters, etc. I don't think LEO depends on Google Earth all that much, a lot of the sat images are over a year old. A 6' pot plant is bound to stick out like crazy in a yellow cornfield.
I did a nice grow in a corn field last year. The corn field was right outside of town, and was bordered by a very busy road.. I didn't have to water at all last year, due to the perfect weather last summer and fall.. Not too wet, or dry; we had just enough rain to water the crops and we didn't get a drought last summer like we usually do. It was a very successful grow. I started the plants indoors and planted them outdoors in July. I came back and culled the males in August. I had 3 plots of about 10 plants before I pulled any males. I ended up with almost 9 Oz.(dry) at harvest time. Its important to wait until Mid-late July to put any plants in the fields. #1 the corn isn't tall enough until this time to conceal the Mj plants. #2 they spray pesticides sometime in July, and u dont want your plants in there when they spray. Im planning on growing in the same field, as well as a few others. Last year was the first time I had ever grown in corn, and I dont know why I hadnt tried this years before this. When I put in my plants, I pulled out corn, about 4- 5 plants out of the rows, and replaced it with a row of MJ. This year I am going to try to grow between the rows, and see how that works out. More to come later, I gtg for now. GFam
wonder if you can grow mj in potato fields? hehehehe I am interested would love to hear about the corn field grows. I really like growing outdoors a lot more than inside, but then, I am just a gardening fool anyway. I use to work in greenhouses in the summer until my poor old back bitched about the low tables. Behind the greenhouse were the cabbage fields for morse's saurkraut...all you mainers gather round and drool. Anyway..I told the owners of the greenhouses I was gonna plants in the cabbage and they believed me bwhahaha....can you imagine how they would just stand out
You have to make sure the fields you grow in, are for cattle. (Cattle Corn, AKA Field Corn.) The fields of sweet corn are harvested much earlier than the field corn. Also, make sure u only use early finishing strains in corn. I know around here they harvest the corn near Early November. So u wouldnt want your plants to fall victim to the Combine.:icon_confused: So who else is plannin' on growing in the corn fields this year?? assit: GFam
What I do, is have my Dad, drop my off along the side of the road, at the field. I go in with my flat of seedlings or cuttings and place them in the ground.. I ring him with my cell when Im ready to come out.. Works great! Its always nice to have someone that you can trust when it comes to stuff like this! GFam
GF thought I'd try the swamps. But....you never know. I might throw a couple in a near buy corn field.
Doesn't that stick out even more when in-between the rows , at least from the air it must. and when I did some in my own corn garden last yr I noticed the corn was skinny and tall but the MJ was wide and touched the other row on both sides. GF did you come across any of these issues?
When looking from the air it would be noticeably more green than the corn.. Especially in late season.. From the air it would be hard to distinguish a weed from a pot plant, Id imagine.. By planting in between rows, I believe they would stick out as much.. When you remove the corn and replace it with MJ, you will easily be able to tell where the corn row ended and was interrupted by MJ.. I think by planting in between rows, it would look less conspicuous and it would look more like a stray weed or other plant coming up in the corn... I was told by a Dutch grower not to pull out corn plants, but to plant in between rows. He had loads of pictures of this method, and it looked like he did very well that year.. I will post the pics if I can find them later. GFam
In my neck of the woods... There's alot of aspects to consider when growing in corn fields. GFam made some good points. The corn is going to brown before your bud is ready to harvest leaving tall green plants in the midst of a sea of brown corn making it easy to spot. The middle of the field is the best spot, as far as remaining green late in the year. The sun cant get to the crops in the middle drying them out slower. Some farmers will harvest a few rows(combine rows) on the outside to allow sunlight to hit the crops in the middle. Thus allowing them to dry up quicker. Do they have irragation set up, which could possibly run over your plants? My state works with DNR and the national guard(their helicopters) to scout out MJ fields during the day and FLIR (mostly during harvest season) to spot growers in the fields at night. How they can tell the difference between deer and humans using FLIR is beyond me, but they manage to do it somehow. I manage all my outdoor grows in broad daylight. Also, around here alot of the farmers hire detaslers to walk through their crops with machetes. They come by the hundreds and post tents down by the river. Great place to sell a bunch of herb all at once, but equally dangerous, they're an interesting bunch to say the least. Some years back I met one in town and he had me come out to their campsite to sell some herb. I pulled up, stayed in the car with it running and swear there had to be a least a hundred tents lined up in rows on both sides of the dead end road. Four guys approached my vehicle, when they found out I had brought it with me, one of them whistled to there friends, and these fuckers came out of the tents and woods wielding their machetes. Was pink mohawks and machetes as far as the eye could see and all heading in my direction. Threw that bitch in reverse and damn near ran a few over trying to get out of there. I'm rambling, just remembered that, I guess what I'm getting at is you have to make sure no one is going to stumble across your crop. Farmers tend to try new hybrid seeds and often stroll through their crops to check on their new strain of corn. I'm not sure how the MJ plants react to crop dusting. A great deal of new hybrid corn seeds are RoundUp ready. Meaning they are resistant to RoundUp which is widely used to kill off undesirable weeds in their crop. I know of quite a few people that do it successfully, year after year. I've never tried it myself. I prefer places that are less traveled, it's too much work and care to lose it all in the end. Especially to some deuche bag with a pink mohawk.
That's why it is important to not put your plants in the fields until after they have applied pesticides.. This usually happens anytiem from End of may to late June. GFam
Depends , if your stuff is going to be ready in aug and its in a tucked away spot preferably spread out then what the hell. In my neck of the woods i have never seen them spray corn after june also they fertilize the ground good for corn, though its not organic If you had em in pots dug in i would think it be a good way to spead 20 or so girls around a field as an experment and avoid the farmers chemicals
