Hank's Outdoor 2012

Alrighty then, I'm finally starting up this biatch thread. This is my third outdoor grow here in Japan. I've learned many things and hopefully I'll have my best year yet.


Last year 4 out of 5 strains went to moldy dogshit, so I'm taking the one that did well and adding another sat strain.


New grow sites this year, as I was seen at my site twice last year and there is new activity in the area. I still haven't decided which potential site to use, but I'm looking at a few.


I have to make up my mind as I will plant first week of June. Average rainfall is very low in April and May for my area. I found the average rainfalls and temps for my area on the internet and it is really useful information. First year, I planted early April and didn't visit too often and lots of things died. Last year, I planted beginning of June, had good luck in August and only had to give them water once all season. I am a weather site checking mofo all summer.


So, I've got 20 Early Pearly unsexed and 10 Colombian Gold x Jamaican Lambsbread unsexed in my 600 tent, topped and supercropped looking eager to get out there. Hope to have 15 good females and get maybe 3 pounds.


Last year I planted in large felt grow bags and this year I might do a combo of those and straight into the ground.


All guerrilla, all the way.





Stay tuned for lots of adventures in the bush. Updates approx. bi-weekly.


asssit:

 

opcorn-2::thumbsup:-Bud

 

This is sure to be the most exciting grow of the season here on GK. :thumbsup:


Those look really healthy and ready to go.


Looking forward to every update. Good luck Hank. :notworthy:


:XXhippylove::hippy2::XXhippylove::hippy2: :XXhippylove:

 

cool. you have a lot of digging to do:bravo:

 

I am tuned in for this one. :thumbs-up: Good luck, Hank.


BBT

 

About time someone else went outside!

 

:rofl6: It's aaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnn now!

 

Yeah, but if Hank gets caught he gets executed, or something worse. Admin lynching

 

It does make it more exciting, right? Hanks' gonna be Japan's newest drug lord. Or at least that's how the media will make it out to be. They're gonna have his couple dozen plants comparable to nuclear weapons.

 

If hank get's busted they'll deport him to North Korea... LoL think I'd rather take death than hang with those looney fucks.


Looks like you have a good start and let the fun begin...Steel

 

that plan in front at the 6 olclock position is it budding?

 

Yeah, that was a little autoflower freebie I started sometime. It's in the tiniest pot. Looks neat, but I'm not really thinking about it.


asssit:


I'll do my best. Thanks for the encouragement, everybody!

 

Didn't even see that.


Good eyes Steel.


Peace....

 

True Guerrilla stylee again Hank? You gonna trek into the countryside again? Seems so scary to have plants outdoors not on your own land in a country where it's still pretty taboo. Truly a ganja warrior. GO HANK! :thumbs-up: I hope it all goes smoothly and you yield pounds of super kind buds. asssit:

 

asssit: watching the show for sure! b4e

 

I don't know about the most exciting, but this will probably be the most difficult grow of the season here.


I've been driving here in Japan on international driver's licenses for 11 years now. They are good for 1 year and you are supposed to go back to your own country for at least 3 months to get a new one. I've been just having my mom send me a new one every year. I knew it was illegal, but thought I could just pretend I didn't know and get away with it. I've shown it to a cop three times and they didn't say anything. Well, recently my wife is ragging me to get a Japanese license, so I've been going to license center to take the test every morning this week, driving myself and parking in the park parking lot across the street. The Japanese are uber-anal retentive and their test is full of nit-picky tiny little procedures that everyone misses and fails and has to retake the test numerous times. 5 or 6 times is average. I've known people who took it 12 and 13 times. Low number is 2 or 3 times. I had just failed for the third day in a row and was just driving past the license center when I got pulled over by an undercover cop car. Busted for driving w/o a license! I spent an hour in the back of a cop car yesterday and it stressed me the fuck out.


No license, no driving for 1 year. Now, I have to get around by a combo of wife, friends, train, and bicycle for the next year. Needless to say this is going to make doing a guerrilla outdoor grow much, much more difficult.


My possible sites are limited to places I can bike to nearby. (I do live in a semi-rural area.) I can't bring in any grow bags full of dirt. Everything will have to be straight into the ground. I can't even carry a shovel. I just bought a mini-pick axe that mostly fits into my back pack. That, a hand spade, and 3 or 4 plants at a time into my backpack on bike and foot are my only options.


I will be out at the crack of dawn when planting time comes in two weeks or so planting in the dawn, so I can see, but no one else will be around. There are plenty of spots nearby where I could throw a plant or two or three, but checking on them will have to be dawn or dusk and the whole adventure will require a lot more physical effort on my part.


Not going to give up, though. Things could still turn out well.


Fuck the police and fuck this country. :321fu:

 

So why do you stay there?

 

The work is good for me here. We have a house. Plus, it's not really easy to move a family of four from one country to another. People seem to think it's so easy to move around the world. It's not really, even for a single person, much less a family. It requires a lot of money and a lot of planning, and if you don't have a good job waiting for you, well, you're gonna be poor for a long while, and even then you ought to have some kind of support network at least.


I'm thinking about saving and planning for a possible move in two years or so, but if my wife doesn't want to go, there is nothing I could do.


:icon_confused:


Main reason: Work and lack thereof.

 

Grow on, Bro.:growin:

 

U betcha. :thumbs-up:


First planting phase got done today, 5 Early Pearl, straight into the ground in an old unused rice paddy. :bong-2:


Here are my outdoor plants sexed. I got 10/18 EP females and 4/10 CGxJL females. I'm taking clones and will try to grow some indoor and keep over the winter so I don't have to buy seeds next year. I've seen the EP slagged off on another forum, but my EP was very popular last year amongst the peeps.





A couple shots of polymers dry and wet. These things are great for keeping your plants from drying out between waterings/rain.








Tools of the trade. That mini-pick axe worked great today.





Four plants in my backpack. First trip. Second trip, one more plant and my tools.





This is an old over grown agricultural road. It runs along a valley of old unused rice paddies. Once you get up 200 yards or so it widens out and the paddies are still being used.





Yes, my grow site is right next to some kind of company site. Should keep things interesting. Also, there is a small stream running along the edge of the small field. That will save me carrying water in should I need to water them at all. (like maybe in August)





I put in 5 EP today. The soil was dark and really wet. I hope its not too wet throughout the season. I definitely shouldn't need to water much anyways, if at all. All the pics looked the same pretty much. Here are two of the five. They are a little bent from being in my backpack, but they'll pop back up. I didn't harden them off, but they are surround by taller grass and weeds, which will shelter them in the beginning until they shoot up in their competition for light.