What do I do if I find cannabis plants growing in the wild?

you can tell if a plant in the wild is actually a "wild plant" or if its something someone else has been tending.if its an actual "voluntary" plant " (I.E. a plant that has just come up on its own, NOT something someone has planted and is taking care of) and it is in prime bud, by all means harvest the mother f**ker. if its something that someone is tending, dont screw around with it, dont touch it, do nt leave a god damn note ,get the f**k OUT OF THERE. problem these days if its a grow three things could happen.

(there are literally thousands of voluntary plants that pop up each year along the rivers, canals,ect from stoners throwing their seeds away, or from birds,ect..ive found them all over the lace along the sacramento river and sloughs along freeport out of sacramento by the river before.)

1. most gorilla growers anymore boobytrap their grows. there have been grenade trip wires, doorbangers* ,hookwires** and all sorts of other goodies designed specifically to f**k you up for being in the grow area.....

2. its very possible that, if the grow is more that just a few plants, there are armed guards that are only there to defend their crops, and wont hesitate usually to shoot your ass and use you for fertilizer in their gardens.

one time about 25 years ago, i was walking thru a remote area deer hunting above oroville. i got on an extremely fresh deer trail and started sneaking along thru the woods looking for the herd as the trail had some huge buck tracks on it, and deershit that was literally still steamin. so im sneaking along, and all of the sudden it dawned on me i was standing in a grove of someones plants. thee must have been 500 of them. anyway, before i knew it , this old guy (about 50,old to me at the time before i got old....LOL) stepped out from behind this tree about 10ft to the side of me and said "HELLO!". I turned around just in time to see he had a sawed off double barrel shotgun pointed at my head. he asked me "what are you doing out here??" and i of course explained to him i was deer hunting and was following a fresh deer trail. he then said they always had alot of deer in the area as they were attracted to the smell of the "forest vegetation" i smiled and told him "can you blame them"? and he sort of laughed. we talked about 10 minutes, and when i was ready to leave, tw MORE guys popped out that i didnt even know was there, and the old man asked me "did you se anything?" and i told them "not a damn thing." he told me "usually you wouldnt be walking away from here, but i like you and i believe youll keep your mouth shut". he gave me a joint (shit ass weed by todays standards, but it was prime for back then) and told me to have a good da and good luck getting a buck, and i never saw them again, and of curse i never went back in that area that year...LOL believe me, that was the exception to the rule as usually large operation growers dont have any quomes about planting your ass. if it comes down between their 1000 plants and your ass, which is gonna win out? ;)

3. the cops have found the crop, and are doing covert surveillance on the crop to try to catch the growers. if your stumbling thru the woods and run up on someones grow and start harvesting buds, how wold you explain that to the cops? "see officer, i was only taking these to bring into town so i could call the police and show them proof......NO SIR i wasnt gonna smoke it!...NO WAY, its NOT MY CROP, i just FOUND it!"..they would tell you tough luck buddy! all the time their packin your ass to jail!


point is, if its one thats just came up on its own, go for it, if its part of a crop (scout around before even touching the plant and look for more, for traps, for the feds,ect.....) , leave it alone and get the f**k out of dodge and dont come back.


*(a tripwire bobbytrap thats wired to a ultra small "shotgun barrel" about 4" long contaning a firing mechanism thats activated by the tripwire. not accurate over 20ft, but if you trip the wire everything within its range is obliterated with buckshot)

**(fish hooks hung at eye level by very thin and strong monofilament fishing line. very hard to see walking the the woods but very dangerous. designed to hook you in the eyes/face)

take a nice bud off (if its near harvest)

and leave a note saying 'your secret is safe with me' ;)

on what i sed above.....

do unto others as u wud have them do unto you!!

if someone found my plants and did that i wudnt care id be happy that they didnt rob em all in fact i probably wudnt even notice a bud missing lol

and if i found someone there id ofer em a bud to shut up

just saying this before someone says im a heartless thief

I might get starstruck at first and suddenly, will stop and think "wow, what a very nice stuff I've got".... then leave it alone! Just that :D

I have 5 acres and a few years back was walking my back acre near the lake and stumbled across 25 plants. They were ready to harvest and I had a good hunch who the plants belong too but no proof.

I did leave a small note saying this is on my property, do not get me into trouble.

few weeks later went up to lake to go fishing at my usual spot and found a small cooler, 6 pack of beer, half oz and a note saying sorry and thanks for not taking my stuff.

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Originally Posted by Weedornot

I have 5 acres and a few years back was walking my back acre near the lake and stumbled across 25 plants. They were ready to harvest and I had a good hunch who the plants belong too but no proof.

I did leave a small note saying this is on my property, do not get me into trouble.

few weeks later went up to lake to go fishing at my usual spot and found a small cooler, 6 pack of beer, half oz and a note saying sorry and thanks for not taking my stuff.

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See how that sheet works...Great job, well done. Leave other peeps stuff alone.

I lost half my plants a few years back and would have killed the person that took them. I worked way too hard to get them to that point. They were like eight to ten feet tall and on my 10 acres of land. Damn that sucked!

Allow me to throw out some things that happened to me in my younger years growing in the cane fields.

You have a exceptional patch. August is ending, your plants are starting to bud. You notice a few seeds scattered throughout your girls. You take the next two hours checking for the tiny bit of fag that you missed. Nothing. Where are they comming from? What do you do?...or...

You did a lot of work that day, you're burnt, and the sun was setting so you slammed your last 10 holes in a single empty spot and called it a day. Months pass, your plants are getting nice. On your last trip in you find that someone has put a small patch of three holes 50 ft away from your grow. What do you do?...or...

You come in for harvest. Your plants are gone. The stems are still wet so you know it was done recently. As you look around you notice a scuff mark going deeper into the field. Next you find a boot print. You follow the trail back and find some nice early budded plants. What do you do?

In the first case the only place pollen could come from is another grow. You head upwind (thank you trade winds) and sure enough you find another grow with a big male in full bloom. In this case I ripped up the other patch. Didn't want to have seeded buds due to someone else's mistake or lazyness.

The second case those three may come back to haunt you. If they do good the growers will come back and put more in. You rip them out, cut the drip lines and cut and stomp a trail in from a different direction. Make it look like green harvest was there. I was there first and I don't want anybody planting on top of me. Or finding my plants.

The third case was personal. I searched the entire block and found quite a bit more. Let them go into full bud. Kept my eye on that field,and learned they like to work on the weekends. Then, when they were fat and jucy I took the tops. On Friday, a day or two before they came in to harvest. Two weeks later I came back and took the rest. Left one behind, stripped her to the stems. On that stem I hung a single dollar bill.

In my field adventures I have stumbled over many other grows. A few were big and ready. All I left alone except those three. Two threatened my crop. The last was payback. More than once I have pulled and moved my just planted starts because the area is occupied.

Getting ripped off is not fun. I hurts. But it is the cost of playing the game. I will rip up your grow if it threatens mine. Or if you steal from me and leave an obvious trail back to yours. It is also a painful way to be taught a lesson. But it is a lesson you will remember. Most of you would have done the same thing if you were in my shoes.

Proclaiming to the world how honest you are is all well and good. Waiting around to meet the grower is a good way to get hurt. We don't want to meet you. Grid searching a cane field is a good way to have your car set on fire or your bike stolen while you are making noise in the field. Do this for a decade or two and you get very good at tracking and putting yourself in the other persons shoes. Leaving a note will just force the guy who's plants you found to take them early. The best thing to do is to get out of there and forget the entire day.

Don't go out of your way to look for other plants unless you want to work the area. If you want to work there check the entire place well. Some extra searching may save you a lot of disappointment down the road. If you feel bad about a place, your feelings are right a lot of the time. Don't question your feelings. Just walk away.

Above all stay safe. Weed is just a plant. No matter what they did it is never worth phyisicaly hurting another human being. It can easily screw the rest of your life up. And it just is not worth it. In the big picture I can hide and plant them faster than the punks can find them and swipe them.

I have rambled for too long. Time to take a few more hits and go to bed.

I live in Central Cali and we have a LOT of small farms(5-10 acres) in the area that are notrious for growing bud. Most of these fields are owned and farmed by Asian immigrants who sell their vegetable to local grocers, restaraunts, and at farmers markets. Every year several are busted for large scale grows. Usually 5000+ plants. Since so many are busted, it only seems to reason that there are quite a few that didn't. I have known quite a few people that will cruise around and look for these fields and then raid them at night. Their thinking is that they are stealing from a criminal so what difference does it make. I've even heard one try to justify it by saying that at least he knew it wasn't going to end up being sold to some kid. I've also seen a few get arrested(looks kinda suspicious driving through fields at night) and a couple get the crap kicked out of them. You would think this would be a good deterrent, but they are gearing up for this years harvest. Absolutely SHAMEFUL!

It's popular to grow in corn fields here as well as other places. Driving down the road in certain places you can smell the sweet goodness. I just smile and keep driving. I am sure it would be easy to locate her by smell. but i figure if there is honor among thieves, then why not a sense of honor among stones?
are thieves any better? When you take someone else hard work you have no honor.