Leaves are down in New England...it's time to go scouting!

Hey guys!
It's that time of year where I get all excited about looking for the absolutely perfect best-ever outdoor grow spot!!!
After all, there's nothing else to do this time of year...
I took a nice long ride over the weekend, followed a few secondary highways that run along riverbanks, and now that the trees have no leaves you can really see what the vegetation was, and how easy the access would be. I'm totally psyched. Now there's only 6 months to wait...:mad:

Anyone else do their scouting in fall?

Around here there isn't really much good public land for scouting out. Most of it is fenced off red-necks land that you don't want to be caught out on, they'll probably think you're spying on their meth lab. But you can use google earth to do some satellite scouting, you can damn sure see clearings and what not pretty good on it, only prob is its not up to the minute and vegetation can change.

My big thing is finding somewhere that I can paddle to, reasonably near a safe canoe launch area, that is on one of those swampy no-mans-land spots where the banks of rivers shift after the spring floods. I don't like the idea of having to cross private property to check my plants.

Me either, which is the main thing stopping my guerilla shit from starting up. Oh well, with any luck I got lots of life left to try :stoned:

There's a good attitude!
I planted along a river bank last year, between the river and a corn field, then never went back to check on the plants... too sketched out about whoever was cultivating the corn!

The main reason I'm moving indoors is lack of safe outdoor spots in this area....it's either over developed or too desert. I'm in SD area (a coastal desert) and it begins to go desert (and potential 95-100+ degree temps) pretty quickly as you go inland from the coast.

At the same time, I gotta say I think indoor growing is harder (for me at least) because the plants are right there and my natural inclination is to want to care for them and so far I've managed to overwater two groups of seedlings and barely saved another group that was in too hot a soil for seedlings...I never had these probs with outdoor grows! But I'm learning as I go and gaining a bit of humility in the process. :thumbsup:

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Originally Posted by Splifted

Me either, which is the main thing stopping my guerilla shit from starting up. Oh well, with any luck I got lots of life left to try :stoned:

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..are you in the TVA area..???...if not...nevermind..

i have found a couple of different areas that would work for an outdoor spot....i also have my spot from last grow season but not sure how its going to hold up the new season...Stinky, what are some of the things you look out for when choosing a spot?

topo maps are a great way to pre-scout an area-,they will give you all elevation gains, so when the rivers or streams rise you can plant above the flood plain, and find where the sun will shine- Stinkyattic, I also am a canoest and love to float the streams and ponder where a good spot may be after a thorough look at my maps- I live in the TVA area, got to watch out for the relic police, officers that the federal government has on TVA waterways to arrest people hunting for arrowheads and also pot if they see you-

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Originally Posted by Dutch Pimp

..are you in the TVA area..???...if not...nevermind..

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Dutch - I live in the TVA service area

there are lots of places i can grow... btw why does america steal all our town/city names and even our countrys name? just wondered...

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Originally Posted by Abattoir Dream

there are lots of places i can grow... btw why does america steal all our town/city names and even our countrys name? just wondered...

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LOL the English settlers gave our towns those names when they got here, silly! I always thought it was from homesickness for the old country. The British Isles are really so beautiful!


When scouting, I look out for
a place I can park my car and unload it privately
Waterway access
Vegetation that is mixed scrub, with grasses AND broad-leaved plants, but doesn't grow too tall... only about chest high
Sunny
And decent soil that isn't prone to flooding

hey stinky what part are you from i myself am from mass, there is nothing around here for outdoor grows :(

Westa Worcestah

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Originally Posted by clovisman

Dutch - I live in the TVA service area

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..guerrilla farming at it's best....in summer....cheap electricity...in winter...I barely can see a (400HPS on 24/7) on my electric bill......GO VOLS...

..my neighbors have stables and ride horses across my land..(I don't mind)..so I don't grow outside...

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Originally Posted by Dutch Pimp

..guerrilla farming at it's best....in summer....cheap electricity...in winter...I barely can see a (400HPS on 24/7) on my electric bill......GO VOLS...

..my neighbors have stables and ride horses across my land..(I don't mind)..so I don't grow outside...

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Dutch Pimp- since you are a vol fan you must be in TN- I live in the smokies myself

..did you ever wonder..why?...they call it ...SMOKIES..??...LOL...