Pics of My Plants... potential grow log I suppose...

[jsn9333]

Here are some of the latest pics. This first post has one shot of all 7 remaining plants, a shot of the mixed sativas, and two

shots of the orange bud (the lone plant). You can see the damage from the tiny grasshoppers on the orange bud.

[jsn9333]

This post has shots of the 3 afghans, the only plants I really care about... as I want some indica seeds this year. You can see the damage from the grasshoppers on one of them too. For some reason the insects stayed off the mixed sativas.

Anyway, I hit all the plants with sevin, and I haven't seen a grasshopper since. I'm keeping an eye out for mites since sevin can cause mite outbreaks. I don't like chemicals, but I can't have my babies eaten up in front of me. Once they get bigger I'll stay away from the chemicals for sure, and especially once they start flower. But the insects were going to eat all the leaves. The damage in these pics is after they plants have healed up a bit... trust me, it was bad.

I figure at this early stage the sevin won't hurt the future smoke. I mean, they say the stuff is safe to use in vegetable gardens, so I'm sure it is fine to use 3+ months out from harvest. What do you think?

I know the plants seem a little over-watered. I've gotten a lot of rain lately, so not much I can do about that. The lower leaves are still yellow from when I over-nuted them (I guess). My theory is the plants are smart enough to dump all the extra nutes into a couple lower leaves... sort of like a sacrifice for the good of the rest of the leaves.

Anyway, in a week or two I want to get them out of these pots and into their final pots, with lots of perlite, drainage, and room to grow.

[TwiztedKayne]

I have overcome alot of bug problems by allowing a spider to live on the plant.
Once the spider got so huge i had to kill him cause it would'nt let me touch the
plant at all.

[jsn9333]

I have overcome alot of bug problems by allowing a spider to live on the plant.
Once the spider got so huge i had to kill him cause it would'nt let me touch the
plant at all.

Cool. I'm assuming you found the spider there; you didn't buy him from a horticulture shop for specific pest control purposes or anything like that, right?

I found a spider about the size of my pinky nail on one of my afghans this morning. I guess I'll leave him there and see if it helps. Maybe I should kill him before he doesn't let me touch the plant though... LOL.

The Sevin stopped the grasshoppers in their tracks for sure though.

[jsn9333]

A couple days ago I found some wadded up, wet paper towels (like the kind from the long rolls in the public restroom dispensers) literally right next to my big 5 gallon water container at my grow spot. I keep the water about 20 yards from my plants, but not in view of them.

I could've sworn I never had paper towels back there. It kind of worried me.

Well, this morning I found a fresh, dry section of paper towel there... about 2 feet long. I know sure as hell that wasn't me. I thought, "Fuck... I bet my plants are gone." I thought that because I saw some sketchy looking people in the parking lot I access the spot from yesterday... as I drove by they just sat on their car and stared at me... and there is almost never anyone in that parking lot.

Anyway, the plants were still their and their starting too look a lot better. They're starting to smell a little too. :thumbsup:

I guess I'm going to hope it is just some animal that is finding this paper stuff and just dragging it into the woods. There is a park very nearby with trashcans, bathrooms, etc. I mean, the Man wouldn't just leave shit around if they found my grow... they'd be all discrete to try to catch me, or they'd just destroy the plants.

Part of me wants to move the plants as soon as possible. I'm finishing them somewhere else anyway... so I might as well just move them their early. Another part of me is like, "Just calm down dude, its all good." I hate this kind of sketchy bullshit that gets me paranoid.

[SouthernGuerilla]

what don't you understand about stealth?

I would abandon your project. Just my opinion, but then again I wouldn't of put them in a similar location. Far as LEO being discrete, don't count on it... The govt doesn't pay well enough to attract the best and brightest people in the world.

[jsn9333]

Yeah... I should've moved the plants the first time I saw a little bit of the paper towels back there. You're definitely right. Now that I saw a freshly torn piece the other day, I'd definitely be smart to just abandon the site.

However, I'm not smart. So I went back today (actually to move the plants) and the plants are were gone. Dammit. Either LEO took them or those sketchy people I saw in the parking lot took them. Dammit.

I'm tempted to be really fucking upset about this. I was really excited about growing some of my own... I've wanted to do that shit since I was freaking 12 years old. But I'm just going to be happy I'm not in jail. The last thing I need is a felony drug manufacturing charge on my record as I try to sit for the Bar. My career could be over before it even started... but its not, so I need to be happy about that. That's the way I'm going to look at this. It's been a good learning experience.

I would've never had the plants there, except I essentially started the seeds outside and they had to be relatively easy to get to because I had to be able to access them easily to water them while they were young. I don't have time to be hiking into the middle of nowhere everyday to water a bunch of seedling starter cups.

I should've just started and kept them inside my house until I could put them in the "finishing spot" way back in the middle of nowhere.

So anyway... like I said, I'm stupid. Let this be a lesson I suppose... hopefully I and some others can learn from this.

[SouthernGuerilla]

Yeah... I should've moved the plants the first time I saw a little bit of the paper towels back there. You're definitely right. Now that I saw a freshly torn piece the other day, I'd definitely be smart to just abandon the site.

However, I'm not smart. So I went back today (actually to move the plants) and the plants are were gone. Dammit. Either LEO took them or those sketchy people I saw in the parking lot took them. Dammit.

I'm tempted to be really fucking upset about this. I was really excited about growing some of my own... I've wanted to do that shit since I was freaking 12 years old. But I'm just going to be happy I'm not in jail. The last thing I need is a felony drug manufacturing charge on my record as I try to sit for the Bar. My career could be over before it even started... but its not, so I need to be happy about that. That's the way I'm going to look at this. It's been a good learning experience.

I would've never had the plants there, except I essentially started the seeds outside and they had to be relatively easy to get to because I had to be able to access them easily to water them while they were young. I don't have time to be hiking into the middle of nowhere everyday to water a bunch of seedling starter cups.

I should've just started and kept them inside my house until I could put them in the "finishing spot" way back in the middle of nowhere.

So anyway... like I said, I'm stupid. Let this be a lesson I suppose... hopefully I and some others can learn from this.

Most likely those people took them. I would doubt LEO would leave a sign for you, they're more likely to park a marked patrol car next to them rather than leave paper towels around, *shrug*. But if those people have them, their friend's friend's friend knows about them and so on. They'll get theirs soon enough and who knows maybe they'll catch your manufacturing charge with intent to distribute.

Karma... :rastasmoke:

Btw, if you have ANY drug related charge here in the USA you cannot and will not receive any sort of student loans, grants or any sort of financial assistance for college.

If there is a next time you decide to grow outside pick an area with a low population density, virtually no human traffic.

[jsn9333]

Well... I found two of my plants.

Let me explain. I was thinking, like you, that most likely it was not LEO... not only because I have a hard time thinking LEO would just leave paper towels behind for me to find before even taking the plants, but also because whoever it was also left my water container, fertilizer, and insecticide. LEO wouldn't have taken just the plants... if he took anything he would've taken everything (for evidence, or what have you).

So, fairly confident I wasn't facing the Man, I went back to the site to look around. (I hadn't looked around much when I first discovered my plants were not where I had left them, I just high tailed it out of there as fast as I could to be honest.)

Anyway, so I go back and start carefully looking around, and I found 3 of my plants way back tangled up deep in some briar pushes down about 5 yards from where they had been. It wasn't like someone could've just thrown them back there... it was almost like they got put there, because they were all tangled into the branches and were deep, very close to the ground. Very strange, to be honest. I was a little confused.

One of them had a almost broken stem. The others were looking VERY rough... like they'd been through... a flood or a severe thunderstorm.

You see, the night before I discovered my plants were missing we had severe thuderstorms come through. There were pretty rough... 50+ mph winds (probably some 75mph gusts), and a *lot* of very driving rain. My new theory is that the storm blew the plants away, or that the creek they are beside temporarily rose and washed the pots all away. The water is still very high in that creek, so that is a real possibility.

All I could find were those three plants. I just pulled the broken stem plant out of its dirt so I could use some of its dirt to fill in the missing dirt from the other two pots (some of their roots were a little exposed, etc.). I think the two surviving plants are an Afghan and a mixed sativa. I'm not sure though.

I'm still nervous as hell about that spot, so I just left the two there in a slightly shaded area to see if they'll survive and high tailed it out of there again. I'm going to go back very early tomorrow morning, and if the plants are still there and looking better I'm going to move them to the "backwoods" location.

I'm still very nervous, but I'm fairly confident the spot was not compromised after all. The storms that came through were really strong and now that I think about it, they easily could've done this. The paper still has me nervous, but not so much so that I'm not going to try to at least get the survivors out of there.

I'm still a bit upset, but I feel better now. I don't think I got ripped off. As close as that spot is to "civilization", I had put a lot of thought into the spot to be honest, and I'm confident no one goes back there unless they are specifically looking for marijuana. It is fairly thick and difficult, and unless you have taken extreme measures (DEET, long plants tucked into socks, long sleeves, the whole 9 yards) you get bit up like a mutha by spiders and ticks before you even get close to my plants. I seriously have a spider and a tick on me every time I leave the area.

Anyway, the lesson still to be learned from this is still not to raise young plants outside unless your doing a full on start in the ground grow. The plants are too fragile to be sitting around in light pots in the elements. Also, there is still the possibility that my spot was compromised by someone since I have to have it relatively easy to access for the young plants.

I just hope one of these two survivors is a female, otherwise this is going to be a repeat of last year (3 survivors out of 10 or so, and all were male).

Most likely those people took them. I would doubt LEO would leave a sign for you, they're more likely to park a marked patrol car next to them rather than leave paper towels around, *shrug*. But if those people have them, their friend's friend's friend knows about them and so on. They'll get theirs soon enough and who knows maybe they'll catch your manufacturing charge with intent to distribute.

Karma... :rastasmoke:

Btw, if you have ANY drug related charge here in the USA you cannot and will not receive any sort of student loans, grants or any sort of financial assistance for college.

If there is a next time you decide to grow outside pick an area with a low population density, virtually no human traffic.

[NaughtyDreadz]

you didnt get ripped off... you got dumped on...