Need help on keeping plants low

[Sauce]

Hey everyone,

Im going to throw my two plant outside here in a few days and wanted to know what would be the best way to keep them out of sight from the public?

Thanks in advance, Sauce

Sauce Reviewed by Sauce on 04-06-2006. Need help on keeping plants low Hey everyone, Im going to throw my two plant outside here in a few days and wanted to know what would be the best way to keep them out of sight from the public? Thanks in advance, Sauce Rating: 5

[elcheapo]

Keep them somewhere where it doesn't look suss every time you sit there staring at them for hours. People will get curious if they see you pottering around the plants all the time. Grow something else like tomatoes as well. Use non obvious pots or plant them directly in the ground. Always be prepared to get raided or ripped off or both. And don't plan that big pool party to be at your place in 3 months time.

[LIP]

Plant them somewhere that no one goes, not anyone!
Or get some lowryders

[rodekyll]

We planted 25 plants in and among raspberries and asperagus one year. It was in a suburban area, in our back and side yards. It was a matter of careful placement and feeling comfortable with the neighborhood. No trouble at all. We kept them short and bushy, and masked the smell with other herbs, like lavendars, mints, and dill.

Another time, out in a rural area, we had a rather large crop separated from general view by a large hedge of hops and those really big west-coast blackberries. Now hops and blackberries can be some fragrant stuff in their own right. I've heard that hops is graftable to mj and also that they're related somehow, but I'm no botanist, and it's hearsay till someone confirms it. But we grew it there. I don't remember how many plants, but we got 26 large coffee cans of bud off them.

But the story is that we set up the skeet range next to the hops and berry hedge. Come fall, the pot was much taller than the hops, but the odor was about a wash. We would tend the crop and then go shoot us some skeets. That was fun, when we weren't shooting starlings. We had a clay pidgeon tosser that you wound up and it let the clays go with some spring action.
One day we were done with tending the crop, had a nice little pile of early buds down, and were well into the skeet match when up comes the sheriff deputies in two cars. It seems someone had complained about all the shooting and asked them to check it out. We thought we were going down for sure. My roomie took off his coat and tossed it over the pile of buds, and we went to greet the sheriffs, trying to keep them from looking over at the hops hedge, where about three feet of pot stuck out. We explained that we were just shooting skeet, as we had been for years. And we decided to have a shootout. So the sheriffs went back and got their shotguns, and we quickly tilted the pigeon flinger in a different direction, and we lined up the sheriffs with their backs directly to the hops hedge, and we all shot a round of skeet.

I don't remember who won.

did that help?

[Sauce]

Cool thanks for the reply guys,
Exactly what i was thinking about the tomatos, its going to be in the back yard and im thinking of getting some blackberry bush to cover them up good.
Have people living on all sides so its a big risk im willing to take .

Thanks again

[Sauce]

We planted 25 plants in and among raspberries and asperagus one year. It was in a suburban area, in our back and side yards. It was a matter of careful placement and feeling comfortable with the neighborhood. No trouble at all. We kept them short and bushy, and masked the smell with other herbs, like lavendars, mints, and dill.

Another time, out in a rural area, we had a rather large crop separated from general view by a large hedge of hops and those really big west-coast blackberries. Now hops and blackberries can be some fragrant stuff in their own right. I've heard that hops is graftable to mj and also that they're related somehow, but I'm no botanist, and it's hearsay till someone confirms it. But we grew it there. I don't remember how many plants, but we got 26 large coffee cans of bud off them.

But the story is that we set up the skeet range next to the hops and berry hedge. Come fall, the pot was much taller than the hops, but the odor was about a wash. We would tend the crop and then go shoot us some skeets. That was fun, when we weren't shooting starlings. We had a clay pidgeon tosser that you wound up and it let the clays go with some spring action.
One day we were done with tending the crop, had a nice little pile of early buds down, and were well into the skeet match when up comes the sheriff deputies in two cars. It seems someone had complained about all the shooting and asked them to check it out. We thought we were going down for sure. My roomie took off his coat and tossed it over the pile of buds, and we went to greet the sheriffs, trying to keep them from looking over at the hops hedge, where about three feet of pot stuck out. We explained that we were just shooting skeet, as we had been for years. And we decided to have a shootout. So the sheriffs went back and got their shotguns, and we quickly tilted the pigeon flinger in a different direction, and we lined up the sheriffs with their backs directly to the hops hedge, and we all shot a round of skeet.

I don't remember who won.

did that help?

Yeah that helps alot, thanks. Haha thats pretty funny about the cops pulling up, my heart would've sank. So what methods did you use to keep the plants short? Lst, topping ect. Appreciate it :rasta:

[rodekyll]

I grow on a horizontal trellis when I need to keep them low. I build the trellis from stout cord or wire cable stretched between trees, stakes, whatever's handy. I bend and kink as needed to distribute the branches over the trellis, and then clip the tips. Much like training vine berries, hops, or grapes. That makes all side branches grow upward. I keep pulling the dominant branches down, making them longer without getting taller. If they look like they'll outgrow the camoflage, I clip them back EARLY. Outdoors especially, pot has a period of very rapid growth as the days begin to shorten (or light is cut back). You want the plants to go into bud as fully recovered from any pruning as possible.

Outdoors, I've "unwound" horizontally-trained and twisted plants that were less than 5 feet tall (limiting factor was a 6' fence), but 11 feet long.

But often it's the smell, even outdoors, that attracts attention -- especially from folks who know what growing pot smells like. So just as important as keeping it low is keeping its odor covered with something. There's this plant growing across the street from me, near a lake, that makes me stop and perk up sometimes because it smells so close to pot. If I can find out the name of it I'll post it.

[Sauce]

I grow on a horizontal trellis when I need to keep them low. I build the trellis from stout cord or wire cable stretched between trees, stakes, whatever's handy. I bend and kink as needed to distribute the branches over the trellis, and then clip the tips. Much like training vine berries, hops, or grapes. That makes all side branches grow upward. I keep pulling the dominant branches down, making them longer without getting taller. If they look like they'll outgrow the camoflage, I clip them back EARLY. Outdoors especially, pot has a period of very rapid growth as the days begin to shorten (or light is cut back). You want the plants to go into bud as fully recovered from any pruning as possible.

Outdoors, I've "unwound" horizontally-trained and twisted plants that were less than 5 feet tall (limiting factor was a 6' fence), but 11 feet long.

But often it's the smell, even outdoors, that attracts attention -- especially from folks who know what growing pot smells like. So just as important as keeping it low is keeping its odor covered with something. There's this plant growing across the street from me, near a lake, that makes me stop and perk up sometimes because it smells so close to pot. If I can find out the name of it I'll post it.

Yeah thats what we have is a 6' privacy fence, is there some nurserys or some where i can buy berries, hops ect. already grown out?

Thanks

[Sauce]

Im buying some lowryder beans from a buddie in about a week, good genetics.
Wonder how much yeild i can get from a few of them outside?

Peace

[Sauce]

Does anyone know what would be a good soil mixture for lowryder beans
outdoors to try and maximize the yeild?

Any help is appreciated.