Outdoor Guerilla Grow

Outdoor Guerilla Grow

• May
• June
• July
• August

Guerilla growing is a hidden, secret outdoor grow. It isn’t normally done in one’s own garden but hidden in wild places.

It offers different benefits including the ability to grow your own weed without buying expensive indoor grow room equipment.

When planning a guerilla grow, there are several points you need to consider first:

• The strains you will use. Autoflowering cannabis ideal for the guerilla approach. They are smaller, require less water, finish according to age rather than hours of darkness, and can hide in natural foliage easily.

• When to plant. The temperatures of the grow throughout the cycle are going to affect the yield and possibly the quality of the harvest. For the plants to grow well, they need 8 hours of direct sunshine and night temperatures need not to drop below 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

• Choosing your site. Avoid public areas or well frequented footpaths. Look at your chosen spot from all viewpoints. Make sure you have access to water and choose a site with high quality soil. The presence of stinging nettles is a good sign the soil is rich in nitrogen.

• Preparation and planting. If you dig over the earth and add plenty of organic matter, you are bound to get bigger, healthier, more productive cannabis. Well-prepared soil also makes watering more efficient.

• Harvesting safely and discreetly. This is the most dangerous point in any guerilla grow. Some advice harvesting at night but it may be better to choose a bad weather day when visitors and trekkers aren’t around. If possible, have a friend drive the route home ahead to check the coast is clear.

This grow journal records cultivating several cannabis plants outdoors.

Grower: PurpleGunRack
Location: NA
Yield: 178.4g

May 21^st

This grow takes place at the 55 degree northern latitude in a coastal climate where the summers can be quite hot or quite wet. 9 different plants are placed in 20-liter buckets with holes drilled in the bottom for drainage.

1 plant is in a SWICK watering system as a test run in a 4-gallon smart pot sitting on 10cm of rinsed perlite in a 4.5L bucket. Hopefully, this will be more water efficient. The SWICK system will also test whether it’s possible to visit only once a week to feed, and to be an insurance against plants drying out.

The medium used for all of them is Biobizz Light Mix with a generous amount of rinsed perlite. The 10 plants will receive nutes in the form of Full Biobizz regimen but they’ll only get Bio-Heaven once or twice in the beginning.

To protect the plants, they are placed in a secluded grow spot deep in a forest. The bucket walls lean outwards and has an edge making it hard for snails to climb into the pot. Single plant mini green houses are made from 2L plastic bottles with 5mm holes drilled into them for airflow. The bottom was cut off and the stickers were removed. This should protect the plants and help them make more of the early summer sun and stay a bit warmer through the night.

The following strains used are:

• 3 x Berry Bomb Auto
• 2 x Auto Frisian Dew
• 2 x Think Different
• 2 x Auto Night Queen

Here’s a group shot 13 days from seed.

Here’s the Frisian Dew with the SWICK setup 13 days from seed.

And this is the mini greenhouse assembled for each plant.

May 29^th

The plants are now Day 24 from seed. Visited the spot yesterday and all the plants are still alive. The spot is teeming with mosquitoes and ticks so it’s not so enjoyable to hang out there anymore.

The mini green houses have been removed because the plants were getting too big. All the girls – except the 2 scrawny-looking ones- got their first BioGrow at 0.5mL per liter of water. The SWICK is almost dry and will probably be refilled next visit.

An 80cm fence was set up around the spot to prevent deer from entering. The photos are gritty but you can see where the two ends of the fence connect.

June 3^rd

Day 28 from seed, the girls were watered. Two of the weak plants are in better shape but it looks like the new growths coming out of them will be ok. There’s a heat wave at the moment and it should last at least a week so more water runs will happen. Right now, they’re getting 17 hours of daylight. The girls should be able to get a lot of light now and hopefully grow big and sticky.

June 7^th

The girls shared 15L of water and another 15L of water with 1m per liter of Bio-Grow. The heat wave is still going and they’ve grown quite a bit in the last 5 days.

This is the somewhat sick Berry Bomb Auto. No idea what her problem is but she seems to be doing better.

This Frisian Dew in SWICK has 2 nice long side branches.

June 19^th

A visit to the spot last night showed the ladies have grown a lot. They seem to double in size with every visit. Given their size and the necessity of finishing in early August, they will be introduced to flower nutes next time they need water.

Unfortunately, they have been attacked by a few Spanish slugs that’s been munching on some leaves and bud sites. Beer can collars will be added to each plant ASAP. Despite the slug attack, the plants are nice and healthy except for the one Berry Bomb Auto.

Here’s a Berry Bomb Auto with a purple promise.

June 23^rd

At 49 days from seed, the plants were installed with anti-slug collars made from soda cans. Hopefully, they will keep the slugs off the ladies. The pots were also quite light so they were watered and fed with their first flower nutes (BioGrow at 2mL per liter, BioBloom 1mL per liter, Top Max 1mL per liter).

They’re growing well and in the 4 days that have passed since last visit, they have grown a lot and pistils are showing pre-flowers. A few mini trichomes have been spotted on some of the plants.

July 6^th

It’s Day 62 from seed. Tonight, even though the buckets were heavier than last, they were given 1.5L water with nutes because it’s been a while since they were fed.

Because of the wet weather two buds developed molds. One was on the side shoot of the Auto Frisian Dew and the other was on the main cola of the Berry Bomb Auto. Both were cut off.

Despite the weather, the girls are growing well and the flowers are coming along nicely. If the slugs are kept away, and if the girls have some sunny weather, they have potential for a lot of nice bud.

They were all defoliated to see if it would help the buds dry faster after rain and dew.

Here are a couple of photos before (left) and after (right) defoliation.

July 16^th

Been on mold patrol twice and each time, some moldy buds were cut off. The remaining plants only need a couple of weeks of sunshine so the remaining plants can finish strong with minimum mold.

Three of the plants had to be chopped early to prevent any more harm coming to them: Auto Frisian Dew #1 (SWICK), Auto Frisian Dew #2, and Night Queen #1.

Harvesting 70 days from seed is quite early for an outdoor grow and the trichomes are 60% cloudy, 40% clear with no signs of amber. After trimming removing the leaves, the buds were packed in plastic, and trimmed before getting a bud wash at home.

Of the three ladies, the Night Queen is the best looking and the most developed with dense and frosty buds.

Here’s the Night Queen before the chop.