First Guerilla Grow. Please Help?

First of all im a student and for the first few months of this grow ill only be availible on the weekends. Anyways to get right into it i am starting my first outdoor grow this year. i plan on growing about 40-50 plants. Me and a friend are going to be the ones maintenencing this whole project. Behind my house there is about 25-30 square miles of public/ranching land. i live in the bay area of california and to be honest i cant tell if the soil here is amazing or shitty. Right now all the soil around my house is dark and loamy and has a ton of green grass growing in it but during the summer i feel like the dirt gets very craked and dry and everything turns yellow. i have looked on google earth at the land behind my house and have located a few small clearings in the oak forest that seem ideal as the nearest house is at least a mile or two away. and this forest is very secluded i have never seen anyone in it before and ive been up there a lot. anyways. to reach the grow site i have a 1983 tt600 dirt bike to get to and from the grow site. i can also use this bike to haul things to and from the grow site via a cart i attached to the back of the bike I plan on buying probably four strains and 5 seeds of each strain and producing clones of the strongest plants. my main concerns are security from police helicopters and people just around, soil fertility, and watering. i guess you could call this a guerilla grow. i am mainly looking for advice or some sort of guide from other experienced growers. any advice and help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

-T

California is pretty dry. If you can only go to your site every weekend, youll need to grow in a naturally moist soil location. Or you could run a gravity fed drip system with a low gpm ratio. Just be able to turn it off if there is a lot of rainfall so you don't drown them. You don't really want to plant them in the open. The trick is to balance sunlight with cover. Which may mean you'll have to sit at a potential sites and blow a few j's to make sure sunlight is adequate. You may have to trim back or bend other growth. Also depending on height of strain, you may only want to plant a max of around 5 in one plot. Make your plots about a quarter mile away from each other.... Tips. Plant at the southern base of a hill to maximize sunlight... Search for natural springs. People tend wander around more near areas with water. Also law enforcement search there because they know growers need water. A natural spring may not show sitting water, but itll provide enough moisture to the soil to where you do not need to water.... Use natures natural defenses to deter people or animals. Briar patches, cactus, or any kind of thorned vegetation helps... I also will transplant natural vegetation with similar size or color, or just as cover to the site are to distract the grow... Some also have tried growing in the forks of trees above the line of sight. You can wedge pots, or use grow bags to secure them in between a few branches. A lot more work, but more security I guess. Ive never tried.

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mista sativa said:

California is pretty dry. If you can only go to your site every weekend, youll need to grow in a naturally moist soil location. Or you could run a gravity fed drip system with a low gpm ratio. Just be able to turn it off if there is a lot of rainfall so you don't drown them. You don't really want to plant them in the open. The trick is to balance sunlight with cover. Which may mean you'll have to sit at a potential sites and blow a few j's to make sure sunlight is adequate. You may have to trim back or bend other growth. Also depending on height of strain, you may only want to plant a max of around 5 in one plot. Make your plots about a quarter mile away from each other.... Tips. Plant at the southern base of a hill to maximize sunlight... Search for natural springs. People tend wander around more near areas with water. Also law enforcement search there because they know growers need water. A natural spring may not show sitting water, but itll provide enough moisture to the soil to where you do not need to water.... Use natures natural defenses to deter people or animals. Briar patches, cactus, or any kind of thorned vegetation helps... I also will transplant natural vegetation with similar size or color, or just as cover to the site are to distract the grow... Some also have tried growing in the forks of trees above the line of sight. You can wedge pots, or use grow bags to secure them in between a few branches. A lot more work, but more security I guess. Ive never tried.

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This is all excellent advice. Just my 2 cents, is that open range land with cattle? If you are growing out seeds and cloning, do you have a med card? Those are easy to get. I would just focus on an indoor med grow, way less risk and work. But doing is learning, and many started out with guerilla patches. If you do have an indoor garden, there is potential risk with attending the illegal outdoors and bringing heat back on to you. Guerrilla gardens are a lot of work, and seeing all your work destroyed is heart breaking. Outdoors in general is a gamble, more so with the guerrilla. Not trying to be a downer, just been there done that in my own way.

I would say scouting would begin the prior fall. You need to take in consideration light patterns for spring, summer, and fall.

Nothing sucks worse than to plant in spring to kill your self later in the year fighting over growth.

I am currently learning my way through this as well.
Good luck.

OR you could do it the way we do it here. we get lots of sunlight throughout the year and we get Monster harvests. i do it both ways, Gorilla & indoor and also on top of my rooftop. we also got natural spring water (streams) to quench our ladies near by. as for them pesky choppers, we got tricks to hide 'em and then put 'em right back out. Just my take on that -

Grow on the side of the highway some place where there is sprinklers, irrigation for ivy and other plants. Also use this other vegetation as cover for some shorter growing plants and you're set.
Go with amended soil so you don't have to feed them. If you do it right this is a fire and forget method.

I know you don`t wanna hear this but if it`s really you and your friend, you have broken guerilla grow rule #1.

You are doing a team grow and they are 95% fail.

Use cedar mulch to ward off moths and other bugs as well as help hold in moisture.
That's what mulch does, helps hold in moisture, but might as well use cedar for the same
reason someone would use a cedar clothes hanger in a closet. Moths hate cedar.
It's moths that lay eggs which hatch into caterpillars, and the caterpillars will eat the plants.
They can eat into the buds, then poop in the buds and cause mold. Whats worse is when
they burrow right into the stalks of a cola, and then everything from that point up rots and dies.
Caterpillars are a bitch, for me they are enemy number one when it comes to growing out door.
Cedar mulch seems to help, but safer brand caterpillar killer is good too, as well as some other products.
If you cant spray for bugs then I would even more so advocate cedar mulch, if you can manage to get some out there.

This can help with bugs as well.
The idea is to use masking tape or similar on the branches at several points so that if a hatching of bugs starts
on one branch you want to use the sticky trap to isolate their travel to any other branches. Contain the outbreak.
Also use this on the base of the main stalk/trunk so bugs can't just crawl right up the plant from the soil.
Do Not apply this directly on the stalk, it can somewhat liquify the stalk over time it was cause the stalks to get soft, this is why you use masking tape or similar.

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You should use organic amended soil because you won't have to worry about mixing anything or leaving bottles at the grow site,
won't have to worry about Ph, and people say that when growing organic the plants are somehow more bug and mold resistant.