Hey all you midwesterners, ever grow in cornfields? Most farmers nowadays use roundup corn. So you must wait for there last spray, and just stick them in the row, usually sometime in early june, the plants should be maybe 2.5 ft tall or so. They will fertilize them for you, and they get full sun. It does have to be a reasonably early matureing variety, and you have to watch for when they start picking in that area. Last of sept. all the way till middle of oct. depending on the farmer and the field. It sure worked last year for one of my buddies.
Midwest Corn
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It's 5 o'clock somewhere
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Already waiting on the farmers. I started back in jan and was wanting to put them in the ground in may but I think it will be to early. I grew several topped plants but didn't realize how big they were going to get so fast. I took clones and flowered the plants. Now it looks like I'm going to have to flower the clones after i clone them again. These plants grow faster than i thought they would. I have a farmer whose on a corn year and I already picked a nice sunny spot deep in the field on the side of a hill..... Good luck....
It's 5 o'clock somewhere
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I live in the middle of no where. The neighbors hunt the hedge rows but wouldn't find an 8 foot plant in the middle of a field. The horse weed looks similar til flowering time so people usually don't give a second glance.....
RandomJesus
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here in Wisconsin they rotate crops Soy/corn
so you gotta pick the right field for the right year.
another problem is getting in and out of someone else's private property.
wooded areas are nice with black berries to graze as you garden, they also make good cover for your secret garden.
so you gotta pick the right field for the right year.
another problem is getting in and out of someone else's private property.
wooded areas are nice with black berries to graze as you garden, they also make good cover for your secret garden.
kochab
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i dunno thats usually one place that popo loves to look for plants around here. ive had better luck planting them in the woods really.
i mean yeah ive gotten an outdoor harvest from a plant in a corn field but to be quite honest they arent a good place to grow. the one i used was down right terrible. and i dont know how many ppl here have actually walked tru a cornfield but when the corn is dry those shucks can be sharp as hell...
and i had problems finding the plant myself in a 20 acre field. I knew there were 5 plants in there SOMEWHERE....
kochab
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damn wouldent that suck.........going to harvest and u think ur all good and bam! put your hands behind your head......
think id be even more pissed that they did it @ harvest time.
i wonder if they tried to get the plant to grow bigger so they could bust them with more?
Mr. Maryjane
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I was gonna do that this year, I came out to my mom's. you know to start the plants, and then plant outside once they got going. A day after I started to germinate about 30 bagseeds, you know what I realized. THEY HAVEN'T PLANTED THE FUCKIN CORN YET!
asscore
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I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to let you know growing anywhere near cornfields is a bad idea. I'm assuming that you're talking about commodity corn (yellow dent) - as sweet corn would come down too early and you are gonna lose your crop.
Why you ask? Libertylink.
Liberty is a herbicide made by bayer cropscience, and libertylink is corn that doesnt die when it's sprayed with liberty. This is very bad stuff, and I know that I wouldnt want to be smoking it.
Bad thing is it is a systemic poison, it sticks around in the soil for awhile. Also it is specifically stated that it kills hemp, along with 120 other species of plants.
Beware!
Why you ask? Libertylink.
Liberty is a herbicide made by bayer cropscience, and libertylink is corn that doesnt die when it's sprayed with liberty. This is very bad stuff, and I know that I wouldnt want to be smoking it.
Bad thing is it is a systemic poison, it sticks around in the soil for awhile. Also it is specifically stated that it kills hemp, along with 120 other species of plants.
Beware!
kochab
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thanks on that bit of info, thats something Ive never thought about before.
I wouldent grow in cornfields for the more obvious reasons but this alone should keep anyone else from doing so as well if they ever expect a harvest.
nepali grizzly
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about 3 years ago I planted 3 plants in someones corn field at like 2am. I wrote down on a peice of paper how many rows in and how many paces from the corner of the field. I never checked them until one night in september went to look for them and it was very hard to find them. But it was dark and my paces were off a bit. The only way i found them was cause of the strong smell. It was weird tho when i was looking for them there was tons of corn knocked down as if cops tried to look for them but couldn't find them. They were about 4 feet tall and overall dry weight was a little over 4 ounces, I think they were a little over ripe too(every hair was brownish orange with no white ones). Not bad for almost no effort.
ace1059
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I live on a farm, I don't raise rowcrops like corn or beans, just haycrops, but I used to. Most of my friends are farmers. The corn grown nowadays on large scale operations is genetically enginered seeds that are tollerant to roundup. thus roundup corn, or roundup beans. I'm sure you know what roundup is. But you don't plant your stuff till june sometime, after its been sprayed. the spray is only viable for a few days. Ive seen it done many times. Ive seen plants that produce five or six pounds also. Corn is seldom picked before oct 1st. but you have to watch when they start picking.
kochab
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I would love to see a picture of a single plant grown in a cornfield yielding even 1-2 pounds. Especially ones that didnt get seen by overhead planes or by people because it was sticking over the corn and was actually seen out to harvest by the grower.
Until you show me pictures I call bullshit on that and I believe most anyone else experienced with any outdoor growing here will call it bullshit as well.
Most ive seen pulled from one plant was 2lbs. Seldom does anyone raise a plant to yield more than 1 and a half pounds.
nepali grizzly
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its simple just grow really early flowering strains in the corn fields. As long as its only 3 plants in a field it will go undetected. Also if they do find it the worst thing that will happen is when u go to harvest at 2am its chopped down. Then its off to the next field. I waited till the corn was a foot tall to plant. I'd say they spray when the corn is like 4-6inches tall.
nepali grizzly
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i had a couple in a field that the farmer harvested his crop while the corn leaves were still green. lost them but then again guerilla growing has many more risks than a farmer cutting his corn earlier than normal.