I just posted this to the "busted outdoors" thread:
OK, this is what happened to me in the early fall about 8 years ago...
Ghetto bird was speeding to refuel, spotter glanced out at the right moment and saw my grow-about 40 ladies. They marked the GPS coordinates, refueled then returned and directed the ground support troops in for eradication-sloppy SOBs left one plant behind.
Testimony in court indicated the spotters look for a particular shade of emerald green. He said the flower tops looked "blurry". His testimony was very inexact about everything. His estimate of the number of plants as well as the size of the plot was WAY off base by more than 2X what was actually there.
In my state they are supposed to maintain minimum altitude of 500 feet, almost two football fields, so identification of individual plants not clustered together should be very difficult.
But when the bastards returned in subsequent years they appeared to hover lower than 500 feet.
Lessons learned:
1) Don't place plants close together.
2) Place plants under the canopy of small small trees. They only miss direct overhead sunlight but are much harder to spot from the air.
3) Don't grow on your own property, if possible. I found the goons are more than willing to cheat, break laws, and disregard proper procedure to tie the property owner to the grow, in order to attempt to steal (they call it asset 'forfeiture') the real estate.
So, any suggestion as to strains that exhibit other than the "emerald green" that LE looks for?
Since my own bust, I have mainly used autoflowering strains that are harvested way before the flyboys take to the air, but would like to get a yield that would last me until the next harvest season
OK, this is what happened to me in the early fall about 8 years ago...
Ghetto bird was speeding to refuel, spotter glanced out at the right moment and saw my grow-about 40 ladies. They marked the GPS coordinates, refueled then returned and directed the ground support troops in for eradication-sloppy SOBs left one plant behind.
Testimony in court indicated the spotters look for a particular shade of emerald green. He said the flower tops looked "blurry". His testimony was very inexact about everything. His estimate of the number of plants as well as the size of the plot was WAY off base by more than 2X what was actually there.
In my state they are supposed to maintain minimum altitude of 500 feet, almost two football fields, so identification of individual plants not clustered together should be very difficult.
But when the bastards returned in subsequent years they appeared to hover lower than 500 feet.
Lessons learned:
1) Don't place plants close together.
2) Place plants under the canopy of small small trees. They only miss direct overhead sunlight but are much harder to spot from the air.
3) Don't grow on your own property, if possible. I found the goons are more than willing to cheat, break laws, and disregard proper procedure to tie the property owner to the grow, in order to attempt to steal (they call it asset 'forfeiture') the real estate.
So, any suggestion as to strains that exhibit other than the "emerald green" that LE looks for?
Since my own bust, I have mainly used autoflowering strains that are harvested way before the flyboys take to the air, but would like to get a yield that would last me until the next harvest season
