Help me with my strategy for this year

Hey guys I'm trying to figure out how to divide up my resources for this year, mixing guerilla locations and a wood boiler I can grow in in the warm months. I'm an old-hand at gardening but a newbie at this particular...um...endeavor and want to maximize my efforts and do this thing right. I'm trying to help out a dear friend & neighbor with stage 4 prostate cancer that's probably going to be declining badly within the year (ach...there goes the monitor getting cloudy again), so there's some pressure to get it right if he needs it. I'm in Ohio, currently with no medical but pretty light penalties for <100g. All the help and advice you can give is greatly appreciated.

What I've got:
2 Blue Widows in 6" pots, 22 days old,
1 Blueberry Headband in 4" pot, 16 days old
1 Critical Sensi Star in 4" pot, 16 days old

all these guys seem nice and healthy and are growing in Miracle Grow potting soil, though I have a pretty unlimited supply of really nice black loose leaf humus from the forest floor. Probably what that "Fox Farms Ocean Forest" stuff is trying to be.

I've ID'ed 4 potential guerilla grow spots with southern exposure, all within my rural town:
1. Soggy 100 meter strip of land dividing 2 farm fields: skunk cabbage and brambles and bushes
2. tiny bush and bramble covered 'island' in a creek just off a semi-swamp (little more remote, little further from home)
3. backside of a berm blocking the highway sightline from (mostly failed and empty) housing development - brambles & small trees, I bike past daily but no water handy. I've confirmed no one walks on the back side of this big berm, it's very thorny on the downslope and swampy and unpleasant at the bottom.
4. seriously thorny open pocket on the backside of that same development, maybe 150 yards from one of the only built and occupied lots in there. I'd have to cut out and trim down brambles to give it a spot.

Additionally there are corn and soybean fields aplenty around me though I think folks tend to say stay away from those as it's too obvious.

My general thought is put 1 plant in each spot, and take clones off them when they are big enough (I don't know when this is) to root and grow and flower in the boiler. And maybe more clones to root and guerilla out as extras in the 4 locations. But having never done this, I really don't know the timelines or if this is the best way to go about things. Maybe less locations? I don't know. Any and all advice on strategy and general tips is welcome.

I'd save yourself a little risk and a lot or work, find the 2 best hidden spots and put 2 in each. The leaf humus is great but they need a lot more than that, since you have started with miracle grow and they are looking great then just stay with that. The biggest problems people have is changing things up when they are working just fine. Go dig your holes as big as you want but I'd say get close to a 5 gallon bucket sized hole. Fill it completely with the soil you've started them in and then put some of that leaf humus on top of the ground at the bas of the plant. Come back every month or so and feed with miracle grow nutes.
Being that you are so very new to it this is your path of least resistance, once you get some growing under your belt then look outside of miracle grow and try other things.
You have a lot of research to do for clones so get to it, figure out how you want to do them and get everything ready. You may even want to hold off till next growing season for clones, but if not then you should wait till they show sex find your females and kill your males. Take a cutting from you females and start your cloning.
Good luck and happy growing.

Make sure you take clones of the critical sensi star. Mine turned out pretty nice

Nugs1 said:

I'd save yourself a little risk and a lot or work, find the 2 best hidden spots and put 2 in each.

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Yeah I think it's probably true that the logistics of worrying about 4 different spots is too much work. I'm just concerned that having just identified these spots without real time to stake them out, there are things I don't now. Like maybe the local camp uses that portion of the creek for nature programs or the farmer mows that every few years or something. So I'm thinking about diversity, but maybe impractically so. Thanks a ton for your feedback. I'm going to scratch at least 1 and maybe 2 spots off the list.

Get another dozen or so seeds going to account for males and possibly losing some plants. Putting them in the wild like this means over planting to be sure and get a decent harvest. I would do multiple spots as well for that reason. Being that this is your first attempt, I would expect losses. Being that this is guerrilla I would expect losses. Everything comes down to the last couple weeks of flower, you can do everything right in a near perfect climate and if summer is over it doesn't matter, you'll get a bunch of weak, early, moldy product. So figure when you need to finish by, and order appropriate seeds. If your friend really needs herb for his ailment, then try and get the best strain for that. Not every bud is the same. Many times I want something for pain and instead smoke something more psychoactive, really sucks trying to fall asleep but can't because I'm too amped from the herb. Likewise you may want something for appetite stimulation, pain, overall happiness. You still have time, and it pays to put some more thought before committing to the season. I would say, try and be done by end of september, do something on the indica side of things that is mold resistant, and seriously from experience, plan on losing1/3 of your crop to mama nature. Good luck out there. of course mark twain said "the harder I work, the more luck I have".

calicocalyx said:

Get another dozen or so seeds going to account for males and possibly losing some plants. Putting them in the wild like this means over planting to be sure and get a decent harvest. I would do multiple spots as well for that reason. If your friend really needs herb for his ailment, then try and get the best strain for that. Not every bud is the same. Many times I want something for pain and instead smoke something more psychoactive, really sucks trying to fall asleep but can't because I'm too amped from the herb. Likewise you may want something for appetite stimulation, pain, overall happiness. You still have time, and it pays to put some more thought before committing to the season. I would say, try and be done by end of september, do something on the indica side of things that is mold resistant, and seriously from experience, plan on losing1/3 of your crop to mama nature. Good luck out there. of course mark twain said "the harder I work, the more luck I have".

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Very good advice and so true.
I need a specific amount of weight this year so I am doing literally double what I prob need to do but I am expecting losses.
I never was a big smoker and recently came back after years of not smoking Ive realized how much different some strains can be for different ppl. I thought I loved how girl scout cookies made me feel but turns out by accident i got ahold of some sense star and for me thats my pain relief and good night meds.
It all does different things which is why I don't believe it can be prescribed like pharmaceutical meds. 20 mg of blue dream will not do the same for everyone.