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[Budley Doright]

I use water crystals too.
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Each 25-30 gallon tote will hold five gallons of water and won't cause over water symptoms.

I also add a thick layer of mulch.

I cut big holes in the bottom when I set them and it let's them root deeper. You can break them up and move them if comprised.

We used to use the premix with water retention crystals as well, l find just adding a bit of the clay we have here works as well but if you over do it you have concrete lol. I don't cut the bottoms until 6 weeks and not for any reason really just seems to soften up the soil a bit. Also after a few years there is enough soil left that I can semi bury the bags if in the same spot. As for the hose we just hooked up a submersible covered with screen on a pole and plug it into the boat battery, it was a creek surrounded by swamp and we had 5 sections with 10+ plants in each. Worked really well and the hoses are probably still there in case I come out of retirement . It's amazing how far a boat bilge pump will push water if not much lift.

 

[whitebb2727]

We used to use the premix with water retention crystals as well, l find just adding a bit of the clay we have here works as well but if you over do it you have concrete lol. I don't cut the bottoms until 6 weeks and not for any reason really just seems to soften up the soil a bit. Also after a few years there is enough soil left that I can semi bury the bags if in the same spot. As for the hose we just hooked up a submersible covered with screen on a pole and plug it into the boat battery, it was a creek surrounded by swamp and we had 5 sections with 10+ plants in each. Worked really well and the hoses are probably still there in case I come out of retirement . It's amazing how far a boat bilge pump will push water if not much lift.

Ive got a couple pumps.

 

[Budley Doright]

Ive got a couple pumps.

The boat ones work really well. We were gonna hook up solar but we still needed to go in and check anyways so never bothered

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I've seen posts from two RIU'ers on other threads today where they had choppers come over. One lost his patch and the other one thinks he is going to.

 

[Budley Doright]

I've seen posts from two RIU'ers on other threads today where they had choppers come over. One lost his patch and the other one thinks he is going to.

Well that's scary , a loss of a patch is a drag but better than loss of freedom .

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

I was talking to the BIL a couple days ago. He was singing the blues about the deer hurting him so bad. He said, "and the worst part, it's a damn election year. This is when I should have a shit load of plants." I hadn't even thought of this, but the Sheriff goes out of his way to not bust anyone during an election year. Growers have families, and families vote.

I remember an election year two sheriffs back. My wife worked next door to the Sheriff's Department, and she called me to come look at the trailer load of plants they had just brought in. I rode by to have a look, and they had a big double axle trailer loaded down with male plants. Not a female on the whole load.

 

[eddy600]

I was talking to the BIL a couple days ago. He was singing the blues about the deer hurting him so bad. He said, "and the worst part, it's a damn election year. This is when I should have a shit load of plants." I hadn't even thought of this, but the Sheriff goes out of his way to not bust anyone during an election year. Growers have families, and families vote.

I remember an election year two sheriffs back. My wife worked next door to the Sheriff's Department, and she called me to come look at the trailer load of plants they had just brought in. I rode by to have a look, and they had a big double axle trailer loaded down with male plants. Not a female on the whole load.

Did you grease his pocket?

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

Did you grease his pocket?

I have never been big enough to worry about that. {but I grew up knowing the last two Sheriffs as kids. One of which would have looked the other way if possible. The other let me know to be careful because he treated everyone alike} There were some big grows in the far reaches of the county before FDLE came on the scene. It's impossible for a Sheriff to run a county like they used to. When the state boys first got into the game, they found 2 acres of freshly plowed under weed in the south end of the county. They had gave the Sheriff a heads up to the bust, and he had called the grower.

 

[MrRoboto]

There's nothing like the good ol boy network.

 

[Larry {the} Gardener]

There's nothing like the good ol boy network.

In small towns, when you get to be my age, some of the folks you went to school with are the leaders in the county. I've known both of them my whole life, but since they went into law enforcement, and I was a doper, we don't exactly run in the same circles.