Question for Guerrilla growers

[TWS]

How do you guys get your product out of the woods ? I have always wondered this and been meaning to ask. I can see how you might pack out a small grow, maybe a half a dozen small plants But what about the big grows of more than a half dozen 8 + footers. You must have to bag it up and hike all of it to a vehicle wet ? Surely you don't drag trees down a trail and throw them in a pick up truck ? And what about the drive to your process place ? It must be nerve racking ? I'd like to hear how and maybe some stories of harvests .

 

[team420]

I dont have to guerrilla grow any more, but when I did, I always treated it as a trap line... Have multiple plots of 3-5 plants along a 2-3 mile stretch thru the woods(depending on how many plants) keeping plots at least 500 yards apart. Come harvest time I'd harvest 1 or 2 plots at a time over the course of a week, so as not to have to carry it all out at once. Never had any really close calls, but I also live in the middle of nowhere...

 

[Trippy Stix]

I am also curious myself as to what people have to say about this...because that time is coming for me... I've read more of the commercial sized op's (Julian) hang their product right where they grew it. (if you can grow there for 5-6 months why can't you hang for 5-6 days?) also they say it is (100TIMES) less risky because imagine someone pulling out a dozen 8+ footers ripe as hell ready to go, imagine how much wet weight that would be adding in add of the stalks+stems+wet budss.. one could easily be hauling away 100lbs of weight with a dozen 8+ footers (because we all know if one is caught cops aren't going to trim the buds off and just weigh them, nope every little leaf, stalk and bud will be weighed and that's what you will be charged with). But if they were trimmed a little at the spot and hung the weight that you would be carrying out would decrease massively.. your choice in this addicting little game we play

 

[team420]

I am also curious myself as to what people have to say about this...because that time is coming for me... I've read more of the commercial sized op's (Julian) hang their product right where they grew it. (if you can grow there for 5-6 months why can't you hang for 5-6 days?) also they say it is (100TIMES) less risky because imagine someone pulling out a dozen 8+ footers ripe as hell ready to go, imagine how much wet weight that would be adding in add of the stalks+stems+wet budss.. one could easily be hauling away 100lbs of weight with a dozen 8+ footers (because we all know if one is caught cops aren't going to trim the buds off and just weigh them, nope every little leaf, stalk and bud will be weighed and that's what you will be charged with). But if they were trimmed a little at the spot and hung the weight that you would be carrying out would decrease massively.. your choice in this addicting little game we play

I have harvested at my grow site before, but I usually had a trailer or something to lock my shit up

I have hung to dry in trees, but its usually pretty humid up here in the fall, so less risk of getting caught with weight, but more risk of loosing to bud rot, and def a much longer time to dry it out, and have it ready for human consumption. Even wehen I have dried at my grow sites, I still never took all of it at once. If ya get caught with 1/4 of your yield, you will still have some left.....

 

[PaxEtBonum]

Feel free to PM for the best, most discrete, all at once way to do this. Sorry, but I'm not going to post it publicly. It involves advance planning prior to the season, but it's the best way I've ever concocted. It does depend upon your surrounding terrain, but it's almost foolproof (nothing is perfect, but this is close). When I told a few guys about my method, it blew their minds. Works great. Innocent as hell.

 

[BeastGrow]

you could get a huge heavy duty (6mm or so) plastic bag. Trim away most of the stem and fan leaves and throw the nuggets into the bag. then you could either double zipper it close (or melt it closed with a light if you can)... you should definitely smell proof it before you travel in your car. you could carry like 5 or more pounds.

for small harvests bring in a couple half gallon or quarter gallon mason jars.

a backpack and 2 duffel bags lined with garbage bags would work fine too.

 

[DankBudzzz]

All of the above advice is solid! I am going to try to cut down one early and dry in the woods to see how it fairs out, Only thing I do differently is I trim all fan leaves and do some trimming in the bush before hauling out, makes for alot more room in the bags. I've never had to worry about hauling more then a half pound out but if I did I would definately spit it up incase you were to get caught.

Another thing I always do is stash the bag or container on the side of the trail before I go out to my my vehicle, I will drive out as I normally due and if theres nobody around I will stop and grab the bag (takes 5 seconds) and carry on, if I have any inclinations of any traffic being around or just an off mood, I come back at night and grab the bag. Cheers.

 

[getawaymountain]

we always have put a couple big tents with racks in them and trimmed and partly dried the buds and take them out in sealed 5 gallon buckets by the truck load and take home to finish drying them use battery operated fans and heaters in maine to maintain a dry warm drying area alot easier than carring a shitload of raw product to carry (sticks,stocks and leaves) also put trimmings in bags to throw in freezer for hash making at the end of harvesting

 

[DankBudzzz]

You did this in the bush getaway? I was thinking of battery powered fans but am unsure were to get ones that will not die after a day of running. Cheers.

 

[Sunbiz1]

Very early in my career, I said fuck it and walked right out of a forest preserve with 2 full garbage bags. Then tossed them in the trunk(in a public parking lot no less)and drove off.

Oddly enough, the biggest risk was some dumb broad running a stop sign on the way back. She almost hit me, but I anticipated her stupidity and avoided a major accident.

I do not recommend this method.

 

[getawaymountain]

You did this in the bush getaway? I was thinking of battery powered fans but am unsure were to get ones that will not die after a day of running. Cheers.

ya we did for years and yes the fans would only last overnight and the same with the coleman heaters

 

[fg2020]

In the afternoon, chop the branches off and put them in garbage bags. Place the bags at an extraction point near the road. Come back at night (10 P.M. or so), preferably with a partner in the car to guard against anybody inquiring as to why the car is stopped on the side of the road. Grab the bags and put them in the trunk. Drive very carefully to the drying site. (Be sure to check your car for burned out brake lights, turn signal, etc. prior to this operation.) That's the quick way.

Slow way would be to hang them in trees at or near the site until they are substantially dried and then cut the buds off and place them in air-tight 5 gallon paint buckets.

 

[HTP]

The best cover is no cover. Act like you are there for bird watching or weather mapping, RC flying or some other bull shit like that.
Leave a business card and flyers on the seat and such. Make it look like your business is to be here.

 

[hoonry]

rain often forces the harvest issue - yer certainly not gonna dry yer crop in the woods if that's the case. large tarps can be used to gently wrap branches cut to similar length and layed down in opposing pattern so the top of one branch is next to the bottom of the one next to it - otherwise you end up with a pile pretty quickly. I don't grow guerilla anymore for a bunch of reasons - I never had an encounter with people - but I got spooked during my last run with it. mid sept, plants about 2 weeks out from being done, and as I hike down to my spot to water, I hear a noise behind me. I turn around to see a fucking cougar that looked like it weighed about 150 lbs about 50 feet behind me, following me. we locked eyes and the thing crouched down like it was going to pounce. it had to be the single most frightening moment of my life - fortunately I had a 9mm and I let a round off and the thing slunk off into the woods, and I got out of there and said to hell with watering that day. did manage to pull 15 lbs off of that site but it sucked going back there - I never felt comfortable again and was super stoked to be done with it

 

[team420]

You did this in the bush getaway? I was thinking of battery powered fans but am unsure were to get ones that will not die after a day of running. Cheers.

12v car battery and a power inverter Its a p.i.t,a to carry a car batt into the woods, but they will power a small fan for a week or more.