Beaner has toooo much time on his hands!

went to the swamp today, it was pure hell, i drank 6 liters of water in 4 hours and didn't piss once, thats how much i was sweating, i was literally wringing cups upon cups of water out of my shirt. the mosquitos, humidity, saw grass, and ever present grass seeds sticking all over my sweat covered body didn't help much either. The worst part is i only got about a quarter of the work done that i had planned to do before i ran out of drinking water. with the amount of water i was sweating out i wasn't going to risk passing out in the middle of nowhere from dehydration.

my first goal after hauling buttloads of bat guano tea out to the old plot sites was to try and locate all the plants i individually hid, to say the least it proved to be a near impossible task, after an hour i had located and grouped 9 of the 30 or so plants i had hidden, another hour of searching got me 5 more, before i had to give up and start looking for a place to transplant them. that leaves half of them still unfound, and i will need to find them because if they survive the season and become male, the rest of my crop will be seeded and i don't want that.

i searched for about an hour and pretty much found that wherever i dug there was about a foot of impenitrable grass roots, and soil of unknown quality underneath, to dig holes through the sod would take days, so after watering and fertalizing the plants i ended up moving 5 about 200 yards down the river, and transplanting them into the dry river bed itself.

the soil in the river bed is rich black, fluffy and still quite moist, i believe the plants will thrive here, however they are slightly exposed should somone try walking the riverbed, and i am a bit worried about the season suddenly going from drought to rainy and flooding them out. I need the advice of you fellas when it comes to this, and will be asking lots of questions later tonight, when i finally load the pics on here and further elaborate on todays trip and my plans for the futer.

Transplanting can cause stress. On my grow I transplanted a couple of my plants a couple weeks ago. I did not get the roots that were a foot and a half under the soil which would have been at least half. The growth was a bit stunted compared to the other ones. If you are not certain of a spot being viable I would not risk the plant. Cannabis can take a lot of water for a week or two though after that they would run into problems. I would bring out some 22 gallon containers and bags of promix for the swamp. The water source at your feet would be benifical for easy care. Cant wait to see the pictures of them. I have used gps in the past however I put my plants in a spot as I figured if a person was venturing they would most likely keep venturing if they found one and had a thieving scumbag personality.

Make sure that you know if the river is attached to a sytem of locks or danms,because the river can rise in a heart beat if they close or open them.but you could tell by the highest waterline,take care.the mosqitos are bad here too,i used to drink vinegar mixed with water when working in the bush,so when i sweated the vinegar came out,it helped.

ick dude, lol you got balls, vinager??? I clean out my camel bags every so often with orange listerine and the aftertaste just nausiates the hell out of me, i don't know how you do that.

as for the river, good point karmaxul, but today i walked the entire length of it, and it is basicly a long winding pond about 15 feet accross, and 3 miles long, there isn't any current, and it just kinda ends when it hits the borders of my swamp, it's fed purely by rainwater. i guess it could be most likened to a drainage ditch like they put around sod farms and such. maybe somone remembers what the past few seasons have been like in respect to drainage ditches, i know in a moist season they stay wet and stagnant all summer but in a dry season do they ever refill for weeks at a time after a big rain? or is the ground so thirsty it basicly soaks it all up? because the ground around here is VERY dry.

the ground along the riverbed is damp, but i dug several feet down and did not find the water table so i don't think there will be a problem unless it gets rainy later this season, i recall a few rainy autaums in the past, but my memory of such is not good enough for me to suppose whether the falls in the midwest are more rainy than the summers as a rule of thumb.

I was sorta wondering if anyone kept up with the farmers almanac or something and might know what they are predicting for this growing season rain wise. at this point, severe drought would be very good for me, as the creek will probably stay moist for another month or two, and my plants could in theory get pretty big, as of right now they are only about knee high.

im not too worried about transplant shock, all i did was dig a big hole and put the bag in the hole, then cut the bag in half except for the bottom and pull the handles till it tore the rest of the way and came out, root balls pretty much undisturbed, then given a bit of guano tea.

all the plants needed nitrogen, some more than others, and that is a big reason they arent 4 foot tall by now like they should be, that and the past two weeks since i lost half my crop they have been on there own with no water.

I should go out again tomorow and at least find new homes for the rest of the plants i have found, but after today i feal so physicly drained i don't know if im going to be able too, and i am starting a new mushroom grow tomorow, so i have to pasturise a cubic foot of horse poo in the morning.

What up beaner?

Farmers' Almanac Long-Range Weather Forecasts

here are some of the pics i took today:

very nice one of your plants is cupping need to fix that...


so you have 30 now???

im not sure, was much much too busy to check the plots closer to the construction site, if they are there i should have much more, but as of now i should have around 30 if i can find them all, and yes that one did need nitrogen and water really bad, he perked up pretty nice after i wattered it.

so what do you guys think, would it be safe to plant all my plants on the riverbed rain wise? i mean the whole bed is super rich soil and nice and moist and airy, i think unless it floods again it could be perfect, im just wondering what this season is going to be like, think it's gonna be a dry summer? i looked at that almanac but i can't really find much on minnesota.

Never trust the weather.. I would use the edge of the river bed.

Riverbed.

i would plant as close to the high edge of the good soil if you can just incase you get water. I had a bunch that i told ya about near the river and well, never trust the weather. It didn't rain alot here but way up river and it rose to near flood levels and drown nearly everything I had out. This typically doesn't happen more than once in 4-6 years average but It did. The ones I had further up the bank were alright, actually probably better cause the water table came up to the root level.

yeah i was thinking about that, the only problem is the bed of the river is pretty much flat and i think the whole thing would flood evenly. i was thinking of possibly digging the riverbed soil, and moving it up the bank into large mounds in the grass nearby, so i wouldn't have to carry the soil too far, as of right now i am planning on heading out tomorow to try and finish the job, and i know i won't last more than a few hours if it's as humid as the other day, definatly not long enough to cart my topsoil all the way out there.

can you plant in large burlap sacks?

i think thats what shaman likes to do...

Ya I did like growing in burlap but I could not find any this year..
All of my plants in the big fields are in 1.5-2 foot hole's.
[:note to self; buy bags before spring]

Beaner - can I ask what is in your tea? Looks yummy.

Tomorrow, can you take picture of all this? It's interesting...

-Alex

nothing much, just bat poop and water, left to stew for a few days. i use the mexican kind for vegging cause it is 10-13 percent nitrogen. i gave them a big heaping dose of it the other day, and left another gallon to stew outside in the sun there, as apposed to my balcony at home. maybe it will help, maybe it wont, i don't really care, i just didn't want to pack it all the way home and back again.

hopefully they will be nice and perky by tomorow, and ill try and take some better pics, i know they have been coming out blurry lately, and i don't get it, my camera is as simple as it comes, but ya know half them come out funny. i guess we will have to see.

Sounds good, I don't have much of an imagination so I'm hoping you take some nice pics.

-Alex

Your pics looked good to me.

You should be in charge of marketing for Cub...I'm gonna run out right now and find one and get some food!

Beaner, this is a bit off topic but please tell me you have a beanstalk growing in your garden.