PeeJay's story about buddy's outdoor grow of

PeeJay;1852317 said:

Spoke for a bit with a friend of mine today. He just harvested his guerilla grow… Anyway, what this genius did was save all his raked up leaves and junk from his yard last fall. He left them in sunny spot all winter in black plastic garbage sacs.

The golden boy took four clones from a skunk #1 in late April. They were transplant into Happy Frog and grew indoors under light until the second week in June.

In the second week of June, Holmes loaded the back of his pickup with four beat-up old 55 gal drums, a crap-ton of festering leaf bags, a couple of sacks of FFHF, four fence posts, and a bail of chicken wire. Oh, and several empty water jugs.

Very early the next morning Golden Boy loaded the four Skunk #1 plants into the space behind the seat of his truck and went out to a scouted location. It is important, I think, to mention that he also had a big tote full of red wigglers from his worm farm. A bounty.

On the way to the hillside of an abandoned fire road, Holmes knew he would pass a water source.
He filled up his jugs. A few miles up the road, in a place that nobody would consider walking, recently thinned for fire suppression, Holmes parked his truck. Golden Boy dragged his junk up the hillside to his select spot. There was no natural water source for several miles.
In his selected spot, GB had done a little shovel work previously. He had a mostly level spot on the hillside about100 yards from the road. GB emptied his slimy bagged leaf mulch into the drums until they were almost full. Then he dumped stream water on them. Over this he put about an inch or so of FFHF. Then, he dumped in some his worms and the compost that came with them. Next he poured FFHF into the barrels to top them out and watered again. He used landscaping staples to anchor porous weed barrier fabric on top of the soil/leaves.
GB then cut a hole in the fabric the diameter of his pots and planted his healthy female clones in the top of the barrels . He pounded six foot fence posts into the ground and surrounded with a chicken wire fence. He watered the barrels one last time and drove off. He didn’t go back until last week. Wow! Off the hook craziness! He’s still trimming and estimates his dry yield will be around 3 pounds!

Evidently, the 40 or so gallons of rotting leaves in each barrel hold a ton of water. My friend learned this method from a woman who has been doing permaculture since the 70’S. In very dry years she still harvests tomatoes and peppers using this method WITHOUT EVER WATERING THEM. The worms do their thing on the leaves all summer and continuously feed the plants.

I think I need to find me some old 55 gallon drums before next summer and collect and bag up a ton of leaves this Fall… Maybe he just got lucky, but I'd love to get lucky like that.

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