describe your most satisfying outdoors grow-op

[losthippy]

Getting your plant(s) through to harvest is always a good thing, but every so often you have a win that brings a smile to your face.
I pulled off one memorable grow-op on a raft anchored in a dam on a remote farming property. I cut the top out of 6x 10 gallon stainless steel-beer kegs (no easy task) and rigged them together in a frame. I fixed a hessian cradle in each one to hold a soiless growing medium (vermiculite/perlite/vol rock) and put 2 seedlings in per keg. Once I'd overcome buoyancy and camouflage issues out she went in late spring.
There was sufficient rain early on for the seedlings and as summer rolled on I had no watering hassles once the roots got through the hessian. My only issues were nutrient management (drip feeder kept clogging up) and not being able to cut back the water availability pre-harvest as I usually do. Oh, and cormorant and wild duck shit everywhere 8).
Overall, I was happy with the yield and the quality was pretty good if a little 'green' tasting. Only wish I'd taken photos.
Anyone else pulled off a grow-op to remember?

 

[beagleboy]

I peeled back the top of a trailer abandoned on my fathers work property. And planted 50 plants in 17 5 gallon buckets.
My yield was 3 pounds.
I was 14yo, and my first grow.
I bought a bicycle that winter.

It was kinda sketch going where the trailer was because there were rats the size of small cats back there that would hiss at me. I started taking my bb gun with me after being approached by two rats.
And my dad helped me with the grow, it was his idea. He found out some kids my age had been caught stealing tea from the nature store to get high on .

One of these types of deals:

here ya go:

 

[psychomimetic]

When I was a teenager a plant sprouted in a spot that me and my friends used to smoke in a lot (my friend's back yard), presumably from us just tossing bag seed out into the yard. This plant grew into some of the best chronic I've ever smoked and the single plant yielded over 8 oz., which was awesome in every way. I've never done a really big grow-op, but that one was a really nice surprise. A really, really, really nice one.

I've always wondered about that grow because we mostly smoked Mexican shwag back then, but the weed this plant produced was so high quality that I can't imagine that Mexican stuff ever being so good. The growers down south do abuse the shit out of their herb though, so I suppose it might have been one of those seeds. I kinda wish that we had let the plant go to seed or made some clones or something so that I could grow it again, but oh well.

 

[Sega420]

it isnt because of abuse, it is because of the sheer amount of terrible storage and excessive handling.
(just think how many grubby mits are on that brick before it gets to the end user)

the greatest strain can be the shittest schwag if not grown, cured, stored, transported or handled properly.

the shittest strain can be the best ganj you'll ever see in your lifetime if grown with TLC and done properly