Growing a patch away from home has always been risky. You can be ripped-off, busted, stormed on, munched, ratted-out... perils aplenty. Some seasons you harvest and others, well...
My biggest disappointment was my one attempt to pull of a big number. A mate and I busted our arses one winter lugging soil, drums, water etc. to a remote bush setting. Getting our seedlings up there early spring was pretty scary, too, but in the end our season was off to a flyer. We visited every weekend via different routes, ripped the males and counted the lbs of bud we'd cut.
Bad move!
The week we planned to harvest there was a plume of smoke rising from the hills in the vicinity of our op. It was the burning-off season and a controlled burn set by the forestry dept. well away from our patch had gotten away. The wind shifted and took the front through our plot and burned us to the ground. We struggled to even find it with all the undergrowth and markers reduced to charcoal.
We were gutted.
Anyone else had a season end in tears?
My biggest disappointment was my one attempt to pull of a big number. A mate and I busted our arses one winter lugging soil, drums, water etc. to a remote bush setting. Getting our seedlings up there early spring was pretty scary, too, but in the end our season was off to a flyer. We visited every weekend via different routes, ripped the males and counted the lbs of bud we'd cut.

The week we planned to harvest there was a plume of smoke rising from the hills in the vicinity of our op. It was the burning-off season and a controlled burn set by the forestry dept. well away from our patch had gotten away. The wind shifted and took the front through our plot and burned us to the ground. We struggled to even find it with all the undergrowth and markers reduced to charcoal.

Anyone else had a season end in tears?