Too Much Marijuana

[rangerdanger]

I have my garden up n running.
A couple of days ago a neighbor got busted (nothing to do with pot). I was asked to go by his place and take his dog to the pound since it looks like he will be in jail for months.
So I went by his place and noticed his plants--about 30--in containers.
I called the person who asked my to go by what if anything he wanted me to do with the plants. Unattended they will die.
The person said "find 'em a good home".

So I'm "stuck" with 30 plants, all girls, all between 1'--2' tall and looking good.
I called around and everybody else is full up too.
I'm thinking of dropping them off on a street corner some night soon and hope that someone who finds them can use them.

Any other suggestions? The only other thing I can think of is to harvest them and try to make some happy butter from the leaves.

[Heath_Bogenreif]

Screw the plants. You took his dog to the pound? How cold assed do you have to be to do that? Save the plants and snuff the dog? Wheres the shame-finger emoticon when you need one?

[Nesta]

sounds like a good problem to have. Finish em off :animbong:

[Stash]

Dude ! Find a field and plant them and drop back buy around harvest

[rangerdanger]

Jeez Heath I was asked by the person's ex-wife, who is in touch wih the guy, to take his dog to the pound rather than let it stay there, unattended, and starve/dehydrate to death.
I couldn't bring the dog here because it has a contagious (for dogs) mange.
I have a dogs already and I don't want them to get it.

What would you do if someone asked you to take their dog to the pound because they weren't going to be around for months? Let it starve/suffer?

[Stash]

Let it run free dogs don't Starve !

[rangerdanger]

Letting a dog (or cat or any domesticated animal) "run free" is one of the cruelest things you can do to an animal.
Dogs DO starve. I used to work for the Forest Service and we saw dog corpses frequently.
From people who didn't want their dog any longer and took it to the woods to "run free".
The dogs either starve/dehydrate to death, are hit by cars (trying to get home) and die on the side of the road, or are killed by wild predators such as coyote's, bobcats or lions.
If you doubt me, call any vet or animal control office and run your "let it run free dogs don't starve" idea by them and see what response you get.
On the edge of towns dogs can sometimes become feral. They kind of revert back to a wild state, forming small packs with other stray/abandoned dogs.
These dogs survive by killing livestock, like people's cats and dogs and lambs, etc.
They are also desiese(sp) vectors, inc. rabies. They will even attack children. Animal control officer's kill these dogs when they can; they are unsuitable for adoption.

Anyway, it wasn't even my call to make. The neighbor asked me, via his ex-wife (who lives out-of-state), to take his dog to the pound.
I did.

As far as the plants are concerned, they wouldn't survive if I "left them in a field".
They are in small planters; many need to be transplanted within a week.
In Calif., we get little or no rain during the summer; even if I transplanted them I'd still have to go and water them every few days.
Which means I'd
A. be past my legal limit
B. require me to trespass
C. If I planted them in the Nat'l Forest, I'd be subject to arrest since federal laws do not recoginze Calif.'s right to allow people to take medicine.
I no longer have the ability/desire to hike long miles to a remote location.
D. I worked hard for over 40 years to aquire a small piece of property. I grow the legal limit of plants, get along with the local cops and I don't want to fuck it up.
Anyway I went back there to-day to lock his place up and found someone had taken 10 or so of the plants. Probably local kids.

[herbgrower]

Got to stick up for Ranger on the "releasing" of domesticated pet's into the wild. :eek:
We have a big problem with feral dog's and cat's over here. :mad:
The dog's form pack's and will take down mainly sheep,and the occassional beast if they are a strong enough pack.
Not only do they do damage to livestock,but they can also decimate the native population's of animal's in an a specific area.
Feral cat's can also do a hell of a lot of damage too,as they have the ability to climb ! :eek:
I have seen feral cat's over here the size of medium sized dog's and that's no bullshit,and they are MEAN ! ;)

Getting back to the dog situation,there are farmer's over here who use "working" dog's,if they don't work properly,they usually get a bullet,their way of thinking is;
"If they ain't no good,no point in wasting food on them!"

Don't get me wrong,i love my animal's and i find the way of thinking a bit harsh,but where i live they are country,through and through ! ;)
:animbong:

[rangerdanger]

Faced with having 25 plamts too many, I got an idea.
I called a friend of mine who is a disabled med-mj user.
We went through proper channels and he appointed me his official caregiver, which means I can legally (in Calif. at least) grow those extra plants.
I found an ideal location too. A friend some miles away said I could grow them on his prop. in exchange for a small sum.
However, all the local nurseries were out of the kind of planters I prefer using (pulp pots) and these extra plants were getting rootbound and needed to be transplanted like yesterday.

I hired a friend to help me. First we had to buy and transport the potting soil. In addition to costing me over $250.00, we had to hand-carry each bag approx. 1/5 mile. These unwieldy 1.5 cu/ft bags weigh about 50 lbs. each, so carrying them out there was no small feat.

The next day we went out to the prop. with a breaker bar, pick and shovel, and the plants. We worked most of the day, backbreaking stuff.
Ever had to dig a hole out in the wilds? It ain't easy, esp in the rocky soil the site was located. I thought I was gonna die.
That was 2 days ago and my back, arms and legs are so sore it's a painful effort to move.
I know that in late Oct. it will all seem worth it but it doesn't seem like it now.
Next on the list--buy hook up and lay out 1/2 mile of hose. There's a seasonal stream out there that's still running but it will dry up sometime next month.