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Yeh it is - glad he didn't get kicked out of the country - seems like a good bloke.Amazing story living in Sydney for 30 years after doing a runner from the law......then handing yourself in. Was worth the cut and paste effort
His guerrilla grow method is a bit inspiring to me - I need to follow the chainsaws it seems ..........
{In late 1988, Desic bought a secondhand Honda 600 motorbike and headed to Dorrigo, inland from Coffs Harbour, where Chris had grown his pot. He went into the rainforest, found some space, and planted some seeds. But when he came back later, hardly anything had grown. He planted a second crop, but that also failed. “I learnt that rainforests are wet but not fertile.” He then talked to other growers. “They told me, ‘You go there after the logging trucks, when they move on they clear the area – they burn the stuff, ash makes the soil fertile.’ And of course, no wallabies come in. Why? Because they haven’t got nothing to eat.” The following year, he heard about an old logging coupe outside Kempsey, and tried his luck there. “It was a gold mine,” he says. “I grow so much, I could not pull it all out."
Soon he had several plots scattered throughout the forest, some up to 10 kilometres apart. All were isolated and remote, and only accessible by motorbike. He developed a system: plant in October; cull the male plants at Christmas (only females produce “heads”, the most prized part of the plant); harvest in March. “It’s all about timing,” he says. When the harvest came, “I’d stay in the bush for two weeks, camping, until I picked and dried everything.“
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