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OUTDOOR GROWS 2024 ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE-

OG_NoMan

Not Veteran
Try smearing vaseline all over trunk
What's your reasoning behind this? My thinking is it would make them rott by keeping the stems moist. I sprayed the stems a few days ago with lost coast plant wash to try to keep the bugs off and change the smell/flavor. It seems to have helped as nothing else has been damaged since. I think with the extensive heat and wind they just can't heal themselves fast enough. Hopefully the rest are good as its now been a full 7 days since it happened. I'm definitely sad and still shitting myself as I could easily still lose the rest. In uncharted territory for me.
 

mudballs

Well-known member
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What's your reasoning behind this? My thinking is it would make them rott by keeping the stems moist. I sprayed the stems a few days ago with lost coast plant wash to try to keep the bugs off and change the smell/flavor. It seems to have helped as nothing else has been damaged since. I think with the extensive heat and wind they just can't heal themselves fast enough. Hopefully the rest are good as its now been a full 7 days since it happened. I'm definitely sad and still shitting myself as I could easily still lose the rest. In uncharted territory for me.
No, it's just to stop rabbits and save remaining plants...no way a rabbit, or any animal i would think, could sit there and eat a salad with vaseline
 

xtsho

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Lost a plant yesterday and looks like 2 more today because of rabbits eating the bark like a woodchuck.

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Wrap something around the base of those plants so the rabbits can't get to the stems. Just take a cheap 3 gallon bucket or something, cut it down the side and make a clamshell. Hell some cardboard and duct tape around the stem starting at the ground would probably work. But you better do something before you lose more plants.
 

mudballs

Well-known member
Veteran
Wet cardboard against trunk longterm sounds bad voodoo but the jug idea is cool. Im thinking one bite into a vaseline pasted stem and he's gonna go "phlft...plhft...thhhft, blah" and he'll find something else.
 

xtsho

Well-known member
Wet cardboard against trunk longterm sounds bad voodoo but the jug idea is cool. Im thinking one bite into a vaseline pasted stem and he's gonna go "phlft...plhft...thhhft, blah" and he'll find something else.

Cardboard probably isn't the best thing. But some kind of soft plastic that you could make a cylinder out of. A 2 liter pop bottle. They sell things just for that purpose but it would be easy to fashion one out something.

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pipeline

Cannabotanist
ICMag Donor
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I have seen some weird stem and leaf mutations, but thats a pretty extreme one!. I think when mutants aren't rouged out completely from the population, they an mutate worse on the next round. Have to select out if more than just a small leaf mutation early on.
 

mudballs

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This is this years battle...squirrels keep digging my mounds...i learned that if i make the mulch very thick, they kinda stop. 2yrs ago i tried pepper/seasoning dusted into mulch, 99% sure it did go mobile and ruined my copa genetics smoke...so no pepper/seasoning...i dont wanna chicken wire my mounds...anybody got some ideas?
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Holyherb420

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Did you kill the nest? I thought you had the little ground hornet kind of yellow jackets. What kind of nest do they build ?
I think they are paper wasps but im not sure tbh. I took out a bunch of nests but im not sure if that was all of them. Ive taken to cutting them in half while they sleep.
 

mudballs

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Sorry ive been without power since monday ..im exceeding my boredom capacity and just trying to get this energy out of me
 
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