Outdoor Pest/Animal tips

[Heady NUGs]

Hey everyone


Was just puffin' and contemplating this years outdoor grow....


Put out about 50 plants this spring, all grown indoors, and about a foot tall. First a flood hit, 36 plants were under water for two days. Some survived for a short while, but all died eventually. Next, 14 were planted in late spring, but I think a fawn ate every plant as they grew over the next two months. Each time we planted, a raccoon would dig up one or two plants. I have had bouts with flood, cornsilk worms and scale before, but the animals got me this year...... We ended up with one plant to harvest....



My question is....



What are some ways to repel deer besides deodorant soap, dog droppings, predator urine, fences and human hair?

I was thinking of putting out cans of tuna when we plant, to keep the raccoons occupied, anyone have a better idea?


I feel so bad, would love to hear other stories of outdoor grows ruined by animals and flood, to make me feel better. LMFAO.


Thanks and puff one for me.

 

[Bravado!]

I would imagine that if you kept putting food out, such as tuna, that it would attract more animals to the area of your plot. That, and, more animals would come back expecting more food, and if they find no food, your plants could be their next meal.

Cant go wrong with building a nice fence around your plants, and a heavy dosage of urine around them.

 

[pez]

Waiting to put your plants out untill their is lots of other vegitation to much on besides your nimble plants to seem to help a bit.

And animals seems to like to dig up fresh soil ALOT. So making and filing your holes 1-2 months before you plant in them, and letting the animals go ahead and dig around can help. Not using aditives such as blood meal can help too.

And as far as stories go, I had a young C99 out earlier and the poor girl got dug up by an animal, and was completley seperated from most of her roots, except for some 1-2 inches long. All I could do was put her back in the gorund, but luckily the wheather was stormy and cloudy for the week after. She JUST started to put on some new growth, and another animal comes by and digs her up AGAIN.... didn't make it through that one.

Meh, there is always next year.

 

[Gantz]

sometimes the location does more than just hide your plants. a good location can also protect your plants. think in terms of natural people and animal fences. aomething that would make you think "hell no! i'm not walking through that stuff". and then apply it to animals. really thorny plants and nettles would keep anything away. maybe you could plant some.
second lesson: don't put all your eggs in one basket. have small multiple plots.

 

[Reinhold]

How about putting cages around your plants? Simply get some chicken wire and get enough to put around your plant then squeeze the top together and bend it down and then it makes a little cage and simply put it around your plant bury the bottom just a little into the ground and you should be alright.

I have trouble with elk and rabbits in my area, and this year I did this and did not lose a single plant to elk or rabbits, had one elk bite a top off a plant and actually FIMed it for me lol but anyways I take the cage off really when the plants were starting grow through them. At about this time there is more vegetation for animals to eat.

 

[Heady NUGs]

Wow, that purple bud looks awesome, Reinhold. Cages would have helped me this year.


The raccoons just dig up the plants because of the freshly dug-up soil, after a week, 'coons aren't a problem. I figured tuna would work for a week, gotta try it next year.

 

[JJScorpio]

Are you putting anything in the soil to attract animals. I live in a heavily pop deer are and I only lost one this year. I use 16in cages and after that they are on their own. If you used cages and left a couple wires poking outward I bet a coon would leave it alone if they got poked, lol....The bottom line is, you should at least be using chicken wire cages.....

 

[bongasaurus]

hey there. i dont have much trouble with pest other than deer. which are a major problem. the ONLY guarentee for me out there is to put cages around them. sometimes if im lucky, pissing all around them often seems to ocassionaly work but you cant be sure. ive heard real good things about a product called liquid fence but theres no retailers in canada. supposed to be guarenteed to keep out deer and rabbits i believe

 

[acidfire]

sometimes the location does more than just hide your plants. a good location can also protect your plants. think in terms of natural people and animal fences. aomething that would make you think "hell no! i'm not walking through that stuff". and then apply it to animals. really thorny plants and nettles would keep anything away. maybe you could plant some.
second lesson: don't put all your eggs in one basket. have small multiple plots.

^^Words of wisdom.

My plots are surrounded my fields of stinging nettles and patchs of devils clubs. All finished this year.

Last year all my plants were eaten by deer.

 

[Gantz]

damn that's one nasty plant. i don't think i have that in my country. hurd it makes nettles seam like a velvet carpet.

about fences guys - how weird would a camper find the fact that there are fences in the wild? i can understand marijuana growing wild in some areas, but i've never seen it grow with it's own fence around it.

 

[motaco]

hair and wolf/bobcat piss.

I've never had too much of a problem with them though.


if they are close enough to see the chicken wire your fucked anyway. they can tell if its grown naturally. the soil is tilled or it aint.

 

[Sinfuldreams]

My 1st OD grow finished a few weeks ago.
Deer and Gophers got the smaller ones. I replanted and put
Smelly Sweatly tshirts around, and sprayed Liquid Fence Pricey Stuff but works, Stinks like hell. I went to a store around here, ( way boonsville ) and asked for Liquid Fence to " Keep Deer out of my garden" the guy just looked at me....
"Oh!" I said. " Why would you want to chase DEER AWAY! Around here you want em to come to you! "

Sin

 

[Gantz]

yeah...i understand what the guy ment. i'd also love deer to come to me. i hurd that deer meat is preety good. yum-yum.
maybe you could say you want to chase rabbits and wild boars because they keep destroying your crops?
and if you're still stuck on deer...maybe they carry some ticks/parasites that atack your award-winning exotic plants, or maybe they come to your garden because of them...
my 2 euro-cents