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Anytime you head to a swamp there's alot of things that can hurt you in there. Depending on where you are, but round here black and spotted adder snakes and northern rattlers are nasty critters and seem to find you. If a adder bites you, if you grew up in the swamp like I did you'll swell up a bit but be alright, if your allergic to stuff...Well it'll make your belly pretty sick, might pass out, doubt death is gonna happen unless you get a bad reaction. Rattlers, unless you got somebody with you or a cell, there's a big chance your fucked if it's a long hike. Cut your losses and call for help, a weed charge is better then losing your life.
Big snappers will take a wicked chunk outta you too if you piss them off, like stepping on them by accident or kicking them. Even walking past his head will get you bit sometimes depending on what kinda day the old fellers havin. And yes they will take a fuck of a junk outta your skin, they're mouths are like scissors sharp on top and bottom and when they close cut through any kind of flesh like butter...I do know from experience. Had one rip a chunk of leather off a pair of steel top boots one day like it was a piece of sammich meat. And my brother had a chunk taken outta his leg by one because he accidentally stepped on it.
Since you are allergic to bee's be careful of old dead logs, brush piles, root balls from blown over trees they make hives in all them quite frequently. Brown recluse and black widows are a problem in the swamp too BE CAREFUL widows bites are survivable but your gonna get a bitchin fever, pukin, hallucinations if you make it, them brown recluse spiders will rot a chunk outta you in a hurry if you don't get it looked after asap.
Just be careful out there, skitter bugs are relentless and will always bother you, also big fuckin blood suckers the size of belts live in the swamps...They won't hurt you, but they just give me the worst heeby jeebies ever. Hate them fuckin things!
Big snappers will take a wicked chunk outta you too if you piss them off, like stepping on them by accident or kicking them. Even walking past his head will get you bit sometimes depending on what kinda day the old fellers havin. And yes they will take a fuck of a junk outta your skin, they're mouths are like scissors sharp on top and bottom and when they close cut through any kind of flesh like butter...I do know from experience. Had one rip a chunk of leather off a pair of steel top boots one day like it was a piece of sammich meat. And my brother had a chunk taken outta his leg by one because he accidentally stepped on it.
Since you are allergic to bee's be careful of old dead logs, brush piles, root balls from blown over trees they make hives in all them quite frequently. Brown recluse and black widows are a problem in the swamp too BE CAREFUL widows bites are survivable but your gonna get a bitchin fever, pukin, hallucinations if you make it, them brown recluse spiders will rot a chunk outta you in a hurry if you don't get it looked after asap.
Just be careful out there, skitter bugs are relentless and will always bother you, also big fuckin blood suckers the size of belts live in the swamps...They won't hurt you, but they just give me the worst heeby jeebies ever. Hate them fuckin things!
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Well the obvious ( Watch the snakes ) rules applies 
Snappers can be hard to see on land and in the water, in the water depending on how deep it is they can be really hard to see, shallow water not too hard they usually take off before you get there same as in deep water you'll see a big stir up of mud on the bottom. But when they huntin for food they will just sit there and get grumpy if you walk by. If you look close enough you'll see them on the bottom just sittin there, go around em. On land, they'll bury themselves in the mud with they're head and front of they're shell sticking out. Sounds easy to spot but you'd be surprised until you near step on em, they'll usually weeze/hiss at you as a warning.
But the bee's they seem to come out of nowhere so keep a eye out for a couple to be flying around the spots I mentioned, I went to move a small log one time in a swamp I was digging hole on a old beaver damn and got stung 14 times on my hand. I burnt that log to a crisp along with the bee's in it! Also beavers, watch them. Not for your sake, for your plants sake, them little sumbitches will chew every plant you got down overnight...Can't blame them I guess they smell brings all kindsa critters in, but after they chew em down its war! Glad I'm a trapper
Snappers can be hard to see on land and in the water, in the water depending on how deep it is they can be really hard to see, shallow water not too hard they usually take off before you get there same as in deep water you'll see a big stir up of mud on the bottom. But when they huntin for food they will just sit there and get grumpy if you walk by. If you look close enough you'll see them on the bottom just sittin there, go around em. On land, they'll bury themselves in the mud with they're head and front of they're shell sticking out. Sounds easy to spot but you'd be surprised until you near step on em, they'll usually weeze/hiss at you as a warning.But the bee's they seem to come out of nowhere so keep a eye out for a couple to be flying around the spots I mentioned, I went to move a small log one time in a swamp I was digging hole on a old beaver damn and got stung 14 times on my hand. I burnt that log to a crisp along with the bee's in it! Also beavers, watch them. Not for your sake, for your plants sake, them little sumbitches will chew every plant you got down overnight...Can't blame them I guess they smell brings all kindsa critters in, but after they chew em down its war! Glad I'm a trapper
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Savage Seeds
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Thank you my good sir! Don't take well to things bothering with me for no reason, vengeance is always well served! As for the beavers, they're built like little bulldozers and they work as such too. Cages will work if they're grounded good enough, beaver will try to plow through them sometimes but usually just go about they're business...Unless for some reason they really really want it they'll find a way. When they drag big branches and stuff around your plants and cages they will get mowed over, persistent little critters they are. There really Isn't a safe spot around a beaver pond, if they want through bad enough they gonna get through or drop and tree in the wrong direction.
You'd think since they got such engineering skills to build they'd have enough brains to know how to fall a tree in the right direction but apparently not. If you can find spots where they ain't movin around a whole bunch or dragging brush you'll be groovy. Things to look for are bogs with the grass packed down and a bunch of stripped branches, mud slides and trails going around on shore. Also look for half chewed tree's cause they ain't done with them yet just quit for the night. If you stay away from those signs they really have no reason to damage or destroy your plants as they're not in the way of they're work.
Also be sure to have your tubes filled with dirt or holes or pots whatever yer gonna use out for at least a week ahead of time, coons,and every member of the K9 ( yotes and foxes mainly ) and weasel family ( Ermin, skunk, fisher, otter and mink ) will have a yay old time digging up the dirt and rolling in it trying to discover whats in there for them. But once it's dug by them once your safe they should leave it alone from there on.
Happy growing my fellow Guerrilla brother! Anymore questions just ask, I'll be around after sundown
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Critters may dig up your soil for the ammendments but I worry @ deer even more... Before you leave your spot take a piss around the perimeter. This will usually keep them away.
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Savage Seeds
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I'm a Hillbilliy born, raised and still live in the swamps on my trapline. Any hole dug by your hands and filled with any kind of dirt they gonna dig into it out of curiosity if nothin else. When you walk through the bush and see somethin that wasn't there a day or 2 ago you wanna investigate it don't you?
Pissing around your spot don't do shit for keeping deer away, I've killed deer on our run way, gutted them and killed deer pretty much on top the pile the next day...They're not as smart or cautious as most think.
On your swamp tubes, if you leave bout 6-12" of barb to drive in the bogs they should stay better, growing on dams are wicked for monster plants as well. As long as you stay away from where Mr. beaver is comin up on it and avoid making the water run you be alright they'll leave it alone for the most part. KEEP IN MIND, if the dam has no vegetative growth on it already they will bother your plants because it's something new and out of the ordinary .
up here in Maine i would always keep my 45 on me when out in the woods tending the guerrilla grows.. you never know when momma bear and her cubs are going to come stumbling out of woods!!
200gal smart pots + swamps = multiple pound plants
good luck mang
200gal smart pots + swamps = multiple pound plants
good luck mang
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Word brother, I carry my 30-06 for protection and nuisance plant destroyers.
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I read a few good threads last year about securing your plants from animals.
I think one of the best things you could do is just lay chicken wire on the floor (literally) it works for deers at least, because they get scared if their feet get stucked in the wire, that said some folks who grow in an area, where 100s or even 1000s of deers travel near their grow spots and they say its the only way keeping them away, you can put around 8 feet tall chicken wire and they would destroy it ect. maybe it works for beavers as well, or you find a wire with smaller gaps for beaver feet.
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I think one of the best things you could do is just lay chicken wire on the floor (literally) it works for deers at least, because they get scared if their feet get stucked in the wire, that said some folks who grow in an area, where 100s or even 1000s of deers travel near their grow spots and they say its the only way keeping them away, you can put around 8 feet tall chicken wire and they would destroy it ect. maybe it works for beavers as well, or you find a wire with smaller gaps for beaver feet
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Chicken wire will work really good, I've used it at cottages wrapped around what tree's were left after a beaver abomination, they bite that metal and they fuck off it scares the shit outta them.
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