2008 Oregon Guerrilla Outdoor Adventure, with your host BACKCOUNTRY

[BACKCOUNTRY]

I found this list of Couger attacks in the USA and Canada, from 1890-present, pretty interesting, click the link-

List of Confirmed Cougar Attacks

No one should think I go around being afraid of the big cats all the time, but I always keep them in mind, especially when children are about, and when I have no human companions with me out in the hills.

Another thing, Cougers are the forth largest cat species on Earth, after Tigers, Lions, and the Jaguar, which surprised me at first.

 

[hamstring]

Nice info BC on the Cougar attacks. If I read the data correctly seams they have went up slightly as we approach present day. Could be just better reporting but 4 confirmed attacks in a year is still very low.

Coming from a place not having anything larger than a coyote it would add a layer of caution to any trek in the bush for sure. Our house cat is a good fight for most dogs can you imagine a 150lb cat hitting you with extended claws. Puts a new twist on Rippers that’s for sure.

 

[thatguy]

I have bears moving back into my area for the first time in a century, so I wouldn't be too surprised to see mountain lions too.

 

[socioecologist]

Good to see things moving along BC. RE: cougars. I grew up in the woods in SW Oregon (Galice was the closest "town") and have had the electrifying pleasure of encountering cougars twice in their natural habitat.

The wildest: I was on my way into the big city on a bicycle, about a mile from home (this is waaaay out in the woods) when a huge female bounded off of a steep slope in front of me. With two small, effortless movements, she covered about 40 feet of bank and roadway. I stopped about 25 yards away, and she just turned her head and looked at me from the other side of the road, flicked her tail, and over the other side of the bank she went....

I was still shaking 2 hours later.

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

I've yet to see even a fleeting glimpse of a Couger, a handfull of Black bears, a few Foxes, Bobcats, and Coyotes, but no Cougers yet.

Its supposed to hit near or over 100F again today, yeehaw! I think I might take the family to the river today, see if I can get some cool.

I need to take a scout trip to my next prospective planting location, and try to get the rest of my poor root bound babies in the ground, then I need to get a irrigation system put together for my main plot.

 

[HookaHittaH]

yeah bc we got a lil heat wave goin on. spossed to be 108 where im at.. fuckin eh. try to keep it cool man.

 

[kallenavndk]

wow u got to be carefull when u are cheking your grow ...Dont you guys have a gun whit you at least a knife ?
You BackCountry u be safe you have dogs but what about you thatguy? You need to get your self a mean ass dog, Fila Brasilero 2 of them then u safe from Moutain lions

 

[guest3589]

Hi BC & everyone,
Much like your self I have seen just about everything but the Cougar, I've decided to keep some pepper spray on me when I do go in deep. Last year my friend and I surprised a Black Bear with three cubs and that could have been a real disaster. My friend was less than ten feet from a cub and the cub panicked and treed it's self. THe mama was only ten more feet away from my friend, he backed away and we got out of there o.k. but we both needed a diaper change, lol.

Since that day it's pepper spray and a sturdy locking blade pocket knife for me. I can't bring myself to use firearms when I am dealing with the herb, for me it's just bad mojo.

Hope you and yours can keep it cool, the river sounds nice.

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

I made it out to water my main plot today, got in and out before the heat set in good for the day.

Here are the two original plants, the higher one is C99xOR95, the lower is TWx(C99xOR95)-

Here is a above view of the C99xOR95-

This is the runt of the plot, still around 2', she should come around soon, she is a C99xOR95-

Here are the lower 2 plants in the plot, both TWx(C99xOR95)-

I took 5 gallons insted of 4 this time, one gallon for each plant. So far they are doing great on the little water I am bringing once a week, no signs of heat stress yet at all, hopefully they remain this easy.

 

[thatguy]

Sorry to hear about the heat, BC. Glad to see everything's still looking good. How many hours of light would you say your plants get?

Around here temps have been a little lower than normal. It's doing wonders for my plants. They've grown at least a foot in the 10 days it had been since I'd last been there. Any pH or temp problems I had have fixed themselves, I guess. I still have to shade the bags from the sun, as the soil is still real warm, but no problems so far.

Kall, there are maybe 4 bears in my entire area. I'm more worried about the rattlesnakes or rabid coyotes than bears. I haven't heard of anyone around my area being attacked by anything other than dogs in years, if not my whole life.

All the best, TG

 

[little j]

lookin good bc. heat is on me too. i like it. your dog looks chillin though. little j

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

My cold spring kinda messed me up this year, I missed all of the warm(not hot) vegging days of spring when my plants usually do alot of growth, also that is a time when rainfall provides alot of free water. Now my plants are way behind and struggling to gain size through the hotter weather of summer, when temps get to high to often, the plants can actually slow down a bit, oh well, thats the life of a guerrilla grower, some years are great and some years the climate don't cooperate.

Here is what some of my plants looked like this time last year-

 

[darrinjefferson]

i know what ya mean...these tamps even have my greenhouse running way too high! I have to hook up a fan to pull air through it so its not to hot.
nice weather..just too hot

d

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

Yep darrin, it hit right around 100 again today, treated myself to some AC in the car today, the air blowing in the windows was just cooking me like a convection oven. I grew some large crops in a neighbors greenhouse years ago, the poor ventilation made keeping the girls healthy very difficult, I had plans to install a large squirrel cage fan but the land owner pulled the plug on any further grows.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

is that plant in the second picture flowering?

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

No, not in that pic. That plant got root bound I suspect, due to experimenting with lining holes with plastic to help hold moisture, which was great for smaller plants, but not so great for a plant like this that had great potential.
The distance between the nodes got real short as the plant got root bound, it put on some pretty awesomeley dense and early harvesting bud, and it yielded pretty well, I'm smoking some right now. She was one of my C99xOR95 F1.

 

[Karakoram_way]

Wooohoooo, fatty, chunky and sure smelly, what one could be wanting more?

 

[Murphy]

You need to get those dogs to pitch in on the work load man. They look pretty big & healty, get those packs they can wear to help you with the water load....when the temp come down a little bit.

They look like they love it out there in every pic!

.....Plants look good too!

 

[guest123]

newspaper is good for retaining moisture bc ,, a good wad of it once its wet and covered with soil will stay moist quite a while ... its what im using again this year , great mulch ...

 

[gdawg]

hey backcountry just stoppin by to say hey. you gave me some tips on irrigating a year or two back and me and the ol man finally got it together and i wanna say thanx! man these things rock bro! lovin ya pics and the ol pooch is still lookin good!