How not to make trails?
- Thread starter Nugg21
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visit very rarely! once to plant, once to stake, and a few times to pick off the dead leaves, then come back to harvest! mother nature will take care of the rest! assuming u live in an area with adequate rain fall, and your soil is prepped with water crystals
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LolaGal
Wear mocassins to visit, so you don't tramp down the vegetation as much. Avoid heavy shoes or boots. Be careful where you put your feet, don't step on anything you don't have to.
If you can hear yourself walking, you are being too hard on your trail.
Surely you can find other ways to get there besides one trail! Bad mistake to use same trail every time!
I like Aeroguerilla's advice, keep visits to a minimum.
Don't go when it has just rained.
If you can hear yourself walking, you are being too hard on your trail.
Surely you can find other ways to get there besides one trail! Bad mistake to use same trail every time!
I like Aeroguerilla's advice, keep visits to a minimum.
Don't go when it has just rained.
LazLo
Member
Sprinkle some granulated fertz along the trail before or after rains. Make a brush broom and sweep on your way out. Make some dead ends with brush piles along the trail. Make alternate dead end trails off the main.
And........find some more spots. Or make your own. Thick brush can be a wonderful thing. Most importantly, all spots should have 8 hours of sun or more.
Attitude is a paintbrush that colors any situation.
And........find some more spots. Or make your own. Thick brush can be a wonderful thing. Most importantly, all spots should have 8 hours of sun or more.
Attitude is a paintbrush that colors any situation.
Randy Marsh
Member
try and find some dead logs/sticks/rocks to place on your trail to walk on, this will reduce the footprints left on the ground. I dug up a few small cedar's and moved them near my walking path to reduce the visibility of it, also bend branches closer together and tied them with tomato ties (dark green panty ho type material) so that it looked less like a walking path and more of an animal run. You can also reduce visits by using water saving crystals/mulch, and using slow release ferts.
make your 'trails' look like deer trails by going under 3' or 4' high bushes most recreational path followers will turn around and head back as 'this heads nowhere'
close to the spot, hide black plastic feed tube under ground/cover so the last 30m has no trail at all. imo, water is the best trail restorer, not ferts... here in sunny spain at least
close to the spot, hide black plastic feed tube under ground/cover so the last 30m has no trail at all. imo, water is the best trail restorer, not ferts... here in sunny spain at least
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Guest
One of the first things i do is to go to the spot, look in a 360 degree circle around the site. Identify the point in that circle that its the least likely point, because of ditches or thorns or something, that someone would approach from or be standing. That is the area to start your path. From their, walk under tree overhangs where vegetation doesnt grow to tramp down, crawl under anything that you can so as to break the path and take every step with the thought that no one in their right mind would come this way.
If im growing in an area that is rough, but has human traffic. I will deliberately make them a well seen path right thru the easiest most probable course for someone comming through the area. Humans are just like cattle or water: Given the chance they will always take the path of least resistance. Make sure you have provided that quick easy natural course so they arent searching aroung for some way to get through the area. You can often control traffic.
I often plant up against the south side of a group of pine or cedar saplings. There is no path to the plants because i enter from the rear, crawling under the saplings and popping up at my plant.
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If im growing in an area that is rough, but has human traffic. I will deliberately make them a well seen path right thru the easiest most probable course for someone comming through the area. Humans are just like cattle or water: Given the chance they will always take the path of least resistance. Make sure you have provided that quick easy natural course so they arent searching aroung for some way to get through the area. You can often control traffic.
I often plant up against the south side of a group of pine or cedar saplings. There is no path to the plants because i enter from the rear, crawling under the saplings and popping up at my plant.
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A lot of good advice already here but would add something that may apply (depending on where you are growing).
One other thing I think is very important is to worry about your entrance and exit strategy. Paths to your plot are one way of loosing your crop but how and where you enter your grow location (not grow plot) is something that is just as important. You will be surprised how a car or person sticks out to locals so take some time to consider an entrance and exit strategy also.
I grow in heavy vegetation at its peak most of the native plants are 5-6ft tall. I have found that visiting every 2-3 weeks no path is left because all of the native growth. In the fall all the vegetation will fall over and the path will again be concealed. An early harvest say around Sept 1st and no problem with trails in my environment but Sept 1st - Oct 15th that’s when it gets tough to hide your trails.
So, come Sept take the extra care and again try and keep visits down and follow everyone’s advice that already chimed in.
PEACE
One other thing I think is very important is to worry about your entrance and exit strategy. Paths to your plot are one way of loosing your crop but how and where you enter your grow location (not grow plot) is something that is just as important. You will be surprised how a car or person sticks out to locals so take some time to consider an entrance and exit strategy also.
I grow in heavy vegetation at its peak most of the native plants are 5-6ft tall. I have found that visiting every 2-3 weeks no path is left because all of the native growth. In the fall all the vegetation will fall over and the path will again be concealed. An early harvest say around Sept 1st and no problem with trails in my environment but Sept 1st - Oct 15th that’s when it gets tough to hide your trails.
So, come Sept take the extra care and again try and keep visits down and follow everyone’s advice that already chimed in.
PEACE
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dankitydank
hamstring! buddy is that you? good to see you over here.
if not. good post my man.
if not. good post my man.
