Mice

[Devilboy]

im having a lil strange prob ive never seen b4 ...i went to water my lil ones today and i go to slide one the pots out to inspect and feed and guees what comes poping out from the soil at me..2 Mice they been living in the soil nice hole from top to the bottom like a rabit hole. when look at the other plants several of them had holes in them also just no mice except the one pot...what are they after and why would they live in my plants ..to me this is a strange as hell prob sumthing ive never came across b4 ...AND WHAT IS GOOD AND SAFE FOR MY PLANTS TO CATCH THEM THANKS IN ADVANCE

 

[Stoner Gardener]

Mice

Mice are a curse. I've had some success by placing the plants' containers into much larger containers that DO NOT have holes in the bottom. The outer pot needs to be sufficiently deep & steep to prevent the lil fuckers from getting out of or into the inner container & medium.
I had mice doing the same thing to my indoor Bougainville, Lavender & Rosemary plants. I have kept them out of these plants since by placing them into the larger vessels.
Another idea I've considered is adding a large quantity of Diatomaceous Earth into the medium. I am probably wrong in my theory that the microscopic abrasion caused by the DE may cut the innards if the mice & send them to Hell where they belong... But it might be worth a try
Good luck! Hope others will chime in with their time tested mice ridding advice.

 

[BagseedSamurai]

Dude, mice are simple. Buy some live traps and bait them with something yummy. Put the traps in the grow area, along the walls or in corners. You'll catch them.

 

[reckon]

The power of PEANUT BUTTER!

no mouse/rat on planet earth can resist peanut butter baited traps.

seriously, put out a standard wire/spring trap, loop a twist tie around the trigger, and coat the twist tie with skippy/jif whatever peanut butter you have laying around.

literally in 10 minutes after putting them out, you'll hear the "clack", and know you just popped one.

my buddy grows outdoors, and now after 3 years, there just aren't any mice/rats left, they all fell to the power of the peanut!

 

[Devilboy]

TY ALL THE PEANUT BUTTER WORKED LIKE A CHARM CAUGHT ALL THEM LIL BASTARDS IN A FEW HOURS WOOHOOOOOOOO AND THANKS TO ALL FOR YOUR HELP

 

[the gnome]

NEVER under estimate the power of peanut butter to lure mice to their demise

I was doing an outdoor grow in the 70s
the plants were humming along about 14-16" tall
and the lower branches started disappearing on a few??
and it looked like they were cut!

you had to have a boat to get out to them, and went out a week later and and almost all of the 36 plants had bottom branches missing?
we couldn't figure out why somone would do this?
so we loosely tied sewing thread between the path to get to the plants to see if someone would trip one.
3 days later no dice on someone tripping the thread but our plants lost even more bottom branches and now there were nice neat little pile of leaves that were stripped from the stalks piled up nest to each plant!!
this is crazy!
then my friend saw the culprit.... a wood mouse!!

it was using the stems to make nesting material.
we went back and bought all kinds of traps and baits and saturated the area,
a few days later our plants were still being taken down and the situation was becoming dire indeed!!
it would be long and our crop for the year would be gone
then an ole timer said peanut butter.

it did the trick and the mouse was history along with most of our plants

 

[61-50-7]

I think they girdled just about every plant I have in a matter of days. Most plants are missing their bark, branches and leaves about 4 to 6 inches up the bottom. A small pile of leaves sitting on the floor is also mysteriously gone.

They're fucked, without the bark the ones still alive are going to die shortly. They don't seem to like ecsd however, another reason to grow it added to a long list.

Been going crazy trying to figure out what was causing the missing bark. Couldn't find a single bug of any kind anywhere. Setting traps and borrowing a cat so I'll know soon enough if I'm right about the mice. I'll update if I'm wrong but I'm almost positive mice are the culprit.

I'm an idiot for not setting traps a long time ago. Live and learn.