The Jungle Begins

[Teh_Baker]

Ok so some of you may remember me, and some not. Been away from the website for sometime. Back in the day I grew where I could which happened to be indoors. You can look up my older grow by searching bio-buckets.

Now I will be growing outdoors, using all the free lumens my girls can take. Already I have 4 plants (names of which I cannot divulge) in my greenhouse. They have been growing accustomed to natural light cycles and temps for months now. They are completely flowered out in 1 gal pots, but have started to show signs of re-vegging. Soon i will transplant them into larger pots and speed up the re-vegging process. They will go into the garden in another month or so, thinking maybe April.

The garden has been pre-tilled, with compost ammendments, and will be tilled again on day of planting.

One thing I need to figure out is how to keep pack rats and chipmunks from cutting down my plants. Between gophers and the aforementioned rodents, I have lost about 30-40 plants in the last 3 seasons. I got the gophers covered but the pack rats and chipmunks keep foiling my plans. If you have any ideas feel free to share. Will update later, gotta run.

 

[OrganicBuds]

Good luck on your outdoor grow, and adopt a cat or two for the rodents.

 

[Teh_Baker]

Thanks for the tip, but I already have 3 cats. The thing is, I live in a very forested area.

 

[tommy1984]

Cut a 1 foot piece of 4 inch flex pipe then split i and put it around the bottom of your plants, the criders cant get to it then.

 

[mendo420]

nylon fencing around the stalk.

 

[jackel]

5 gal bucket 1/2 full of water. Heavy gauge wire through bucket at top with a tin can on wire(drill holes in top and bottom as center as possible) coat can with peanut butter and set up a log to the top of bucket. Rats will walk across wire to can, can will spin on wire and they fall in water.
Rats generally want water. They eat plants to get the water. Put a few bowls of water around..
Can also take aluminum cans, cut top and bottom off, slice length wise. Wrap around stalks. Tape 2 together 2 high. But let the cut seams stay loose to prevent gerdleing

 

[Teh_Baker]

Cut a 1 foot piece of 4 inch flex pipe then split i and put it around the bottom of your plants, the criders cant get to it then.

Brilliant! I knew I would benifit from the collective knowledge of IC Mag users. Thank you so much. I will use your idea this season.

 

[Tiami]

Rats generally want water. They eat plants to get the water. Put a few bowls of water around..

anyone sure this pipe guard actually works? rats are a big problem here.

I think giving them water is as important as guarding stalk.
don't use posion because it only makes them more thirsty before they die.
it's also important to use such material with guarding pipes, that they can't climb on.
rats can jump more than 1 foot..

 

[GoodyTwoShoes]

Yeah it works; stops them chewing through the stem.

 

[bajangreen]

you can use the glue off of sticky glue rat traps very effectively if you know where to put it.

 

[Teh_Baker]

Tried using glue traps and snap traps. The only thing they would catch was sparrows. Poor birds.

 

[Teh_Baker]

Well the plants went out on April 1st. Thankfully the night before there was a significant thunderstorm, so the girls will be happy with all the nitrogen and ionized water. They are still pretty hard flowered from being rootbound and seasoning over in my greenhouse. I know they will come out of it, eventually. There is a chance the girls are called "Hog" but I could be mistaken. Even if they are, I'm not sure of their genetic history. Consider yourselves updated, more to come.