Its all positive discussion joe. Thats amazing about the deer eating your ww.. I believe thc in its natural state is poisonous. It only becomes phsycoactive when heated in access of 200+ degrees and thats why we get high when burning it or cooking it in the oven. The deer must be starving. My area is terribly overpopulated with deer. Last years census revealed 45-50 deer per square mile. A number of growers in my area poison the deer that inhabit their areas. That sounds terrible but there are just so many. Usually, eliminating 3 or 4 deer can greatly elliviate the problem. ( god I hope PETA doesnt read this.) They will bait for the deer in early spring and see how many are in the general area and are regularly visiting their site. They then start supplying poison apples on a stick to erradicate the problem. When the apples remain uneaten, the problem is gone. Believe me, it hasn't damaged the population here.

Ulysses, in my book, poison is more humane than the chiken wire approach. I spent my youth trapping hides and i now fish florida regularly where i see egrets and herons trapped in fishing line just waiting for the gators. Its a terrible death to have ones leg hung. Some animals chew it off and die and others just slowly die. If you're going to kill an animal, then kill it. Dont torture it to death. Just my 2 cents.

[Cabinet boy]

This is my first outdoor grow ever,and was thinking about removing the path with the rest of the vegetatoin.I drop nute sticks everywhere near the plant and to the path so the other vegetation will grow big.This may be stupid,the results will tell in the end.

[tokinjoe]

Cabinet, actually that very idea has been discussed here and is solid. It is difficult to prevent a path right at your plant. It's easier to fert the undergrowth to encourage quick regrowth. I do it as well and it really works.

SB, I used to run a trapline as a kid. I mainly used the conibear "killer" traps after an incident with a foot hold trap. Not really humane at all if there is such a thing. I still use them on groundhogs. Put them in the hole, groundhogs comes out and he's done.

As for the deer eating my plants, we have a shitload of them but believe me they are far from starving. We have a healthy population to be sure. I still scratch my head over the deer eating the buds. I've not seen that before '06. In the picture posted above, notice the bottom branches. The deer ate the buds and the branch 3-4 of the way down. Really suprised me but moreso pissed me off. I'm not a big fan of poison apples or poison in general as many other animals eat apples but I also understand the frustration with the deer population. The property I grow on is hunted regularly in the fall. We take a lot of deer but it doesn't seem to dent them. Hence all the deer cages. My camera cord should be here in a few days and I'm going to start camo-ing my cages and will do a thread on it. Spraying is the easiest way but for all the spray I waste a shitload of paint so I roll it on. Takes time but is efficient.

[tokinjoe]

Cabinet, you may want to buy a bag of 34-0-0. Pure eurea nitrogen and the foliage explodes when you apply it, especially after a good rain. I carry mine in a fishermans bag that goes over my shoulder and spread it where needed. If you are using any type of container it helps to fert around that as well to hide the pots.

[nite]

find old fencing along rivers and creeks-always plenty around from flooding- nice and weathered-helps clean up
I've painted rolls of new chicken wire, alot of the paint fell off when I unrolled it
use slug bait-slugs are biggest killer around
tunnel into multiflora rose hedges if available, incorporate a couple ninety degree turns into your tunnel

[Nept]

I swing on vines, like tarzan. Simple

[Hovz]

On my last trip out to my plot i was walking on my path and i saw the trees move all of a sudden and an adult blackbear and a cub crossed the path about 50 feet ahead of me, they took of running as soon as they saw me though.

I use cigarette buts all around my plot to scareoff animals i also try to pee by the plants everytime i go out there, i dun know if it works but no problems so far.

[randy codger]

Go barefoot, Honey

[tokinjoe]

Hovz, be careful where you throw your cig stubs bro. LEO finds your grow there's bound to be dna on the filter. Just a thought, bro. I always throw mine in a thick bush when I'm ready to toss it. Best of luck to ya.

[tokinjoe]

I found this picture last night. It is very indicative of what I look for when finding the right spot to grow. To the right of the picture and over my shoulder is a blackberry patch that is damn near impenetrable. It borders a field. The left of the picture is all woods and is thick on the edge. What I have is a hole between the thick edge of the forest on the left and the thick blackberry patch on the right. Being that it's on the edge of a field, this area gets sun from approx 10 am to 7pm. The field means no trees to shade my spot and the sun tracks over the field all day. It's one of my fav's to plant in. I slip to this spot through the woods. It's all leaves on the heavily shaded forest floor and there is no greenery to flatten to form a path. I step through the thicket on one big step and I'm in my growing "hole". This is my kind of textbook spot to plant. There is also a shitload of poison oak here.