Outdoor Strategies

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I've been having problems with animals such as feral pigs, digging up the roots of the plants to get iron or something... just killed a plant last week and dug up others that are okay but not fully back on their feet just yet.

Anyone know ways to prevent or deter animals from digging up the roots for minerals and such???

Did you put dried blood or bone meal in your holes? do you water them? anytime you did a hole...animals are real curious, many animals hide food, many other animals go around digging up other animals holes...including human holes.

Carefully grade your soil surface to leave a nice place to look for the tracks of your critter. then if its anything other than a pig or deer... trap it, or use a deterent.
 
Yeah maybe with growing autos ... I haven't done any autos guerrilla style.. just photos during winters in warm climates. I guess I thought that I was still on the "rollitup" forum. Yeah, I use cfls to start all plants.
 
I don't think blood meal will deter a pig, they'll probably just make a "meal" of it (see what I did there?) It's really obvious when it's pigs, they tend to make a mess of the area. That and 400 pounds in high heals leaves rather distinct tracks. I don't know what to tell you if it's pigs, escaped feral pigs are fucking monsters....... delicious monsters. The best defense would be to eat them. Being highly invasive I don't think there's a limit or "season" for them. Being out pig hunting would be great cover if you got caught near the plants.... by pigs. Okay, now I'm done.
 
Yeah, I use blood meal and bone meal... I walked away from my measuring spoon one day while I was prepping some soil and as I turned back around I found my cat going to town on the measuring spoon that had all kinds of the stuff caked on to it from so much use. The cat looked like he really really liked the shit. I yelled at him and he just stood there steady licking the measuring spoon til and shoe'd him away from it.

Anyway to prevent or deter animals from digging up the soil?
 
Yeah, a Remington 700. Different animals are deterred by different things. Chicken wire cages help with a lot of them. Just pre make the cages, spray paint them dark green or brown, flatten them to pancakes and stuff em in your pack with the plants. You can just pop them out to shape when you get there and put them over the plant. Helps if you bury them six inches or so and don't forget to close the tops. Just make sure to show up in time again to take the cages off once they get big enough. Like muddy said liquid fence is a great product for deterring herbivores and the such. Use the wallet trick to make sure it's not humans. Leave an empty wallet with a couple of ones sticking out the top on the ground in your patch, if you come back and the money / wallet is gone you have a Hu-vermin problem.
 
Yeah, I use blood meal and bone meal... I walked away from my measuring spoon one day while I was prepping some soil and as I turned back around I found my cat going to town on the measuring spoon that had all kinds of the stuff caked on to it from so much use. The cat looked like he really really liked the shit. I yelled at him and he just stood there steady licking the measuring spoon til and shoe'd him away from it.

Anyway to prevent or deter animals from digging up the soil?

You could try predator urine. The sell everything from coyote- to cougar. It works pretty well for keeping deer, rabbits & such away, not sure about pigs. Coyote might work, but if I was worried about pigs, I would probably try a mix of Coyote & mountain lion urine.

Check out this link it might help
http://www.predatorpee.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=LE&Category_Code=PIG
 
Yeah, I use blood meal and bone meal...
Anyway to prevent or deter animals from digging up the soil?

Stop using them.:D If you need good organic fert there are many options. Those two will always get you dug up...thats why I asked.
 
I forgot about my cages, it's been about a month since I've used them anywhere because even know they're just made from wire they cut back on light and they make it much easy to find my plants for people who are supposed to see them.. land surveyors, hikers, kids playing paintball, helicopters... who knows who might find em. I made them from wire that is sold to keep squirrels and rats from getting into vents and whatnot, then I've also made cages from thicker, chicken wire that go around the thinner stuff and I've spray painted them dull colors to get rid of the shiny metallic shine that comes stock with the wire.
This wire works great against animal pest, but has brought on the plague of theft in the past.

I use fish emulsion sometimes and it seems like after I use it,the digs get reduced quite a bit.

I've been using this organic fert. made by bonnie plants from walmart it doesn't have much a smell at all, but it's water soluble and maybe hard to stop rain from washing it away... What other ferts do you have in mind?

I don't want to wreck the earth using chemicals, even though my grows usually stay somewhat small... I just don't want to be part of the problem
the closest I come to chemicals is adding Epson's salt every so often to supplement magnesium and sulfur.

I've bought a few large bags of "Miracle Grow Organic Soil" over the weekend that has chicken manure "instead of bonemeal" and plan to use it in the next month. has anyone used this Miracle Grow organic soil?
 
I have used miracle grow organic, and it's rather crap. Chicken wire is super thin and the amount of light it blocks out wouldn't even come close to making a difference. No offense Johnny but if you're planting in as high traffic place as that you're doing it completely wrong. Helicopters shouldn't even come close to being an issue with with autos as by the time they're done flowering the birds aren't even in the air yet, not to mention the plants are just too small to see well from the air. It sounds like you need to go back through this thread and read it again focusing on the posts about not leaving a trail and not returning to your spot very often. No one, and I mean no one gets ripped off that often or busted without making a chain of mistakes. Review your process and this thread and cross reference what you think might have gone wrong. Best of luck in the coming season.
 
I grow photos mainly and I've just started to grow about 12 different auto strains. I've been growing photos all winter long forcing them to flower early, thus making them auto... and no there is no high traffic, but you never know, I don't ever try to get too comfortable in the field... the larger wire I use is between chicken wire size and fence size. I check my grows about once a week, but a lot of the areas I use have thick thorn vines that area all most impossible not to make trails, tho I still do not make any

Annapurna grows 2.5 meters and takes several months, not sure how long it takes to get a bird in the air in your area :confused:

Thanks!
 
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