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Okay, so, I have 2 patches going. White widow, afghani, TNR, and some bagseed. This has been a miserable year so far. I started the seeds the first week of May, planted them the 2nd week of May, and it's been an uphill battle. After a couple of weeks of getting situated to their new digs a woodchuck chewed them down to nothing. Finally they came back... and he chewed them down again. Again, they came back and were looking good two weeks ago and I was hoping they would have their peak growth all through july and fill out in august as they bud. Went there today and he's chewed them up real good again. They're smaller than they were 2 weeks ago. I'm livid. It would seem the more I try the less reward I receive. In the other location I have about 20 total with no animal problems, but the soil is awful. I added some lime and gave em' a good feeding and they're perking up. I'm going to go out to the first one sunday and try my hand at ridding myself of a woodchuck. The real problem is that even I take care of him my plants have barely any time left for real growth. I should have pulled in a considerable amount now I'll be lucky if I get a 1/2lb. They should be at 6 feet by now, instead they're between 6 inches and a 1 1/2ft. Took some photos, they're of the first garden, I'll update as things progress. Any thoughts, suggestions? By the way, they're in blackdirt, I love that stuff.

I chose the spot because I used to get 12+ footers there back in the day. Those are the afghanis in the pictures. I'll post better pics hopefully sunday.

put some chicken wire around them

Hmm, that's an idea. I was going to pick up some animal repellant, spray some neem oil for taste reasons, and maybe a haveaheart trap, that's a good idea though, thanks

no prob man

Okay, so I forgot my camera, my bad, lol. I bought some repel-all granules. It's basically dried blood, putrified eggs, and garlic. I hope it works, it certainly smells horrid. I'll put it this way, after I put it down it repelled me out of the garden hehe. I would have gotten some chicken wire but I'm a little tight until payday. Also, I pulled 2 males out of the Afghanis, the rest aren't showing, but the bagseed are actually taking off. They've all grown noticably in just the past few days and yesterdays downpour really helped. Which just goes to show that if that animal would stop munching they'd really take off. The spot is perfect, I've been using it for the past 10yrs on and off. The soil is rich black dirt it barely even clumps when you squeeze it and they get full sun most of the day. I do have to take down some small trees that have poppped up, though. Anyhoo, I will post new pics of their progress this coming weekend.

sounds good man sounds good keep it up good luck on getting rid of tha critters :thumbsup::thumbsup::jointsmile:

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Originally Posted by the86thcreator

Okay, so, I have 2 patches going. White widow, afghani, TNR, and some bagseed. This has been a miserable year so far. I started the seeds the first week of May, planted them the 2nd week of May, and it's been an uphill battle. After a couple of weeks of getting situated to their new digs a woodchuck chewed them down to nothing. Finally they came back... and he chewed them down again. Again, they came back and were looking good two weeks ago and I was hoping they would have their peak growth all through july and fill out in august as they bud. Went there today and he's chewed them up real good again. They're smaller than they were 2 weeks ago. I'm livid. It would seem the more I try the less reward I receive. In the other location I have about 20 total with no animal problems, but the soil is awful. I added some lime and gave em' a good feeding and they're perking up. I'm going to go out to the first one sunday and try my hand at ridding myself of a woodchuck. The real problem is that even I take care of him my plants have barely any time left for real growth. I should have pulled in a considerable amount now I'll be lucky if I get a 1/2lb. They should be at 6 feet by now, instead they're between 6 inches and a 1 1/2ft. Took some photos, they're of the first garden, I'll update as things progress. Any thoughts, suggestions? By the way, they're in blackdirt, I love that stuff.

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Sorry man damn stoner wood chucks:wtf:. A.22 would work, but in the mean time get four sturdy thick sticks put them in the 4 corners of your grow and wrap them with barbed wire around the sticks. It should be cheap for that much and if ya cant get that, some other type wire would keep em away.


Thats all i got man, but .22 cal would be best, good luck:thumbsup:


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I wish I only could. I would shoot it, but it's right by a cow pasture and I don't want to tip anyone off or worse getting shot at myself, lol. The fence is a good idea, too, I'll prob.go with chicken wire, but it'd be nice if the repellant does the trick.

Okay, so, went out there today and was happily surprised to see my chillins' are making a comeback for the 4th time and the repellant seems to be working for the moment :dance: I almost feel bad for the law, trying to get rid of a plant that won't go down without a fight...almost. Most of them are between 2 and 3 ft. tall which makes me a lot happier than 6", and with 2 1/2 months to go I figure they'll be 5-6ft. tall, very branchy from all that munching. I've pulled out some males, but most are barely showing signs of sex so I've got some vegging left. The afghanis are showing the earliest. Well, I've got one problem, but I'll start another thread for that. As promised here's the eye-candy, the 1st and 2nd are White Widow by Joey Weed, the 3rd is TNR by K.C. Brains, and the 4th is Afghani though I can't at the moment recall the breeder lol. The 5th is some bagseed from my good friend who always passes them my way. The stuff wasn't dynamite but decent, and I figured I can grow it better :) .