DAMN CATS!!!

[Purple Daddy]

BTW cats are free roaming pets, if you harm one you can be prosecuted for cruelty to animals. Just an FYI. If you think those cats are annoying try living next door to a black lab that barks 24/7 when the owners are gone and barks about 18/6 when they are home.

[GrowingInGeorgia]

I built a polyethylene rooms in the back. One for flowering and one for vegetating - indoors. It's just free hanging to the floor and the damn cats have discovered they can nose under the polyethylene and get in. And there's 4 cats. Apparently, they're not as "dumb" as my wife would like to think they are. One finds a way in and first thing I know, all 4 of them have found their way in and out.

Only one cat is destructive, and I know which one it is, but my wife is a "cat person" and would have ME thrown out before her cats would go.

I initially put window screen over the pots to keep them out and cut holes over the sprouts - no litter boxes in my grow room!! But then one of then, just the other night ate all the sucker leaves off of one plant, and all of them off of one side of another. I was ready to kill, but I didn't figure my wife would buy it if one of them committed cat-o-side, by hanging.

I now have 1 plant overdue to go to the flowering room about 20 inches tall - topped three times - nice and bushy. One damaged, about 18 inches tall with some missing sucker leaves topped twice. One SEVERELY stunted about plant 7 inches tall - topped once- with no sucker leaves left at all and a fresh sprout replacing a plant that I apparently killed by over watering and/or PH issues. All but the sprout are showing nice secondary growth.

The PH issues have been resolved. I only water now when the 3 way tester I have says the soil is DRY, and I water with a cow manure tea. The soil is /was slightly basic (7.4) but the manure tea is pretty acidic (5.6) so it's balancing pretty well between the two.

Considering this is my first attempt at playing Mr.Green Jeans, and my innate ability to kill a rock garden, I'm kinda of proud of what I've accomplished so far. And ALL of my growing advice has come from Cannibals.com, except for having watched the DVD "I Grow Chronic" from which I bastardized his grow room construction.

I'm using a 400w MH for vegetating and I'll be using CFL for flowering. (HSP doesn't fit the budget right now). A friend's mother passed away that had a nursery and he gave me a 4' roll of Mylar with about 200 feet left on it (nice!).



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[GrowingInGeorgia]

Here are some pics of the grow, and the damage...


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[GrowingInGeorgia]

Now if I could just figure out how to put thumbnails in the of the images, I'd figure I've accomplished something.

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[Purple Daddy]

Like I said buy a few half gallon containers of ammonia and place them around your garden, the cat's won't come around anymore. I had a smilar problem and the ammonia scared them off.

[painretreat]

I think the smell of ammonia would keep me out of grow area too! How long does the smell last? PR

[Purple Daddy]

I think the smell of ammonia would keep me out of grow area too! How long does the smell last? PR>>>

I never noticed the smell, mine were totally outside. The jugs can be placed outside the greenhouse as well they just have to be spaced from each other.

[GrowingInGeorgia]

I can see where the ammonia would keep 'bout EVERYTHING away. Unfortunately, my grow room is 3 feet by 4 feet and in the room next to my bedroom.

It would probably keep ME away from my bedroom too.




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[painretreat]

If your grow area is 3X4 feet: Put a cage with a door around it. It can't be too hard to fence them out. I personally think the hatchet would be easier. Plant life vs. animal==you lose every time! Perhaps if the cats had more to play with of their own in the house? I had a grow outside, years ago. My puppies ate them at 12 inches tall. Guess all animals like to eat these plants. so, don't get a dog! pr

[GrowingInGeorgia]

Yea, that's what my wife is suggesting - using chicken wire. But first: chicken wire comes in 50' rolls... WAY too much for my tiny job. Second: I'm less of a carpenter than I am a farmer. I am ABSOLUTELY UNSAFE with power tools (Did you know a drill with a 1/4 inch bit will penetrate jeans AND flesh? -- I know this as a fact from personal experience. Don't ask).

I like the hatchet suggestion myself. But a quick spray with adhesive and a good sprinkle with cat repellent will probably do the trick.

Apple bitters: Will the plant not absorb that?




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