Growing in the Trees

[keeko]

hey stinky, i was just recently looking for a nice tree to plant on come summer time, its a really nice oak tree on top of a hill in the woods....it branches out alot so i can probably put about 5-7 plants at once. What i planned to do was find some crates behind a grocery store( the black boxes with a bunch of holes in it) and level them in a tree and put a camo buckets with plant in it. I imagine since my climate gets very hot that i will atleast have to water them once everyother day......if anybody has any other suggestions on how to make it a better set up please let me know.

[VOYAGER]

Hmmm... I've been trying to think of an inconspicuios way to accomplish that, would the canopy of a tree not block the light needed for the plant(too shady). How good can a 5 gallon bucket be camo'd where it dont look odd. Maybe look into products made to repel animials, ultrasonic emitters or something. Or fencing off an area or putting up one of those large dog pens. Just a few ideas.

[dutch.lover]

Hey Jorge Cervantes book "Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible", has a section in it about growing in trees. It's a pretty cool book- worth buying for sure.

I wouldn't personally wanna have to climb a tree everytime I wanted to look after my plants though. I doubt my bf would either, he fell out of a tree when he was 10, ruptured his splein (almost died), and broke both of his arms. Not a good experience to say the least. lol.

[Splifted]

hey stinky, i was just recently looking for a nice tree to plant on come summer time, its a really nice oak tree on top of a hill in the woods....it branches out alot so i can probably put about 5-7 plants at once. What i planned to do was find some crates behind a grocery store( the black boxes with a bunch of holes in it) and level them in a tree and put a camo buckets with plant in it. I imagine since my climate gets very hot that i will atleast have to water them once everyother day......if anybody has any other suggestions on how to make it a better set up please let me know.

You might want to look into auto-watering pots and maybe some water crystals that hold water and release it over time as the plant needs it. Google those.

[brookerosebud]

water crystals are an absolute MUST for outdoor growing. they most deffinitely help, especially in dry hot climates...

[keeko]

splifted, i have looked into those water crystal idea and found it would be the perfect thing to have when im having a bunch of differnt plots and dont have time to go to them each day.:thumbsup:

[Shovelhandle]

you can try to repel the deer with the conventional methods. Get a couple of bags of hair from a beauty salon and keep it spread under the plants. If you have a zoo nearby you can ask for big cat skat to spread around your plants. Probably easier to get the catamount turds than fool with the bucket in a tree imo.

Shov

[clovisman]

Where I live their are too many hunters to try an aireal garden. all squirrel hunters scan the canopy, sounds too conspicous to me- creating chemical barriers for deer can be easy- there are many ways without tainting your garden soil, I have found human hair to be an excellant mammal repelant- I go to my barber collect all the hair he has put into panty hose and distribute around my garden- have not had deer in my plants for 25 years now

[RedLocks]

I remember I think it was in a High Times from like 15 years ago or something I had read about this guy that was growing up in the trees using a wick system for watering, sounds kind of crazy to me, i would think gravity would impede the flow of water going up the wick

[CityBoyGoneCountry]

would the canopy of a tree not block the light needed for the plant(too shady).

Yeah, that's the only obstacle I haven't figured out how to overcome yet. You could prune some branches to allow light in, but that's just going to make your weed stand out to helicopters.