Growing in the Trees

[chiefgreenleaf]

You wanna cover your pots with leaf and sticks and other debri so from the ground they look like squirrel nests. Then secure your pot or bucket with a semi mature plant already in it in the tree. The sun is very strong at the canopy like this and a young seddling or clone will burn up! Attatch some black vinyl tubing to the bucket at the soil surface for feeding and run the rest of the tubing all the way down the tree to the base of the trunk, you can camoflauge the tubing with vines. Then all you need is a battery powered water pump capable of moving water x amount of feet straight up and some good nutrients and your in business!
Ive actually heard of people postioning multiple buckets on branches below the top bucket and using the runoff from the top bucket to down to the buckets below thru a hose that comes out of a hole drilled in the bottom of each bucket.
Either way using a pump to feed is going to make tree top gardening a helluva lot easier and safer since your cutting down on all those climbing trips! And if ya think about it you never hear about cops busting tree top gardens either! Ive never heard of it happening.

[GetThisOrDie]

My friends brother grows in the trees in Kentucky on his private land. He uses grow bags that are specially made for it. They are camod with tree leave and branch print with anchor points for attaching and hoisting. He also uses a fallen tree to hide brown tubing that runs all the way up that he uses a pump to water from ground level. The pump was a simple 5 dollar hand pump he got from the auto parts store. All his supplies are stored in a water proof case inside the fallen tree. Only saw it once but it was stealth as shit. He had buckets set up to collect fallen leaves and acorns and made his own soil with it and used organic nutes. Was the first time I ever saw someone growing weed before. Was some sweet purple bud that knocked me on my ass!

Wish I had pics...

Oh ya... I also grew some outdoors on the edge of a field and heavy woods. This area has a large population of deer which i saw every morning that i checked on them. All I did was take lots of water and drink..wait..rolled one ...and pissed a perimeter around the grow site. Not one single bite out of the many plants. Even saw deer grazing within 25-30 yards of them before.

[Prodaytrader]

I'm concerned about light. Will your trees be too full of their own leaves and block valuable sunlight? I wonder how tall these light deficient plants would become? Plants have a tendency to stretch up and bend towards open canopy so I would have to wonder what your plants would look like as they tried to find open sunlight. Maybe the reduction in light isn't anything to concern yourself with...I'm no expert, just trying to find your solution.

Camouflage would definitely be the thing to have as well. People aren't stupid, their eyes can spot anything out of the ordinary, so if you do too much to your setup, like build a platform or something then it will only draw more attention especially if your using something like a home depot orange bucket. You already mentioned camo on the buckets though, so your thinking in the right direction.

Would it even be worth the effort in trying to do this in anything short of a forest? I mean if you had say 10 pecan trees on your land or something, I cant see you getting away with this, as there just isn't enough surrounding growth to distract the eye from your grow. This would have to be done in a highly overgrown and unused tract of land.

[mainegrown]

what we do here is put plants on our deer stands and or in the blinds set up in the canopy of evergreens... better color to match the plants
you have to trim a couple branches that would block the sun from above but no big deal if you take some of those branches paint the bucket dark green and then put the branch onto the bucket and spray over.. do with different shades of green and once or twice with brown.. in case anyone does not know how to camo something.. sorry if you do it kinda sucks doing a camo paint job to a truck...
-J