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.
chiefgreenleaf Reviewed by chiefgreenleaf on . Growing in the Trees Hey guys... I think I tried posting a Q about this like a year ago.. guess it's long enough ago to try and ask again... We have a wicked deer problem in my area so it's something I'm considering for the springtime. I've heard/read about a technique of growing your outdoor crop up in the tree canopy to avoid being found by deer, hunters, thieves, cops, wabbits, blah blah. Couple different methods mentioned... 1) 5 gallon pails just hanging from a pulley, tied off discreetly out of Rating: 5