field trouble

hey guys. first time poster, first time grower, long time lurker on here. I am doing my first grow this year with a friend and have had pretty good results so far.

Let me first start off by saying when we originally decided to do this we figured 'okay, we get 4 or 500 dollars worth of clones, drop em somewhere and we'll be set come september'. Easy as that right? no. 70 clones is alot to look at, and once they were all sitting in front of us in his back yard we looked at eachother with kind of a 'holy shit' look in our eyes.

So we came up with the idea of using a large a large plastic crate (about 4x4 feet and 3-4 ft. deep) and planting about 40 of them in this, and slowly move them out and into fields. the rest we planted other places. Out of the 25-30 we planted outside of the crate, most of them got eaten or pulled out of the ground. So our only major problem has been that wherever we plant them they get pulled out of the ground and we find them laying beside our holes. any ideas? We've even done thing such as surround them in brush so animals would stay away from them to no avail.

So since we have had shit luck with putting them in fields we kept the majority of the rest in this crate. 3 months later, a little TLC, and we have a huge tangled sea of green. They are all doing awesome but I fear that this will result in a shitty yield. They are in their first week or flowering and looking nice and healthy.

so my questions are:
- Will I lose much yield by leaving them in this crate?
- Why are they constantly being eating or pulled out of the ground when we put them in fields (regardless of what we do to prevent it)?
- Since they are beginning to flower should I switch from 20-20-20 to something else?

I will soon post pictures of this said crate. Likely within the next 20 minutes.
Any advice is greatly appreciate!

Steve ganj

Edit: I added 2 shitty pics to my gallery that I have from about a month or so ago. Since then they have grown to be about 1 foot about the top of the crate.

anybody? I know i'm new here but I would really appreciate some help.

Deer love weed.They probably dont care about the brush either.Greedy bastards. Out of all the plants in the woods they have to eat yours. Sorry man.

I just dont get it cause everyone i know plants in corn fields and never have had deer problems.

Maybe they just like corn better. I dont know maybe some other animal like a rabbit. Did they leave any evidence(pooh)? Build a homemade trap and catch it.

they have all pretty much been pulled out of the ground, as if done by raccoons. damn 'coons. any ideas? and anyone have a good answer about my yield?

steedganj said:

they have all pretty much been pulled out of the ground, as if done by raccoons. damn 'coons. any ideas? and anyone have a good answer about my yield?

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God Damn Rake in's!! I'm gonna go look at your pics now brb.

Nice crate! So how many are left in there? and how deep is the medium there in? I hate guessing yeilds tho sry. I suck. The more info you give the more the ppl will help ya. I'm not that great with advice so i'm just helping the greats help you. Save a few questions kinda help. lol.......fucked stoned rambler.... I am.

the soil is about a foot deep, and the crate is down to a tightly packed twenty plants. the ones we've taken out have bushed out immensely, but the ones in the crate are also growing pretty damn good. I am also somewhat afraid to fuck with the ones in the crate now. I think moving them would damage the root systems? possible less yield? ill head out to my location tomorrow and get a couple new pics. they've gotten huge!

hey man.. i was growing ten plants in my back yard.. untill 9 of em were eaten or ripped out just like yours.. the was racoon poo everywhere so we knew it wuz them basterds... we put a dog cage over the last one and shes on her way to budding... to stop the coon problem..... my dog caught a rabbit... so we through its carcus beside our plants as a warning for the racoons.. this has worked flawlessly... a bit smelly but its decomposing its nutrients intoo my babeys! shaveing your head and putting a bag of ur hair in the area works well too.

Well with your plants that big and so close together its most likely that the roots are really tangled together. Hopefully they wont fight for nutes. If possible take them out and put them in their own seperate containers or buckets. This is what anyone will suggest that buckets are the best when planting outside. But so far they look great very healthy.Im still kind of a newb at this but I have read many things on this site and from that came a 5 ft plant that i now have. Would have had more but didnt have the space. Im hoping she yeilds what everyone is telling me and thats atlead 1/2lb possibly 3/4. If you wanna check it out its in Outdoor Growing titled 5 ft Plant. ttyl. Good luck with your plant. Oh and use Fox Farm Big Bloom when your in flowering. It rules.

No I wouldn't move them. They could get a little cramped. roots and plants. I think if your vigilant with water they will stand a better chance. If the buds were to grow tightly packed together like crazy packed you would probably have to look out for mold on the buds. How do you water that bin?

well i have just watered from the top over everything to keep the plants clean, but since they started flowering i just move em around and make sure not to get the buds wet. they are getting huge, pics soon! thanks for all the great tips so far

check em out in my gallery. thems huge! Took a bunch of shots of the crate and some other plants I have in various places.Maybe now i might be able to get an answer to if that crate will reduce my yield?

you will notice i added a pic of the stalks, with a cigarette to compare size. Some of tightly grouped together as the guy who sold me the clones had up to 3 clones in each cup. Any of the ones that i DO take out will be more secluded ones.

wow looking great!! i would say its to late to transplant, probably to tangled up. but hey you learned something for next year

Yeah at this point the gain from having them in there own soil would be void because of the shock, plus damaging roots of the plants left behind.

pee around your crop every visit. and hair works good too.

Yeah, take some of you dogs shedding hair. Any predatory animals scent will keep away many critters.

This is looking good its a sativa dominant? GOOD LUCK!

at least you know what to change next year. what time of the year did you get them outside??? i planted the same way (from clones) i tried to have most of my plants in the ground by mid to late may, a few didnt make it till june, they are doing good just a little smaller, i did have 1 plant get dugup by what i think was a chipmunk... however non of the plants i had inside of a fence got messed with.