My Nine Monster: A Story Written and Produced by TMB

they are just is a small grow box just for holding them to move out

Good luck, hope all turns out good for you. I think you'll be happy in the end.
TMB-

Nice healthy looking girls, good luck KYStoner..

Well it happened again, one of my girls in the weed cage was attacked (i think) by a fucken gopher/mole. I took extream measures to make sure this didn't happen this year. I built 3x3 raised beds out of 2X12's and I built a wire cage underneath each box to keep those fuckers from eating my roots. I didn't visit them yesterday, went out to water this morning and the girl behind the BIG Mad Purps was drooping down just like last year when the roots were attacked, I guess I'm growing in 100 gallon smart pots next year......DAMN IT!
Note, I ran out of Hardware cloth and built the last cage out of half inch chicken wire, that was the cage that was attacked. I'm thinking that when I put it in the ground and filled with dirt there may have been some kind of gap in the wire.....who knows. Not the way I wanted to start my week.
TMB-

^^ sorry to hear about the damage. Well maybe something else will come of good this week. How are the rest of your babies doing buy the way. Going to pick up some pollen later going to hit the Cross with it. keepem green dirrtyd

dirrtyd said:

^^ sorry to hear about the damage. Well maybe something else will come of good this week. How are the rest of your babies doing buy the way. Going to pick up some pollen later going to hit the Cross with it. keepem green dirrtyd

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Hey d-
Everything else is going great. The Mad Purps are really stacking up now, and starting to really stink the place up. The SR-71's are just starting to show flowers, I think that's why they get so big is because of the extra veg time. I'm guessing 8 lbs between the 4 plants. (i got 3.5 lbs off of one last year, I may harvest 10-12 of the SR-71's)
I need to investigate the dead/dying plant to see what's up, but I'm betting my bottom dollar it's a fucken gopher.....
TMB-
I'll post pictures to show the damage.

Sounds good cant wait to see the photos of this wow. Well smartpots on pallets wouldnt be bad. Sounds like your yeild may be down per plant this year? I think my one plant was bigger last year. Have you noticed any difference in your plants? The plants crossed with blueberry smell so sweet it aint funny. d

sorry to hear about your prob. a few years back i was haveing a ground squirrel prob digging up my plants eating the rockwool an oldtimer told me to put mothballs around them just push them in to the ground around the plant have not had the prob since

That's why I listen to old timers, not too much they havn't seen or done... Not that I'm old...lol
Treeman, sorry to hear about the gopher problem, the life of a farmer is full of things to overcome.. Luck to you my friend.


If giving is better than receiving, then why isn't everyday Christmas?

Hodgegrown said:

That's why I listen to old timers, not too much they havn't seen or done... Not that I'm old...lol
Treeman, sorry to hear about the gopher problem, the life of a farmer is full of things to overcome.. Luck to you my friend.


If giving is better than receiving, then why isn't everyday Christmas?

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I understand "shit happens" in the farmers world, but I spent a lot of time and effort not to let this happen again. I fought a gopher issue last year, they got a Mind Bender X Afghangooey and a Chemo Cindy. I'm just pissed off that my efforts went for not. Smart pots next year.
TMB-

Glad that I don't have that issue but man sure sounds like something that would make me wanna go all Caddyshack for sure!

treemansbuds said:

I understand "shit happens" in the farmers world, but I spent a lot of time and effort not to let this happen again. I fought a gopher issue last year, they got a Mind Bender X Afghangooey and a Chemo Cindy. I'm just pissed off that my efforts went for not. Smart pots next year.
TMB-

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I used chicken wire also, friend brought in gravel and didn't have another problem with plant loss, seems the gophers dislike gravel?

treemansbuds said:

I understand "shit happens" in the farmers world, but I spent a lot of time and effort not to let this happen again. I fought a gopher issue last year, they got a Mind Bender X Afghangooey and a Chemo Cindy. I'm just pissed off that my efforts went for not. Smart pots next year.
TMB-

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I feel ya TMB.
I also spent a ton of time and a bit of cash to avoid the gophers; they have caused me heartache plenty. Any chance your plant will make it?

Hops

Hopsnmalt said:

I feel ya TMB.
I also spent a ton of time and a bit of cash to avoid the gophers; they have caused me heartache plenty. Any chance your plant will make it?

Hops

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Nope, she's done. I tried to save the Chemo Cindy last year, and I did, but it was for not. She grew tiny little buds that went into the hash bucket. When I harvested the Chemo, she still had about 10%-15% of the root system there, but she was starving. I'm not going through that again.
TMB-

Fuckin' a. That sucks TMB! I put mine in containers when I noticed gophers eating all my morning glories earlier in the season, they are such little fuckers, they undo so much of my hardwork! How far into flowering was the victim?

daaaamn fuckin little bastards!! I hate em'!! shoot bro sorry to hear it, but it sounds like you said the only one that got it was the one you ran short on material for. Smart pots are great, I love em' but after 1 year in the ground, and now 1 in 200 gallon smart pots, I'm goin' back in the ground next year.No root restriction equals bigger plants, period. Besides the other folks where I grow lost 3 plants to voles this year, and they were all in smart pots, soooo they're not 100% safe either.Check that too TMB, make sure it wasn't a vole or a field rat chewing on the stalk.

Hodgegrown said:

I used chicken wire also, friend brought in gravel and didn't have another problem with plant loss, seems the gophers dislike gravel?

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They don't like gravel but they will dig through piles of it when they feel like it. They will take the easy road when available but will dig through almost any type of dirt mix. My dad tried broken glass around a couple of ornamental trees to try to get them started. It worked for a while but they eventually had a network of tunnels there, and broken glass pushed up to the surface - then he had two problems.
Traps and poison are the only way to get rid of em. Those buzzers definitely work but will only run them about 30 to 40' away and you have to move them around a little so they don't get used to them. 3 "D" cell ones are the way to go, the solar ones 'might' protect one small plant. Voles are even harder to get rid of.
Sorry for the run on, I've been fighting these assholes for 11 years in my garden and they get at least a small part of it every year.

Hops

Jozikins said:

Fuckin' a. That sucks TMB! I put mine in containers when I noticed gophers eating all my morning glories earlier in the season, they are such little fuckers, they undo so much of my hardwork! How far into flowering was the victim?

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Hey Joz-
They were about 3-4 weeks in, she was a sativa strain, so she still had a long ways to go.
TMB-

wheezer said:

daaaamn fuckin little bastards!! I hate em'!! shoot bro sorry to hear it, but it sounds like you said the only one that got it was the one you ran short on material for. Smart pots are great, I love em' but after 1 year in the ground, and now 1 in 200 gallon smart pots, I'm goin' back in the ground next year.No root restriction equals bigger plants, period. Besides the other folks where I grow lost 3 plants to voles this year, and they were all in smart pots, soooo they're not 100% safe either.Check that too TMB, make sure it wasn't a vole or a field rat chewing on the stalk.

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Yea I thought I had it all figured out. I'm not sure what a "Vole" is, never herd of them before (time for a internet look up). No stock damage from a rat, definitely under the surface.
Maybe Smart pots with hardware cloth underneath.
TMB-

Nice man.. good luck.