My Nine Monster: A Story Written and Produced by TMB

Hopsnmalt said:

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

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Hey Hops-
I was thinking the glass thing, but sounds like more issues to deal with.
Last years gopher fight was intense. Road flares, poisons, water flooding, traps, nothing worked until I got some Squirrel poison from the County Animal control services here. I built traps out of 4" pvc pipe for the Squirrels to eat the poison, but not allow other animals to enter the traps.
Last year I found where the gopher broke the surface in my garden, I poured the squirrel poison down the hole, no more gopher issues. Problem now is that there is no gopher holes in the garden, there coming in from outside the cage. Frustrating as hell!
TMB-

I'm thinking smart pots sitting on pieces of expanded metal should do the trick!

Keep up the fight bro, were pulling for you!

peace
doublejj

Well I put the loupe on three branches on the greenhouse beast amber is on and choppin will begin cant wait to taste in November. dirrtyd

well i just tried the first ever sample of the trainwreck x greatwhite (your fucked) grown inside we dried it in a dehydrator for six hours on med. let me tell you it crossed my eyes and curled my toes i think its going to work cant wait until its dried and cured right

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Looks like a very nice harvest, is this your grow?
TMB-

yeah its mine and a kin folk its the first harvest of the trainwreck x greatwhite

we have been looking on here and really been wanting to try something new to try to keep ahead of the game around here we got this strain and i know nobody has it well not around here and i have not seen it on any sites so what would you recommend. i found some medijuana that looked real good at least they made it sound good thanks ky.

treemansbuds said:

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-

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I never knew what one was either till a couple years ago.They are a rodent, they look like a rat with a pointier nose and a long tail. They do run under ground in tunnels just below the surface, and they eat the hell outta the plants. They will get on top of you soil and chew on the stalks like a rat, and totally kill a plant in 1 day. They also chew on the roots under ground and do alot damage that way too.
Sounds like a gopher you got for sure though. This year was the first time I went aftyer a gopher, and he was winning thw fight till I got the right traps, and then I got him the same day. The traps do work you just gotta keep resetting it till you get him.
Next year, I'm doing a shallow row (8-12" deep) 10 ft wide, and putting 100 gallon smart pots on the rows with the bottoms cut out. I'm putting hardware cloth in the bottom of the holes and have it come up on the sides to keep gophers and voles out.
I hope you get em'!

treemansbuds said:

Hey Hops-
I was thinking the glass thing, but sounds like more issues to deal with.
Last years gopher fight was intense. Road flares, poisons, water flooding, traps, nothing worked until I got some Squirrel poison from the County Animal control services here. I built traps out of 4" pvc pipe for the Squirrels to eat the poison, but not allow other animals to enter the traps.
Last year I found where the gopher broke the surface in my garden, I poured the squirrel poison down the hole, no more gopher issues. Problem now is that there is no gopher holes in the garden, there coming in from outside the cage. Frustrating as hell!
TMB-

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Damn TMB,
This sounds familiar, I tried most of those things; I was real excited about road flares but had very little success with them. Sometimes they will eat poison and sometimes not. I did okay with a tail pipe adapter where you hookup a long garden hose to your truck and shove the business end in every hole you can find for ten minutes. Takes hours though. I got it at ace.
I tried at least 4 types of gopher traps; Trapline is by FAR the best IMO. Get em on Ebay. His mole traps work too; the only moles I trapped were in his traps. Other than that, get a Dachshund.
Your PVC traps sound interesting...

Hops

Hopsnmalt said:

Damn TMB,
This sounds familiar, I tried most of those things; I was real excited about road flares but had very little success with them. Sometimes they will eat poison and sometimes not. I did okay with a tail pipe adapter where you hookup a long garden hose to your truck and shove the business end in every hole you can find for ten minutes. Takes hours though. I got it at ace.
I tried at least 4 types of gopher traps; Trapline is by FAR the best IMO. Get em on Ebay. His mole traps work too; the only moles I trapped were in his traps. Other than that, get a Dachshund.
Your PVC traps sound interesting...

Hops

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The Squirrel traps is just a 4" PVC tee with three pieces of 4" PVC pipe. Two of the pipes are cut to 18", those two go on the bottom lying flat to the ground, this is where the squirrels go in and out. And a third 4"PVC pipe cut to 36" that is the riser pipe, you add your bait here through the top. When your done with the trap it looks like an upside down letter "T". They suggest thois style of trap because they have to enter the pipe to eat the bait where a bird, or larger animal will not go into the pipe. This way it just targets the squirrels and rats.
TMB-

Hello All-
I just herd that there is a chance of thunderstorms this weekend, 30% chance in Fresno, 70% chance in the foothills/mountains. Time to cover the girls up, don't want to deal with bud rot.
Stay Safe...
TMB-

Thanks.. My ears perked up last night when I heard that on the news.... I am hoping that I don't have to cover it up yet. I want to make sure that the rippers don't have time to plan their attack.

It wont make it down here so I'm okay. If it does later in the month then I will do a lean tube to the fence from the top of the greenhouse. keepem green dirrtyd

hah i was outside to check my plant while smoking and saw rain clouds and wanted to go check the weather then forgot and came back out and it started sprinkling so i moved my mini monster in its 65 gallon geo pot to under cover haha ! it didnt really wet at all i was out when it started raining and it was on wheels allready !!!!!!!! shit tmb all u got to do is throw a plastic tarp over rite? thas probably quicker than what i had to do !

MediMaryUser said:

hah i was outside to check my plant while smoking and saw rain clouds and wanted to go check the weather then forgot and came back out and it started sprinkling so i moved my mini monster in its 65 gallon geo pot to under cover haha ! it didnt really wet at all i was out when it started raining and it was on wheels allready !!!!!!!! shit tmb all u got to do is throw a plastic tarp over rite? thas probably quicker than what i had to do !

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I'm all set, threw up some plastic yesterday morning over the weed cage, took about an hour to do. The real work is tying it all down. Had no string, so I grabbed a bunch of "baling twine" from the hay bales my wife feeds her horses. Tied them together and works GREAT! Thinking green!
So the cage is all dressed up and ready to dance.....so to speak.
The carport is already covered and so is the greenhouse.
We had a lot of high winds and a bit of rain yesterday, nothing bad, I would have been fine if left uncovered, but today is another story.....more thunderstorms this afternoon.
TMB-

lol took me 30 seconds of hard labor to push my fat ass potted pot plant 20-30 feet to under cover, i had a weed cage inside my dog kennel but i didnt wanna build a roof to support plastic and pools of rain and i was afraid my dogs would rip it open when it started smelling good and eat it . they rip open the kennel all the time lol its a huge kennel too they just get bored i think and try to get into the rest of the yard but both my dogs know not to eat my weed it seems lik

Treeman, glad your set up to keep dry, don't think we'll get any here but wind was whipping the girls around pretty good earlier.

treemansbuds said:

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

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Still sucks. Still put the same amount as work into it as anything else. Sorry dude.

Jozikins said:

Still sucks. Still put the same amount as work into it as anything else. Sorry dude.

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Shit happens...
That's why I grow 9 and not just 2 or 3.
TMB-