swamp growing.

hilltopblazer

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Sounds fun! Just make sure to remember beavers don't eat fish, they are vegetarians. I'd wet a line and make sure you don't have a nice fishing hole on your hands before I planned on nobody coming to fish. Chuck out a Panther Martin and see what happens, fun stuff!
 
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MAGpie81 said:
I commend you for going to the water and not making it come to you, and have wondered about innovative natural setups like that.
I imagine you won’t be posting too many pics to not spoil it but sounds like a cool spot.
Sounds like you want to do it all-natural so I won’t get on a box about streams and wildlife.
I’m really curious to hear how/if it goes yo’!
Good luck, and goodwill:peace:
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if i take some pics it will be with a regular digital camera for obvious reasons. its got everything nearly set up for a winter grow, im just gonna keep them on the smaller side. my only worry is using fems and get a hermie. just need some finishing touches and ill be ready for some camping sessions.
 
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pulpoinspace said:
Idk if he realized he was calling himself that but I can think of much worse things to be. I'd say I'm a real special clown, probably.
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when im done with it the place will be a no go zone. cross a knee/waist high brook only to meet a pile of deadfall and thorn vines, knotweed. the stuff i got in my backyard i use as a wall.
 
go go kid

go go kid

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you csan allways cut the bottom of a flower pot so the roots can dive down and the pot can be for air roots. but you do need an exploritory hole dug to make shure its not overly wet
 
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go go kid said:
you csan allways cut the bottom of a flower pot so the roots can dive down and the pot can be for air roots. but you do need an exploritory hole dug to make shure its not overly wet
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im sure its overly wet, and i know i can dig and get water np. just wondering when it comes time for transplant if i can use logs to make flower beds and that be enough to keep the roots from rotting? all the hardwood trees are dead and only pine/spruce left.
 
go go kid

go go kid

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hope this answers your question
 
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i have a few ideas on lowering the water table aka drain the swamp lol. find a dam down stream and wreck it or divert it with picks and shovels, the one upstream is heavy duty in terms of sand and debris washed up onto it so it may be a tougher one further down if i can access it.

could try using garden hose cut down into several usable lengths and syphon the water from top to bottom, it should auto run itself until air gets into it when it drains empty. also curious what stump remover would do to it, its literal drift wood soaking wet piled up like a clogged pipe.
 
go go kid

go go kid

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stump remover is potassium nitrate, or copper sulphate. the potassium nitrate is the one i would use
 
stealthfader508

stealthfader508

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use a 18"x4' sonotube ... dig a hole and bury about 18" of the tube... fill it with about 24" of crushed stone, then your soil on top of that
 
injinji

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mudballs said:
You have to worry about water table. Dig a hole and if it fills with water, you're screwed cuz that's the water table and cant grow there well. But you could do an above ground grow in that location or berm up soil so roots wont rot in the water table.
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If there is a wet spring season, but then a dryer summer and fall there is a work around. One way would be to dig a hole, let it fill with water, then put sticks across it to hold up the grow bag. Many use black trash bags with a few holes punched in the bottom. Once it drys out, you lift the bag off and remove the sticks so it will go down into the hole.
 
injinji

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HobbyGrowArtist said:
i have a few ideas on lowering the water table aka drain the swamp lol. find a dam down stream and wreck it or divert it with picks and shovels, the one upstream is heavy duty in terms of sand and debris washed up onto it so it may be a tougher one further down if i can access it. . . . .
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When I worked on the grass seed farm, part of my job was tearing down the beaver dam. It was an ongoing job. ie, they keep rebuilding.
 
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injinji said:
When I worked on the grass seed farm, part of my job was tearing down the beaver dam. It was an ongoing job. ie, they keep rebuilding.
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they are little bastards, all the hardwood trees in that area is dead, for big trees just the evergreen are healthy and alive and other random saplings.
dept of transportation and infrastructure renewal uses excavators to clear dams (they trap beavers first), buddy i know who is traffic control person did 3 so far. they cause road flooding and washouts if you ignore them.
 
MAGpie81

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HobbyGrowArtist said:
if i take some pics it will be with a regular digital camera for obvious reasons. its got everything nearly set up for a winter grow, im just gonna keep them on the smaller side. my only worry is using fems and get a hermie. just need some finishing touches and ill be ready for some camping sessions.
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If you get a herm, leave it or move it (if possible) off into the forest to go wild.
I’ve wondered about that kind of thing before. I kinda wanted to try with some Freakshow, so most people would just mistake it for a weird fern.
 
bam0813

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Dam it I've been doing that wrong too. I was told if it smelled like fish it was a good dish but if it smells like cologne leave it alone. So confused
 
Roxo

Roxo

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Not sure I can get behind you going on to property that's not yours and randomly deciding which beaver dam to wreck. Sneaking a grow is one thing but wrecking a dam can have a whole bunch of side effects.
 
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