raccoons!

rural hick

rural hick

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so i have not had any problems with raccoons for nearly half a year. i have relocated about 20 of the bastards.
yesterday i decided to add a fish fertilizer.
i have 5 in 5 gallon plant bags; White Widow.
this morning all 5 plants have torn the hell up,
i have since repotted and have found no droop yet. i have cared for these plants all season.
i will check on them after an hour in full sun.
i am dissolving B & C vitamins in water, is that a good idea?

i will put fish fertilizer on an on a sock and place it in the trap.
 
Corso312

Corso312

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That's why I stopped organics about 9 years ago.. If its not mice, rats or coons then it's skunks or a fox.. They dug up too many plants after feeding organics I had to stop.
 
mattypacks

mattypacks

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rural hick said:
so i have not had any problems with raccoons for nearly half a year. i have relocated about 20 of the bastards.
yesterday i decided to add a fish fertilizer.
i have 5 in 5 gallon plant bags; White Widow.
this morning all 5 plants have torn the hell up,
i have since repotted and have found no droop yet. i have cared for these plants all season.
i will check on them after an hour in full sun.
i am dissolving B & C vitamins in water, is that a good idea?

i will put fish fertilizer on an on a sock and place it in the trap.
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You're good on the vitamin c+b addition. I use C to neutralize chloramines in my water and B is claimed to be some "magic potion" with an equal amount of people claiming it does nothing. As long as its not some large amount of either Id think you'd be fine.
 
Mrs. Weedstein

Mrs. Weedstein

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That’s crazy — I’ve got raccoons all over the place but they haven’t come after my weed... yet. Probably cuz I got 6 dogs.

So they just dig through the roots looking for fish?
 
B

Backyard dirt

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Don't want to offend anyone but if you use your own pee (diluted in a bucket) you'll deliver more nitrogen to your plants than fish guts and you won't attract varmints. And yes, I battle raccoons over my grapes, figs and cherries.
 
Corso312

Corso312

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Mrs. Weedstein said:
That’s crazy — I’ve got raccoons all over the place but they haven’t come after my weed... yet. Probably cuz I got 6 dogs.

So they just dig through the roots looking for fish?
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Coons, Skunks, fox ... I left a bottle of alaskan fish emulsion out at the patch 10 years ago and squirrels ate a hole in bottle to get to it.

Animals are attracted to fresh earth( easy meals) smelly organics too. They'll dig up the plant looking for the source.. you'll come by a day or two later to a dead plant with roots exposed to the sun in a big hole.
 
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