Nocturnal danger?

Continuing the discussion from New grower, need some advice:

Im in need of someones experience in outdoor growing. I live in the deep woods , its time to transplant to outdoor sunshine and im very nervous about it. Not about growing , or standard problems …but nocturnal visitors. Ive never grown outdoors before except vegetables and flowers. Do i need to worry about deer ? Or even opossum , armadillo or anything else that roams my yard looking for a meal. I definately know i have “visitors” at night. They leave plenty of tracks and indicators that they were there …every night. What can i do to make sure my girls dont end up as some animals delicacy ? Or am i simply being paranoid.

You have to protect your plants from deer, rabbits etc. It could be as simple as a screen around plants. Blood meal supposedly helps. Urinate in the area of the plants. I’ve heard of hot pepper being sprayed on the ground too.

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Dont urinate near them if youre trying to keep deer away. I do so in mock scrapes I make and it attracts deer, fox, and coyotes.

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What we used to do is take hair when you get hair cuts or the fam and put some around your plant like a 12 radius and urinate and never had problems but every area is different

12 foot around

You can dig a small trench a few feet in diameter and just a few inches wide, and put chicken wire or something like as a fence. Putting it in the ground will help with rabbits or gophers or things like that dig. A few feet tall for the deer. Just a thought.

Thank you for the ideas , hopfully they will survive and thrive. I’ll post pics after they are large enough to be proud of.

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Lol! :roll_eyes:, mothballs my friends,mothballs. Keeps all animals away, just refresh from time to time. Cayanne pepper spray stops any animal and most insects from eating them.

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