My Swamp Idea

I took a walk down a trail I have that runs through the swamp behind my backyard. The trail is made of plywood. Anyways once you get passed all the tall reeds and cat tails, its wide open. All the reeds were hacked down and now there are mounds of reeds everywhere. I took this walk to look for good grow spots and found that half the swamp was turned into cat tail/reed mounds, turns out these mounds were made my some sort of animal, Raccoon or swamp rat I'm sure. Well I was thinking with these big mounds I could make a small hole through the top and put my potted plant in the center? These things are hollow. It'll get plenty of sun light I believe because there are plants growing fine inside of them already. Is this a good idea? I will have some sort of fencing around the top of the pot to keep animals out and no heli is going to be able to see these plants.
Few questions:
1.Want to make a water drip system from a nearby creek, any threads on making one?
2.What keeps insect's and animals away besides a fence or such?
3.I'm having trouble with understanding added nutes, what thread will help me?
4.Any easily understandable thread on lighting with CFL's? Haha, just started growing.
And any other information is welcome.
Anything that would be helpful to my swamp grow will be much appreciated.
Run Down:
-Bag Seed
-Fox Farms Ocean Forest
-3 gallon pots
-no nutes

And that's pretty much it, i will probably start sprouts inside then move outside later on.

Sounds like an idea allright. I mean, when it comes to guerilla grows, the less accessable, the better, right? The only things i'd worry about would be critters. I mean, a swamp? I don't care what kinda of fencing you put up or poisons you spray, if some critter has his heart set on munching on some stoney buds, then it's probably gonna happen. So as for setting up a drip system, there are gravity feed systems that you can use if you submerge the end of the hose at an altitude higher than the nozzle. You would need some sort of a screen or filter though, to keep nthe hose or tubing from getting gunked up, and if it's gonna be left out in the wilderness unattended for an extended period of time, it'll probably get gunked up anyway. Maybe think instead about doing something with a resevoir next to the plant, you know, something easy like punching a few pinholes in a 5 gallon water jug. That way you wouldn't have to visit them that often. As for nutes, i'd look into some sort of potting soil that has time release nutrients. I mean, organic is best, but if you just want them to grow, there are plenty of soils that will feed your plants for up to 3 months. To be honest, i don't have much experience with guerilla growing, seeing as I'm a legal medical patient, but i've heard a few people say that these are the techniques they used. Good luck!

if there are mounds it's is because a flood is coming an animal knows this and attempts to raise it's eggs/home before they come the only sorts of creatures I know who make big mound are crocs/alligators or large birds.

Are there any trees in the swamp with thick branches or couple thick branches to tie a rope on?
My suggestion is maybe you could make a pulley system, to pull you'll your plant up and down to feed it?
You could one of those buckets at Lowes or Home Depot and use that, make couple 1/4 inch holes in it for it to drain a little bit
If you also took off the handle you could tie some ropes threw the holes where it was at or you could make some holes on the top part of the bucket to tie a strong rope to lift it up

I would only do this, if you're pretty sure there's rodents around

Metasynth said:

Sounds like an idea allright. I mean, when it comes to guerilla grows, the less accessable, the better, right? The only things i'd worry about would be critters. I mean, a swamp? I don't care what kinda of fencing you put up or poisons you spray, if some critter has his heart set on munching on some stoney buds, then it's probably gonna happen. So as for setting up a drip system, there are gravity feed systems that you can use if you submerge the end of the hose at an altitude higher than the nozzle. You would need some sort of a screen or filter though, to keep nthe hose or tubing from getting gunked up, and if it's gonna be left out in the wilderness unattended for an extended period of time, it'll probably get gunked up anyway. Maybe think instead about doing something with a resevoir next to the plant, you know, something easy like punching a few pinholes in a 5 gallon water jug. That way you wouldn't have to visit them that often. As for nutes, i'd look into some sort of potting soil that has time release nutrients. I mean, organic is best, but if you just want them to grow, there are plenty of soils that will feed your plants for up to 3 months. To be honest, i don't have much experience with guerilla growing, seeing as I'm a legal medical patient, but i've heard a few people say that these are the techniques they used. Good luck!

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As far as I've heard, time released nutrients are bad for growing weed? Hell, I've tried before because I'm ignorant sometimes and my plants died in 3 weeks, all of them. But who knows? That might have just been me. On the reservoir, I don't know how I would pull that off, there's enough space for the potted plant and I don't think there is enough space for the 5 gallon. I don't know, I'll figure something out but the drip system doesn't sound good anymore haha. Plus my swamp is filled with gasoline floating on the top of the water. And thanks for posting bro.

Chunky said:

if there are mounds it's is because a flood is coming an animal knows this and attempts to raise it's eggs/home before they come the only sorts of creatures I know who make big mound are crocs/alligators or large birds.

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Well we don't have many big birds and the few types we do have are hardly ever seen around here. But there are A LOT of gators. And I thought about that before I start snooping around looking inside them but cooled down because I would walk next to the creeks that run through the swamp and did not find any spots where gator prints or a mud slide anywhere which was different too, I usually find one or two. Also where there are reeds next to the creeks, they weren't layed down at all but who knows? I found little trails inter-crossing going to burrow to burrow and there are small holes, about rabbit sized going into the burrows. All sorts of poop though. The ones I can recognize is raccoon and rabbit. I found very little raccoon poop and a lot of rabbit poop. The rabbit poop is either on top of the mounds or all over the trails and we do have rabbits that live on the border of the swamp where my yard meets...I found this out because Cooper (my lab) started sniffing them out and I followed him to a bunch of rabbit sized holes in the ground and I saw one before my dog went spastic. Anyways, thanks for advising me of this. We had a little rain last night and the clouds are looking bad now too.

EzBeanz said:

Are there any trees in the swamp with thick branches or couple thick branches to tie a rope on?
My suggestion is maybe you could make a pulley system, to pull you'll your plant up and down to feed it?
You could one of those buckets at Lowes or Home Depot and use that, make couple 1/4 inch holes in it for it to drain a little bit
If you also took off the handle you could tie some ropes threw the holes where it was at or you could make some holes on the top part of the bucket to tie a strong rope to lift it up

I would only do this, if you're pretty sure there's rodents around

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There's a couple very small trees but they aren't big enough to have much leafs on them. So there wouldn't be any camouflage.

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