Growing in a tree!???

anyone ever heard of putting your plants in 5 gal buckets and hanging them half or more way up in a tree? the theory being that the helicopters wont see them in the tree if there looking on the ground, and they could get more air and light.

let me know what yall think about this one. im thinking about doing this with my little plant this year.

would have to camo the bucket and it would be a bitch to water dunno if it would get more light unless you sawed off some of the upper branches of the tree

I've heard of drying in a tree, not cultivating.

i heard of people in molokai and maui growing in trees. Some even use hand pumps to get the water up the tree so you dont have to climb everytime.

whos gonna walk through the woods and look up in a big boring tree for a marijuana plant, and if they did find if who will want to climb the tree to steal the bud or destroy it? im deff gonna try this lol ill make a grow journal of it..

lol good luck and invest in a nice long spray/watering wand

ive thought about doing this myself...havent tryed it yet but i was this thinking if you put some kind of pulley/wheel in the tree with a rope tied to the bucket you could just lower your plant water it and pull it back up, ive seen camo nylon rope before...thatd probaly be the best to use...but then again if your paranoid about it being stolen you could just climp ^.^ also you might get a pest problem

ive done it before, place a board on two branches and nail down both ends, then put the pot on the board and nail the inside of the pot so its nailed to the board. fill with soil and voila. cut a hole in the canopy.

RandomKindness said:

ive done it before, place a board on two branches and nail down both ends, then put the pot on the board and nail the inside of the pot so its nailed to the board. fill with soil and voila. cut a hole in the canopy.

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my neighbor did somthing very similar he was a landscaper and had all sorts of tree climbing/cutting equipment

Well, how did it work lol any major problems?

hang topsy turveys, and get a palm telescope. If you see a male shoot it down with an arrow, or beat it down with a camo pool skimmer. Hahaha, watch you spend a to of cash on hand pumps all all this other crap, maybe a doctor visit from falling out of a tree, and then they lift the ban....hahaha, be careful, whatevr u decide to do.

HarvestFest2010 said:

hang topsy turveys, and get a palm telescope. If you see a male shoot it down with an arrow, or beat it down with a camo pool skimmer. Hahaha, watch you spend a to of cash on hand pumps all all this other crap, maybe a doctor visit from falling out of a tree, and then they lift the ban....hahaha, be careful, whatevr u decide to do.

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LOL!

that is hilarious.

lol, was thinking the same thing. and i dont see anything wrong with it. as long as u can water them and they get light.

Where am i going to get a camou pool skimmer! lol and whos this marijuana doctor you speak of, do tell !!

marijewana said:

ive thought about doing this myself...havent tryed it yet but i was this thinking if you put some kind of pulley/wheel in the tree with a rope tied to the bucket you could just lower your plant water it and pull it back up, ive seen camo nylon rope before...thatd probaly be the best to use...but then again if your paranoid about it being stolen you could just climp ^.^ also you might get a pest problem

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That is how I always imagined growing in a tree.
If you could come up with a simple pulley/rope setup that was easy to use, I think it'd be worthwhile.

a friend of mine just began growing in a tree. he used some heavy duty velcro on the bottom of the bucket and uses a fiberglass pole that is used by the power company to pull and replace fuses on transformers on top of power polls to bring the bucket down for watering and nutes and then raises it back up there. it seems to be working fine so far.

if you put a half inch layer of sand on top of it all moisture that goes in will be pretty hard for the sun to suck it back out compared to soil without a sand layer.

Hmm im getting alot of good ideas, that sand idea is a good one, does it really work?

i think im going to risk the wind and plant near the top so the rain will water them..

These ideas have always seemed kind of half-baked to me. You would have to have the plant above the canopy, right? But the pot would have to be below the canaopy. So the ledge would have to be mounted about ten inches down from the very top of the tree. In most trees I've been in, the branches ten inches from the top wouldn't be able to support a passing squirrel. Much less be adequate support to install a wooden ledge, supporting a potted plant.

Man if i found a way to grow in a tree succesfully...it would solve so many of my problems...just have to find that perfect tree