Mouse

[baldmountain]

I decided to try an experiment where I started seed by just planting them in dirt directly. No paper towels. I setup some solo cups under a shop light in the basement, added some water and a seed in each cup. After a few days a couple plants sprouted. A few more days and 6 of the 9 were showing. I decided to check to see what was happening in the other three. One had a seed that sort of sprouted but the tap root turned dark brown/black. That one is a fail. But the other two had seed shells like the seed had grown, but no plant. I went down this morning and found this:



A damn mouse had eaten the tops off all my plants. I was only able to rescue two of the nine.

 

[Now1more]

I would say, get a cat, but cat eats my plants too.

 

[SoLowDoughLow]

I decided to try an experiment where I started seed by just planting them in dirt directly. No paper towels. I setup some solo cups under a shop light in the basement, added some water and a seed in each cup. After a few days a couple plants sprouted. A few more days and 6 of the 9 were showing. I decided to check to see what was happening in the other three. One had a seed that sort of sprouted but the tap root turned dark brown/black. That one is a fail. But the other two had seed shells like the seed had grown, but no plant. I went down this morning and found this:

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A damn mouse had eaten the tops off all my plants. I was only able to rescue two of the nine.

Just curious, was your profile pic always a mouse? Or is that a rat? Hard to tell on my phone lol. Kinda weird though lol

 

[Streetpro09]

Just curious, was your profile pic always a mouse? Or is that a rat? Hard to tell on my phone lol. Kinda weird though lol

Man I was gonna say the same thing. I'm pretty sure that's been his profile pic for as long as I can remember. Pretty ironic.

That definitely sucks bro. I fucking hate nice! Ain't nothing that'll scare me more than a mouse running across the floor. Lol

 

[hhibrownsbacker]

Use glue boards with peanut butter as bait and get rid of him. Dont use poison as he can die somewhere out of sight and you will play hell trying to find his rotting ass.

 

[MtRainDog]

I recently had a couple mice that needed to go. I used these traps and got both of them on night one! Used peanut butter + bird feed as bait. They can't resist it.

https://www.amazon.com/Rodent-Killer-Reusable-Effective-Catcher/dp/B07FDZY21W/ref=sr_1_3_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=mouse+trap&qid=1604759472&sr=8-3-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEzREc3R1RLSVFCT01LJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNzQ0NjU0MjhTQTBIMVQ2VlMzRCZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNTAxMjAwMlZINlVUMFhLMjhIWCZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=

 

[Now1more]

Electronic emitters worked well for me. They're cheap a plug right into an outlet.

 

[baldmountain]

Just curious, was your profile pic always a mouse? Or is that a rat? Hard to tell on my phone lol. Kinda weird though lol

Yeah, it's always been this drawing of a rat I did a few years back.

For mice in the basement, I just use cheap spring traps from the hardware store. I bait them with peanut butter but haven't set them up since we have more issues in the winter than any other time of year. They are set now. As much as I hate mice, I want them to die in one quick snap so I won't use glue traps. They seem kinda cruel.

I moved the surviving plants into a tent. (I cut down the last plant in that tent so I can now set the timer to 18/6 instead of 12/12.) I started some new seeds to replace the ones that were eaten.

 

[baldmountain]

So far 7 mice have been "removed" from the growing area.