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Deci22

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So my balcony is screened in, apparently there is a rip in the screen where it attaches. GD little bastards came in and tore up my plants, up rooting them, digging holes in some and causing a huge mess of topsoil and mangled plants on the brink of death. They left the trees alone. Moving the crazy looking spiny olive over there where the rip is...hopefully it pokes them and they decide my balcony isn't the best play place. If they mess with my little trees this is war! seriously has anyone had an issue with squirrels? I mean it couldn't be anything else? and here I was thinking they were cute and fun to watch with the cats...lol.
I mean yes I'm going to call maintenance and have them come ( eventually...they are slow as heck ) but in the meantime any squirrel deterrents? ideas?
 
I am not a fan of the squirrel. They wreak havoc in my garden. Thankfully, that's about all the wild life that cares about my trees.

I don't personally have one, but a dog will solve the problem.

Have you tried electrifying the screen? That could be fun.
 
Concentrating adult male urine in buckets in the sun...

Mix in the tobacco from cigarette buts you find or smoke... Coffee grounds in the "slurry"... Soak sheets or rags and strategically line the area.

It WORKS!..

I've seen the little jerks run up, take a sniff and run away.

Pretty nasty work, though.
 
HorseloverFat said:
Concentrating adult male urine in buckets in the sun...

Mix in the tobacco from cigarette buts you find or smoke... Coffee grounds in the "slurry"... Soak sheets or rags and strategically line the area.

It WORKS!..

I've seen the little jerks run up, take a sniff and run away.

Pretty nasty work, though.
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So do i just ask my Hubby to pee in a bucket for me? LMFAO... it may work, but I'm not fixin to find out, i'm gagging thinking about the smell just sitting here. Cigarette Butts, urine and coffee would keep me away too! I am so very glad i didnt read that hungover....god and then you added "slurry"...ugh.
 
Deci22 said:
So do i just ask my Hubby to pee in a bucket for me? LMFAO... it may work, but I'm not fixin to find out, i'm gagging thinking about the smell just sitting here. Cigarette Butts, urine and coffee would keep me away too! I am so very glad i didnt read that hungover....god and then you added "slurry"...ugh.
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Yeah .. sorry 'bout that! 🤣

But "marking pee".. from animals is different... Mainly in concentration.. most animals ingest a lot less fluids than humans... So CONCENTRATING the urine is important...

Yeah.. it's, for lack of a better word, "Rank!"

🤣🤣🤣
 
Deci22 said:
So my balcony is screened in, apparently there is a rip in the screen where it attaches. GD little bastards came in and tore up my plants, up rooting them, digging holes in some and causing a huge mess of topsoil and mangled plants on the brink of death. They left the trees alone. Moving the crazy looking spiny olive over there where the rip is...hopefully it pokes them and they decide my balcony isn't the best play place. If they mess with my little trees this is war! seriously has anyone had an issue with squirrels? I mean it couldn't be anything else? and here I was thinking they were cute and fun to watch with the cats...lol.
I mean yes I'm going to call maintenance and have them come ( eventually...they are slow as heck ) but in the meantime any squirrel deterrents? ideas?
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Get some thin gauge aluminum wire and stitch the rip in the screen.
Yes, squirrels are a constant problem with bonsai--chipmunks are worse. They're rodents. They chew, they're destructive and smart and they instinctively dig in soil to find stuff.

They are only put off by death. They will keep returning and ripping the screen to get in (and it is likely they caused the screen damage) Repellants (pepper, vinegar, pee --human pee is particularly laughable), scare crows or other "scary" objects only do their job for about ten minutes until the little a@@#$%^s figure out that the scary thing won't actually DO anything to them.

Make the mistake of feeding the little Ba$@!#% and you've shot yourself in the foot.

The way I avoid squirrel damage to my trees (and we have a huge population of the rodents) is allowing predators to eat the little mofos, AND growing BIG bonsai in coarse soil. THe bigger the bonsai, the less damage they can inflict. The coarse soil (crushed granite or pumice) has sharp edges on particles that is unpleasant to dig through with those little paws.

My best squirrel deterrent/disposal unit
 

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HorseloverFat said:
Yeah .. sorry 'bout that! 🤣

But "marking pee".. from animals is different... Mainly in concentration.. most animals ingest a lot less fluids than humans... So CONCENTRATING the urine is important...

Yeah.. it's, for lack of a better word, "Rank!"

🤣🤣🤣
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Yep...making a mental note that if i ever need to vomit in my mouth a little I'm just going to have to have you talk to me about squirrel repellant....my poor ADHD brain is stuck on the fact that you never specified Human male or Squirrel male urine and my mind has already explored different ways of collecting either and concentrating them. I'm mean do I start calling Wal-mart asking if they have male squirrel urine or do i reduce my husbands water intake? because well none of them seem like good options LOL!
 
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rockm said:
Get some thin gauge aluminum wire and stitch the rip in the screen.
Yes, squirrels are a constant problem with bonsai--chipmunks are worse. They're rodents. They chew, they're destructive and smart and they instinctively dig in soil to find stuff.

They are only put off by death. They will keep returning and ripping the screen to get in (and it is likely they caused the screen damage) Repellants (pepper, vinegar, pee --human pee is particularly laughable), scare crows or other "scary" objects only do their job for about ten minutes until the little a@@#$%^s figure out that the scary thing won't actually DO anything to them.

Make the mistake of feeding the little Ba$@!#% and you've shot yourself in the foot.

The way I avoid squirrel damage to my trees (and we have a huge population of the rodents) is allowing predators to eat the little mofos, AND growing BIG bonsai in coarse soil. THe bigger the bonsai, the less damage they can inflict. The coarse soil (crushed granite or pumice) has sharp edges on particles that is unpleasant to dig through with those little paws.

My best squirrel deterrent/disposal unit
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Interesting so you've tried all those things yourself and come to the conclusion.. through the scientific method, that they were ineffective? Or are you parroting?

I know organic gardeners that swear by chalk and capsicum.. and have been supporting themselves through organic gardening for 30 plus years.

I shared my method, because as a skeptic, I tried it (not just spoke without experience)...and it worked... Not for 10 minutes.... Not until they realized...

It worked in the fall, it worked all summer.. and now that everything is waking up.. it's still working.

Laugh all you want...

I used to lose 15-25 trees throughout Fall-Spring to rabbits and squirrels.

I've lost NONE since implementing this method.

Talk is cheap...

Results are what matters.

I'm not 'crapping" on YOUR results, Grumplestiltzkin... Don't "crap" on mine.
 
HorseloverFat said:
Interesting so you've tried all those things yourself and come to the conclusion.. through the scientific method, that they were ineffective? Or are you parroting?

I know organic gardeners that swear by chalk and capsicum.. and have been supporting themselves through organic gardening for 30 plus years.

I shared my method, because as a skeptic, I tried it (not just spoke without experience)...and it worked... Not for 10 minutes.... Not until they realized...

It worked in the fall, it worked all summer.. and now that everything is waking up.. it's still working.

Laugh all you want...

I used to lose 15-25 trees throughout Fall-Spring to rabbits and squirrels.

I've lost NONE since implementing this method.

Talk is cheap...

Results are what matters.

I'm not 'crapping" on YOUR results, Grumplestiltzkin... Don't "crap" on mine.
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yeah, I have tried pepper, urine, live trapping and found them all ineffective, some almost comically ineffective. I've been dealing with the issue for 30 years now and have been driven by desperation. I've had damage to my house and garden in that time, not just bonsai. I've found that steel wool, snakes and death are the best deterrents for squirrels. And FWIW, don't fool yourself with live trapping. I've hired trappers to catch nuisance squirrels and raccoons that were damaging my house. Live trappers are are required to be used by county ordinance here (as opposed to poison and shooting) for nuisance animals. Trapper told me the animals he traps are released in the wild 50 miles away, but said most are dead in 24 hours as the local population of squirrels or raccoons or whatever kill the new animal out of territoriality.

Not crapping on you, your methods or whatever. You are not even mentioned in my response. You seem to be to have some kind of personal involvement here for some reason.
 
Deci22 said:
seriously has anyone had an issue with squirrels?
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Yes, I hate them. They dig in the pots, knock them over and generally create havoc. Last year for some reason they decided to totally chew up all of my jades, besides one little cutting and chewed various branches off of other trees.
 
I maintain a bird-feeder about 15 feet from my office window that looks out into my back yard. The squirrels who would wander into my yard end up there on the regular.
I also keep an air rifle at the ready. I bought it to kill the three squirrels that kept eating my trees and breaking my pots.
It turns out, there were way more than three. And that air rifle is the only thing that works.
Check the rules in your area. In California, the native gray squirrel population is generally protected. Red squirrels not so much.
 
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