Fruit thieves...

JB740i · #21 07/15/10, 10:22 AM

<---is now regretting he planted pear trees in the front yard near the road. I wonder if there is something you can spray them with that will taste bad. Like what they put on kids thumbnails to keep them from sucking their thumb.

Patt · #22 07/15/10, 10:55 AM

I don't understand people stealing stuff like that. We have asked a couple of times when we saw fruit trees with fruit all around them on the ground and it was obvious they weren't being eaten by the owner if we could pick some. They always said it was fine. One guy told us we could take all the pears we wanted off his tree for $5, that was a good deal!

But to sneak into someone's place and steal all their fruit????

Kathleen in WI · #23 07/15/10, 11:34 AM

I think I'd be sick to my stomach if all that fruit disappeared.

Hope you get it figured out so you can enjoy some fruit instead of critters or thieves or whoever.

7thswan · #24 07/15/10, 01:53 PM

My sis told me years back that she saw a tree (apple i think) every year with fruit, way from anyone's house,never picked. So she would stop and pick some. Went by one day and whoever owned that tree cut it down,just so she couldn't pick from it. Didn't cut up the wood nothing-just cut it down,cause she was picken.

o&itw · #25 07/15/10, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by monkeybackfarm

We had the same kind of trouble about 8 years ago. We have a huge grapevine with black grapes and white grapes ,I would say about 10,000 grapes each, two huge pear trees. We started noticing grapes were less and less and finally one day they were all gone. Then a month later the pear trees were full with about 100 pears each on them. One day they were hanging and looking pretty the next afternoon after we got home from work they were all gone. So I set a game camera up the next year in a tree close by and got pictures of a woman and her 5 kids who live on on a rented lot down the road from our farm. She home schools her kids so they are with her all the time. When we confronted her with the evidence she moved the next week...

Yep, one just can't trust them home-schooler's

Ravenlost · #26 07/15/10, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Our Little Farm

Protection from LGD who happily sits under the fruit trees waiting for any unsuspecting visitor led to temptation.

I agree!

Batt · #27 07/15/10, 06:00 PM

Hmmm, Well I had the game camera out last night, but no pictures except DW picking something up from the ground. Facing away from the camera, but I'm sure it was her.

One baby 'possum in one of the live traps. But then again there is nothing left to rob from that tree.

LGD??? Well Tucker(GP) is living with the bucks. They could probably do without a live-in guardian for a bit. Have to consider that.

Will try again tonight, the plums and pears are getting closer.

texican · #28 07/15/10, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Adron

Unlikely. They are a couple hundred yards from the road, and just the other side of the garden which is only about 20 ft. from the house.

I still have 1 tree of peaches from a later maturing variety plus 3 apple trees. We'll see.

That would be daylight robbery. That close, I think I would see them. However, it is time for some .22 target practice.

My thinking too, looking for confirmation. Coon recently wiped out about 20 young replacement hens. But I know for a fact it wasn't that one.

Sounds like you had a coon funeral. Have you told all the coons that came to the funeral to go home or else?

Coons, possums, crows, squirrels... the usual suspects.