Ok. So yesterday I put out 4 autos that had just opened up. Today I check on them and 2 are straight up gone. Are there animals that’ll do that, I guess? Did I just learn a lesson, lol? Do you guys give any special protection to seedlings, or even keep them inside? Are the remaining two safe?
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I would start plant indoors until they’re big enough. I’ve seen people put chicken wire around or over them.
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Bird is a good guess, if it were big enough to have a good rooting it would leave it alone.
Which answers the question when to put them out I guess. Indoors we don’t have to worry about this shit! Just cats.
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I had a cat eat a full auto lowryder, it was in pretty decent with a nice main cola, roots were left,. Lmao I was 16
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Anything I ever put outside I grew to 10-12" inside first. Then it’s got a chance. Seedlings are bird treats, especially early on…
Ps.mice, rats, chipmunks, groundhogs, birds all potential consumers, even deer will eat larger plants…
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Deer 
eat 24 plants over night one year
Indoors for me
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I’ll bet mice or chipmunks.
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Mice or voles will get ya quick.
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Rabbits can squeeze through very small openings. They do love fresh greens in their diet… I also have some moles that come around. Try putting chicken wire around the babies if you’re going to put them out that early. Before putting plants out, I usually try to veg for a month or two, that way the main stalk isn’t so green and tempting!
edit… Either that, or you can try using big pots and sit them out.
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Had this happen to me indoors. Definitely a mouse. Chewed through the top new growth of a full on teenage plant. Most recently had something eat up 2 of 11 germinated seeds 
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The first time i ever made seeds mice ate them all
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Shoot! That sucks. Ya I start mine inside now since a gang of squirrels ravaged my baby auto’s last summer… Little bastards! I usually put them out around the start of week 3.
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outside i have had problems with pheasants other birds, deer,rats and for some reason a dog
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Flagged??? did i do it again.?
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lol for some reason when i posted it copied it, i didnt flag you lol
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Slugs and pill bugs are possibilities.
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Whew. Theres two types of people in this world. People who like cilantro and people that dont.
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cant tell from the pic, if it were a deer it would be a uneven cut as they have like a overbite
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I’m up in a tall building so it’s gotta be a bird. No critters to speak of.
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