Recent content by Hoytvectrix

The Land Grant University in your area likely has some cultivar or performance trials. I was able to find some from Mizzou for our farms near there. Here is what I would search: "alfalfa cultivar performance trial YOUR STATE". Adding "edu" or "extension" to the search string should help...

Yes, they are exceptionally easy to fly these days with POV live streamed to your smart phone. You can even map out a route ahead of time if you really wanted to. With my cheaper one, I can still get about 6-800 yards range as long as it is line of sight. The part that is a little more tricky is...

Absolutely! I have it with me every time I head down. I'll check in with you each time I'll be heading down. It's not a bad idea to get footage with leaves on and off.

I bought one and used it a bunch initially. I get it out about 4 times per year now to do habitat updates and also get some scenic shots of the properties. If that is all you are going to do, I wouldn't spend more than a couple hundred. However much you think you'll use it, cut that in half.

This is a pretty good video on harvesting rootstocks. I'm just getting into grafting and i have debated saving some of my rootstocks for the purpose of propagating more.

Anytime between now and when leaves begin to emerge. I have even had luck with shaded ROD cuttings a week or two after those in full sun in the same area have begun leafing out. That said, I think it is a little early for most of the Midwest unless you are keeping them potted in a controlled...

I've only found sheds in places I can't hunt 😂

I would be super excited about that dear for next year. Kickers and heavy mass are great signs. I bet you wish you found the right side first. I wonder what buck broke him off? In my somewhat limited experience, the bucks who break a bunch of points or a whole side early will tend to always do...

I am also super new to grafting. Is there any danger of the removing the only viable branches on the tree of shutting down sap flow in the spring that would be used to get your grafts going? It sounds like yours worked, but I feel like I remember reading somewhere that this can be a risk?

By tree species: Chestnut: Red Feather, Feralwood, Stehli Elite, Empire Elite, Ozark Chinquapin, OZC X Crenata, Gideon, Qing, AU Homestead, Silverleaf, Colossal Hazelnut: McDonald, Yamhill, Jefferson, and some wilds from UMN and MN. Persimmon: Prok X Szukis, Full Draw, Elmo, and Deer...

Let me know if you'd like some hazelnut seed. I have plenty extra open air pollinated hybrid seed leftover.

If only we had a populist president that is a wealthy outsider get elected and "drain the swamp". Wait, someone like this was elected President and got elected by campaigning on draining the swamp? Not once, but twice?! Surely they would at least take down some of the people involved. DOJ...

What's to the right of the map? Can you get in and get out along the nwsg on the right side of this map? That might be your only option and it would be in the northeast (?) corner of the map, assuming it is mostly westerly winds. Like Bill said, hunting bottoms is a fools errand. I especially...

I have "Kieffer" pears from several sources and a few of them have very different forms, leaves, and bloom timings. I'm assuming the "Kieffers" I bought from some big box stores were mislabeled. I would order some scion wood from somewhere reputable and graft them onto the more mature tree...

That is very impressive growth, what is your seed source?