Recent content by Hoytvectrix

I think the seed embryo expanding is what opens it up. The husk opens up and then a few days later the radicle starts to emerge.

This is pretty much exactly what I am doing as well. Essentially creating windrows of cover with hazelnut, elderberry, and American plum.

I started off tubing a bunch of hazelnuts because they were cheaper and easier to setup. Eventually, they need to be converted over to cages regardless of the form you want them to have. If you are planting named European cultivars, you can probably get away with a tube for a bit longer. This...

Do you have them in sphagnum moss or any other media that is moist? Also, any chance they are getting too cold? I would think that you should have had some starting to crack open by now.

I put my hazelnut seeds in media to cold stratify January 3 and do not have any cracking open yet. They should start anytime now. Some can take 3 months.

Yup, I think rabbits are the bigger culprit on our properties. I started putting them in chicken wire cages or hardware cloth and they have exploded.

I am just getting into quail habitat so I won't have a very helpful response. Are they mostly cool or warm-season grasses? That might help point in the direction of management. If the quail are already using it, it can't be too bad and could maybe just be improved. Maybe burning in the fall...

To me it seems like if it was that quick of a response for buck quality to decline, there would be more dramatic increases and decreases in buck quality even within small geographic areas that are managed differently (even accounting for fawn dispersal). This figure works for showing deer...

This is exactly my goal with an area I will be planting to pure alfalfa. I think this could be huge for late winter in my area. I am contemplating having our tenant who does the cutting, bailing, and hauling, just leave the bail in a protected area on the farm and I would cover it with a tarp...

I'll be curious to hear what others with more experience think, but my observations with persimmons is that they tend to be pretty tough plants. With that said, they also have a fairly prominent tap root, which might make them difficult to transplant without injuring. I take it most of these...

1. The SW WI area had parts that they did not allow hunting and the population declined. They did necropsy studies to confirm cause of death to confirm if it was CWD. 2. I think the culling is designed to slow the spread to other areas.

Yeah, that seems exceptionally high. I wonder where those numbers come from. I think you already know of this SwampCat, but here is the most recent paper from NW AR. This is in the Tier 1 area that was hardest hit. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12779150/ I actually lived a few...

Thanks for attending these meetings and taking the time to write this up.

I'm not so sure this is the case. Israel supposedly had evidence that Iran broke terms of the 2015 JCPOA deal, but when that evidence was turned over to IAEA inspectors and other members of the JCPOA, it turned out to be a nothingburger. Still, it was enough at the time to convince Trump to pull...

There were specific bets placed about Khamenei and Maduro related to their kill or capture, sometimes from the same account, within an hour or so of either happening. It was discussed in the article I linked. Some of these accounts have only bet on US military actions.