Recent content by Hoytvectrix

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?

Are you growing them for consumption or for wildlife? If for consumption, did you order any cultivars in particular?

You may not need to plant anything depending on the seeds in your soil. I have been surprised how quickly NWSG and other native forbs move in once you start getting rid of the cool-season grasses. I have been planting mixes and just seeing what comes up from the soil, but really only...

I've very briefly thought about selling chestnut, hazelnut, and persimmon seedlings that I grow out each winter/spring/summer under grow lights. I also grow many of these same seedlings outdoors in air-pruning boxes and gravel beds that I could sell as bare-root seedlings in the fall. I end up...

I'm kind of curious about the logistics of moving the 50 or so live wild animals. I am assuming this is for another ranch in Mexico because I would think the permitting would be brutal to bring them back into the states. Thanks Baker! This was certainly interesting. The whole video I kept...

That's incredible you had some seedlings producing in their third year. I believe Prok is actually an American. I bought several Prok and Prok x Szukis seeds this past fall that are all germinating right now. I'm excited to see how they do compared to the other Americans I have planted.

I would definitely ID the willows first. Depending on your state, there might be a page or two from your DNR about the aggressiveness of the particular species of willow you are seeing and/or the one you would want to propagate. At least in MO, there are instructions on how to propagate sandbar...

I have been plugging sandbar willow cuttings in several places on two of our properties. They are exceptional for low maintenance and low cost cover creation. They don't tend to get above 15-20 feet tall and it is almost impossible to find a clump without a buck rub in them. I also think they...

I've been buying some of the named persimmons out there (none of which are producing yet), but my main strategy is just planting bare root American persimmons. They are cheap and grow pretty quickly. Some of my bare root seedlings were out of five foot tree tubes and flowering in 4 years. They...