Recent content by Needmorebrush82

I use one gallon root pouch bags and just plant whole thing in the ground. Roots grow through them with ease and in a few years the bag is gone.

I have pears being hit hard that I have never seen hit before with Blight. It's around my place every year but never anything to worry about since I only plant pears with high resistance. I have several wild pears that have always made loads of fruit get hit and they are 20 foot plus so they...

The voles are attacking my sawtooth like no other. baseball bat sized trees just falling over.

I trim roots on bare root seedlings if they don't fit in the hole properly. Yes it takes time but why take the time to plant them if you're not going to do it right. I see a lot of guys forcing them in the hole only to have disappointment follow in the years to come. I have never seen any ill...

You did great from what I can see. On the big box trees from places like tractor supply I always try to pay attention to where the actual soil line is on the tree and not where the soil is in the pot at the time of planting. Most of those trees are blown over daily and tend to lose soil leaving...

Jack I think folks are misreading what I said. I don't seal my miracle tubes off by burying the ends. I just let them rest against the ground and let the rolled edge provide the seal. If I seal them the tree is gone because the mice will eat it. I by no means have a tube floating inches off of...

I'm in zone 7a Central Oklahoma and the tubes are just about the only way to keep a tree alive and get good growth. Some years like the last 100 was rare, sometimes it's months straight of 100+ with no rain. I have a 300 gallon tank I water new trees with once a week. No sense in planting it if...

When I mentioned draft I am not lifting the tube up by any means. I am simply letting the miracle tube rest on the ground and not burying it like you would on other tubes. I find the rolled edge at the bottom forms enough of a barrier to hold a lot of the moisture which is vital yet just enough...

If I seal mine off at the ground that tree is a goner!

And that is why most of us put the solid part of the tube at the ground. Drive by and spray roundup around the tube in a hurry without nuking your tree. The miracle tubes you are using has really cut down on the rodent issue for me being that they just sit on the surface and you don't bury them...

After planting 1000's of trees I will just tell you this. Protection is expensive but so is your time and effort after you baby them along and have to replant when they get destroyed. If you are using a dibble bar 300 trees is a task you can accomplish in a day. If you are tubing and planting...

I think a lot of depends on if you are planting bare root trees, root pruned trees, fertilized, watered, soil, etc. In poorer soil areas my root pruned trees have flat out left the bare root trees in the dust with all things equal. I believe it's mainly due to a root pruned tree having the...

This source has a link up saying their plants are already waking up so they have stopped shipping. Does this sound right to anyone?

I can run one as long as I want knowing the longer I do it, the worse tomorrow will be lol. Usually after a few tanks I start to mellow out so that tomorrow is a functional day and not just an ouch that hurts type of event.

I am all for the fact they break off and the storms around here will destroy them. Saves me time not having to hinge cut to keep the browse down low! This is an area for the deer so the thicker and nastier I can make it with added food is all the better.