2016 success

[ncstewart]

Just curious what everyone was able to grow this year. Wanting to see some pics and success stories to keep me motivated!
I had a rough first year but have learned a lot and managed to get 22 chestnut/chinquapin as well as 22 sawtooths.
44 total for me.
What y'all got???


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[Btaylor]

Just have 6 chestnuts at the house. First attempt from seed and did a poor job obviously to only get six out of the generous amount of seed I got from WP over in TN. But I do have the 6 that seem to be doing ok. Planning to get them planted this winter.

 

[ncstewart]

Badger. Thanks I'll check it out.
Btaylor. I feel our pain. I started with like 110 seeds and got 22 is all.


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[bueller]

I planted a bunch of white pine and black hills spruce. Success rate looks pretty high right now because of timely rains.

 

[BradB]

Last year I got 30 Sawtooths and 20 Dwarf Chinkapin Oaks in the ground. The Sawtooths I got are late bearing trees from a guy on the QDMA site.I grew them and the DCO's from nuts I planted and grew at the house. The previous year I planted 4 Pears, 5 Sequins, 5 Sawtooths and 12 AU Chesnuts to go with the 12 I already had.

The tree tubes are Chestnuts which then transition to Sawtooths between my two 3 ac summer plot fields.

This is looking opposite the last pic showing Sawtooths on left and Chestnuts on right.

Happy Sawtooth

Happy DCO

I really like the work ethic of this Sequin. Lots of burs for a young tree.

My most recently planted Pears are the tubed trees.

 

[ncstewart]

BradB. That looks sweet. I'm ready for mine to look that good.


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[BradB]

The main reason I have happy trees is because the last two years have been good rain years, which is critical because I cannot water them. I cannot coddle my trees so its kinda be strong and live or get replaced by something that will.

 

[Merle Hawggard]

I've got around 30 chestnuts growing in pots. They're mostly American though we had lots we got from wbp on the defunct forum.

 

[Weasel]

Fellow Ohio plotter & friend grew these chestnuts from seeds from trees on his farm. He had two Dunstans & three Chinese left over. Of course I could find room!

Looking healthy a few weeks later.

Also put in 10 crabapples.

All looking very healthy...and a bonus wild pin oak I found in the goldenrod in the foreground (left)

 

[T-Max]

Early this spring I planted 25 Norway Spruce for a road screen at our new house. Plantes 5 Chinkapin Oak for yard trees and 6 Chinese Chestnut in a mini orchard. My mom gave me a Maple to plant ( :rolleyes: ) and she has a Black Walnut on the way. Everything except one spruce seems to be thriving. I have just now started to have to haul water. Things are getting dry around here...

 

[Weasel]

Switched from planting many, small, unprotected trees to less, larger trees and spending the extra time & money protecting them properly.

 

[chickenlittle]

I was trying to cut back this year. Just fruit trees and chestnuts. Not nearly as much work as last year but more than I have time for.

I had lousy success starting chestnuts indoors. Good success direct seeding them in late April. I gave away most all of the survivors from indoor starting. I posted a few photos here http://www.habitat-talk.com/index.p...ful-direct-seeded-chestnuts.5438/#post-108582

I bought 1 crabapple and 1 sour cherry for my orchard. About 125 apple rootstock for grafting. A third went into my orchard and rest into a nursery. Quite a few will be T budded in a few weeks. Plus 3 pear rootstocks. About 30 apple seedlings in the nursery for evaluation. Apple photos are in my Project W thread. http://www.habitat-talk.com/index.php?threads/project-w-columnar-apple-shot-plot.3681/

A couple corn and beans plots, one with electric fence.

I hope to do less next year. Apple maintenance and field grafting. Plant some out from nursery. Add some spruce for thermal cover. Always a struggle to not try to do everything now.

 

[Weasel]

What varieties of crabs did you plant weasel?

Dolgos & Selkirks

 

[Weasel]

Also planted a half dozen each of 4'+ white oaks, sawtooth oaks & bur oaks.

 

[Weasel]

Selkirks are very hardy and are both great pollenizers & heavy fruiting. Lawyer Nursery had a 10 pack of 4'+ trees. It cost me about $10 a tree to my door.

 

[Weasel]

I was told fruit size can vary slightly from tree to tree but this is supposedly an average specimen.

 

[scott44]

Started a orchard



Finally have some trees coming out of the tubes.

Hazelnut



SWO

 

[Weasel]

Looks great Scott!