Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
I've snipped off half the new growth on the "candles" (as they're called) on a dwarf pine at my home. It works to make pines more dense. At camp - too many to do that to.
For you guys who've done bulk plantings - do you use mechanized tree planters??
You don't think the grandkids did a good job?? Or the machine didn't do as it should have??My neighbor just planted about 5000 this way last spring. That is, with a tow behind planter and two grandkids on it.
I’m expecting a complete failure. But I’ve been dead wrong in the past.
You don't think the grandkids did a good job?? Or the machine didn't do as it should have??
Ouch. Cages / fencing and planted in stages?? I wonder why deer would just yank and spit. If they ate them it would at least seem to make sense. What'd you do to piss off your deer, Bill??No I think the deer will pull them all up. Every seedling I ever planted got pulled out of the ground and spit on the ground.
Those deer are fighting back. They've been shot, oppressed, and shot for too long... stickin it to the man.Ouch. Cages / fencing and planted in stages?? I wonder why deer would just yank and spit. If they ate them it would at least seem to make sense. What'd you do to piss off your deer, Bill??
If it was shortly after planting, before the roots were established, maybe they were just trying to eat them. They could just be trying to pull off a bite, but the seeding pulls out easier than breaking the stem.Ouch. Cages / fencing and planted in stages?? I wonder why deer would just yank and spit. If they ate them it would at least seem to make sense. What'd you do to piss off your deer, Bill??
If it was shortly after planting, before the roots were established, maybe they were just trying to eat them. They could just be trying to pull off a bite, but the seeding pulls out easier than breaking the stem.
The deer might have been going down the line muttering about all these trees are defective and don't bite like they should.
Here are some photos of the first trees I started caging in 2019. These white pines were the size of a pop bottle (ABP from Itasca) at the time of planting 38-39 months ago. Today they are about 6 feet tall, look healthy, and 100% of those planted that year have survived and not been disturbed by a deer yet. Getting great growth with cage, weed mat, mulch.
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Buck, what height x width cages do you use? Those 4 feet high by 36" wide? is my guess
Thanks Buck. I think I'll grab another 100' roll and cage my favorite 10 out of the several 100 Norway Spruce I planted. I do need to have a hard stop (time and money) at some point with my 2022 habitat improvements. I also need some end of summer bag mulch to mulch these spruce and some others up.Yes, I use 4' wire. I cut ten feet off the roll and make a cage and approximately 38" wide when its done.
My wife said at the end of last summer.: "You'll never be complete nor satisfied with the lofty goals you have for the property in your lifetime." I'm only 51 and in pretty good shape, but she might be correct.