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I’ll be curious to see if you like the cluster vs. small rhizome as time goes on. Planting a rhizome seems easier but if the cluster gets you there faster? I cut and planted my own clusters last spring and they didn’t perform much better than a rhizome. BUT it was a drought year so I’m making any judgement based on that experiment.
I’ll be curious to see if you like the cluster vs. small rhizome as time goes on. Planting a rhizome seems easier but if the cluster gets you there faster? I cut and planted my own clusters last spring and they didn’t perform much better than a rhizome. BUT it was a drought year so I’m making any judgement based on that experiment.
First comparison of rhizomes vs clusters, clusters have taken off better but are they worth the price? I sprayed this last fall but nothing this year so I guess they are on their own.
I will have to post a pic but my test of a dozen or so rhizomes (almost all) made it through a NW Wisconsin USDA 4b, -38 degree winter with about a foot (plus) of snow on top of them. I will order more in the future if they grow as much as others have shown this year.
Out of curiosity has anyone planted screens of MG within a CRP contract (with the approval of the NRCS)? I’ve got a mile of road screen I am planning to do but only 3 years left on the CRP contract and haven’t broached the conversation with them. If I re enroll (should funds be available) I can hold out enough to do the screen. It only amounts to about 2-3 acres when doing the math. Just curious if anyone else has had that discussion. I assume it’s a no since it’s not a native plant.
Out of curiosity has anyone planted screens of MG within a CRP contract (with the approval of the NRCS)? I’ve got a mile of road screen I am planning to do but only 3 years left on the CRP contract and haven’t broached the conversation with them. If I re enroll (should funds be available) I can hold out enough to do the screen. It only amounts to about 2-3 acres when doing the math. Just curious if anyone else has had that discussion. I assume it’s a no since it’s not a native plant.
I doubt it. I wouldn’t tell them it’s not native. Try it’s an experiment to see if a biofuel grass will grow. Or maybe you want to shade out your fence rows so the trees can’t grow up in them
I doubt it. I wouldn’t tell them it’s not native. Try it’s an experiment to see if a biofuel grass will grow. Or maybe you want to shade out your fence rows so the trees can’t grow up in them
Out of curiosity has anyone planted screens of MG within a CRP contract (with the approval of the NRCS)? I’ve got a mile of road screen I am planning to do but only 3 years left on the CRP contract and haven’t broached the conversation with them. If I re enroll (should funds be available) I can hold out enough to do the screen. It only amounts to about 2-3 acres when doing the math. Just curious if anyone else has had that discussion. I assume it’s a no since it’s not a native plant.
I would think most people looking at it would think it is phragmites when seeing it, with only three years left on the contract it probably wont even head up by then.
I would think most people looking at it would think it is phragmites when seeing it, with only three years left on the contract it probably wont even head up by then.
Year two... some of the plants have multiple stalks already so they most definitely can survive and spread up here in NW Wisconsin. This convinced me that a future order will happen and that I will also try some cuttings.
My experience with cuttings was positive last year, but the only miscanthus that re-emerged this year was from rhizomes- none of last year’s cuttings, which made it to 10-15” in 2018, came back. I’m blaming the polar vortex. My rhizome started plants were very slow to come back, which I based on the wet, cool spring. I also had trouble eliminating the competition this spring , as I hardly had a dry day to spray during the dormant period.
My experience with cuttings was positive last year, but the only miscanthus that re-emerged this year was from rhizomes- none of last year’s cuttings, which made it to 10-15” in 2018, came back. I’m blaming the polar vortex. My rhizome started plants were very slow to come back, which I based on the wet, cool spring. I also had trouble eliminating the competition this spring , as I hardly had a dry day to spray during the dormant period.
That first link is interesting. We’ve been growing singles but never tried two nodes. I did once bend a stalk over and bury it but I left it attached to the mother plant. That did not work.