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Tall stand of grass?
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Bill
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It sure looks like miscanthus that maybe got a hard killing frost before the seed head formed fully.
A stand like would surely be for biofuel and should have been harvested over the winter after the blades fell off.
Though there is still time to harvest.
If you get near it again look at the bottom of some of the stems for a rhizome.
Like this one. It will be brown and dead but if it's miscanthus 85% of them should have it.
A stand like would surely be for biofuel and should have been harvested over the winter after the blades fell off.
Though there is still time to harvest.
If you get near it again look at the bottom of some of the stems for a rhizome.
Like this one. It will be brown and dead but if it's miscanthus 85% of them should have it.
Made it back by the field today and grabbed a couple of pics. They weren't totally obvious, but I think these are the rhizomes you spoke of.
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Bill
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Also based on the size of the growth from each bunch I'd say it's a two year old stand.
That would explain why it wasn't harvested and why it wasn't 12 foot tall.
It should really take off this summer. In 2 or 3 more years nothing could walk through it.
I so want a field like this planted a bit more spaced out. 1 plant every 8 or 10 feet would have to be a deer magnet. Especially if there were clover in between.
That would explain why it wasn't harvested and why it wasn't 12 foot tall.
It should really take off this summer. In 2 or 3 more years nothing could walk through it.
I so want a field like this planted a bit more spaced out. 1 plant every 8 or 10 feet would have to be a deer magnet. Especially if there were clover in between.
Will do..... Will be watching things progress each time I pass by there. Will post with updated pics.
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I'm very much interested in this for use as a screen/barrier down the road.
How does one plant this stuff?
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Bill
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It's planted via rhizomes and by live stake cuttings. The seed heads are sterile as it was developed for biofuel with making it non invasive an important characteristic. lickcreek introduced me to it about 8 years ago and I've been playing with ever since. I'm up to about 1000 plants so far.
Lots of info here. http://habitat-talk.com/index.php?threads/miscanthus-giaganteus-propagation-from-cuttings.480/
Is it a hand/manual or machine process?
By the size of the field I saw I highly doubt they hand planted everything. And there's another just down the road about a mile at least as big.
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Bill
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No for biofuel they use modified tree planters, modified vegetable planter etc. some company's are starting to,build specialized planters.
On the first page of my last link there's info on how I planted 1000 in two rows pretty quickly. Used a modified 3 point sub soiler to dig a trench. Walk down dropping rhizomes, rake the dirt back and pack with a 4 wheeler.
I like it, but cant afford one I'm sure!
I do like the approach, however, of creating a continuous trench, dropping them in and covering them up. Should be simple to incorporate with the toolbar I made which has my 2-row planter units on it currently. Will check out what you did.
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