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    Love my seedling persimmons

    Have you grafted. If it’s been in the ground 3-5 years the. It’s got a pretty good root system. Top work it to a female. Not really that hard.
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    Love my seedling persimmons

    Those are male flowers looks like you have a boy there.
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    Rusty Nail

    Dang photos won’t attach. Try again later
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    Rusty Nail

    Collected Sawtooth oak from a Walmart parking lot (you know you’re a habitat guy if you…)refrigerated and grew summer of ‘21 planted in the Fall of ‘21
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    Rusty Nail

    Dolgo seedling grown from my own seed in ‘21. Grafted to Sweet 16 spring of 22 Trying it out in a wicking tub
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    Rusty Nail

    Liberty I planted in ‘20 Did my best to mess it up. I pulled down on one of the limbs and it made a 3” crack. Put electrical tape on it and kept in from moving too much. Pulled it off today. Perfect timing I can see the tree was starting to girdle. Nice repair Working on some limb angles...
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    Rusty Nail

    Haha. All but copperheads get a free pass My wife just does an about face. And she gone
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    Rusty Nail

    Sun bathing
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    Rusty Nail

    10 minutes away. That’s nice set up.
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    Rusty Nail

    Good to meet ya. I’ve been watching your thread since you joined. Nice looking place you have. Before we bought our place we looked at King William. I like that area
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    Rusty Nail

    Top worked this callery pear this year. Changed it over to a comice pear. Should make some sweet pears in a few years. Last year I stopped by the side of the road and threw a bunch of wild pears into a garbage bag. They were 2-3” hard pears similar to Dr Deer pear. (Recently I drove by where...
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    Rusty Nail

    Topworked a Red Delicious apple over this spring. RD in my area is a CAR nightmare. Changed it over to a Yates. I well known member on here says Yates is his favorite apple. Good enough for him good enough for me. Can’t wait to see how this guy produces. I see a tiny bit of CAR on the leaves...
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    Rusty Nail

    Planted this deer magnet persimmon 2 years ago. 3 persimmons on it this year. This tree is 20 yards from my brown from seed persimmon. Feels good having work and habitat work finally coming together.
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    Rusty Nail

    Collected persimmon seeds fall of 17. Grew from seed and planted 35-40 persimmons. I planted in late summer of 18. This tree was by far my best tree. 4th year in the ground and is over 8’. I checked today and we have girl. Earlier this spring I had scion in hand and was going to top work it...
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    Rusty Nail

    Pretty cool times. Just found out my daughter and SIL are going to have a baby girl in November. Mom and I have been waiting for this day. I think we are more excited then the kids.
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