Recent content by BuckSutherland

Broadcom (AVGO) hitting $350 premarket.....

A real good week for a few stocks that I own so far. I accumulated 50 shares of Google during the tariff scare in March and April. Average price of 166. Today it closed at $232.xx. My advisor for my SEP IRA bought me 50 shares of Broadcom at $169 about 14 months ago. They had earnings...

I turned 45 yesterday. Every time I plant something I wonder if I will be around to see it make anything. I'm already planting stuff and its not for me. Its for those that will come after me. I hope to keep planting until they plant me.

I dont have much good to say about oak plugs. The first oaks I planted were SWO from Itasca. Those plugs were not great. The bareroot SWO that I have bought seem to be much better. Oaks have that big tap root and I think the plug containers mess that up. Then again it could be cause my...

Burr oak gamble from Idaho have failed in my woods. I am giving up on them. Plugs for oaks are worthless to me. I have had oak plugs from Itasca greenhouse and they have sucked too. Bare roots have been much better. I direct seeded some white oak a couple days ago. Hopefully those work.

A good chunk of my dogwoods have made it. Growing good. A couple in wide open spaces look to be on steriods. If you are looking for a hearty alternative shrub I planted some flame willow. They seem awful tough and are gonna be awful big in about 3 years the way mine look. In their second...

I LOVE to trade with the slimy politicians. Nancy Pelosi, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Marjorie Taylor Greene really know how to pick em. I like to follow Quiver Quantitative and Unusual Whales on Twitter.

Sofi is finally getting its shit together. I've owned Sofi going all the way back to 2021, when it was IPOE and came to the market as a SPAC. Been bag holding it for a long time. I averaged down a few times and got my cost down to $15.50/share. My last buy was right after the election last...

Balsam fir are dying at an alarming rate all across northern MN. Not sure about anywhere else. The big fires we had up in northern MN (St Louis county) this year were primarily fueled by large stands of freshly dead balsam. They are a great tree when they are alive. I have a few dozen left...

Burr oak acorns are going to be cleaned up fast. Beaked hazel is all gone, raspberries are all gone, choke cherry crop wasnt great, blue berry and black berry crop wasnt great. Bear season is still 1 week away and last for an additional 6 weeks. Should be very easy to draw in a nice bear if...

Hate to break it to you captain obvious, but wind didn't break your branches off, the critters did. Squirrels, mice, chipmunks, turkeys, coons, bears, birds, etc. are probably all eating the ripe acorns right out of the tree before they hit the ground. Did you bother to put a camera on a...

I saw some Bebbs oaks at the MN landscape arboretum today. One had a nice crop of acorns coming.

I stopped at the MN landscape arboretum today in Chaska, MN. About 15-20 miles SW of downtown Minneapolis. I went there cause I was looking for some white oak acorns. I wanna direct seed a couple on my land in northern MN. The crop that these trees are carrying was nothing short of...

Possibly eastern spruce budworm or balsam woolly adelgid. Either way its not good. I had a couple really good looking balsams that have suffered very swift deaths in the last 18-24 months. 30-40 foot tall trees that got sickly and within about 90-120 days they were dead and on the ground...

Deer would destroy any WP that's not caged. Norway and black hills spruce get browsed when they are young. As they age they leave them alone. White spruce and meyer spruce don't get touched by the deer. I do have a little native balsam fir (only a few dozen). Pretty much the only conifers...