Recent content by Knehrke

I reached out yesterday about my order, since we're going to get into the 70s next week, and an hour later got my shipping confirmation. I suspect it was coincidence and appreciate everything Terry does for us.

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We have forty acres or so or Tamarack extending to a creek bottom that's littered with Ash. While the Ash will grow among the Tamarack, apparently the wet areas that are 90% Ash aren't compatible environs for Tamarack. As many have stated, the downed trees make travel difficult. On the up side...

I bought a couple of the Browning Defender Pro Scout Max (that's a mouthful!!) this Spring when they were on sale for $80. Their main selling point is that they transmit "all HD all the time". My initial thoughts after running them through turkey season - first, they have average detection...

I planted persimmons from Twisted Tree five years ago and they're doing fine in Western NY. No fruit yet, but good looking trees.

I hate tubes, but as with most things there's an exception, and that's oak. My oaks, grown from seed and from bare root, have done exceptionally well in tubes. I think it may be due to their growing more slowly than other types of trees I've planted - and like Troubles said, they grow taller...

From the perspective of a certified gene jockey (albeit who doesn't work on plants), conventional transgenesis is risky. Gene insertion can occur randomly, and even though most of the genome was historically considered to be "filler", it turns out that there are a wide variety of non-coding RNAs...

Interesting take on Franklin Cider. I was one of the first to take advantage of commercial availability. The trees look great and started producing last year (7 yrs in the ground on B118). And the fruit is still on the trees as of March 7th! I'm not sure whether this is "normal" but so far it's...

lolololol. I can make stuff look however I want if I mess around with the scale bar in different parts of the plot. Try plotting it on a standard log linear scale and see what it looks like then. Hysterical - not to be dismissive, but this is the sort of thing that turns my crank. I review LOTS...

This is likely going to be the warmest winter on record for Western New York...three days to go, but with temperatures forecast to be 20 degrees above normal, I think it's a lock. Last year was also in the top ten. Interestingly, there wasn't much snow either year, and you'd expect that the lack...

I love cages, but as I've said many times, I think tubes are the devil's work. My mortality rate for pampered, seed-grown, carefully-transplanted-from-Rootmaker 3 gallon pots trees is stupid high. This includes many different types of trees and even shrubs. As one of the members on here knows, I...

I always Technu myself and scrub with abrasive cloth, which works even with Dawn detergent, but somehow in August I got a big patch right behind my knee. No clue, since I was wearing brush pants and they're not contaminated. Anyway, it made for an interesting flyfishing trip to Wyoming.

We have tons of small sprouts on the ground throughout the growing season, but the vines in trees can be the size of your wrist. When we first purchased the property, I used Tordon on cut vines and ended up killing some of the trees they were on. Now I use 41% glyphos, the concentrated solution...

I put in a bunch of them, and they do well enough in NY too, if the deer leave them alone. A buddy of mine recommended caging a small area that has eight or ten trees in it using two lengths of 50 lb fishing line on metal stakes- it worked so that the Copper Chinquapin were out of browse height...

I was fishing Buzzard's Bay on the Cape last weekend, and yes, in 35 mph sustained winds lol, and on the way back ran into the smoke starting in Albany. I had no clue what was going on, as we'd been incommunicado for five days. It got worse as we approached Syracuse then better toward Rochester...