Recent content by Lucky_P

Winter Banana is reputedly graft-compatible, long-term, with pear. You could grow a WB tree as framework and make a multi-graft tree with apples and pears on the same tree.

This is one I found in Tallapoosa Co. AL, back in 2010, on New Year's Day, still loaded with fruit, and plenty on the ground. Named it 'Walnut Hill' for the community where it was located. Several years back, I sent scions to a buddy in Eaton Rapids MI, to graft on his hunting property. He sent...

I dunno, other than it's a deer pathogen. We can isolate EHD virus from cattle blood, pretty easily, at peak infection times, and after a big Epizootic most cattle will have antibodies to EHD virus, but we rarely see more than a sporadic individual cow affected, and a good percentage of them...

SCWDS has been tracking EHD since back in the late 1950s. It seems to run on a 9-yr cycle, with a 4- yr cycle superimposed on it. As a veterinarian, I remember major epizootics in 1988 or 89 and in 2007 & 2012, when we saw sporadic cases of clinical EHD in the cattle population...in an 'on'...

Gallon bag of acorns has been running about 6 pounds. I usually ship via most economical route... for small amounts, under, say 15pounds, USPS is usually cheapest. Have sent several 35# boxes recently that were cheaper to send via UPS.

Decent mast year here this year. I have shipped over 100 lbs of acorns to the nurserymen who usually contract for my low-tannin acorns, but will still have quite a bit left, if someone is looking for bulk quantities. 'McDaniel' burXEnglish hybrid, from grafted trees in my collection (see pic of...

I'm not aware of any pears that are fireblight 'immune'. Some cultivars, like Kieffer and other 'sand-pear hybrids', are 'fireblight tolerant'. Keiffer is a SURVIVOR in the hot, humid, Deep South, where I grew up. If you see an OLD pear at a farmstead or rural country home anywhere from south...

I'm not buying that Tree Age Calculator, or its multiplier numbers. Not even a close estimator, in my experience. First two bur oaks planted here (Christian Co., KY), were brought from mid-Missouri as 1-yr seedlings I started in a seedling bed, lifted, and imprisoned in a 44-oz cup for a year...

Been a while since I've been here. Got into knapping a bit when we lived in MO, 30 years ago. Went to a few knap-ins around the state. If you can find them, D.C. Waldorf's books 'Story In Stone' and 'The Art of Flintknapping' are really nice to have, and the drawings done by David's wife...

I have 'volunteer' mulberry seedlings every year in various flower beds around the house. Somebody, on this board, posted a good tip several years ago... place a wire cage, just like you would to protect trees from buck rub/browsing on a spot of bare dirt, and you're almost assured to have a...

Almost every 'government' program I ever enrolled in cost me more than it paid... I usually had to go back and re-do things correctly 'on my own dime'. Only bright spot was a 10-yr 100-ft wide CRP riparian bufferstrip deal back in 2000; almost a mile long, 7 acres total. At the time, we were a...

I have more 'volunteer' callery seedlings than I could ever get grafted, much less dug and transplanted, but if I need a pear somewhere, I've got something that will suffice, at any time. Granted, I mostly only graft onto established rootstocks, and not ones that I've just procured and planted...

There's a 'Bad Taxidermy' Facebook group that I follow, where folks display 'amazing/interesting', and yes, BAD taxidermy. This one showed up in the feed yesterday, seen in a bar in Wisconsin. Surely, everyone on here is familiar with it, but if not, here ya go.

I was gonna suggest a Herd. Bought one of those POS Moultries many years ago. Maybe they're OK for foodplotters who don't care how much extra seed they put out, but for a cattle farmer, the inability to ever get it 'calibrated' to put out the correct amount of $8/lb clover seed made it a...

We have one... better for us than an ATV... but for utility purposes, the little 4WD RHD Japanese minitruck (ours was a Mitsubishi) we used to have was a whole lot better.