Big Rock Hybrid Poplar

[mnbirddog]

Those with experience planting hybrid poplar and 3' weed mat. If you are in an area of high density, have you had to protect your cuttings year one? I'm a little worried the deer will either nip the cutting off or eat every leaf as it pops and kill them. If I do have to protect them, I'd like to use maybe 4' tubes (hopefully they can get up past the deer once they get to 4') but I want removeable ones since they should only need one year. What kind of removeable/re-useable tubes do you like?

 

[Tree Spud]

The issue of browse becomes a real problem in winter. If they are nervous steeping on the weed barrier in warm months, no issues when there is snow on the ground.

Once you remove the tree tube, they are nice and flexible for rubbing.

 

[noodle]

The deer don’t seem to eat my poplar but they love rubbing on them but it dousnt seem to hurt them. I have lost more to overgrown weeds than anything else

 

[Bill]

My deer dance on weed barrier for fun and eat hybrid poplar shoots. I used 4 foot tubes and the started munching them as soon as they poked out. Eventually they did out grow being eaten.

Then like noodle said. They will rub them.

 

[Spiider]

I used Deer Stopper Concentrate from Amazon the 1st year, spraying them every other month until gun season in November. Then I stopped all together. Some got rubbed heavily but they were already growing tall and survived. Love my hybrid poplars! Planted in spring of 2014.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

I used Deer Stopper Concentrate from Amazon the 1st year, spraying them every other month until gun season in November. Then I stopped all together. Some got rubbed heavily but they were already growing tall and survived. Love my hybrid poplars! Planted in spring of 2014.

Bringing this back to life! Are those trees from cuttings or bare root?

 

[Bill]

Bringing this back to life! Are those trees from cuttings or bare root?

Cuttings. Hybrid poplars grow pretty darned fast. Just know they seem to loose their leafs early in the fall and they don't live forever. once they get going you can cut them to the ground and take your own cuttings. The regrowth will be multi trunk and you can keep repeating the process.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Cuttings. Hybrid poplars grow pretty darned fast. Just know they seem to loose their leafs early in the fall and they don't live forever. once they get going you can cut them to the ground and take your own cuttings. The regrowth will be multi trunk and you can keep repeating the process.

Only ask because my local county sale only offers premium bare root. I can get cuttings really cheap from Iowa dnr. Thanks for clarifying. Would like it for a temporary screen on evergreens and switch while they get established and then cut down.


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[Bill]

Only ask because my local county sale only offers premium bare root. I can get cuttings really cheap from Iowa dnr. Thanks for clarifying. Would like it for a temporary screen on evergreens and switch while they get established and then cut down.


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Pick a hybrid willow for that. IME they grow just as fast and if you cut them off at ground level they will really send up multiple new leaders and be bushier. Same warning though, they loose leafs early and can die off at 20 years old. American Sycamore (also grows from cuttings) is similar once cut down to the ground but are not hybrids so they will live 100 plus years and hold leafs longer.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

Pick a hybrid willow for that. IME they grow just as fast and if you cut them off at ground level they will really send up multiple new leaders and be bushier. Same warning though, they loose leafs early and can die off at 20 years old. American Sycamore (also grows from cuttings) is similar once cut down to the ground but are not hybrids so they will live 100 plus years and hold leafs longer.

Bill, will those grow up huge? My dad planted all kinds of various trees from the NRCS growing up on our family place. He put these 5 or 6 willows between us and the neighbors. They grew to 5 feet around in 20 years and dropped so many limbs it was unreal. They crowded barns on both sides of properties, we couldn’t maintain them without calling in a tree service to drop them in the end. They were MASSIVE.


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[Bill]

Bill, will those grow up huge? My dad planted all kinds of various trees from the NRCS growing up on our family place. He put these 5 or 6 willows between us and the neighbors. They grew to 5 feet around in 20 years and dropped so many limbs it was unreal. They crowded barns on both sides of properties, we couldn’t maintain them without calling in a tree service to drop them in the end. They were MASSIVE.


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No not massive like that. But like all willows they can be messy.

 

[bigboreblr]

I grew poplar. 100 uncaged. 2 barely grew. Deer loved them all.

Did put a spare or two in the tree nursery. Rototilled and watered they made 8-10ft in 2 years. Just plain poplar from the state nursery

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

I grew poplar. 100 uncaged. 2 barely grew. Deer loved them all.

Did put a spare or two in the tree nursery. Rototilled and watered they made 8-10ft in 2 years. Just plain poplar from the state nursery

Oh no! Was the destruction immediate?