I heard that too, I thought hot, wet weather was worse for fireblight and the fungal diseases though?
I know he's been spraying with Mike's Mighty Micros, wonder if the accelerated growth would have made the trees more susceptible?
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I heard that too, I thought hot, wet weather was worse for fireblight and the fungal diseases though?
I know he's been spraying with Mike's Mighty Micros, wonder if the accelerated growth would have made the trees more susceptible?
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5 year old buck +
Little surprised this year with galarina. It has mild CAR on it's first leaf sets. Nothing bad though. I sprayed copper on all trees I thought needed it, so cant compare too well to suspectible varieties. Cedars do look pretty free of orange octopus things from CAR.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
I thought you folks up there in Minnesota were getting clobbered with storms lately? Weather Channel was showing thunderstorms on several days. Maybe they missed you?
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5 year old buck +
Been all rain here. Coworker ordered some trees with my order. 2 of his are doing ok, an enterprie on M111 isn't putting on much weight. He made a small mound for the 2 trees, but not for the enterprise.
Bugs been a bit easy this year. It might be me hitting them with malathion mid may. I was late putting the bug zapper up, but also had the bg zapper running into the begining of october. No Japanese Beetles yet. Did see real close to mature on while digging up a old apple tree I am replacing today. The forbidden fruit of cosmic crisp..... Got 2 I grafted this year to plant. IF I get time putting in violi's and a turning point, all on M111 in rootmaker pots.
Giving out my gift trees after july 4th weekend. Several folks getting turning point, violi's, roadkill, 30-06, and williams pride.
Bugs been a bit easy this year. It might be me hitting them with malathion mid may. I was late putting the bug zapper up, but also had the bg zapper running into the begining of october. No Japanese Beetles yet. Did see real close to mature on while digging up a old apple tree I am replacing today. The forbidden fruit of cosmic crisp..... Got 2 I grafted this year to plant. IF I get time putting in violi's and a turning point, all on M111 in rootmaker pots.
Giving out my gift trees after july 4th weekend. Several folks getting turning point, violi's, roadkill, 30-06, and williams pride.
bwoods11
5 year old buck +
Yes lots of rain here !
jsasker007
5 year old buck +
Been a good year for regular rains here so far this year. Still doing a bit of watering on first year trees I planted when we go for 4 days without rain. Only had to water twice to make sure those trees are getting watered weekly. Usually pretty dry from mid July to the end of August here. Usually.
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5 year old buck +
Next week is kind of a wierd week. Maybe 1/3-1/2" of rain this weekend and mediocre temp / cloudy days for most of the week. Trying to water less than I used to. Many days spending over a hour dragging the 300ft of 3/4" hose around. Got now about 8 1st years trees, 1/2 bareroot 1/2 grafted rootstock from me. Also got around a dozen pines n spruces 1st year too.
Removed 2 cosmic crisp and a violi's from r3 gal ootmaker pots into their permanent homes. Were pretty muddy in the middle, althoughtthe top of the pot would suggest it was ok watered......
Knocked over a mature older dying tree that hasn't produced in 3 years. Pushed it with the oldest kid's tractor bucket. Although plenty of rain, soil wasn't mushy to make even minor ruts. Tree was 14 inch or so in diameter, dug down 18 nches around it and cut most of the roots. Was rel easy to knock over ith a 30hp tractor that way. Took a small honda rootiller and loosened up what I could around the roots and planted today.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Sandbur said he's in a drought in post #105 - how far away from Bur are you gents? I'm aware rain can be hit & miss, location-wise. We just came out of a severe drought where we live, compared to our camp's location upstate, which has had plenty of rain.
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Mulch and no plant competition. That is a great battle tool for rain problems. Leave a sign at the end of the road for woodchips wanted. Contact the local power company and town highway dept. Look for rotten hay bales.
IF you do water, water slow. A bucket with a hole drilled into it. Even 5 or 10 gallon to a mature tree is welcomed by it.
Site prep the year before planting can be real helpful too. Dig deep as you can with what you have, try to loosen up what ou put back in with whatever material you have. Even sand in clay helps, some wood chips, of course manure or peat moss is great. I rototilled, then hand dug, Did that 3 times or about 2 feet deep, then hand dug the center taproot about another 2 feet. Give it a few months to settle in some, so you don't have a underground water bucket. Post hole diggers or backhoes are alot better than my cheap labor.
When the rain comes, the surface grass and weeds compete for the moisture. Kill that off if you can Even just mowing helps.
Read on a tree site that M111 is better for lighter soils. MAking me wonder if antonovka or dolgo might be a better rootstock to get roots deeper in heavy stuff. Got 2 antonovka's at home and they seem to be making a bigger tree, not sure if that means better or not. Not bothered by flooding, hard to say about drought though. Only droptine and kerr. And the droptine is being topworked to kerr.
IF you do water, water slow. A bucket with a hole drilled into it. Even 5 or 10 gallon to a mature tree is welcomed by it.
Site prep the year before planting can be real helpful too. Dig deep as you can with what you have, try to loosen up what ou put back in with whatever material you have. Even sand in clay helps, some wood chips, of course manure or peat moss is great. I rototilled, then hand dug, Did that 3 times or about 2 feet deep, then hand dug the center taproot about another 2 feet. Give it a few months to settle in some, so you don't have a underground water bucket. Post hole diggers or backhoes are alot better than my cheap labor.
When the rain comes, the surface grass and weeds compete for the moisture. Kill that off if you can Even just mowing helps.
Read on a tree site that M111 is better for lighter soils. MAking me wonder if antonovka or dolgo might be a better rootstock to get roots deeper in heavy stuff. Got 2 antonovka's at home and they seem to be making a bigger tree, not sure if that means better or not. Not bothered by flooding, hard to say about drought though. Only droptine and kerr. And the droptine is being topworked to kerr.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
We got almost an inch of rain. Ok for a bit and we had some minor rains the last week or so.
An area less than 100 miles away had 5 inches. Bwoods had high winds.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
MW22392
A good 3 year old buck
Wow that photo needs to be bluehills website photo, what a stud tree!
