Concordia Oaks and Swamp / Bur Hybrids

[bwoods11]

The bur gambel oaks didn’t work for me in Minnesota. I’d consider trying them in Iowa/Missouri?

They are nice plugs, & I’ve bought bur oaks from them … with success. Their best tree is the common wild apple in my opinion.

 

[T-Max]

I snagged 10 Concordia from MDC this morning. I'll plant less and try to baby these ones. As soon as the Idaho site opens I want to try the Bur-Gamble and Bur-English crosses.

 

[Wind Gypsy]

The swamp burr oaks from Kelly’s planted as little bare roots in 2023 are doing awesome. Very high success rate for me with weed mats and 5’ tubes. Only failures I can think of are the ones that had tubes/stakes broken by deer or bears and got eaten to the ground.

 

[BuckSutherland]

The bur gambel oaks didn’t work for me in Minnesota. I’d consider trying them in Iowa/Missouri?

They are nice plugs, & I’ve bought bur oaks from them … with success. Their best tree is the common wild apple in my opinion.

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.

 

[bwoods11]

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.

Not the best luck with oak plugs ? Hmm, I’ve never had that issue (except the Bur Gambel).

I have not ordered from Itasca for many years, but I used to like their plugs …

 

[b116757]

So would you buy from Idaho again?

I would I don’t think there was anything wrong with their product and I wouldn’t mind trying their wild apples but I’m more in a maintenance mode now replacing trees that have died and focusing more on pears because they seem to be less maintenance in my area.

 

[Angus 1895]

I can’t get through to the Idaho seedlings store.

Tried calling and e mail.

 

[b116757]

Pitkin Website seems to be up and running

 

[b116757]

I might be on the wrong thread idk I checked my bur-gambles had about 24 lining driveway several got replaced last year and about 7 dead just now when I checked I’d say I have maybe 25% of the original 24 bur-gamble plugs still alive. The dead ones will be replaced with Concordia in the spring. These trees receive nothing from me no water of any sort or even fertilizer.

 

[BuckSutherland]

Not the best luck with oak plugs ? Hmm, I’ve never had that issue (except the Bur Gambel).

I have not ordered from Itasca for many years, but I used to like their plugs …

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 land is heavy clay underneath the 2-8" of topsoil. No more oak plugs for me.

 

[Angus 1895]

Pitkin Website seems to be up and running

They aren’t talking to me.

 

[b116757]

I wonder on those plug seedlings if planting them in a 1 gallon air pruning pot for a year would help or tearing the plug open before planting would be the way to go checking that the main tap root hasn’t j rooted itself?

 

[T-Max]

I wonder on those plug seedlings if planting them in a 1 gallon air pruning pot for a year would help or tearing the plug open before planting would be the way to go checking that the main tap root hasn’t j rooted itself?

That’s what I plan to do. Check the root that is.


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[Angus 1895]

Next year I’m digging a trench to put the 3 gallon pots below ground level.
I think temperature damage to roots in pots is real.

 

[Teeder]

Next year I’m digging a trench to put the 3 gallon pots below ground level.
I think temperature damage to roots in pots is real.

This is the first year I've used rootmakers and with intention to over-winter them. How to go about that was going to be a thread topic i planned to make.

 

[b116757]

I had a couple trees in 1 gallon RM pots last winter outside zone 6b they survived ok these where a Himalayan Evergreen of some sort I dug a start from last fall.

 

[Angus 1895]

The Idaho seedlings store got back to me.

I canceled the oak tree orders and instead bought pinyons and blue spruce.

I think oaks need to have a viable tap root to excell on my property.