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sandbur
5 year old buck +
Seedling from a wild crab.
Almost any crab dropping fruit right now is working. We have had cold and snow. Temps down to -28 at daybreak.
Dolgo seedlings seem to be winners. Somehow I lost a picture of another dolgo seedling that someone on here helped me name Clown’s Nose. It is still dropping fruit and attracting deer. Several dolgo seedlings are done dropping. I have two purchased ( grafted) dolgo trees from nurseries. One is dropping some fruit and the older tree is pretty much done.
Noran, Courthouse Crab, and another Buckman Crab are young trees that are holding just a bit of fruit.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
I suspect more like 20 years. He sold bunches red and bunches yellow at the time. Some were not hardy for me. They were seedlings with fruit up to about 3/4 inch in size.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Well, Bur - all those tracks don't lie. Picture proof of the attraction of those trees. Lots of dandy trees at your place. The deer certainly make the rounds checking for drops at all your trees. Every calorie counts in that kind of cold.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
They also have some standing corn and are still digging up some alfalfa.
I didn’t take pictures of the trees they are ignoring.
bigboreblr
5 year old buck +
You have any apples that go to waste, deer or other critters don't eat?
You grow corn every year? Saw a 2 row corn planter that caught my eye today.
You grow corn every year? Saw a 2 row corn planter that caught my eye today.
rocksnstumps
5 year old buck +
A Dec crab update from NE WI except for Enterprise holding a smattering. These are all ok for deer size. Not showing all the smaller birdie crab still hanging with nickel or smaller fruit
A ranetka seedling
A couple different Franklin Cider. I consider these a crab based on fruit size
An Enterprise about played out
Winter Wildlife
And last a Siberian seedling that deer can only get the very bottom cause they do not drop but the turkeys love them in late winter. This tree is now about 20 yrs old and puts out some fruit.
A ranetka seedling
A couple different Franklin Cider. I consider these a crab based on fruit size
An Enterprise about played out
Winter Wildlife
And last a Siberian seedling that deer can only get the very bottom cause they do not drop but the turkeys love them in late winter. This tree is now about 20 yrs old and puts out some fruit.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
Mainly those inside cages go to waste. Golden Hornet holds almost all winter for me, but it is in the home orchard and late in the winter I often go out and knock apples off of it.
The years dolgo holds, some are buried under snow and not eaten.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
Nice! That habitat looks a lot like mine except 80% of my spruce are actually over mature for deer habitat.
Are those two sticks crosswise in the cage to support a tree and keep it straight? I do the same thing.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
My renter of my ag land is a dairyman and we try and have some corn standing through the winter on my place. He leaves some corn on his land east and west of me. He also leaves some corn on other rental acres. I usually have just about 3 acres of standing corn.
We may rotate some to clover for a year as volunteer corn can overwhelm the new planting.
My neighbor to the north also leaves some corn standing.
rocksnstumps
5 year old buck +
Bur,
Yes try to support young trees a bit inside the cage so the trunk/limbs don't get all rubbed up during wind events. That tree is big enough that not needed anymore but never removed them. And those are curled up old tree tubes that get that way when you slit them lengthwise to pull them off a tree. They stay in place and are more durable than a typical dead stick. And being plastic they don't rub young bark like wood to wood contact might. Just another way to keep recycling old tubes.
Yes try to support young trees a bit inside the cage so the trunk/limbs don't get all rubbed up during wind events. That tree is big enough that not needed anymore but never removed them. And those are curled up old tree tubes that get that way when you slit them lengthwise to pull them off a tree. They stay in place and are more durable than a typical dead stick. And being plastic they don't rub young bark like wood to wood contact might. Just another way to keep recycling old tubes.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
Great idea. I need to reuse some of those tubes.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Great looking habitat, Rocks! Fruit trees are doing their jobs. Thanks for posting the pics.
bigboreblr
5 year old buck +
Merry Christmas....
Thamks for helping us make our hunting seasons merry with crabapples.
Thamks for helping us make our hunting seasons merry with crabapples.
