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[gunfun13]

You like Franklin gunfun?

End sucks. Had it here 2022. Herd is about 75% back already.

Son shot a buck with messed up hoops. Was gonna preserve them, but he did t bring them back.

I had about given up on the Franklin and considered top working, but last year it put out a real nice crop that trickled down into February. I'd plant more.

 

[Native Hunter]

I have been told that you can bury a graft union deep and get roots to form above the graft. I don't do this as a general rule, but I did do it on about four cheap trees I got on unknown rootstocks. That was about 5 years or so ago. All of those trees look fine today and are well anchored. Please don't ask me to dig them up and check the roots......

 

[Dantana]

Went through it in 2012 on a lease. Never saw deformed hooves but we only killed 1 deer in the 3 years we had the lease following the outbreak.

I only did two sits on my property last year and those were really just to get a feel for the herd condition. I had a weapon, but wasn't really hunting.

Are these 80 trees concentrated to certain area or are they scattered around the property?

 

[gunfun13]

Are these 80 trees concentrated to certain area or are they scattered around the property?

Pretty Scattered. This is my layout of what I expect to be this years producers. Red=apple/crabs, yellow=pears, orange=peaches, pink=cherries. Everything near the right edge is for family consumption, not deer, but they certainly benefit from those trees as well.

 

[Dantana]

Pretty Scattered. This is my layout of what I expect to be this years producers. Red=apple/crabs, yellow=pears, orange=peaches, pink=cherries. Everything near the right edge is for family consumption, not deer, but they certainly benefit from those trees as well.

Will you continue adding more trees to these areas, or are you tapped out for space? I'm always looking for ideas on how to incorporate more fruit trees, but sometimes I struggle with layout. I'm often limited to the highest points in a field due to how wet the soils are.

 

[gunfun13]

Will you continue adding more trees to these areas, or are you tapped out for space? I'm always looking for ideas on how to incorporate more fruit trees, but sometimes I struggle with layout. I'm often limited to the highest points in a field due to how wet the soils are.

Unfortunately I feel like I'm just getting started lol. A year or so ago I would have said I'm tapped for space, all my plots are pretty much surrounded and a lot or acreage is enrolled in CRP so I cannot plant there. Now I've planted all my plots into perennials and intend to fill them in with trees over the next several years. By then, CRP contract will be expiring and at least some of that acreage will not be re-enroll with the intention of planting more fruit trees. I just grafted up 80 more trees a few weeks ago (a good chunk of those are going to a neighbor) and intend to T-bud 50-100 more this summer.