JoshAnderson
Yearling... With promise
how many apple trees do i really need? i see some people planting a ton of trees and with my land i dont have any real big openings i have about 6-7 acres of food plots so would 4-6 apple trees be enough?
ideally id like them to drop in October to kind of supplement my food plots, and just in case if for some reason i cant put plots in one year i still have some food. because there isnt alot of food around. there is one soybean feild 3 miles away and another one probably 4-5 miles away and thats it and the neighbors kind of do food plots but one like 1/2 of rye.Josh, what do you want the apple trees to do for you? Or another way to ask, when do you want apples on the ground for deer? The number of trees and number of varieties to plant depends on what your goals are.
very northwestern minnesota like 10 miles from canadaWhere are you located? Apple drop time varies by location
i dont think anyone has an orchard around.So either zone 3a or 3b. The further west you are the likelier you'd be 3b.
That will limit the number of apple varieties you can grow. Any orchards in the area?
how many apple trees do i really need? i see some people planting a ton of trees and with my land i dont have any real big openings i have about 6-7 acres of food plots so would 4-6 apple trees be enough?
how many apple trees do i really need? i see some people planting a ton of trees and with my land i dont have any real big openings i have about 6-7 acres of food plots so would 4-6 apple trees be enough?
ideally id like them to drop in October to kind of supplement my food plots, and just in case if for some reason i cant put plots in one year i still have some food. because there isnt alot of food around. there is one soybean feild 3 miles away and another one probably 4-5 miles away and thats it and the neighbors kind of do food plots but one like 1/2 of rye.
A mature apple tree well taken care of will produce 10+ bushel of apples each year. A pickup full us around 15 bushel so do the math.
It's better to plant 5 or 6 trees and take care of them well tge. To plant 70 and not take care of them.
Please identify a single other mast producing species that will survive in zone 3a or 3b, that will produce hundreds of lbs. of mast in 5-10 years, and that will live for decades.
Very few oaks survive in 3a/3b. Burr would be about it, and you sure aren't going to get hundreds of lbs. of mast out of one in a decade or less. Burr also starts dropping in late August and is about done by mid-September.