John-W-WI
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Last weekend I finally got around to trying the "giant cuttings" for rubbing posts. The longest one was 20' 6" long (3 year old hybrid poplar). I had planted some too close together and they needed to be thinned.
Length:

Here is one of them before we put it in the ground:

I augered an 18" hole about 3 1/2 feet deep:


I planted them in a couple of locations. In both locations I planted one with all of the branches removed and another with all of the branches left on the tree (except the very bottom that went in the hole):

I will document this process better in the future, but this is a good start. It will be interesting to see what they do. They are all in a foodplot ready to be rubbed (and have a few branches tied down for licking branches).
-John
Length:

Here is one of them before we put it in the ground:

I augered an 18" hole about 3 1/2 feet deep:


I planted them in a couple of locations. In both locations I planted one with all of the branches removed and another with all of the branches left on the tree (except the very bottom that went in the hole):

I will document this process better in the future, but this is a good start. It will be interesting to see what they do. They are all in a foodplot ready to be rubbed (and have a few branches tied down for licking branches).
-John