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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: bambam32]
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09/30/17 07:39 AM
09/30/17 07:39 AM
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BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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Dunstan Chestnuts
Jap Persimmons
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: bambam32]
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10/01/17 07:45 AM
10/01/17 07:45 AM
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BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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and Keiffer Pears....yes sir.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: bambam32]
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10/01/17 09:15 AM
10/01/17 09:15 AM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,537 Awbarn, AL
CNC
Dances With Weeds
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Dances With Weeds
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Awbarn, AL
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chestnuts nuttal oaks pears native persimmons
The Corn Crash!!!
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: bambam32]
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10/02/17 07:33 AM
10/02/17 07:33 AM
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,911 huntin the big lease
Turkeymaster
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huntin the big lease
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gallowway pears and keiffer pear. galloway will not drop until roughly dec and the keiffer will drop mid to end of october.
"All is fair in love, War and Turkey Hunting"
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: blumsden]
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10/04/17 04:44 AM
10/04/17 04:44 AM
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dreadpiratebob
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I wouldn't waste my time with jap persimmons because they do not drop. You have to literally pull the fruit off. They will rot on the tree. Coons and any other climbing critters will enjoy them and so will you, but not the deer. I would contact the Wildlife group and get some of their wildlife packages. They have everything. Located real close to Auburn. I've not heard this? I was under the impression that they were more bush sized meaning they weren't totally out of reach.
Last edited by dreadpiratebob; 10/04/17 04:50 AM.
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: blumsden]
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10/04/17 05:37 AM
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AUdeerhunter
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I would contact the Wildlife group and get some of their wildlife packages. They have everything. Located real close to Auburn. These folks are great to deal with! I purchased ~100 trees from them last Winter and I'll be buying about 50 more from them this year...I planted Sawtooths and Shumard oaks ($1.75 per tree since I bought a large quantity), and I also got 2 Japanese Persimmons and 2 Arkansas Black Apple trees ($20 per tree for a 4' tree)
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: dreadpiratebob]
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10/04/17 06:47 AM
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blumsden
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I wouldn't waste my time with jap persimmons because they do not drop. You have to literally pull the fruit off. They will rot on the tree. Coons and any other climbing critters will enjoy them and so will you, but not the deer. I would contact the Wildlife group and get some of their wildlife packages. They have everything. Located real close to Auburn. I've not heard this? I was under the impression that they were more bush sized meaning they weren't totally out of reach. The deer might be able to reach some on the lower limbs, but they will not fall off. They will actually rot on the limb and are hard to get off without breaking a limb. They are delicious to eat.
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: mackman]
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10/07/17 02:22 PM
10/07/17 02:22 PM
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bambam32
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BamBam32-great question. Purchased land 2005, (SE AL) got very aggressive with planting trees purchased from the Wildlife Group right away. Looking back the pear trees were the most trouble and required a lot of work and addition $'s to fight fire blight. I think I could have spent that time and money more wisely. Chestnuts and sawtooth are easy if you practice keeping the competition far away from trunk and plant no closer than 30 feet feet apart. If I could do it over I would plant on 40 feet center. It has taken my persimmons till last season to produce. The very best practice with your new trees is the use fertilizer stakes placed two feet from trunk and repeat this practice every 90 to 120 days. Sight One sells by the box ($80.00). The best money you will spend on your tree planting. Good luck and enjoy. Mack thanks for the tips.
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: mackman]
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10/08/17 03:29 AM
10/08/17 03:29 AM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,537 Awbarn, AL
CNC
Dances With Weeds
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Dances With Weeds
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BamBam32-great question. Purchased land 2005, (SE AL) got very aggressive with planting trees purchased from the Wildlife Group right away. Looking back the pear trees were the most trouble and required a lot of work and addition $'s to fight fire blight. I think I could have spent that time and money more wisely. Chestnuts and sawtooth are easy if you practice keeping the competition far away from trunk and plant no closer than 30 feet feet apart. If I could do it over I would plant on 40 feet center. It has taken my persimmons till last season to produce. The very best practice with your new trees is the use fertilizer stakes placed two feet from trunk and repeat this practice every 90 to 120 days. Sight One sells by the box ($80.00). The best money you will spend on your tree planting. Good luck and enjoy. Not sure which variety of trees you got but most of their pear trees are pretty blight resistant that I've bought. This is been in the last 5-6 years so maybe they've changed some of the varieties since you bought from them. I've only gotten it a little bit on a couple trees. I've always thought pears were the easiest. I planted them and protected them from rubbing and that's about it.
Last edited by CNC; 10/08/17 03:30 AM.
The Corn Crash!!!
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: mackman]
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10/23/17 10:35 AM
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bwhunter
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paintRockO is spot on. If I were 30 vs 69 I would plant Walnuts on every suitable parcel of land I own. I have always wonder why Auburn University is not absolutely aggressive in using their land holding to plant at least some sizable parcels in Walnuts. Money in the bank. I bet government regulations prevents students from planting crops for future profits to the University. Why don't you think all of the timberland investment companies who are trying to maximize income are not planting black walnut trees. If they produced more income than everything else more people would be planting them in my opinion.
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: mackman]
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11/23/17 05:05 AM
11/23/17 05:05 AM
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RiverWood
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Sounds like my experience. I started very aggressively planting lots of mast producing trees from the Wildlife Group and others in 2006. Planted 1000’s of trees over 1000’s of acres for 10 years. I think I use to fantasize that I was Johnny Appleseed. Killed them every way you can kill a tree - mowing, spraying, over-fertilizing, under-fertilizing, you name it & I did it. Spent way, way too much $ for a very limited return. Wildlife Group sales good trees, it’s just difficult to pull a small tree out of a nursery and get it to mast bearing age in the wild. Hardwoods are much easier than any soft mast tree. We’ve planted over 100,000 trees for wildlife. Every condition and every scenario can imagine. We spared no cost with our program. Tree tubes, weed mats, irrigation, fertilizer, chemical treatments, you name it & we did it. Our success rate with apples and pears over an 11 year period has been less than 5%. Some of these continue to die from fire blight each year. Hardwoods are much better with a success rate of more than 80%. I’m sure plenty of people will comment on everything I’m doing wrong, but believe me we have done it every possible way and still can’t our success rate with apples and pears over 5%.
Instead of planting nursery grown trees, we started identifying, daylighting, and nurturing native trees, primarily native crabapple, plums, and persimmons. I’ve never walked a property where they don’t exist. Our success rate is near 100% and our property is now covered with native fruit trees. Just something to consider. This work was conducted in So Cullman County under very controlled conditions.
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: bambam32]
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11/27/17 02:47 PM
11/27/17 02:47 PM
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Posts: 11,311 Kennedy, al
globe
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Booner
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Crabapple orchards of about 1/4 acre in size. Deer love them and they drop every year on my place. Just plant them so you can mow between them.
Everything woke turns to shucks
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: bambam32]
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12/19/17 04:11 PM
12/19/17 04:11 PM
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Posts: 255 Alabama
kntree
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Regards to fruit: Alabama cooperative extension's aces.edu site has a lot of research for agriculture/etc in Alabama. Type aces.edu, publications and services, aces publications and store, search box type, Fruit Culture in Alabama Selecting Adapted Varieties ( http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-0053-F/ANR-0053-F.pdf). Probably something on mast producing and nut trees also. Everything Alabama, go to that site.
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Re: What trees to plant on my new propoerty
[Re: bambam32]
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12/20/17 06:13 AM
12/20/17 06:13 AM
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Posts: 754 N. Alabama
WARPhEAGLE
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I started planting trees 5 years ago on a small property, my first purchase was a 25 tree package from Realtree Nurseries that had Dunstan chestnuts, sawtooths, American persimmons and Southern crabapples. I have also attempted to add apples, pears, plums, Jap persimmons and peaches at different times. Six of my original 7 chestnuts are still alive and look healthy, I had my first nuts on 3 of them this fall. I have also grown several other chestnuts from nuts I bought online and have about 10-12 others still alive. I learned a lot from the old QDMA messageboard about growing chestnuts. My Sawtooths look healthy, but so far still no acorns. Persimmons and crabapples have not thrived, either died or struggling. I agree with what others said about Jap Persimmon, waste of time. They produce a pretty fruit, but does not fall, and have yet to see sign of deer eating. My apple experience has not been positive, even with spraying I've had lots of diseased trees that don't make it past a 2-3 years. I won't replant any more apples. Keiffer pears are doing pretty good, haven't produced every year but trees are healthy and a lot of fruit per tree in good years. Overall, the Dunstans and sawtooths are the healthiest trees I've got, and the persimmon trees (native) I left standing in my food plot are awesome, probably due to (like RiverWood said) opening them up to get lots of sunlight. Also, I fenced my young trees with field fencing wire, it prevents the deer from damaging.
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