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Apr 13, 2021 17:53:30 GMT -6
Post by honker on Apr 13, 2021 17:53:30 GMT -6
I don’t think it’s a big worry ? I’m not worried. Was just curious. Mine looked good, just weren’t that tall. I think he meant putting them in with the cold temps. What is your experience with that?
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Post by badgerfowl on Apr 13, 2021 17:58:43 GMT -6
I’m not worried. Was just curious. Mine looked good, just weren’t that tall. I think he meant putting them in with the cold temps. What is your experience with that? Mine have been in for two weeks. I try to plant as early as possible. As long as frost is gone I’d throw them in. If frost wasn’t gone I’d worry a little about it popping them up some. No frost, I’d say go for it.
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Apr 13, 2022 21:03:58 GMT -6
Post by honker on Apr 13, 2022 21:03:58 GMT -6
Planted my plugs from Lodholz this morning. 99% of them were nice plugs now. All Lodholz needed to do was grow them out for another year. Next spring they would have been fine. Any idea how they have done in the ground? I can't see evidence that many of mine survived. Looking back I should have maybe put them into a spruce garden together and transplanted them when they got bigger.
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Apr 14, 2022 6:19:39 GMT -6
Post by smsmith on Apr 14, 2022 6:19:39 GMT -6
Planted my plugs from Lodholz this morning. 99% of them were nice plugs now. All Lodholz needed to do was grow them out for another year. Next spring they would have been fine. Any idea how they have done in the ground? I can't see evidence that many of mine survived. Looking back I should have maybe put them into a spruce garden together and transplanted them when they got bigger. I see scattered survivors now and then. Damn rabbits sure like little spruces.
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Apr 14, 2022 6:57:26 GMT -6
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Post by badgerfowl on Apr 14, 2022 6:57:26 GMT -6
Any idea how they have done in the ground? I can't see evidence that many of mine survived. Looking back I should have maybe put them into a spruce garden together and transplanted them when they got bigger. I see scattered survivors now and then. Damn rabbits sure like little spruces. I planted about 70 4a spruce last year unprotected. I did not see many survivors. Not sure if it was deer or rabbits. We've got plenty of both. So my screen will be planted annually for the foreseeable future in millet, sorghum, and EW. Next year I plan on ordering 10-15 bigger spruce and caging them like apple trees. Probably the only way I get anything to grow.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 14, 2022 7:28:11 GMT -6
I see scattered survivors now and then. Damn rabbits sure like little spruces. I planted about 70 4a spruce last year unprotected. I did not see many survivors. Not sure if it was deer or rabbits. We've got plenty of both. So my screen will be planted annually for the foreseeable future in millet, sorghum, and EW. Next year I plan on ordering 10-15 bigger spruce and caging them like apple trees. Probably the only way I get anything to grow. I just keep throwing evergreens in the ground every spring. Any evergreens planted near food sources here will get browsed. Even 8' Norway spruces near food plots have their limbs browsed as far as deer can reach. They don't eat them all the way to the trunk like they do with white cedars, but the limb tips definitely get eaten. Screening food plots with evergreens here is a waste of time.
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Apr 14, 2022 8:29:23 GMT -6
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 14, 2022 8:29:23 GMT -6
I have to cage everything now. Except red cedar.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 14, 2022 9:26:51 GMT -6
I have to cage everything now. Except red cedar. I've been seeing lots of red cedars with browse lines after this winter. Even the native low growing junipers have been browsed heavily. There were some 10-15' white cedars north of me a mile or so that had no signs of browsing...until this winter. They now are bare 5-6' up. This has been a bad one.
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