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Post by terrifictom on Feb 7, 2017 7:59:28 GMT -6
Your biggest concern for them to survive now will be bucks using them for rubbing. I have lost over a 100 pines, both red and white to rubbing. Now most are getting to sizes that they leave them alone. So what happens now, I got a dominate bear using them to mark his area. 15 feet tall trees with a 3 to 4 inch diameters snapped off about 8 feet up. He got 5 trees last fall.
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Post by badgerfowl on Feb 7, 2017 8:53:39 GMT -6
I probably won't have to worry about bears, thankfully, but bucks may find them. These are all up by the road and the grasses hide them pretty good for now. Once they get a few more years on them a thinning probably wouldn't hurt.
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Post by smsmith on Feb 7, 2017 9:07:07 GMT -6
Damn deer here found my Austrian and Ponderosa pines this winter. They ate the hell out of a number of them. Spruces in the immediate area have been left alone so far. Bucks also found my 3' evergreens last fall...a lot of rubs. I'm hoping they recover.
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Post by Freeborn on Feb 7, 2017 9:11:22 GMT -6
Damn deer here found my Austrian and Ponderosa pines this winter. They ate the hell out of a number of them. Spruces in the immediate area have been left alone so far. Bucks also found my 3' evergreens last fall...a lot of rubs. I'm hoping they recover. Would you recommend capping the pines? I might make up some screen caps this winter. |
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Post by smsmith on Feb 7, 2017 9:14:12 GMT -6
Damn deer here found my Austrian and Ponderosa pines this winter. They ate the hell out of a number of them. Spruces in the immediate area have been left alone so far. Bucks also found my 3' evergreens last fall...a lot of rubs. I'm hoping they recover. Would you recommend capping the pines? I might make up some screen caps this winter. Ya, if you're interested in protecting them 100%. I plant hundreds of evergreens every year. I'm not going to attempt to bud cap them. If the deer kill them, I'll replant this spring. I believe this year will be the last year I plant any pines however. |
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Post by Freeborn on Feb 7, 2017 11:47:59 GMT -6
Would you recommend capping the pines? I might make up some screen caps this winter. Ya, if you're interested in protecting them 100%. I plant hundreds of evergreens every year. I'm not going to attempt to bud cap them. If the deer kill them, I'll replant this spring. I believe this year will be the last year I plant any pines however. I don't have your numbers and in 2017 I have enlisted the spouse to contribute more to the farm. She is all in so this is exactly the type project she would be great at. |
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Post by smsmith on Feb 7, 2017 12:39:42 GMT -6
There's a place east of me a few miles where they've used what appears to be index cards to budcap their white pines. Every winter since I've been here, those pines have been capped...until this year. I've been watching them throughout the winter and I'm not seeing any browse...of course I'm going 55 mph so it's not exactly a close look. Those pines are in an area where I'd have been surprised to get significant browsing, but the owners must have felt the need.
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Post by ogemaone on Feb 23, 2017 18:39:52 GMT -6
Fertilized half my norway spruce today with triple 10, perfect timing before a foot of snow hits. Curious to see what difference it makes.
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