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Post by buckvelvet on Feb 14, 2017 8:30:26 GMT -6
When you guys planted fruit trees, mostly apple or pear, did you lay it out with drop times in mind or did you just bunch random trees together. Just curious...
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Post by smsmith on Feb 14, 2017 8:47:31 GMT -6
I want fruit on the ground for the longest time frame possible
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Post by buckvelvet on Feb 14, 2017 8:54:48 GMT -6
I want fruit on the ground for the longest time frame possible Sorry posted this in the wrong section. What i meant was when you laid your plantings out did you put them according to drop time or just random trees in bunches. |
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Post by Catscratch on Feb 14, 2017 8:55:52 GMT -6
Two things I ask for when I call a nursery: Best disease resistance and latest drop times possible with those trees.
This gives me a variety of drop times throughout the fall and winter, but as long as the trees don't die from disease I'm happy.
As far as plantings go I tend to group apples/crabs together and pears together. They are all in the same plot.
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Post by leexrayshady on Feb 14, 2017 10:34:58 GMT -6
want us to move it the fruit section buck?
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Post by buckvelvet on Feb 14, 2017 10:37:06 GMT -6
want us to move it the fruit section buck? Probably should. |
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Post by buckvelvet on Feb 14, 2017 10:38:48 GMT -6
Two things I ask for when I call a nursery: Best disease resistance and latest drop times possible with those trees. I'm actually referring to a bit bigger scale. I am trying plan out around 80 trees and where they should go in an orchard setting. They will all very in drop time as well as bloom time. If you have 5 & 5 i get that totally but I am trying to take a more methodical approach being on such a big scale. |
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Post by Catscratch on Feb 14, 2017 11:01:19 GMT -6
I think I see what you are saying. Either combine all of the trees that have the same drop dates, or checkerboard them.
I have no experience with this, so take my ideas with a grain of salt. I think I would lean towards grouping them in drop order. For example: All of my earliest droppers on the east side, all of my next droppers a row to the west, next droppers another row to the west. My thinking is that it would make hunting easier if the majority of the dropped fruit was in one area at a time.
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Post by buckvelvet on Feb 14, 2017 11:08:13 GMT -6
I think I see what you are saying. Either combine all of the trees that have the same drop dates, or checkerboard them. I have no experience with this, so take my ideas with a grain of salt. I think I would lean towards grouping them in drop order. For example: All of my earliest droppers on the east side, all of my next droppers a row to the west, next droppers another row to the west. My thinking is that it would make hunting easier if the majority of the dropped fruit was in one area at a time. Thats kind of where my head was at, start with the earliest dropping the farthest away from hunting opportunities and move them back the later they get. |
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Post by nhmountains on Feb 14, 2017 11:32:40 GMT -6
BV,
Are you hunting from a tree or a tower stand? 80 trees covers a big area. Hard to see from one spot. You may need multiple stands.
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Post by buckvelvet on Feb 14, 2017 11:35:05 GMT -6
BV, Are you hunting from a tree or a tower stand? 80 trees covers a big area. Hard to see from one spot. You may need multiple stands. Look at my land tour, no tree to hunt from.  Shacks are on the ground around here. |
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Post by smsmith on Feb 14, 2017 11:41:24 GMT -6
If you're going to try covering that many trees from a ground blind, make sure you leave yourself some nice shooting lanes. Also, keep in mind drop times for archery hunting. Around here, I'm hoping to start killing my buck in September/early October with a bow. I want early to mid-droppers within bow distance.
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Post by buckvelvet on Feb 14, 2017 12:51:36 GMT -6
If you're going to try covering that many trees from a ground blind, make sure you leave yourself some nice shooting lanes. Also, keep in mind drop times for archery hunting. Around here, I'm hoping to start killing my buck in September/early October with a bow. I want early to mid-droppers within bow distance. Well heres the thing, there is no tree to even try to pull off a tree stand hunt around this orchard. I could put a blind on stilts to catch the deer coming out of the swamp as they enter the orchard some day but thats a few years away yet. |
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Post by nhmountains on Feb 14, 2017 14:56:13 GMT -6
Do you have visions of a pick your own orchard or selling apples at a farm stand?
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Post by buckvelvet on Feb 15, 2017 8:24:31 GMT -6
Do you have visions of a pick your own orchard or selling apples at a farm stand? I've talked about that with Stu, greyphase, & some others. I really don't know what I'm gonna do. Its just something that quickly flourished into a passion for me with no real game plan. I guess it will continue to evolve as its in a great spot as far as people access if I so chose to. However being as I wouldn't want a bunch of folks I don't know there, I'd probably do more a farmers stand in town if that were the case. |
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