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Post by jbird on Apr 3, 2020 8:51:17 GMT -6
I think I have a few places where it would do wonderful on my place, but I haven't taken the plunge just yet.....maybe next spring. Anybody know a source for cuttings or even bare root plants that are reasonably priced???
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 3, 2020 9:02:56 GMT -6
I think I have a few places where it would do wonderful on my place, but I haven't taken the plunge just yet.....maybe next spring. Anybody know a source for cuttings or even bare root plants that are reasonably priced??? I imagine cutting could be mailed just like scion.
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Post by Reagan on Apr 3, 2020 9:36:49 GMT -6
I think I have a few places where it would do wonderful on my place, but I haven't taken the plunge just yet.....maybe next spring. Anybody know a source for cuttings or even bare root plants that are reasonably priced??? I snipped mine from bushes in my church parking lot. The kids call it stealing and I say it’s harvesting. I’ve never seen it growing wild around here but do see it as an ornamental. I could send you some.
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Post by benmnwi on Apr 3, 2020 11:03:02 GMT -6
My ROD cuttings all come from road ditches or RR right of ways. Free cuttings are my favorite kind-
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Post by smsmith on Apr 3, 2020 11:04:42 GMT -6
I've got it popping up all over the place. Once the cattle got removed, nature took over. I just mowed a bunch of ROD and gray dogwood that was popping up in my wildflower plot. If the conditions are right, it is tough to not have dogwoods. Do they sucker more after mowing? I should try that Established clumps do. I'm hoping the young, single shoots I've got popping up don't...but they probably will. I may have to start mowing the wildflower plot annually for a number of years.
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Post by honker on Apr 3, 2020 16:29:21 GMT -6
My ROD cuttings all come from road ditches or RR right of ways. Free cuttings are my favorite kind- I have some in my backyard buffer area and my neighborhood backs up to a county park reserve area that is loaded with it. I have little to none of it on my hunting land unfortunately, but I'm hoping to get it established and let mother nature take over.
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Post by honker on Apr 3, 2020 17:32:28 GMT -6
My ROD cuttings all come from road ditches or RR right of ways. Free cuttings are my favorite kind- Can you take cuttings now already or do you have to wait until it gets warmer?
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 3, 2020 17:38:03 GMT -6
A little background on my Spruce/Cedar and Red Osier Dogwood Experience. ...2001-06 owe planted maybe half the acres of a sandy soil farm with lots of wetland/ow spots to trees (148 acres total). This property had few deer and maybe a half dozen pheasants. Long story short—In 2020 we now have deer wintering in this property. I attribute that the the Spruce, Cedar, ROD, and willow habitat. It’s changed the landscape completely. I’ll admit I never thought much of ROD, but it’s good stuff!
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 3, 2020 18:53:43 GMT -6
A little background on my Spruce/Cedar and Red Osier Dogwood Experience. ...2001-06 owe planted maybe half the acres of a sandy soil farm with lots of wetland/ow spots to trees (148 acres total). This property had few deer and maybe a half dozen pheasants. Long story short—In 2020 we now have deer wintering in this property. I attribute that the the Spruce, Cedar, ROD, and willow habitat. It’s changed the landscape completely. I’ll admit I never thought much of ROD, but it’s good stuff! My farm has become a better and better wintering area over the last three to five years. I can’t find a rod outside of my exclosure cages.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 3, 2020 19:16:10 GMT -6
I never thought it could happen Art. The deer would leave every year. They don’t now, a few disperse, but we always have deer now.
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Post by honker on Apr 4, 2020 8:58:44 GMT -6
No time like the present
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Post by smsmith on Apr 4, 2020 9:02:21 GMT -6
I never thought it could happen Art. The deer would leave every year. They don’t now, a few disperse, but we always have deer now. Same thing here when I bought the place. Now, I think most of the deer on this section and a half spend the winter on my or my immediate north neighbor's place.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 5, 2020 5:52:21 GMT -6
One positive of the deer wintering somewhere else is they didn’t hammer the trees like they do now. I have crabapple, plum, and oak that survived without being caged or tubed... is that a word??. I can’t do that now.
Re-plants need a cage. Which is fine.
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Post by honker on Apr 5, 2020 10:32:53 GMT -6
A little background on my Spruce/Cedar and Red Osier Dogwood Experience. ...2001-06 owe planted maybe half the acres of a sandy soil farm with lots of wetland/ow spots to trees (148 acres total). This property had few deer and maybe a half dozen pheasants. Long story short—In 2020 we now have deer wintering in this property. I attribute that the the Spruce, Cedar, ROD, and willow habitat. It’s changed the landscape completely. I’ll admit I never thought much of ROD, but it’s good stuff! Would love to transform this area at my place to look like yours above. It is used for bedding a lot in spring and summer when the grass is standing and the willows and hazelnuts are holding leaves, but it is winter wasteland.
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 5, 2020 11:38:14 GMT -6
A little background on my Spruce/Cedar and Red Osier Dogwood Experience. ...2001-06 owe planted maybe half the acres of a sandy soil farm with lots of wetland/ow spots to trees (148 acres total). This property had few deer and maybe a half dozen pheasants. Long story short—In 2020 we now have deer wintering in this property. I attribute that the the Spruce, Cedar, ROD, and willow habitat. It’s changed the landscape completely. I’ll admit I never thought much of ROD, but it’s good stuff! Would love to transform this area at my place to look like yours above. It is used for bedding a lot in spring and summer when the grass is standing and the willows and hazelnuts are holding leaves, but it is winter wasteland. I would be planting some spruce on the north and northeast side of those clumps of brush. Plant one or two. Keep those spruce just a bit shaded. I have had the winter sun kill them during low snow years. At some point, you will have to cut the brush back... maybe five to ten years after planting.
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