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Post by benmnwi on Oct 3, 2022 12:25:29 GMT -6
I had my woods logged pretty hard last winter and it is pretty interesting to see what popped up this year. I didn't walk through most of the logged area, but I was surprised at the amount of water hemp I saw growing in random places in my woods. This nasty stuff (aka hard to kill) showed up in my food plots for the first time a couple years ago, but I'm not sure how that seed could have made it to the back side of my property in my woods. It wasn't just found on the logging trails where the seed could have hitched a ride on the skidder - it was scattered all over.
I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of regrowth in the black oaks that were still alive when logged. They were browsed pretty hard in the open areas, but the tangled tree tops act like free tree cages that protect many new seedlings.
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Post by smsmith on Oct 3, 2022 12:33:28 GMT -6
I've wondered where "new" weed seeds come from a number of times. I've been pulling shitloads of hemp nettle for a number of years. It just showed up in a couple of clover plots and in the edges of the woods near those plots. It almost certainly had to come from some type of foodplot seed. I was thinking it was from some bin run rye, but I never planted that rye on one plot that has hemp nettle. I suppose I may have spread it from plot to plot somehow...
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Post by Catscratch on Oct 3, 2022 12:54:58 GMT -6
Some seeds can stay dormant in the seed bank for several decades. Let your Johnson Grass or Pigweed go to seed just once and you might be fighting it for the next 20 yrs. Might be why something "new" pops up after logging. Anything coming up in a plot would be assumed to come in with unclean seed.
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Post by benmnwi on Oct 3, 2022 13:05:39 GMT -6
My place was likely an oak savannah back in the times of the indians and the buffalo, so it will be interesting to see if any good prairie type seeds pop up after being shaded out for 100 years. One could only hope that some good stuff would germinate along with the super weeds.
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Post by smsmith on Oct 3, 2022 13:09:38 GMT -6
My place was likely an oak savannah back in the times of the indians and the buffalo, so it will be interesting to see if any good prairie type seeds pop up after being shaded out for 100 years. One could only hope that some good stuff would germinate along with the super weeds. My folks had a few select cuts done on their old place over a number of years. Every time the canopy was opened and the soil disturbed by machinery they had new stuff popping up. Quite a bit of Indian grass and big/little bluestem were common. I'd enjoy walking that chunk of woods again after not seeing it for about a decade, just to see how it has changed.
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Post by biglakebass on Oct 3, 2022 14:11:23 GMT -6
the seed bank thats in the ground is amazing.
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Post by Sandbur on Oct 3, 2022 14:33:05 GMT -6
the seed bank thats in the ground is amazing. speaking of buckthorn?
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Post by biglakebass on Oct 3, 2022 15:52:05 GMT -6
Shit thats the billion berries every year.
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