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Post by smsmith on Apr 15, 2023 9:19:16 GMT -6
A few each of river birch, hybrid poplar, and silver maples arrived this morning from Musser Forests. The area I want to plant them is currently under water and super "spongy". I suppose I just put the trees in the beer fridge for a few weeks...
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 15, 2023 11:42:11 GMT -6
A few each of river birch, hybrid poplar, and silver maples arrived this morning from Musser Forests. The area I want to plant them is currently under water and super "spongy". I suppose I just put the trees in the beer fridge for a few weeks... How fast do river birch grow?
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Post by benmnwi on Apr 15, 2023 12:22:12 GMT -6
A few each of river birch, hybrid poplar, and silver maples arrived this morning from Musser Forests. The area I want to plant them is currently under water and super "spongy". I suppose I just put the trees in the beer fridge for a few weeks... River birch and silver maples are nice trees for river bottom type areas. Although I’m sure they could grow fine in dry areas, they seem to be more common in river bottoms.
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 15, 2023 15:27:14 GMT -6
A few each of river birch, hybrid poplar, and silver maples arrived this morning from Musser Forests. The area I want to plant them is currently under water and super "spongy". I suppose I just put the trees in the beer fridge for a few weeks... I see maples growing along the edge of the Mississippi where it often floods. Are these non native? Maybe Norway Maple?
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Post by smsmith on Apr 15, 2023 15:38:05 GMT -6
A few each of river birch, hybrid poplar, and silver maples arrived this morning from Musser Forests. The area I want to plant them is currently under water and super "spongy". I suppose I just put the trees in the beer fridge for a few weeks... How fast do river birch grow? Quite fast under the right conditions IME
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Post by smsmith on Apr 15, 2023 15:38:46 GMT -6
A few each of river birch, hybrid poplar, and silver maples arrived this morning from Musser Forests. The area I want to plant them is currently under water and super "spongy". I suppose I just put the trees in the beer fridge for a few weeks... River birch and silver maples are nice trees for river bottom type areas. Although I’m sure they could grow fine in dry areas, they seem to be more common in river bottoms. Yep, they should do well where I intend to plant them (I hope)
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Post by smsmith on Apr 15, 2023 15:41:32 GMT -6
A few each of river birch, hybrid poplar, and silver maples arrived this morning from Musser Forests. The area I want to plant them is currently under water and super "spongy". I suppose I just put the trees in the beer fridge for a few weeks... I see maples growing along the edge of the Mississippi where it often floods. Are these non native? Maybe Norway Maple? I don't know. I know Silver Maples are native here, but they must have been selectively logged at some point. The non-native, invasive maples I see around here are Amur Maples. I had some Norway Maples on my old place. They were pretty much worthless for fall colors down there at least half of the time.
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Post by biglakebass on Apr 15, 2023 19:07:17 GMT -6
I have silver maples here by the river. Boring colors in fall.
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Post by kooch on Apr 16, 2023 7:30:49 GMT -6
If new bare root trees come with a few small branches very low, like within two feet of the graft, should a guy just snip them off when planting?
I know we don’t want branches lower than 4 or 5 feet but I’m hesitant to just clip things off a tree I’m putting in the ground and hoping lives.
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Post by Reagan on Apr 16, 2023 7:39:09 GMT -6
I didn’t snip mine at planting. I did snip this winter and used some for scion. The trees that were a whip grew the most height. The trees with branches grew but less.
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Post by benmnwi on Apr 16, 2023 8:09:14 GMT -6
If new bare root trees come with a few small branches very low, like within two feet of the graft, should a guy just snip them off when planting? I know we don’t want branches lower than 4 or 5 feet but I’m hesitant to just clip things off a tree I’m putting in the ground and hoping lives. The tree will be fine either way. I don’t like to remove every branch, but I’ll remove low ones or damaged branches.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 16, 2023 8:49:36 GMT -6
I have silver maples here by the river. Boring colors in fall. They get a nice, bright yellow around here. They are also in color much later than all the other maples.
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Post by biglakebass on Apr 16, 2023 9:59:12 GMT -6
regarding bare root, when I buy them at Swedbergs in Battle Lake, the guy there goes through each tree and trims them up before I leave.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 16, 2023 10:02:16 GMT -6
If new bare root trees come with a few small branches very low, like within two feet of the graft, should a guy just snip them off when planting? I know we don’t want branches lower than 4 or 5 feet but I’m hesitant to just clip things off a tree I’m putting in the ground and hoping lives. I recently read something that said leaving branches lower on the trunk increases trunk caliper more quickly than does removing them all. In the past, I've always removed all of the low branches on fruit trees right away.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 16, 2023 13:58:16 GMT -6
regarding bare root, when I buy them at Swedbergs in Battle Lake, the guy there goes through each tree and trims them up before I leave. I’m gonna buy a few trees from them again !
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