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Post by sd51555 on May 10, 2017 7:05:42 GMT -6
All this apple talk got me thinking. I've got access to all kinds of chestnut crab apples (fruit) from my dad. Would it be possible to begin stimulating some natural apple regen by feeding piles of chestnut crab in the fall? I think of the classic lone fenceline apple where a bird pooped out a seed or dropped a seed while taking in the sun. Could such a thing work with something like Chestnut, even if it isn't true to form? Or should I maybe focus on a source of wild crab to do such a thing?
At home, we used to have a crab apple tree in the back yard that would drop wheel barrows of grape sized red crabs that I'd have to rake up and feed to the cows come late summer/early fall. They went nuts for them. Never knew what kind of tree that was though. I wonder if I didn't find something like that and haul buckets around the property if they wouldn't start appearing in the landscape.
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Post by Catscratch on May 10, 2017 7:08:52 GMT -6
I'm planning on doing the same thing with persimmon. We have some around (withing 10-20 miles) but none on the place. I figure throwing out a pile or two might get some started on the place as critters eat them and spread the seed.
Couldn't hurt to try...
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Post by smsmith on May 10, 2017 11:27:28 GMT -6
All this apple talk got me thinking. I've got access to all kinds of chestnut crab apples (fruit) from my dad. Would it be possible to begin stimulating some natural apple regen by feeding piles of chestnut crab in the fall? I think of the classic lone fenceline apple where a bird pooped out a seed or dropped a seed while taking in the sun. Could such a thing work with something like Chestnut, even if it isn't true to form? Or should I maybe focus on a source of wild crab to do such a thing? At home, we used to have a crab apple tree in the back yard that would drop wheel barrows of grape sized red crabs that I'd have to rake up and feed to the cows come late summer/early fall. They went nuts for them. Never knew what kind of tree that was though. I wonder if I didn't find something like that and haul buckets around the property if they wouldn't start appearing in the landscape. I don't see why not. I anticipate finding more and more wild trees on my place as more and more fruit hits the ground. Critters eat fruit, critters shit out nice piles of seed with built in fertilizer...voila...wild fruit trees. |
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Post by Sandbur on May 10, 2017 12:24:42 GMT -6
I can remember an artilce where Bill Winke scattered bushels of acorns and maybew cultipacked or disked the ground afterwards.
Did anyone ever hear of his success?
About 7-8 years ago, I scattered a bunch of apples on a 1/4 acre piece of ground with sod. No results.
Bare ground and packing would increase the odds-and be called baiting???
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Post by Bwoods11 on May 10, 2017 13:33:46 GMT -6
I can remember an artilce where Bill Winke scattered bushels of acorns and maybew cultipacked or disked the ground afterwards. Did anyone ever hear of his success? About 7-8 years ago, I scattered a bunch of apples on a 1/4 acre piece of ground with sod. No results. Bare ground and packing would increase the odds-and be called baiting??? Good success, he has oak trees that are over 10 feet tall. I think he did walnut, bur oak, swamp white and red oak. Not sure if he mixed in some others or not. I like his idea. |
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Post by sd51555 on May 10, 2017 15:33:42 GMT -6
I used to fart around with acorns like that. We had huge white oaks at home and I could rake up a five gallon bucket quickly in the pasture. I just planted them in rows in the garden with the idea of transplanting later.
They grew well, and that was also when I learned of the massive taproot of an oak.
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Post by Sandbur on May 11, 2017 6:18:16 GMT -6
I took soem bur oak acorns and walked around stomping them into gopher mounds. I have one tree that is about 3 feet tall.
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Post by sd51555 on May 11, 2017 6:37:32 GMT -6
The majority of stems that need to get blasted out of my new plot spaces are bur saplings. Crazy how well they sprouted in that one area at the back of my property.
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