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Welcome Chris! Sounds like you’re off to a great start. You may want SWO in the mix as they bare early here. EO’s bare early and they experience marcesense which I find to be an advantage that can be utilized. One farm I hunt has Scarlet Oak that bare every couple years. When they do drop it’s...

Schlabach Nursery. Great family! Excellent trees! They supply fruit trees for our wonderful fruit corridor along Lake Ontario. Call for a catalogue. The phone # is 585 798-6198 and address is 2784 Murdock Road, Medina, NY 14103.

I really like tubes for SWO, Chinks, Concordia, Persimmon, SBO, EO, Nuttall. In western NY I’ve not liked tubes with Sawtooth or Chestnut. They tend to grow spindly. I let the tube break right out of the tube and protect them from buck rubs as long as possible. SWO and Concordia are doing great...

I mean a tube.

I wouldn’t put an apple tree on a cage. Large, 5’ fence is my way to go.

I plant two swamp plots with Rye every year. Some years it gets rained out, most years it’s good through our season. Nuttalls are growing well in them as well.

I think it’s a tree by tree basis. Clear one that are clearly a threat around stand sites. I jumped out of my stand and I ran out of the woods this year when the wind kicked up. I have a ton of Ash. No stands in them anymore. Some of these trees are snapping 12’ up and some are just blowing...

I recently purchased a Made in the USA- Ferris Zero Turn mower and couldn’t be happier. I was looking to save my neck from my last zero turn. The suspension on this machine is better then my F-150. I didn’t even know about them until a few months ago. I was looking for something that had a...

My thought after messing with a bunch of these trees, both seeds and seedling is, they grow best in the ground with a tube. I have many trees that have exploded out a 5’ tube by there third year. Anticipating a banner year for my CO’s.

Do Nuttall keep their leaves through winter?

NPK imbalance, water Ph issues, and chlorinated tap water may be a contributing factors as well. Also, planting medium could be the issue. In my experience Chestnuts and Oaks won’t do well in typical potting soil. They like a well soils that can breathe. I’ve had good luck with Promix brands...

Check Mikes Backyard Nursery on YouTube for this topic. Don’t know the guy but, I like the cut of Mike’s jib on this topic.

My understanding of ROD cuttings is to cut them while they are in the growing season, hit with rooting hormone and get them to root. Then plant. I’ve stuck them in the ground like Hybrid Poplar and Willow cuttings but, haven’t had much success. Tried a fair amount too.

I like spruce, white mostly. Deer don’t browse them here, pines get hammered. I tend to plant a bunch in one area with a dibble. Let the briars grow around them or rotate a cage onto them at 3-4 years old.

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!