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    Chestnut Production?

    Cute! My neighbor boys are taking their rabbits to a hotel lobby for Easter. The manager thought it would be a nice Easter attraction. The only fertilization I've done on my chestnuts is with Osmocote and MicroMax when they are in containers. Mine are all wildlife trees planted in too high...
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    Undecided, but leaning !😁

    I don't have a crimper and terminate with herbicide as well. I find that flattening the WR with a cultipacker before termination helps lay it down as mulch over the seed.
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    Undecided, but leaning !😁

    Tough situation. I guess it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. The WR is done providing deer food except for heads. Clovers are providing food not. However that may not be you objective. Crimping the WR over seed will provide a mulch for the seed helping hold in moisture. In...
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    Undecided, but leaning !😁

    The winter rye will die on its own in the summer. You could use the same technique we use to establish perennial clover. We plant winter rye as a nurse crop with the clover in the fall. The following spring, each time the WR hits a foot to 18" we mow it back to 6"-8" depending on the type of...
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    Chestnut Production?

    Given your RMs are outside, I would guess they get similar light to the direct seeded ones. The medium would be roughly at air temperature which should be somewhat warmer than soil temp, so the RMs may start a bit sooner, but I suspect not much. My charts above were done indoors so the...
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    Chestnut Production?

    That affects the number that germinate. I thing Wayne had his in for 90 days and I had mine in cold stratification for 60 days. He got well over 90% (can't recall exact numbers_ and I got in the 70s% germination. Keep in mind you don't start the count when you put them in the fridge. It...
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    Chestnut Production?

    There are many factors with Chestnuts, including the amount of cold stratification. One year, Wayne and I started nuts the same way but he cold stratified longer than I did. He got better germination. While we were doing that, I made a couple charts: These were started indoors, under...
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    One Thousand Chestnut Trees - a Whitetail Deer Project

    Wayne (@wbpdeer) has been growing chestnut trees from nuts for many, many, years. He has been very gracious with sharing his expertise here on the forum and just as generous providing nuts he collects to others. I've venture that he is probably had a hand in many of the chestnuts growing...
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    PH effect on Palatability of clover/chicory plot

    That doesn't work. Poor pH limits the plants ability to uptake nutrients, including those you add. Since I stopped tillage, I have not used fertilizer for about 8 years with no change in deer use. I do keep the pH right. Keep in mind that fertilizer recommendations are for farmers, not deer...
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    Plotting in old fescue grass field

    Good spraying advise. I think fall is the best time to kill grasses like fescue, but it should not be a long-term problem if you are not planting a perennial plot. You will get a lot of it with you first spraying of gly. Depending on what is in your summer mix, it will be advantaged when you...
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    Chestnut Production?

    So does my Benjamin pellet gun. Drive through our suburban neighborhood and squirrels are constantly dodging cars...Until you get near our house...The is a distinct hole in the population. New ones move in, so I need to keep up with it. They can be devastating when growing trees. They can...
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    Chestnut Production?

    It is no different than after they sprout. They don't like wet feet. The technique that worked best for me was to pick up an 18 after planting the nut and get a feel for the weight. Consider that an empty tank. Then, soak an 18 until water was running out the bottom. I'd then pick it up and...
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    PH effect on Palatability of clover/chicory plot

    Yes, I think the key was "a few hundred yards away". Food sources are always changing for deer. It is a very complex equation. I had an interesting situation one year. I had 2 small clover fields (1/4 acre or less) that were several hundred yards away. The surrounding habitat was seemingly...
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    3 Gallon Air Pot

    Completely agree. With my growing season length, I would need to transplant to containers larger than 3 gal. This isn't really practical for me, and I get such good results planting from 3 gal RB2s, there little benefit and a much higher cost at going beyond 3 gal. I could see cases in a more...
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    PH effect on Palatability of clover/chicory plot

    Good link. Once deer have decided to use a field at a given point in time, which eliminates other influences, fertilization can influence plant selection by deer. But... I think sometimes we draw the wrong conclusions from some of these studies. It is easy to walk away from it with the...
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