Eastern Red Cedar from seed?

[Cap'n]

you might try the Rocky Mountain Juniper that the State nursery has, its supposed to be similar to the ERC but doesnt spread.


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[dogdoc]

Do you have a different evergreen that you like instead of red cedar, or do you want to go without evergreens of any sort?
The reason I ask is because Kansas has no native pine trees. When I asked K-State for a recommendation they said you can plant different types of pine, but they will eventually fail to; disease, insects, or drought. None are adapted to our climate to live long term. With that said, I know plenty of pines that look like they've been there for many decades.

No. I have no ever greens other than red cedar and like I said I try to cut down as many as I can but there are still plenty.

 

[buckdeer1]

Thousands of pines died in Kansas over the last 10 years because of some disease

 

[Fish]

No. I have no ever greens other than red cedar and like I said I try to cut down as many as I can but there are still plenty.

Ive heard you say that before and it makes me cringe. Funny how we all see things differently. I sure dont want a monoculture of them by any means.
What do you use for screening?

 

[OkieKubota]

you might try the Rocky Mountain Juniper that the State nursery has, its supposed to be similar to the ERC but doesnt spread.


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I ordered a few of these to try out this time around. Should be here in March...

 

[OkieKubota]

Thanks for all the replies. Sounds like doing it from seed is going to be low return on work involved. Since I really want Cedars pretty much everywhere on our place I am thinking putting the "berries" in a bird feeder and letting the birds scarify and plant for me wherever they happen to land. Good plan?

I think it's a great plan. I would be tempted put up wire up everywhere you want a row of trees, for the birds to land on. I've been tempted to run the wire and pile some corn out just to congregate birds to the area. The more they are there the more they will poop there. Dgallow suggested setting hedge posts where you want cedars too (once again for birds to land on) and also clear the ground around them. I'm also considering a winter burn as a way to clear ground to help promote bird plantings...

Just imagine what your place will look like; scorched and black, hedge posts sticking up in random places, 5ft tall wires going here and there, and random piles of corn.

Well the experiment begins. We bought a couple bird feeders last weekend and now the birds are hitting them hard so last night I added some cedar seed to the mix. I am thinking about putting some bird feeders along the county road behind my fence in the dozer piles and this should work perfect to populate these piles in red cedar for a great long term screen.

 

[OkieKubota]

Johnny...Rake around any cedars you don't won't damaged before you burn. Cedars pop up like sweet gums down here. I like em too. But, when we burn our pines we wipe out just about any cedars that are growing in them. Even the larger ones don't take fire very well.

Good advice...cedars are easily controlled with fire...