Yes, it is a Che. I don't remember exactly how long they've been in the ground... maybe 3rd yr? They have produced and then aborted several times. This is the longest one has held fruit. The deer love the leaf's! They push on the cages and work to get to them. I've had to restake the cages several times due to them being pushed off the t-posts. In fact, the pics of the two nice bucks were of them going to a Che to try to steal a leaf or two. If I ever learn to graft them onto native hedge I think I'll have a very heavy draw just for browse. I know they hammer them more than any apple tree I've ever planted.
Good eye! He doesn't want a release. He's a lot like his dad, I shot fingers for a couple of decades before going to the release (nerve damage and numb fingers forced me to). I've offered and told him it's more accurate, but he likes the feel of shooting natural. Not going to argue with him, he gets to shoot however he wants when we are shooting targets.
That settles it, I'm going to get a couple Che's. Lord knows I have enough hedge trees for grafting. The way that species grow I'd think grafting would be fairly successful.
If I ever buy a new bow it will be really long AtoA so that I might be able to go back to fingers. The kid has shot a lot of different bows. We used to make PVC bows after researching different historical designs. We would spend an evening putting together a Mongolian, a Parthian, or a Japanese calvaryman style of bow and shoot it just for fun and experience. He's settled on a compound right now but that's probably just because that's what he sees dad shooting. Thanks for the info on aiming, I'll give it a look sometime.
I don't really know, but I would guess 3 to 4 days to get most of them germinated. I saw that you replanted in your thread. Unfortunate you haven't had better luck this year.
