The Brushpile

[Brushpile]

The columnar shape of Korean Gaint/Olympic Pear. This tree is also a late bloomer and less likely to be damaged by frost than European varieties. The pears drop during bow season and they last on the ground until eaten.


This is a Kieffer Pear, which is upright but not columnar shaped. This tree was hit by frost last year and didn't produce many pears, while the nearby Korean Giant was loaded.

 

[dogdoc]

So happy to see normalcy returning to the brushpile.

 

[Brushpile]

This Burr Oak was purchased as a bare root seedling from the MDC and was planted in 2008. It began producing acorns in 3-4 years and has reliably produced large acorns for the last 5 years or so.

 

[Brushpile]

So happy to see normalcy returning to the brushpile.

Oh yeah! Thanks and our entire region needed rain!

 

[Brushpile]

This Crabapple was planted in 2008 and somehow managed to survive.

 

[Brushpile]

This is an example of a mineral stump. This crab apple was cut down for grafting and the graft failed. Now all or the energy from a large root system is creating mineral and nutrient rich new growth that is preferred browse for deer.

 

[Brushpile]

Amazing what rain will do!

 

[Brushpile]

Problem! This is one of my bigger Chestnuts, and it is missing foliage. I did pull some wild grape vines off it.

I contrast, this is the next Chinese Chestnut in the row.

 

[Brushpile]

One of Wayne's Chinese Chestnuts.

 

[Brent]

Brush, I've committed myself to catching up on your thread the past couple of weeks and finally made it through this evening. Lots of notes were taken. Very inspiring to see everything you're doing here in SWMO, especially since I live just down the road from you. I'm sure the Brushpile is looking great with the rain we've been receiving this year. Fished the river recently? We've done very well on several of our local streams this spring. Lots of feisty smallmouth, goggleye and hungry channel cats.

 

[Brushpile]

Brush, I've committed myself to catching up on your thread the past couple of weeks and finally made it through this evening. Lots of notes were taken. Very inspiring to see everything you're doing here in SWMO, especially since I live just down the road from you. I'm sure the Brushpile is looking great with the rain we've been receiving this year. Fished the river recently? We've done very well on several of our local streams this spring. Lots of feisty smallmouth, goggleye and hungry channel cats.

I just returned from vacation today, let me know if I can help in any way.

 

[Brushpile]

Getting mighty dry!
The pond

The river


The lawn is getting brown patches.


Some trees are yellowing.

 

[Brushpile]

I thinned some Loblolly x Pitch Pine, and they coppiced from the stump! This is the first time I've seen pine stump sprout.

 

[Brushpile]

Ozark Chinkapin grafted to Chinese Chestnut.

 

[Brushpile]

The tree

The grafted scions are in the center of the pic, and have grown almost 6 feet.

The tree structure

What is the next step? Should I cut down everything but the graft?

 

[Neahawg]

I would wait until February then prune off the extra limbs.

 

[Nebraskaz71]

My loblolly pitch pine 2 yr old seedlings are yellow as could be and not doing much. Tried a lil milorganite for iron but that didnt help. Cool to see stump sprouts like that though.

 

[Brushpile]

My loblolly pitch pine 2 yr old seedlings are yellow as could be and not doing much. Tried a lil milorganite for iron but that didnt help. Cool to see stump sprouts like that though.[/Q
Chlorosis is likely the cause. I had that problem until my trees got their roots down to locate what was needed. I put Ironite down and watered it in.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=chlor...&sc=8-7&cvid=654df600dad047aeaef756edbc0673a0

 

[Brushpile]

No chance of rain, but 10 days out there is a 60% chance.

 

[shedder]

The tree

The grafted scions are in the center of the pic, and have grown almost 6 feet.

The tree structure

What is the next step? Should I cut down everything but the graft?

How long have you been grafting OZ C to CC?
How often does it work? I heard it was difficult.
Where do you get scions?
Is there a seed source besides the Ozark Chinquapin Foundation?