white pines

[buckhunter10]

Ok all this year I am planting white pines along the road. I am going to probably buy plugs or seedlings.

1. Where are you buying yours from? When is a good time to plant them? I have been planting fruit trees in the winter, can I do that with evergreens?
2. Do you need to bud cap them when they are just seedlings or not until the get more established?


thank you!

 

[Weezy]

I buy plugs from Itasca greenhouse. IMO, wait till spring to reduce/eliminate heaving. I've never bud capped but I would think you would want to protect your seedlings from getting browsed especially in snow/winter.

 

[buckhunter10]

I buy plugs from Itasca greenhouse. IMO, wait till spring to reduce/eliminate heaving. I've never bud capped but I would think you would want to protect your seedlings from getting browsed especially in snow/winter.

How do you protect yours now?

 

[Weezy]

I don't protect them. I mix in NS for a better long term screen.

 

[buckhunter10]

I don't protect them. I mix in NS for a better long term screen.

Good idea. Thanks buddy!

 

[CAS_HNTR]

Deer will eat white pines in the winter if they are unprotected......I wont go as far as saying they seek them out, but If there is snow on and they wander by.....they will chomp it!

 

[OkieKubota]

White pines stand no chance whatsoever on my place and the deer do seek them out.

 

[Brushpile]

Cap them with aluminum window screen in the Fall and remove the window screen after Spring green up.

 

[dogghr]

^ ^ ^ ^ There you go Buck. It works.

 

[OkieKubota]

They eat the entire tree down to the dirt on my Home 10...A screen won't save it in that situation but I could probably get a few to live near my yard on our 80. I have watched 4 deer browse one of mine all at the same time...

 

[buckhunter10]

Any evergreen that works well that ya don't have to worry about deee as much?

 

[OkieKubota]

Any evergreen that works well that ya don't have to worry about deee as much?

Eastern Red Cedar...

 

[Native Hunter]

Here is how I protect pines.

A brier cage is cheaper than a wire cage.






And when they grow up - they shade out their cage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[buckhunter10]

Here is how I protect pines.

A brier cage is cheaper than a wire cage.






And when they grow up - they shade out their cage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is exactly the type of area I want to plant mine in! You have given me hope!

 

[Brushpile]

Deer will always eat the central leader first. When all the Central leaders are capped, deer develop a distaste for window screen. You do need to replace window screen from time to time.

Eastern Red Cedar...

X 2

 

[Native Hunter]

This is exactly the type of area I want to plant mine in! You have given me hope!

Here is what you have to do - For the first few years you have to keep a hole opened up above them to keep the briers from tangling them. When they grow above the briers, you can clean out in the spring and by the time rubbing season rolls around, the briers have grown back.

Take plenty of antibiotic ointment and bandaids and some tweezers...

 

[Chainsaw]

Before the days of ever hearing about tree tubes, capping leaders and such, My Dad and I had planted 500 white pine seedlings in late winter just as the ground thawed;we finished planting on a Monday. By the following Friday they had all been eaten to the ground.

 

[mattpatt]

I guess we're lucky. Our deer didn't touch our Pitch x Loblolly pines we planted last year. We were so impressed with their drought tolerance we ordered a bunch more this year.


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[OkieKubota]

I guess we're lucky. Our deer didn't touch our Pitch x Loblolly pines we planted last year. We were so impressed with their drought tolerance we ordered a bunch more this year.


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I don't have near the problem with loblolly that I have with white pine. White pine around us is like chocolate to them or something and loblolly is like "well, if there is nothing else to eat we can nibble on this"...

 

[cutman]

I can't believe y'all have to protect pines. Deer rub them here, but they certainly don't eat them.