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Post by garrett on Dec 7, 2011 15:43:20 GMT -5
well in one year?lol fingers crossed..i'll have 500-1000 trees to plant. me and uncle were looking at the property.here figgure i have roughly an acre to be able to plant. i plant tight.in everything i do. trees??? dunno.....i may try 6-8 feet apart. will be difficult to meet the water requirements...... plan on putting them all in a windrow mulched composted area. gonna be difficult to get that much organic material..... i may added chopped tree branches and try a modified huggeculktur method.i figgure i have a year or two to get it all ready.maybe......lol any thoughts? oh yeah...i'll be selling crabapple trees in a year or two as well.smiles redneck nurseries....from seeds to trees.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2011 15:48:31 GMT -5
It depends. This is where ya want a library copy of Mike Dirrs propagating woody landscape plants. it will size them.
On the upside if you are potting these up in quart milk containers or deep-cell bottomless tree pots, you have more than one year to pick and choose and cull the dregs..
A thousand starts is a Johnny Chapman kinda project.
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Post by garrett on Dec 16, 2011 16:12:50 GMT -5
putting them in 2 gallon pots coppice. i figgure that will buy me till next november.guessing they will be a foot or so tall. thanks for the link.smiles
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2011 11:09:33 GMT -5
Don't rule out a year or two in 6-8" spacing in rows (with mowing room between rows) for understory trees, like quince, persimmon, brambles. crab apples.
The obvious winners will start showing early on. Plant those winners to feild first.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2011 11:15:30 GMT -5
FWIW a deal three year old crab with a couple flowers on him is like $ 10, ditto any prunus, pear (pyrus), japan maple is a $ 20 tree, once taller than your belt. (unless your a hobbit)
Some of your earliest cash crop is gonna be trees them selves. Don't expect to get rich. But every dollar somebody brings to you is one less you have to cough up on your own.
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Post by garrett on Dec 20, 2011 10:19:04 GMT -5
smiles thanks coppice....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2011 16:06:14 GMT -5
Germinating trees is a smaller deal than working up a plantation.
Clearing and setting out sapling bed rows is still only a hint at the landscaping and clearing a set out is (or will be) for field plantation.
Can one adult grub hoe, and landscape an acre (or ten). Yup, the same way a duck eats a salad, one little bite at a time.
I chopped a 1/4 acre in a single summer, an' I'se old and bunged up. I chopped and burned about a half acre. That was as big as I wanted. YMMV.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2012 11:06:58 GMT -5
I just watched on This Old House a peice about folks keep saplings (years three through ten) in a bed filled with pea gravel.
A sapling could be lifted out of that thar bed and the extra gravel shaken off, for transplantation.
I expect it would need a lot of supplimental water, and isn't really suitable for baby seedling trees. But but looks like a bargain for both a new grower and the nursey who doesn't want to hold their inventory in spendy big(er than 2 gallon) pots.
Just a thought.
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Post by garrett on Jan 2, 2012 16:23:28 GMT -5
abra abra kadabra. gonna reach out and plants ya.......
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