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Save room to replenish the american chestnut. https://theconversation.com/new-genetically-engineered-american-chestnut-will-help-restore-the-decimated-iconic-tree-52191 T-2 years if the estimate I've heard from the rumor mill.

Looks awesome Mike.

+1 Maybe throw in a few honeylocusts or bald cypress too.

We have a solid 10-14 day window of them here where 3-5 of those days are unbearable. It just must be coincidence that you haven't noticed them before because your area would be a nice breeding ground with the river and streams. Black flies love NNE.

Shoots grew about a foot yesterday. This was last night. I’m interested to compare last night to today after almost an inch of rain.

CON just dropped about 10F in 30 minutes. 53F off of 80F there.

The hawks are loving the backyard chicken craze.

Nice. I'll keep a look out. My native red maples produces some very red samaras this year, but the one I got from the box store (atumn blaze from Lowes I believe) produced a more tan samara...not sure what that means. So should we be able to tell if the sugar ones are forming now or is it 3-4 weeks for that? I'll have to get my binoculars out and look at the crown of the sugar out from to see if there are any hanging.

These? https://www.boston.com/culture/growing-wisdom/2015/05/18/winter_moth_green_inch_worm_la

They don't usually fall until late summer though, correct?

I've heard that from people too, but we have a few. I think the red squirrel numbers are up and they are pretty territorial. Chippy and grey numbers are down, but of course the grey squirrels were committing suicide on the highways last fall.

Any forecast on the sugar maples? I wanted to collect some seed this year if it looked like a big year.

Anyone getting what seems to be more red maple samaras than usual this spring? Bumper crop?

We boo. You can see where the old culms were topkilled above the snow line. I’ll probably cover them next winter.

Looks like the excavator cleared that guy right out of there. Good job.

heh Did you use it on an electric or gas? Mine's electric and all of those attachments advise against electric powered ones, but I may give it a whirl anyway.

Anyone have any success with using brush cutting attachments on electric weed whackers? I just want to easily clear the new growth invasive buckthorn without pulling out the loppers. They're all under a 1/4" diameter...most smaller than that.

Anybody ever use these air pots and have success?

100 acres of whatever they want in the back woods and they choose my young trees. I should know better with the chestnuts since they consider them tasty, but I didn't know they'd wipe out the hickories.

Friggin deer (I presume) last night annihilated my chestnut and hickory saplings. Bastards. Tree guards go up today. Ugh.

Are those individual leaves or leaflets?

heh...I'll have to try that and see how it compares to some SOHCAHTOA and solar noon shadow length. Lots of blooms on my pears and apple tree here too. Had very few on the apple last year.

Thought this may be interesting to those who have talked about the EABs annihilating ash trees...

Wow. Thanks for the detailed reply. It’s definitely trickier than it looks. I’d love to drop the front stem toward the camera, but I have a chestnut and cherry trees in the proximity there too. That old dug well isn’t used (although I probably should use it for watering purposes) so I don’t mind dropping it anywhere in that direction. I’d just prefer to drop it where there’s a bunch of cut up logs and brush already. The clump river birch is safe, but my eyeballs say the corner of the run would be close with the crown of the tree. The image should have “objects are closer than they appear” watermarked on the bottom of it.

So I wanna drop this dead tree to the right despite a slight lean to the left (south). Any recommendations on how to go about this? Cut a wedge on the right first and then back cut? Do a bit of a back cut first, add felling wedges, cut a small wedge on right, and then continue with the back cut and pounding in the wedges? Cut that remaining stump off first and then do my cuts lower below the two trunk seam? I don’t want to risk crushing my newly planted trees on the left side. It’s been dead for a few years too so I’m not sure if part of the center is hollow.