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<blockquote data-quote="13pt" data-source="post: 5376659" data-attributes="member: 19602"><p>Completely agree with DoubleRidge, though I'm not the resident expert either...but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" />. Seriously, I did tremendous research before embarking on my project and the fall season has advantages over spring...though both work. I would highly recommend some way to protect the young trees during unseasonal frosts and freezes...and you definitely don't want to use a plastic bag. I found a really great breathable frost cloth on Amazon (see below). In fact, I even left them on all winter for the first two winters to keep the harshest elements from contacting the trees, and apparently, it worked wonders since my Dunstan's are producing in less than the 3-5 year projection. I think that practice, along with utilizing growth tubes, likely contributed the most to the success. Your results will definitely be a product of your efforts. If you just plant a bunch and leave them mostly unattended (which I know is not your plan), then you'll end up with 1/2 to 2/3 surviving, and even those will grow at a much slower rate. Put your best efforts into their first few years and you'll reap amazing results; i.e, watering, weeding, fertilizing at optimum times using slow-release fertilizer, spraying for bugs if needed, along with the other things I've already mentioned, and you'll be smiling really big in about 3 years! Good luck!! Also, remember your area does have a TWRA Habitat Biologist who would be more than happy to visit your property and your plan and give their best ideas and possibly even support. If you don't know who that person is, then contact your county game warden and ask...that's how I found out.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=amazon]B07JCTCDY3[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="13pt, post: 5376659, member: 19602"] Completely agree with DoubleRidge, though I'm not the resident expert either...but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night 🤣. Seriously, I did tremendous research before embarking on my project and the fall season has advantages over spring...though both work. I would highly recommend some way to protect the young trees during unseasonal frosts and freezes...and you definitely don't want to use a plastic bag. I found a really great breathable frost cloth on Amazon (see below). In fact, I even left them on all winter for the first two winters to keep the harshest elements from contacting the trees, and apparently, it worked wonders since my Dunstan's are producing in less than the 3-5 year projection. I think that practice, along with utilizing growth tubes, likely contributed the most to the success. Your results will definitely be a product of your efforts. If you just plant a bunch and leave them mostly unattended (which I know is not your plan), then you'll end up with 1/2 to 2/3 surviving, and even those will grow at a much slower rate. Put your best efforts into their first few years and you'll reap amazing results; i.e, watering, weeding, fertilizing at optimum times using slow-release fertilizer, spraying for bugs if needed, along with the other things I've already mentioned, and you'll be smiling really big in about 3 years! Good luck!! Also, remember your area does have a TWRA Habitat Biologist who would be more than happy to visit your property and your plan and give their best ideas and possibly even support. If you don't know who that person is, then contact your county game warden and ask...that's how I found out. [MEDIA=amazon]B07JCTCDY3[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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