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<blockquote data-quote="BUCK-J" data-source="post: 2326764" data-attributes="member: 749"><p>Six years ago we planted 500 sawtooth and 500 persimmons on two different properties . Thru the years I had kind of forgotten about them and couldn't have shown you one of them . We planted some in rows and some just groups but we planted every where we could . The weeds and briars overtook the saplings very quick and I wasn't sure all was lost .</p><p></p><p> This past summer we found about 25 young persimmons with fruit around some of the roads but I think they were wild . We marked and cleared around each .</p><p></p><p> After deer season this year we met with a forester to see about getting into the greenbelt to save on taxes . The guy was super informative and the wife and I really enjoyed spending the day with him in the snow . I had told him of the plantings and how I could not show him a single one of them . I remembered him saying the young oaks hold their leaves in the winter .</p><p></p><p> A few days later I started looking for sawtooths and low and behold they were everywhere . I found out how to tell small persimmons and so far I have found , marked and cleared around 150 6 year old sawtooths and persimmons from a half to two inch diameter base and four to fifteen feet tall .</p><p></p><p> Since I have cleared around all these trees I was wondering about should I protect the trunk now with tubes and also what and when to fertilize .</p><p></p><p> Two of the spots that had most of the saplings planted I turned into food plots and so lost them . Another area around a food plot I cleared a little before hunting season last year took out a nice grove of trees that I'm sick about but boy am I tickled to death about what I have found .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BUCK-J, post: 2326764, member: 749"] Six years ago we planted 500 sawtooth and 500 persimmons on two different properties . Thru the years I had kind of forgotten about them and couldn't have shown you one of them . We planted some in rows and some just groups but we planted every where we could . The weeds and briars overtook the saplings very quick and I wasn't sure all was lost . This past summer we found about 25 young persimmons with fruit around some of the roads but I think they were wild . We marked and cleared around each . After deer season this year we met with a forester to see about getting into the greenbelt to save on taxes . The guy was super informative and the wife and I really enjoyed spending the day with him in the snow . I had told him of the plantings and how I could not show him a single one of them . I remembered him saying the young oaks hold their leaves in the winter . A few days later I started looking for sawtooths and low and behold they were everywhere . I found out how to tell small persimmons and so far I have found , marked and cleared around 150 6 year old sawtooths and persimmons from a half to two inch diameter base and four to fifteen feet tall . Since I have cleared around all these trees I was wondering about should I protect the trunk now with tubes and also what and when to fertilize . Two of the spots that had most of the saplings planted I turned into food plots and so lost them . Another area around a food plot I cleared a little before hunting season last year took out a nice grove of trees that I'm sick about but boy am I tickled to death about what I have found . [/QUOTE]
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