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Planted couple 3-4 weeks ago. Most of them have popped like this one, others are swelled and close.
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Planted 500 of them recently. Stock looked good. I purchased seedlings from Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, and Virginia. MDC packaged there plants far better than the rest. They were wrapped in wax paper and packed with wet mulch. Very impressed!
 
DMarley83 said:
Planted 500 of them recently. Stock looked good. I purchased seedlings from Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, and Virginia. MDC packaged there plants far better than the rest. They were wrapped in wax paper and packed with wet mulch. Very impressed!
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IA conifers were far superior than the MDC in my opinion, but MDC Oaks and shrubs were better. MDC is cents on the dollar cost too
 
Snail3496 said:
IA conifers were far superior than the MDC in my opinion, but MDC Oaks and shrubs were better. MDC is cents on the dollar cost too
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Agree with that. Was able to save a bunch through mdc. I did not recieve any conifers from them either.

Did recieve cedars from ia that were very vigorant however they were sealed in a plastic bag, did not care for the storage. Had to open each 1 and wet down to store .
 
Concordia acorns (marked in yellow) are starting to pop that were collected last fall. These are from a yard tree next to an alba so it could produce an interesting cross. The concordia in the yard is 4-5 different grafts of Concordia's from my farm attached to swamp white oak rootstock.

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deep woods goat hunter said:
Im ignorant on the grafting thing, how does this work and what are the benefits?
I guess I understand for fruit trees on the vigorous root-stock.
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Gives the ability to put multiple trees on the same rootstock to get a neat hybrid from possible cross pollination between the grafts. I have the bicolor rootstock in my yard with 7 limbs of different Concordia and Deam’s oak grafts.

I use the whip/tongue graft predominantly to put one oak on the other.


Then those acorns/seedlings are grown and observed to find hybrids to plant for the benefit of wildlife. Least that’s how I’m using it. I did put a Prinoides on a bicolor rootstock at the farm to see what it would do. It’s throwing out a pile of acorns in its 3rd year of that graft.


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deep woods goat hunter said:
That's really cool. I dont have that kind of patience and time at this stage in life. I'll probably stick with the C oaks for the time being when I plant oaks.
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I can get into grafting, but I do like to see the end results !

Cool trees… I’ll say this—the hybrid oaks grow faster than most people think !
 
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