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I have been impressed with our small durana plot. We ringed a food plot that was cut out of a cedar thicket with clovers. I wasn't sure what was best so one edge was durana, one was whitetail institute, one was another brands clover mix, and the final edge was a homemade mix with some patriot...

6 of the 9 that sprouted are doing well in the tree starter tubes. 3 of the 9 dropped their leaves 2 weeks ago suddenly, but have started a new leader this week, so I hope/think they are alright. Not sure what got them - may have been too much water as we've had some good rains in Houston this...

Those are the ones that work best for us. Oddly, we accidently installed some upside down with the holes at the bottom, and performed much better than the holes at the top. We now use those almost exclusively for the Chinquapins and install "upside down". Once they start poking out of the top...

My family has been getting and planting nuts for the past 5-6 years (I think there is a off year in there where we didn't receive nuts). Our first nuts planted were rough and only 1 or 2 survived, but barely due to us not knowing much. We have 2-3 trees that should start producing this year...

My crew all received our nuts again in January this year. I have started the 10 I'm in charge of and 9 are showing signs of life and 1 "dead" nut. 2 of the 10 are already starting to send up top growth, the others I expect will be coming up later this week. This cold front wasn't expected to...

We have considered sawtooths many times, but we have an abundance of chinquapin oaks and dwarf chinquapin oaks on the property, in addition started around 50 concordia oaks and 50 Ozark Chinquapin nuts. The turkeys and deer fight each other over the dwarf chinquapins, and if the chinquapin oaks...

ain't much but gotta start somewhere...it started like that at our place, then we started getting the rains again

This came from a weather group in Houston, hopefully pretty accurate next 7 days rain totals : Sent from my iPhone using Deer Hunter Forum

my property near branson is dry, but getting just enough rain to keep trees alive. our plots this summer did okay, the ones protected from afternoon sun did the best. We also planted heavy with pearl millet, german millet, and milo this year to keep working on our thatch layer as we started...

I second MyRadar - it is what i have used for good success in the path, it goes the other way, even when raining it will tell you "less than half an inch possible" just to hedge their bets. it has only let me down one time in the past - well not me precisely, i had my deer and was in the house...

KSQ2 - Keep the faith, that one that missed you finally hit us east of Branson, we got around 2" with that storm.

my dad mentioned we got about .25" from that storm at our place east of branson. we hoped for more, but we'll take anything we get. Supposedly my radar app says we are expected to get good rain chances starting wednesday through the weekend. I'd love some rain to come on down to...

More updates as the cedar crew is done. We will be going through and thinning the hardwoods ourselves. In a year or 2, we’ll do a controlled burn. In the mean time, we did spread Orchardgrass and red clover seed to help stabilize the slope. We are excited with the possibilities… Sent...

that is either my uncle's handiwork with a mower or deer - you never quite know - HAHA! We haven't put cameras on the groves yet since they aren't producing nuts. We will eventually though.

My father made it up to the farm this weekend and was able to get some work completed and took pictures of our best Ozark Chinquapins. Sent from my iPhone using Deer Hunter Forum

Just like i was hoping, our earliest planted trees have started putting out catkins - so far 2 of 5 survivors of our first planting attempt. They are "close" but not sure how "close" close needs to be be for germination. They are similar hillside about 40 yards apart. There are others of that...

We typically get 5-6 now. I gifted my dad, my uncle, and my sister memberships; along with signing up myself. My dad has his and my uncle's - I started mine and my sister's membership nuts. I'm currently at 8 of 13 started growing, 3 put down roots but no top growth yet, 2 are "dead" nuts.

By the way, the Ozark Chinquapin is more tree than bush. The blight reached the Ozarks sometime during the 50s, so my dad's memory of the "bush-like tree" was probably the regrowth after the blight knocked out the original tree. We started planting them in 2019, so we are starting to build...

From testing completed by the Ozark Chinqaupin Foundation, they are finding the Ozark Chinquapins have similar blight resistance as the Chinese Chestnuts (more information on the testing at their website). They can still get the blight, and you can lose trees. After completing the testing, the...

I had 8 acorns leftover from my 2021 gathering, and kept them in the fridge. Pulled them out a couple of weeks ago to see if they were viable and 6 of 8 started taproots, so I’ve put them in grow tubes, along with my Ozark Chinquapins. We’ll see what they do. Sent from my iPhone using Deer...