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Picked mine up Friday and planted them Saturday. All but one were two year old trees. They looked great. The one year old looked puny compared to the rest.

1/2" PVC pipe. Buy in 10' lengths and cut in half

Don't mow now++

You can see what dough stage is in in this video. I think of it as when the seed head is "juicy" when you squeeze it.

You don't need to fertilize to consider phosphorus levels. Different soil types have more or less fertility. My dad created a tiny clover plot along a creek bottom a number of years ago. The clover looked great, but the deer never touched it. They were using other clover a few hundred yards...

A number of the better known chestnut growers start in 1 gallon RMs and use 3 gallon RMs for the second growing season. Consensus say plant in ground after no more than 2 years in pots.

Phosphorus seems to influence palatability the most. https://www.deer.psu.edu/pass-the-phosphorus/

Don't forget about lime while you're at it, if needed. ;)

Promix and other brands make bark based mixes. Check the BK and BRK series from PT horticulture. Lambert and Sungro have bark based mixes. I just got some Lambert LM-16 from the Greenhouse supply dealer near me

That's good to hear how well they shoot. I was going to get one of their 300 BLK Saint Victor models, but they switched to 308. I wanted something that I could shoot suppressed with subsonic ammo, in that price range.

Pick out a better variety than Dunstan. Seedlings and nuts available. ;) Seedlings https://www.perfectcircle.farm/chestnuts/chestnut-seedlings-1-year Nuts https://www.perfectcircle.farm/tree-seed/chestnut-seed

I've tried RM18's a few times, starting them later mid-March indoors. They get off to a decent start, but once I move them outside, they dry out quickly. I think they need to be in a greenhouse, and/or on an automatic watering timer. I could possibly pull that off this year. I might just start...

I just picked up 6 bags of Lambert LM-16. We will see how it goes this year. How do you all keep your RM18s from drying out too fast? Are they outside?

A no-till drill will open a row and close it right back up, with almost no disturbance to the soil. Leaving residue on the soil is idea, but if you can't get the seed into the soil without any disturbance, you might need to lightly scratch it. Some folks will run their discs straight, just to...

If you can't buy, see if you can rent something locally. You didn't mention what kind of tractor/ATV/utv you have.

We switched 3-4 years ago. I think it's starting to make a difference when the weather cooperates. In the last two years, we've had 30+ day droughts and one LATE forst which killed off most of what's growing, so we don't have a ton of biomass to crimp/leave laying. Crossing our fingers that 2024...

This! It's hard to make policy decisions when you only have a few pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. I think the toughest thing about CWD, and science in general, is when we learn something, we often realize there's more that we don't know than we thought. That's a tough cycle, but progress isn't...

Hit up scholar.google.com and search chronic wasting disease. There are plenty of papers from scientific research. I'll agree Fortune isn't exactly a great source for CWD facts. Don't blame science for what the media writes.

Who is this "they" you keep referring to? Care to cite actual scientific publication?

You didn't mention your soil type. That might help us make recommendations for you. Generally, that tar river drill is pretty light for a true no till drill. It might struggle in heavier soils. Do you have much organic matter in the soil? Etc? When it comes to drilling, getting your ground as...