Recent content by Mortenson

The bases on the 8 look as big as pop cans. Great bucks!

I broadcast DER, PTT, GHR, & Pasja blends on two plots today in anticipation of tonight's forecast inch of rain. I'm happy with this date. While I'm north a ways of you, I've never had them bolt when planted around this time frame. The large, mature plants get sucked up just fine by my deer...

Also own a Herd. So far so good.

Some herbicides just have a different odor. Like have you ever sprayed Cadet? It has a really sweet, sorta almond scent.

Sorry about the bad luck. I have several Kieffers growing well that were planted last year. Could anyone wager a guess as to what the most likely rootstock a kieffer would be growing on that was purchased as a semi-dwarf from Rural King? I also planted two Asian Olympics this year from ACN...

Haha, well Paul is the Gospel. He's what got me into all this habitat stuff, by reading his posts on Iowa Whitetail forums. What a nice person he was. Incidentally, I smoked creeping charlie in a farmyard last summer with 2,4-d. Melted it to nothing. By late in the summer it was fully back...

Thanks again. Those all sound like things I can try. I do have a pesticide app. license, so getting chems isn't a problem. It's a nice stand of a few different white clovers, so I'd like to get a couple more years from it. The creeping charlie is worst where the plot gets the most grazing...

Good tips FarmerD. What would you do about a pretty bad infestation of creeping charlie in a 3 year old clover plot? Seems like it would be pretty tough to kill.

Wow! Giants for sure. I was referring to the top one because I knew you just got him last year.

Awesome bucks Baker. Would love to see a pic of the mount of your giant 10 sometime.

Does anyone have sheds or racks from what is presumed to be a very large yearling, 18 month old rack, that they want to share pics of? I'm kind of torn on what a yearling is capable of in the wild. I have a lot of yearling sheds picked up over the years, but every once in a while a deer kinda...

I wouldn't take any out yet. Your deer might decide to start eating them. Are you spraying around your young Norways or letting them go?

Thanks a lot. Yes reading some of your posts on various threads on the subject led me to the cleft. Kind of silly to think I paid as much for the treekote as another clearance tree would cost. It should last me a long time though. The worst part is now I have to wait so long before it's...

I'll be attempting my 1st graft later this spring, too. I had a young kieffer girdled last year, and I want to graft an ayers scion onto the rootstock of it. I collected 2 scions when I pruned the ayers last week. I'm pretty convinced I'll try a cleft graft with both of the scions. I'm...

For you guys with the Korean Giant - Olympic pears, do you have pollinator trees nearby or are they pollinating well on their own? I've heard they tend to overproduce.