Absolute carnage! I’ve had major issues with kangaroos in Australia (Aussie born and bred here) and now deer living in Canada. I feel your pain friend 😭😂
@@planterbanter Ha! Thanks! Yeah, sometimes it feels like all the forces of nature have conspired to prevent you from growing trees. It's a miracle the forest is still standing!
I have had the same experience with eastern white pines. The deer did occasionally eat the branches. No such damage on nearby japanese black pines. They've never touched any of the junipers we have planted. They leave mature leaves and branches on holly's alone but will eat the tender shoots.
I'm so sorry it happened to your garden. I'm dealing with the same problem - deers eating my plants. This week, I noticed they byte my tiny pine bush, that I just planted this autumn.
Deer (and moose) are such a pain! Even going through the effort of protecting my trees they always find a way to eat them, or trample them to the ground! Hopefully your trees can recover well! As a side note, that larch at the beginning looks like it had some untouched Branches/bark near the base; do you think you could cut back everything to where the bark is untouched and then retrain one of those branches to grow upwards? I know from my experience that Japanese larch grow fast and that it would probably grow back within a few years.
@@TN1965You know, that's actually a good idea! I might move it to a location inside the fence... if I can find a spot... I'm running out of real estate!
Deer just hit about 12 conifers in one night in my garden. Mostly Pinus strobus and Pinus thunbergii. They did hit random other conifers. It’s maddening for sure!
Why not try a Monkey Puzzle tree, I'm sure deer couldn't eat those. I had similar problems with my plantings in Serbia where my wife was born and we recently came across a weekend cottage in the mountains for sale we couldn't pass up. So many of my seedlings (I brought from the states) were topped off by deer last winter. I installed a motion sensor flood light (we only have 1 acre) which illuminates the path where the deer would come down the mountain from. Incidentally, the native Serbian spruce is quite a specimen in it's native territory.
@@davidsike734 Good thought but it actually gets too cold for monkey puzzle here... Down to -5°F / -20°C. The heat and humidity is an even bigger problem for it.
@@SpartanTrees Norway Spruce (picea abies) in 99% of grafted spruces. I would have said 100%, but i thought there was a small posibility that some colorado spruce cultivars might be grafted to colorado spruce rootstock because that species is grown so much in the horticultural trade.
I have a question I couldn’t find a answer on google I have 500 loblolly pine seeds stored in room temperature for the last 7 months can I still plant them and they will grow
@@irnesmujic976 I don't know for sure, but they might need cold stratification before they will sprout. I recommend searching online for some forestry guidelines. Also, 500 seeds is a lot! Where did you buy those?
Absolute carnage! I’ve had major issues with kangaroos in Australia (Aussie born and bred here) and now deer living in Canada. I feel your pain friend 😭😂
@@planterbanter Ha! Thanks! Yeah, sometimes it feels like all the forces of nature have conspired to prevent you from growing trees. It's a miracle the forest is still standing!
I have had the same experience with eastern white pines. The deer did occasionally eat the branches. No such damage on nearby japanese black pines. They've never touched any of the junipers we have planted. They leave mature leaves and branches on holly's alone but will eat the tender shoots.
@@nathanschley2088 Good info! I'm afraid to grow japanese black pine here because of pine wilt nematode.
I'm so sorry it happened to your garden.
I'm dealing with the same problem - deers eating my plants. This week, I noticed they byte my tiny pine bush, that I just planted this autumn.
@@irenfleren6374 That's not good!
Deer (and moose) are such a pain! Even going through the effort of protecting my trees they always find a way to eat them, or trample them to the ground! Hopefully your trees can recover well!
As a side note, that larch at the beginning looks like it had some untouched Branches/bark near the base; do you think you could cut back everything to where the bark is untouched and then retrain one of those branches to grow upwards? I know from my experience that Japanese larch grow fast and that it would probably grow back within a few years.
@@TN1965You know, that's actually a good idea! I might move it to a location inside the fence... if I can find a spot... I'm running out of real estate!
Deer just hit about 12 conifers in one night in my garden. Mostly Pinus strobus and Pinus thunbergii. They did hit random other conifers. It’s maddening for sure!
@@JDM_Gardens That stinks! Did they just eat the buds or also branches & foliage?
@ they chewed off branches and foliage. I’m working on fencing in my part of my property, but it’s about 4 acres and that’s not cheap!
I had a Norway spruce totally destroyed by deer antler rubbing a few years ago so I've since had to put fencing around all my trees.
@@mattanderson3452 I lost a blue atlas cedar (cedrus atlantica) one time for the same reason. Very annoying!
Why not try a Monkey Puzzle tree, I'm sure deer couldn't eat those. I had similar problems with my plantings in Serbia where my wife was born and we recently came across a weekend cottage in the mountains for sale we couldn't pass up. So many of my seedlings (I brought from the states) were topped off by deer last winter. I installed a motion sensor flood light (we only have 1 acre) which illuminates the path where the deer would come down the mountain from. Incidentally, the native Serbian spruce is quite a specimen in it's native territory.
@@davidsike734 Good thought but it actually gets too cold for monkey puzzle here... Down to -5°F / -20°C. The heat and humidity is an even bigger problem for it.
Hey Moses, I’m having trouble finding info on dwarf conifers. Which spruce rootstock is mostly used for dwarf spruce grafting?
Thanks in advance
@@SpartanTrees Norway Spruce (picea abies) in 99% of grafted spruces. I would have said 100%, but i thought there was a small posibility that some colorado spruce cultivars might be grafted to colorado spruce rootstock because that species is grown so much in the horticultural trade.
I have a question I couldn’t find a answer on google I have 500 loblolly pine seeds stored in room temperature for the last 7 months can I still plant them and they will grow
@@irnesmujic976 I don't know for sure, but they might need cold stratification before they will sprout. I recommend searching online for some forestry guidelines. Also, 500 seeds is a lot! Where did you buy those?
@@moseseisley557 Amazon
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