Half of the trees with weed cloth are dead already. How can you say the weed cloth helped when the tree still died? Why is the content from May only being released now? It looks like you need to plant Elliotts instead of Lakota trees. When will you replace all the dead trees?
When I first planted my trees there was no weed cloth. I had tree guards made out of Tyvek around each tree. We planted in February 2022. When I came back end of summer in August the weeds really took me by surprise. Had no idea how fast they would grow and how aggressive they would be. My potted trees were smaller and the weed's were massive and thick trapping moisture. On top of that the Tyvek was trapping moisture as well. I had time to bush-hog the lanes of the trees in August, but not enough time to get the weeds right up against the trees, on the rows. I came back Nov. 2022 and assessed the trees. I had lost a lot and a bunch of the smaller trees were struggling. Most of the trees I lost had black roots and I believe they died of root rot. I had to figure out a way to keep the weeds from around the trees so they wouldn't have all that moisture and humidity trapped up against them, causing root rot. I can't be on the farm every month so the question was what can I do to suppress the weeds up close around the trees to give them a fighting chance. I decided to try the weed-cloth in Nov 2022. In may 2023 I can back. about a month or 2 into summer and that's where this video is picking back up. So the tree for instance that was dead in the video... It was probably dead in Nov 2022, I just wasn't sure. So I put weed cloth around them. The weed cloth, not only save the trees from the onslaught of weeds that came this past summer but it also allowed the Elliot Root Stock of the dead Amling and Gafford's to grow. I will try to nurture those Elliots and then Graft lakota scion onto them once the Elliots are established. As far as the Varietals, Lakota are a newer "improved" varietal with excellent scab resistance. The Lakota did the best out of all my trees. Because I can't manage the orchard every month like I would like to do I wanted to make sure and get the most disease resistant trees that are also good enough for commercial production. So that''s why Lakota is my main crop. Amling and Gafford are the pollinators. Gafford did the absolute worst of all my trees. I am going to replace those with Oconee. Elliot is a great tree and there is a reason they use it for rootstock. The roots are the BEST. But I decided to go with Lakota and now because of pollination schedules Elliot would not be ideal for my orchard. At least not this 10 acres of the orchard. I hope to finish planting the 10 acres in Feb 2024. So I have 700 trees on 10 acres. Right now staying Lakota for main crop and I am going to plant Oconee for the pollinator. Still not sure if I will plant more Amling as a pollinator. I may switch that as well but Im not sure yet.
I planted a bare root pecan about 5 feet tall five or six years ago, and I don’t think it is close to bearing nuts yet. It is probably around ten feet tall now. Do you think you’ll ever see your first nut or is this for the benefit of your offspring?
Well, first of all, if you have a tree that's that old and that big and it's not bearing nuts I think there's a problem. How many pecan trees did you plant? What varietal? Do you have a pollinator that you've matched it with? Im not sure how much experience you have but if you don't have a pollinator you will not get nuts. I do plan on harvesting nuts. Lakota produces early and it over-bares. I should see nuts at 4 years after planting and a good solid crop about 7 years after planting.
I wanted a pecan tree but did not want the yard waste from nuts so I intentionally only planted one. It is the Home Depot varietal. Do pecan farmers consider each other to be nutters?
Half of the trees with weed cloth are dead already. How can you say the weed cloth helped when the tree still died? Why is the content from May only being released now? It looks like you need to plant Elliotts instead of Lakota trees. When will you replace all the dead trees?
When I first planted my trees there was no weed cloth. I had tree guards made out of Tyvek around each tree. We planted in February 2022. When I came back end of summer in August the weeds really took me by surprise. Had no idea how fast they would grow and how aggressive they would be. My potted trees were smaller and the weed's were massive and thick trapping moisture. On top of that the Tyvek was trapping moisture as well. I had time to bush-hog the lanes of the trees in August, but not enough time to get the weeds right up against the trees, on the rows. I came back Nov. 2022 and assessed the trees. I had lost a lot and a bunch of the smaller trees were struggling. Most of the trees I lost had black roots and I believe they died of root rot. I had to figure out a way to keep the weeds from around the trees so they wouldn't have all that moisture and humidity trapped up against them, causing root rot. I can't be on the farm every month so the question was what can I do to suppress the weeds up close around the trees to give them a fighting chance. I decided to try the weed-cloth in Nov 2022. In may 2023 I can back. about a month or 2 into summer and that's where this video is picking back up. So the tree for instance that was dead in the video... It was probably dead in Nov 2022, I just wasn't sure. So I put weed cloth around them. The weed cloth, not only save the trees from the onslaught of weeds that came this past summer but it also allowed the Elliot Root Stock of the dead Amling and Gafford's to grow. I will try to nurture those Elliots and then Graft lakota scion onto them once the Elliots are established.
As far as the Varietals, Lakota are a newer "improved" varietal with excellent scab resistance. The Lakota did the best out of all my trees. Because I can't manage the orchard every month like I would like to do I wanted to make sure and get the most disease resistant trees that are also good enough for commercial production. So that''s why Lakota is my main crop. Amling and Gafford are the pollinators. Gafford did the absolute worst of all my trees. I am going to replace those with Oconee. Elliot is a great tree and there is a reason they use it for rootstock. The roots are the BEST. But I decided to go with Lakota and now because of pollination schedules Elliot would not be ideal for my orchard. At least not this 10 acres of the orchard.
I hope to finish planting the 10 acres in Feb 2024. So I have 700 trees on 10 acres. Right now staying Lakota for main crop and I am going to plant Oconee for the pollinator. Still not sure if I will plant more Amling as a pollinator. I may switch that as well but Im not sure yet.
I planted a bare root pecan about 5 feet tall five or six years ago, and I don’t think it is close to bearing nuts yet. It is probably around ten feet tall now. Do you think you’ll ever see your first nut or is this for the benefit of your offspring?
Well, first of all, if you have a tree that's that old and that big and it's not bearing nuts I think there's a problem. How many pecan trees did you plant? What varietal? Do you have a pollinator that you've matched it with? Im not sure how much experience you have but if you don't have a pollinator you will not get nuts.
I do plan on harvesting nuts. Lakota produces early and it over-bares. I should see nuts at 4 years after planting and a good solid crop about 7 years after planting.
I wanted a pecan tree but did not want the yard waste from nuts so I intentionally only planted one. It is the Home Depot varietal. Do pecan farmers consider each other to be nutters?
Gotcha! Makes sense they're nice trees. Nutters.... hmmm... I'm still pretty new to all this... but, maybe. lol.