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Sun angle fail.

Is that in meters? ~1300ft? edit…nm, it clearly states feet.

Not sure how you tell, but that's the tree I collect seed from every season...tons of them. Can you tell quickly off hand if that's green or white?

Ditto that for ORH...they were well below 1kft back then.

GFS is pretty wet up here Fri night. Hopefully euro/ukie follow suit.

Ash tree at work. I assume this is early EAB?

I have one out in the back woods that is in that 2.5-3" diameter range that is starting to develop furrows near the bottom. It's probably a 30-40ft tall tree now. I'm worried it's getting to that point now where blight will become an issue. I may try the mud pack treatment on the bark if gets to that point. I wanted that tree at maturity for if/when the Darling GMO trees become available so I can get some blight resistant nuts with genetic diversity. https://ecosystems.psu.edu/research/chestnut/breeding/mudpacking

Yeah there’s a bad positive feedback loop up there in the arctic with the thinning sea ice volume and loss of permafrost. We’re getting cutoff from those cP airmasses more and more in the deep summer and even when we get them it’s generally meh.

I hear ya on the squirrels, chippies, and voles. All of my direct seeded chestnuts have 1/2” hardware cloth cages the first year and I put some flashing a few inches in the ground around them to keep the diggers away. Year 2 I upgrade to regular 2x4” 5ft high cages to protect from the deer. This guy is in year 2 and seems to be liking being somewhat close to the back woods…maybe the roots are mixing and mingling with established oak/beech roots and contributing some mycorrhizal fungi?

Bamboo in the background shooting for the moon. That’s the phyllostachys aureosulcata ‘spectabilis’. To the left is the phyllostachys nuda which is a little shorter, but upsized well from last year. The phyllostachys parvifolia isn’t in the image. It’s later shooting, but is putting out some huge shoots…should be some 15 footers this year. Spectabilis Parvifolia…these shoots frequently come out at an angle which is annoying so I wire tie them to straighten them out. It’s worth the effort because the culms get so tall and wide. The chickens are doing a pretty good job of chewing away at any rhizomes or shoots that try to grow outside of their cages although my phyllostachys atrovaginata (incense bamboo) has been annoyingly aggressive. It’s been spreading more “out” than “up” and I had to dig up a bunch of spreading rhizomes from them. I may completely pull those out come fall and plant a cold hardy banana (musa basjoo) in the spring or some kind of dwarf deciduous fruit tree that I can keep pruning back to provide shade in the run (and eventually fruit).

And oh yeah…**** chipmunks.

Yeah I’m seeing really good leaps with my planted chestnuts this year. It’s been sleep, creep, leap for them and all of my trees too. My exception may be my hickories, but those are really slow growing the first few years. The chestnuts I planted directly from seed experience none of that though. They put that tap root right down and put on about 6-12” of growth year 1 and then take off year 2. So direct seeding is definitely the way to go with nut trees if possible. I think after next year those trees will already be caught up to the size of my potted ones that were a couple years old when I planted them the year before I direct seeded.

Wreckin up the lawn thread with long grass and letting clover go to seed.

Is DIT posting somewhere with MetHerb now?

I'd honestly like to see an old school COC summer like the 60s and 70s had...just to know it can happen again. I'm afraid those days are gone though. Mid/upper 40s in July are probably the best we can do up here...excluding the NNE rad pits.

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You mean new growth? It should have put out quite a bit by now. Did you plant it last year? Was it potted or bare root? If it was planted before last year, did you fertilize? With most of my potted trees…year 1 I hope they survive, year 2 they start to get their root footing, and year 3 they start to take off with their top growth.

I get them during summer on all of my red maples. It’s some kind of fungus. It doesn’t hurt the tree…just brown spots on the leaves. I think it’s called maple leaf tar spot.

Breezy too. Love it.

It’s a little shallow initially…they may have been indicating it getting hung up a bit in the high terrain, but you can clearly see it’s moving on vis.

84/58 now behind the front. Getting a little downslope heating initially with the wind shift as the CAA lags a bit.

FSO looks like an outlier, but dry air advection nonetheless.

Front is through at home with the dews starting to drop. 82/66

Or the 1911 heat wave.