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Here’s my autumn blaze. Lookin’ good close to the run. It probably has some roots feeding into that endomycorrhizal fungi under my 1ft deep wood chips in the run. And yeah, there’s a little cloud iridescence above the trees. It looked more clearly like a rainbow in person.

https://sheffields.com/seeds-for-sale/Juglans/nigra/////Northern//762/Black-Walnut,-Eastern-Black-Walnut/Black-Walnut,-Eastern-Black-Walnut I’d give them the soak and then put them in a ziplock bag with some moist (not wet) peat moss and just store them in the back of your fridge. Every once in awhile check them for signs of mold. At some point in the spring they may start germinating in the fridge or you can pull them when the chance of frost is gone and store the bag somewhere safe outside away from critters. Or you can pot them up or directly seed them even if they haven’t started germinating yet and they’ll do their thing eventually. You can directly seed some now too if you protect them from rodents above and below ground. Then they can cold stratify naturally all winter and then start rooting first thing in the spring when nature tells them they’re ready. These nut trees put out strong, deep taproots so direct seeding is really the way to go for the healthiest tree. They’ll be more drought resistant too and you don’t have to worry about transplant shock.

I was going to guess black walnut, but knew it once I saw the leaves/leaflets. I had been wanting to grow some, but they produce a chemical called juglone which is toxic to many other plants and trees. I'm torn. lol I guess I could grow some in tree pots and then decide later what to do with them.

103/-9 for a 1% RH at the Twenty Nine Palms ASOS right now. Sounds like a nice place.

Jamaica Plain COOP is +2.3F

The last BN day at CON was 6/17 and that day was 85/44.

A gall is what I was thinking...hence the thin and hollow question.

If I did western PA, Erie would be tempting. You have a straight shot south to visit Pit or could head NE for Buff or W for Cleveland. Right by the lake too.

Hardy pecan maybe? Doesn’t look round enough for English walnut. Is it thin and hollow?

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Not sure where that pic is from but it’s old. https://m.facebook.com/ReaperArchery/photos/a.304480399637146/3067345740017251/?type=3&source=54

Yeah GFS is meh on heat the rest of the work week...especially for ENE. Over the top shot of heat first into NNE on Saturday and then days and days of torch for all. Of course it's pushed back to d7+ again though.

And yeah the GFS and EC aren't as cool...we'll see if they trend cooler at 12z or if the nam is just its usual synoptically challenged self.

Euro/GFS at 925 and the 12z NAM loop of 850s. Notice the source region and the winds backing and advecting those cooler temps in from osumetstud.

Tuesday. The ones with multiple leaflets are hickories. the others are persimmon and pin oak.

How is that not a door? And I'd be surprised if the STEM doesn't have a day below the 80s.

No it isn't. NE

NAM gone wild with that door. 850s under 10C for a couple days.

I have about 10 germinating. I'll have to find or take some pics. I would use one with an attachment, but I have a lot of those invasive buckthorn trees and some of them are 2-4" wide. I could probably rent one for the day and save a lot of money, but I like my own toys.

Nice. I got an autumn blaze from Lowes a few years ago on clearance. It was actually pruned aesthetically really well. The trunk has a slight hook that I've been trying to work out by tying the tree back to my chicken run, but other than that it's a great looking tree.

He could try one of those tree watering bags or rings like the tree gator. I’ve never used one myself since we have plenty of soil moisture.

We will judge based on hours of 70+ dews. I don’t like the avg ones for this because periods of COC decades ago brought down the means. A month of dews in the 60s ranks very high, but isn’t necessarily too impressive because of no COC.

I picture Scoot with a big rack on his head laying limp on the ground and you taking a selfie with him.

I don’t think the manned observer reported dewpoint. I’d have to look back at old obs, but based on everything being near 32F I assume most obs came in with a missing dew and the plotter is seeing it as 0C aka 32F.