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31/25 and overcast Only made it up to 32.3F today.

Yeah...deeper CAD and they’re fine. When it turns into one of those shallow in-situ deals they will probably mix out a bit before Gene and I. But it’s not like it’s going to cost them much...maybe a little less freezing drizzle in some events.

Actually it looks a lot like this one. https://amp.freep.com/amp/86169626

Wouldn’t an albino be all white?

So I’ve been having an animal digging under my gate to my run off and on the past few weeks. My outdoor cam has caught a whitish animal a few nights, but I could never make it out clearly. It looked like the size of a skunk, but lighter like an opossum. I even wondered if it was an ermine, but I figured they could get in between the chain links of the gate and wouldn’t dig. Anyway, I setup a trail cam and we found the guilty party. Has anyone seen a skunk this white before?

Still 28.9° here

White Mountain peeps making snow in their yards. I’ve now seen everything.

I’ll eat just about anything if it’s high quality and prepared well. The only things left I want to try are sea urchin and conch. I wish I ate oysters more, but shucking them is a biatch. They’ll probably be dirt cheap next year.

25.9° trying to decouple It’s been a struggle to get cold nights although I’m not complaining. My bamboo is thankful.

Or just ride the positive extreme. That’s been pretty balls on.

I’ve posted the Pinkham form before, but here it is again with the back story on the event. Had to go to archive.org to find the story again since the url is now dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160817212606/https://www.ohcroo.com/winter_of_1969.cfm

Here’s the Harris form.

Remove Pinkham? It’s legit and representative of the high terrain in the area.

Looking good. Chippies got some of them. Steve sent me some too. We’ll see if the SNE ones handle winter better than BNA. I got these from Sheffield’s, but I had to wait a year for the notification they were in stock. https://sheffields.com/seeds/Castanea/dentata Go Native trees has started trees in stock and sometimes seeds. I got germinated ones from them in spring of 2019 and saplings in 2018. I prefer the direct from seed method with these since they have such a deep taproot. If the regulations are progressing for the resistant trees you could wait it out a few years for those as well. Generally they want you to grow a pure non-GMO tree along with one of the eventual resistant ones so that they can fertilize each other and increase genetic diversity. Guess I’ll be going for the 6ft ones then. lol

I’m working on the Weymouth 2015 one right now.

I have to protect them from the voles and chippies too. I found that out the hard way the first time I tried it. I may try some of those 4-5ft tree tubes to train them going upward because my other chestnut trees are growing as much outward as upward since they have a wide open field. I'm afraid to prune them and introduce wounds.

Maybe all of yours fell in my yard.

35/22 Very -SN

22.5° this morning. Cool, but nothing insane for this time of year.

Yeah it must be the Darling named GMO trees then. I think they only had to change a few genes out of the 40k in the genome. The added gene produces oxalate oxidase (OxO) which neutralizes the oxalic acid that is produced by the blight fungus. So the fungus can actually exist on the trees without the acid being formed to kill it. And the gene is found naturally in wheat and bananas and other plants already. I think there's another marker gene in there for identifying which seeds actually have the resistant gene. So really it's like 99.999% or better. https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/about.asp Here's my seeds that came in. They are way smaller than the Chinese ones you can find in grocery stores right now.

Nice. So these are the GMO "Darling" trees from Suny-ESF? As far as I know those weren't given the government approval yet, but maybe they know more than what has been publicly released yet. If so, that's awesome news. I actually purchased a bunch of seeds online this fall and I have them stratifying in the fridge now. Come spring I'll directly plant the seeds and let them freely root their taproot on their own. If anyone is around me and wants a few let me know.

40.8° with flakeage.

What’s the coldest extremes you’ve experienced?

Yeah I think I have one that’s been f’ed up for awhile.