Nut Tree's
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 36
Nut Tree's
Since I cant wait for oaks to grow up and mast, I planted 6 chinease chestnut tree's, which gurney's said produce in 5 years. Now, hindsight makes me wonder, will deer eat the chestnuts? I want to have something with a decent protien content.
#2
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: Nut Tree's
Sure they will eat chestnuts. Try some sawtooth oaks if you want some quick producers. Getting 2 year old saplings you could see acorns in about 6 years. They bear early in the fall.
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RE: Nut Tree's
ORIGINAL: Uddeholm
Since I cant wait for oaks to grow up and mast, I planted 6 chinease chestnut tree's, which gurney's said produce in 5 years. Now, hindsight makes me wonder, will deer eat the chestnuts? I want to have something with a decent protien content.
Since I cant wait for oaks to grow up and mast, I planted 6 chinease chestnut tree's, which gurney's said produce in 5 years. Now, hindsight makes me wonder, will deer eat the chestnuts? I want to have something with a decent protien content.
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Bay City MI USA
Posts: 389
RE: Nut Tree's
ORIGINAL: Uddeholm
Since I cant wait for oaks to grow up and mast, I planted 6 chinease chestnut tree's, which gurney's said produce in 5 years. Now, hindsight makes me wonder, will deer eat the chestnuts? I want to have something with a decent protien content.
Since I cant wait for oaks to grow up and mast, I planted 6 chinease chestnut tree's, which gurney's said produce in 5 years. Now, hindsight makes me wonder, will deer eat the chestnuts? I want to have something with a decent protien content.
#6
Spike
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 36
RE: Nut Tree's
ORIGINAL: answerguy
How much protein do you think 6 trees will provide your deer? If they are grouped together they may make a nice little spot to hunt but they aren't going to provide much food for your deer in the long run.
ORIGINAL: Uddeholm
Since I cant wait for oaks to grow up and mast, I planted 6 chinease chestnut tree's, which gurney's said produce in 5 years. Now, hindsight makes me wonder, will deer eat the chestnuts? I want to have something with a decent protien content.
Since I cant wait for oaks to grow up and mast, I planted 6 chinease chestnut tree's, which gurney's said produce in 5 years. Now, hindsight makes me wonder, will deer eat the chestnuts? I want to have something with a decent protien content.
Has anyone grown the oaks in the north? I'm in Upper Michigan.I would assume the sawtooth is a southern tree, so might take awhile longer to get production out of them.