Author Topic: Butternut Seedlings (Read 9901 times)

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #20 on:** August 05, 2007, 02:16:56 pm »

More butternut seedlings discovered today from last fall's seed sowing.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #21 on:** September 02, 2007, 04:53:11 pm »

Here are some shots of a 5 year old seedling. One of my best growing ones. This was planted insitu as a nut on the woodlot in 2002.

Just about 36 inches to the tip of the terminal bud.

Just some perspective on the size of the stem.

Some perspective on leaf size and crown size.

WDH · « **Reply #22 on:** September 05, 2007, 05:56:49 pm »

SD,

You are the Butternut whisperer

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #23 on:** November 11, 2007, 03:42:25 pm »

Well, I was out in the back yard today looking over some things. And there, among all the young saplings on north side of my house I see....the typical large buds of a butternut tree. I thought, no, can't be. Walked closer for an inspection of the specimen and low and behold a 7 foot butternut sapling. I flagged it for spring transplanting. I'll be jiggered. Never thought to find one there in all the thickets. It's about the most perfect symmetrical and formed butternut sapling I've seen.

WDH · « **Reply #24 on:** November 11, 2007, 09:37:25 pm »

So, I guess that I am right

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Gary_C · « **Reply #25 on:** November 11, 2007, 10:57:44 pm »

I thought I have heard that some type of disease was going to kill all the butternut?

Is this true and are you just doing this for naught?

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #26 on:** November 12, 2007, 04:24:22 am »

Some people claim butternut canker, the disease, is here in NB, but I have not seen it in my area yet. I have seen some dying trees along a rail road track, but never really saw any canker like I'm used to seeing on other hardwood trees. Just looked like death from old age. Butternut is not a long lived tree to start with, 75 years is a real old one. I think the saving grace around here is that it is not growing everywhere, just a light sprinkling of it and never pure stands. I don't know if it has an alternate host either.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #27 on:** May 11, 2008, 08:48:25 am »

Here's a butternut I transplanted today from some of my seeding projects. It's a bit over 7 feet tall. I planted it on a site where I tore down an old shed last fall.

Nice typical butternut symmetry, and well balanced. I'll have my bucket waiting to collect butternuts in 25 years.

Mooseherder · « **Reply #28 on:** May 11, 2008, 10:50:46 am »

That sure is pretty country Swamp Donkey.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #29 on:** May 11, 2008, 05:49:52 pm »

Went out and measured the terminal shoot and it grew 26 inches in 2007. Those laterals in the last pic are from growth in 2007 as well. It's the first year it started branching out.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #30 on:** May 12, 2008, 04:11:05 am »

Quote from: Mooseherder on May 11, 2008, 10:50:46 am

That sure is pretty country Swamp Donkey.

In the second picture, the land beyond the field in the middle of the picture is in Maine.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #31 on:** May 21, 2008, 06:59:05 pm »

The awakening.

The transplant is coming along nicely.

A new beginning.

Dug this seedling up this spring from under the old yard tree.

WDH · « **Reply #32 on:** May 21, 2008, 09:56:58 pm »

That first pic is beautiful.........

thecfarm · « **Reply #33 on:** May 22, 2008, 03:46:27 am »

SD,how do you plant the nut?Do you scrap off the outside fuzz?Or just let the nut dry?I have some dried from last year in the garage,somewheres.I did have 4 on my land.Two have died and one got cut for the view.I mow around where they grow,none can grow up around them.The squirrels have not planted any in the woods.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #34 on:** May 22, 2008, 04:17:44 pm »

cfarm,
I sink'em in the mud in fall, husk and all.

Ones that drop under the yard tree, and I don't pick them up, sprout up by July. They seem to be as easy to grow as acorns.

I cracked open some of the walnuts I wintered and they were sterile, no meat inside. Now last fall I checked a couple and they had meat. Trees might not be mature enough, don't know.

thecfarm · « **Reply #35 on:** May 22, 2008, 07:51:00 pm »

Thank you.I will have to try it.

Lanier_Lurker · « **Reply #36 on:** May 22, 2008, 09:24:03 pm »

Looks a lot like my hickory seedlings.

WDH · « **Reply #37 on:** May 22, 2008, 09:38:44 pm »

Cousins, they are.

Dodgy Loner · « **Reply #38 on:** May 22, 2008, 09:53:27 pm »

Talk like Yoda, you do

In all the years I've been studying dendrology, I can't say that I've ever come across a butternut in the wild

. I would love to plant some around here, but I can't find any trees to collect seeds from!

WDH · « **Reply #39 on:** May 22, 2008, 10:06:56 pm »

Maybe SwampDonkey, send some to you he can.

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