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    WTB Spray Rig & Air Knife/Spade

    If Reach's doesn't work out and you cannot find another used, could you get by with a smaller pump? For soil you probably only need 150-200 psi max (don't even need that, but good to have the extra space) and 5-10GPM should be plenty. Sprayer Depot is pretty good about customizing rather than...
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    Help with Planting Large Trees

    Not yet.
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    Distel Carbon Fiber climbers and Gecko climbers pair $525 SOLD

    Looks like there are 3 in that tree? Upper left, upper middle, and lower mid-right
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    Help with Planting Large Trees

    Agree...we break up the sides a little with shovels so it doesn't behave like a pot side wall.
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    Anybody going to ISA in Detroit?

    I'm registered... probably will run back and forth - it's a little over 90 minutes away.
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    Wildfires

    I spoke wrong when I said a large % of US forests... Higher % (than Canada) is what I meant to say. Like the SW US.
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    Help with Planting Large Trees

    thanks! sending
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    Wildfires

    That...and a large % of US forests border desert conditions so the fuel moisture contents are likely much lower.
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    Help with Planting Large Trees

    First sentence there clarified some things for me: "Growing trees in boxes is the predominant way by nurseries in the desert southwest and west coast.". As mentioned earlier, it's a higher cost "specialty" product the few times I've seen boxed trees here - like a larger specimen Japanese maple...
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    A new path for Chestnut restoration?

    Now it's on my news feed. Another similar article but from Oregon State: https://theconversation.com/new-genetic-approaches-raise-hopes-for-restoring-the-american-chestnut-to-its-former-glory-282125
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    Help with Planting Large Trees

    Maybe a point of clarification: When you say "boxes" are these square wooden boxes? Filled with planting media (pine bark?)? Have they spent the whole time at the nursery in the wooden box? Above ground? Or are they circular plastic pots? What caliper are the looking for? Or do they just...
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    Help with Planting Large Trees

    I ordered it from Spiral Metals in Wisconsin: 608-538-4000 (they are a sister company to Lowe Manufacturing - which I see frequently online when looking for auger bits.) OK: sidebar, funny story. I was thinking I should get a 36" diameter auger, and saw a Lowe Mfg. one that was 36" long. I...
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    Help with Planting Large Trees

    All great questions that I haven't been able to answer. I haven't found a nursery yet that doesn't consistently deliver trees too deep. I don't know that an individual tree is too deep until we are at the site, hole dug, and start taking the root ball apart. What am I supposed to do? Replace...
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    Help with Planting Large Trees

    Does it have to be a box? B&B accepted? Larger pots? We have a 40" auger. I had it custom made (cost including shipping was $1200 so not outrageous). It's only 18" tall (the auger part) with a total length of 28" so it's easier to manage and gets plenty of depth for trees. (Sidebar: if you...
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    A new path for Chestnut restoration?

    I misread/misunderstood the first time I read that article. Yes, the Darling 54 seedlings are from the SUNY-ESF line that was modified with OxO (oxalate oxidase) from wheat. Apparently, this licensing to a private entity is, in part, why ACF withdrew support from the Darling lines of research...
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