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Post by scrub-buster on Aug 9, 2017 8:40:58 GMT -5
I've noticed the osage and walnut trees are ahead of schedule with the mast crop this year. It makes sense with the early leaf out due to the warm winter. The walnut limbs are sagging from all the wait they are carrying. The osage fruit is already dropping. That normally doesn't happen until late September/early October. I haven't checked any oak trees yet. I wonder how this early mast crop is going to affect bow season this year. With my luck the acorns will be picked clean before October 1st.
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Post by steiny on Aug 9, 2017 8:46:02 GMT -5
Squirrel hunting last weekend in southern, IL and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary.
Mast was just starting to fall there, primarily a few walnuts and hickory nuts, not many acorns.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2017 9:00:36 GMT -5
I agree. Black walnut has dropped most of them and my black walnut is busting at it seams with full size acorns. The other oak trees seem to be on normal schedule. I did see some Osage oranges on the ground yesterday. Typical mask this year. My black, pin and red oaks have good/huge masks, but white , shumard, bur, and english oaks have very few. Two buckeye trees have a good mask. Almost forgot about those two. Haven't checked the honey locusts yet.
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Post by esshup on Aug 10, 2017 20:33:48 GMT -5
Nothing different up here. We had a late frost and the fruit crop in the orchard is minimal to zero. No peaches, few pears and maybe 15% of the usual apples. No apples on the wild apple trees at the back of the property.
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Post by scrub-buster on Aug 10, 2017 21:38:57 GMT -5
In the southern part of the state we had a very warm end to winter. Everything greened up about a month earlier than normal. I saw frogs and a snake out in January and February.
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Post by beermaker on Aug 11, 2017 5:55:03 GMT -5
One of my hickory trees is being hit pretty hard by the grey squirrels. Pretty much right on schedule.
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 11, 2017 7:12:15 GMT -5
My maple in the front yard is already changing color..
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 8:05:11 GMT -5
I would not be surprise if the fall colors start in a few week. I read once that 3 cooler nights in a row in the low 50's to 40's will trigger the trees to start dropping. Well this past week we had 48 and two in mid fifties.
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Aug 11, 2017 10:04:31 GMT -5
My maple in the front yard is already changing color.. I just saw one that was red and yellow already as well. |
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Post by scrub-buster on Aug 11, 2017 11:46:14 GMT -5
If the leaves start dropping early we are going to lose some stand cover for bow season.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 12:00:57 GMT -5
If the leaves start dropping early we are going to lose some stand cover for bow season. Try to put stands in cedar trees or big wolf trees (oaks). Move away from climbers. |
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Post by antiwheeze on Aug 11, 2017 14:43:17 GMT -5
Squirrels have been cutting on the 150 yo burr oak at work downtown for the last week or so. Seems early.
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Post by scrub-buster on Aug 11, 2017 14:51:55 GMT -5
If the leaves start dropping early we are going to lose some stand cover for bow season. Try to put stands in cedar trees or big wolf trees (oaks). Move away from climbers. I moved away from climbers years ago. We try to use cedars and gnarly osage trees when we can. |
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Post by boonechaser on Aug 11, 2017 22:26:20 GMT -5
Seeing plenty of young acorns on trees. Seems normal to me.
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Post by duff on Aug 12, 2017 5:16:02 GMT -5
My trees are normal. May be a light year for some mast like hickory. Usually have a few the squirrels are hitting by now and we have not seen that yet. Persimmon trees looked lite too.
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Post by jjas on Aug 12, 2017 7:33:41 GMT -5
In some areas it may be a combination of heat and lower than normal rain totals that are causing a bit of early leaf drop and/or mast drop.
While we've had rain, it's been in smaller amounts like a .25" or .50" @ any given time. We haven't had an inch of rain in one day since mid-June. But with the smaller rains we've had, we are only down an inch and a quarter for June and July.
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Post by scrub-buster on Aug 12, 2017 11:36:32 GMT -5
We have had frequent rain this summer. It seems like whenever the ground starts to dry up it rains again. Our yard is super thick right now. I hauled 8 wheel barrow loads of clippings out after the last time I mowed.
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Post by tynimiller on Aug 14, 2017 7:55:15 GMT -5
Fruit & nut trees around here did start letting go of some things a while back (few weeks or so) however some of them that time frame is completely normal. Apples have quite a few drop rates that range from early August to late December. This year though the early warm temps, wet spring had the fruit and nut trees around here putting on oodles of fruit and mast. Then when the weather dried up and "summer" hit many of these trees kicked into survive and save mode and released some of their not quite fully ripe fruit/mast. Fairly common thing actually I just think this year it hit a touch later than we are used to sometimes.
Oaks around me seem hit or miss though this year, but that is just the cycle of oaks...a few are loaded though and I'm hoping for good things. My parents crab and wild apples have been dropping for a few weeks now though as well.
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