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Post by boonechaser on Mar 26, 2015 14:56:13 GMT -5
Am picking up 300 conifer 3 year old seedlings first week to plant as winter and bedding area cover on my property. I have a mixture of red pine and white pine's. My question is approximately how far apart should I plant the seedling's ? They range from 12" to 20" in height. The acreage I am converting over consist of 3.5 to 4 acre's of gently rolling hay ground bordered by hardwood's.
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Post by drs on Mar 27, 2015 4:06:56 GMT -5
Am picking up 300 conifer 3 year old seedlings first week to plant as winter and bedding area cover on my property. I have a mixture of red pine and white pine's. My question is approximately how far apart should I plant the seedling's ? They range from 12" to 20" in height. The acreage I am converting over consist of 3.5 to 4 acre's of gently rolling hay ground bordered by hardwood's. I'd advise planting (spacing) your conifers 15' to 25'. However, conifers survive much better when planted in the fall, as all plants develop their roots and establish themselves, better when planted in the fall. Planting them in Spring will result in more care for them, like watering during the Summer Months.
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Post by steiny on Mar 27, 2015 6:04:14 GMT -5
I'd agree w/ DRS suggestion of 15 to 25 feet if you want the tree to fully develop. If you want a wall of them to block visibility, plant on 10 centers in a row, then another row son 10' centers staggered in the gaps of first row. I've planted several thousand of the same species in spring and haven't had any trouble, just hope for a damp first growing season.
It really helps first couple years to control weed growth around them by spraying or mowing. If you plant in a straight line you can just mow down the line as close as possible leaving a strip of trees and weeds. This works pretty good.
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Post by dadfsr on Mar 27, 2015 6:23:48 GMT -5
I've planted the start of an evergreen windbreak/wildlife area on the west side of my old hayfield that was put in on 10' spacing between trees and rows 10' apart with the trees offset halfway between the last row. My mower deck is 6' so I can easily mow down and back in each row to help keep the weeds down. Now if I could just keep the deer from taking out the trees closest to the woods.....I've been trying though Hopefully you don't have a dry summer (like we did about 15 years ago when I put these in) or you will be finding yourself trying to find ways of watering the seedlings. I actually had about a dozen buckets with small holes in the bottom that I would set next to each seedling and fill from water filled trash cans that I hauled in the back of my pickup....by the time I'd get the last one filled the first one was about empty and it would be moved up to the next seedling. Fortunately I only had about a 100 to do that first year because it took most of a day just to fill cans and move buckets.
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Post by throbak on Mar 27, 2015 7:26:36 GMT -5
Doesn't make any difference with all your deer they will be gone you will hate the roots on 3 yr olds when all those are eaten get Virginia Pines they take the browse better
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Post by trophyparadise on Mar 27, 2015 7:45:57 GMT -5
Several good suggestions so far. Definitely decide what you want them to look like in 10 years before planting. If you want a visual screen, definitely plant them about 8-10 ft apart, but know you will have to thin them by cutting every other one down in about 10-12 years. If you want to create a more natural forest setting, plant them at least 20ft apart and stagger them...unless you just want them in rows. I've got 800 tree | |