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Lime takes a while to work into the soil substructure to "help alot"...especially since your PH came back at 6.5....not really going to be of much help. I also wonder why you didn't do a soil test (a real one) now at the onset...no sense in doing one for some time as the fert and lime sort of clusters the results. No till buck on a bag products often contain a big amount of Rye grass, which WI does. This grows great, giving the sense of "accomplishment" but it's really a pain in the neck seed selection and not one that deer are really targeting. Sure, you may get some browse on it by chance or at the draw of the remaining mix, but it's paying alot for little. Hopefully the canopy gives you some sunlight as it fills in. Good luck in your experiement, learning sometimes is best done through trial and error. I know I've been there.

It's a great program...very worth checking into.

Swtich to cams with AA batteries...plenty of them out there and more reliable than Stealth. BTC, Primos Ultra Series, Covert...all way higher on the list than Stealth. Certainly not infallable, but near as likely as being DOA.

Congrats!

Grim Reaper

Wildview and Stealth are the same cam manufacturer...both owned by GSM. I too had a 430. It went back three times for replacement. The third one works when it wants to work...it's a POS.

I'm not a brand basher per say, because usually all brand lines have a good cam or two from time to time. But, having said that...Stealth has not been a reliable manufacturer. I realyl don't know how they stay in business.

Just got my hand caught on my phone. Lol...just a hen though.

Not a bird heard or seen yet...in my blind so at least I'm dry. Going to be a long quiet bird wise, but noisy windy day. I'm also trying to stay awake, lol.

But it's cool, lol. It really will do benefit to just get that tree focused on growth and not reproduction.

A 6-7 foot tree on a common semi dwarf rootstock is nothing... esp in your situation. You should not be letting it set fruit. Bottom line.

No doubt...I have a crabapple in my back yard that is probably as old as I am and I make one or two hacks at that thing every winter. I curse it everytime I send a crabapple out of the JD....I hit the dog once with one and he didn't come near me for a month. I'm just waiting to break a window. I pick them up all the time, but still one or two get by me.

Logic? The tree's goal is to produce seed. Our goal is to have it produce fruit year and year for many years. Big difference. I bought the tree, therefore I want it to do what I want it to do. Not seed prematurely and die out because of stress, lack of a root system or leaf structure, etc. The tree's goal isn't to live many long years...it's simply to produce seed. There's also no logic in letting a treee do what it "wants" when people have grafted the freaking thing to a rootstock. Hey, create Frankenstein and let him do what he wants.

It's not cool - it's a something you need to correct. You don't want the fruit that early in the tree's lifespan. Let the tree focus on placing energy into where it NEEDS it. Fruit bearing trees and plants oftentimes will flower/bloom and try to produce fruit before they should. Cool would be the tree deciding not to flower at all right now.

I don't know why you would want the fruit on your trees in this situation. You just ordered them, but your call.

FLowering...I'm always a fan of eliminating any fruit on young trees to encourage the tree to focus on other areas of growth.

I want one so bad because I could REALLY use it hunting to determine bed locations in marshs. I've seen them in use and it's a great tool.

Yeah, no doubt MZ first...that can be used in nearly all gun seasons.

Hmmm, sounds a bit fishy. I work for a very large company closely related to payroll processing. CC swipes go to a bank account via a merchant. Usually franchises split or take a certain %. That should still route money to the franchisee. I'm assuming the merchant is partnered with the franchise? Meaning he has to use a specific merchant?

MOney is money...credit card transactions and cash sales make no difference into fund allocation. Payroll is almost always the first thing to be paid out in a small business. Why? Because if payroll doesn't float, then no future money comes in. If you aren't getting your cash, it's time to bolt. You likely won't get it...businesses like this often never recover.

If you are for xbow, you should be for rifle imo. Gotta stay consistent. Safety numbers have proven that rifles are no less/more dangerous than pumkin throwers. I'm not bothering to look them up as I am busy this week, but there's plenty of data to back that up, even in NY.

Cool story...and they say hunters have no hearts and are cruel. Regulations, politics, health standards aside, it'd be neat to have her there forever in a comfy enclosure...at least in hunting season to keep her alive.

Cool story...and they say hunters have no hearts and are cruel. Regulations, politics, health standards aside, it'd be neat to have her there forever in a comfy enclosure...at least in hunting season to keep her alive.

That dude is hollywood material. He gives the best interviews in modern media.

Good thing it's just the tip....Right? Just the tip? Beard rot as noted..