Sunday, August 20, 2023

Winecap Mycelium Update! The mycelium is growing....(Hazelnut Badgersett Hybrid details)

 

basically I shipped up 60 gallons water in 12 five gallon buckets with lids (cost $65).... So I hauled the water to the field - watering the 14 batches of Winecap mycelium woodchips - and I saw mycelium growth under the woodchips! So the plastic covering held in enough moisture - in the full sun in the field! Hopefully the mycelium will keep growing and survive....

I put a hole in the center of the plastic so there is more air going in and some rain water and then I added more wood chips around the winecap mycelium woodchips. The grass will easily take over these plots so that's why I wanted more woodchips for a bigger diameter.

So these Winecap mycelium spots are about five feet apart - maybe four feet sometimes. The goal is for the mycelium to keep growing and then in early September I push the mycelium woodchips to the perimeter and I plant in the Hazelnut trees - on top of lots of compost and thick newspaper underneath (to keep the grass from growing back)....


So there's 14 tree spots - as a Fence Row - so closely planted since they are more like bushes than trees....it will be a wind break and visual privacy fence.... and then enough space between the two rows to harvest. https://www.badgersett.com/info/hazelnuts/hazel2.html Two rows of 6 trees and one on each end equidistant from each row. 

 The most notable difference is that these plants are bushes.

 Our main hybrid line is a mix of native Wisconsin and Iowa wild hazels with the commercial European varieties. In general, their nuts are 100-300% larger than the wild hazels, with thinner shells, and most have kernels well within the commercial processing size range. They are completely cold hardy here and have the native hazel's resistance to EFB. They have also proven themselves to be highly drought resistant.

 Spacing: 3–5 feet for windbreak, 4–10 feet for nut production. We alternate rows 10 feet and 15 feet apart—the 10-foot rows eventually get so tight you can't get a tractor through for harvest or fertilizer; the 15-foot rows stay open.... For best production plant 3 feet apart within the row, then thin and transplant to fill holes around years 5-8.

Our general recommendation is to space the bushes 5' apart. Spacings wider than 6' may not close tightly, but will bear good crops.

 https://www.badgersett.com/plants/orderhazels.html

So a self contained mini-orchard... you'd have to crawl in to harvest from within... Confirmed with the farm in Wisconsin that I can pick up the 28 Hazelnut seedlings in early September! 

https://www.badgersett.com/sites/default/files/graphics/tubeling_growing_instructions.pdf 

https://www.badgersett.com/sites/default/files/info/publications/HH1.pdf 



So this is from the South End looking north....

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