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[Thistle]

Red and Black are different species but very close and very hard to tell apart.

Yes. They often hybridize in the wild too. Oak Wilt has & is still hitting them hard.Between the 2 species its about 60% of what I cut every year.

 

[tfdchief]

Red and Black are different species but very close and very hard to tell apart.

Yes. They often hybridize in the wild too. Oak Wilt has & is still hitting them hard.Between the 2 species its about 60% of what I cut every year.

I'm really worried about the "Oak Wilt". If I loose the two red oaks in my back yard, I will be sick. Some kind of fungus is getting our spruces and I have already lost three of those. I won't have anything left :-S

 

[quads]

Oak wilt accounts for nearly 100% of the firewood I burn and sell.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Red and Black are different species but very close and very hard to tell apart.

Yes. They often hybridize in the wild too. Oak Wilt has & is still hitting them hard.Between the 2 species its about 60% of what I cut every year.

I'm really worried about the "Oak Wilt". If I loose the two red oaks in my back yard, I will be sick. Some kind of fungus is getting our spruces and I have already lost three of those. I won't have anything left :-S

I bet you would be sick over losing those trees. Sort of like one of our neighbors who had about a dozen ash trees in his yard. Now he has about a dozen stumps because the ash borer got all of them. He has a maple yet but it is pretty sick and I thought he should have cut it several years ago. Such a shame.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Oak wilt accounts for nearly 100% of the firewood I burn and sell.

quads, I'm wondering if that is what is starting to hit our pin oaks. I've cut 3 dead ones now and before that I don't remember the last time I saw a pin oak die. They seem to last a long, long time.

 

[tfdchief]

Oak wilt accounts for nearly 100% of the firewood I burn and sell.

quads, I'm wondering if that is what is starting to hit our pin oaks. I've cut 3 dead ones now and before that I don't remember the last time I saw a pin oak die. They seem to last a long, long time.

You guys cut it out. I have a pin oak too! That pretty well takes care of ALL my trees. Yikes :ahhh:

 

[quads]

Oak wilt accounts for nearly 100% of the firewood I burn and sell.

quads, I'm wondering if that is what is starting to hit our pin oaks. I've cut 3 dead ones now and before that I don't remember the last time I saw a pin oak die. They seem to last a long, long time.

You guys cut it out. I have a pin oak too! That pretty well takes care of ALL my trees. Yikes :ahhh:

I have never seen a pin oak, to my knowledge, but if it is related to the red/black oak, then that's a good bet oak wilt is what kills them. Once it starts, there isn't much stopping it. Although we didn't lose a single one to oak wilt last summer, so I am wondering if me keeping the dead ones cleaned up is helping to control it's spread? Oak wilt kind of kills in a circle, starts in one spot and spreads all directions from there. I have seen places in the Necedah Wildlife Refuge where oak wilt killed big circles of 20 acres or so.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Pin oak is indeed a red oak. It is quite a bit like red oak but it would be a difficult task to count all the limbs! In addition, the bottom limbs tend to point to the ground and they will all die. When they die, they cut super hard.