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Pat B:
Steve, Justin is having trouble finding sourwood shoots small enough for arrows. All the stuff he finds looks like 3/4" at the base. Could his lack of altitude(he's at 700' to 800') as compared to my 2600' be the reason for larger shoot growth?
JustinNC:
Pat I'm sure ill find a couple small ones. After looking at what I have, I've found a couple in my stash that I remembered cutting from closed canopy grown shoots that were close to your ideal dimensions Pat. I do have some sho nuff 2 year stuff that is huge though as Pat was saying. If taking it down with a plane is feasible then I should be alright, however I'm still going to keep my eyes open for the small 2yr stuff. I may be out in left field on my altitude theory but I swear if I've looked at one sourwood tree (not counting suckers and new shoots not attached to sure nuff trees) I've looked at a thousand and only come up with two, atleast second year growth shoots, that were that small.
Hillbilly:
Best place to look is on road banks or powerlines where they come through every few years and mow all the trees down and the stumps sprout back.
JustinNC:
Been looking there too....even the new growth is big and fat.
No trouble finding nice relatively straight shoots....it's just that most are too thick and need to be planed. Most of the bright green first year growth is big and fat on them too.
Oh well. I'll just plane them down and make do.
jonathan creason:
I say leave the purple on your hands. If people ask about it tell them you're not sure if it's contageous or not.
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