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Mikkolaht:
Disclaimer: All the info I have gathered about the subject is from the internet, I might have gotten something wrong but feel free to correct me.


Hey,

I have been intrested in growing osage orange for a while now.
One thing has been boggling me...

I have done the research regarding the stratification of the seeds, preferred soil type etc.

However I haven't got any clear info about how frost resistant osage is. It is said to be resistant up to zone 4 by some sources.
West Coastal Finland has average 180 days long growing season (Very much warmer than compared to northern Finland, it gets cold quick), this should be enough to grow osage successfully.
Yet no one has done it here in Finland... I know one osage which grows in a green house in botanical garden of Turku.

By the way, Growing season = days that average abow 5 degrees celcius / 41 degrees Farenheit in a single year.

Lets compare Ohio and Finland for example, Westcoast Finland has 180 days long growing season, Ohio has 170 days long growing season(correct me if I'm wrong).
From what I can tell from this info is that osage should do better here in finland than in Ohio..

The reason I'm comparing Ohio and Finland is, osage does pretty well in Ohio.

Main question is: What is the northest place you have seen osage trees growing? I'm just curious to know and this information would help me greatly to understand the subject.
Also describing how the plant was growing would help. Was is a shrub or a tree with a clear trunk?

Thank you for reading this topic.
-Mikko

GlisGlis:
what about minimum temperatures?

Parnell:
Northern Ohio is the farthest north I’ve seen them but I’d figure they are even a bit further north.

dylanholderman:
native Ohioan here and i can verify that it will grow in northern Ohio (it would be probably grow in Michigan too but i don't know for sure)   
whether it grows like a tree or a shrub i think is more dependent on how large the trees around it are, Osage likes to spread out so growing around other trees can force it to grow straighter but if they are too large and thick than it stays small in the under-story

Eric Krewson:
I had thought about sending seeds to people in foreign countries in the past but didn't because inducing an invasive species to a place it doesn't naturally grow is almost always is a bad idea.

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