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Finnish guy's question about growing Osage Orange
Outbackbob48:
I live on the 42ND parrel line basically New York and Pa. border and we have a few Osage trees not sure how many more grow North of the 42ND. There some big trees here but knarly twisted seeking sun, if out in the open not as bad. Bob
dylanholderman:
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i'm not disagreeing with you because you are absolutely right, but Ohio and all of the northern states didn't originally have Osage it's natural range is from Texas Arkansas and Oklahoma. it has just become naturalized in other states because of its use in hedgerows.
Mikkolaht:
Thanks for the replies!
So what we can put together from this is that:
Osage is growing at northern Ohio and maybe even Michigan.
This is good news in my opinion, Finland is a lot warmer than other countries at the same latitude.
Also the growth is affected by the amount of sunlight.
It rarely gets below - 25celcius/-13farenheit where I live. What about in Ohio?
High-Desert:
I’ve tried growing Osage here in central oregon and it doesn’t kill it, but every year the tender young growth gets killed in September by frost, and I get about 6” of die back on a 3 year old tree. Then it throws out a ton of side shoots, which I cut off and re train a new vertical shoot. So I think Osage need a little longer season that zone 6b. Just my experience tho
dylanholderman:
--- Quote from: Mikkolaht on January 17, 2020, 02:58:04 pm ---
It rarely gets below - 25celcius/-13farenheit where I live. What about in Ohio?
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it will get that cold but not too often (once every 3 or 4 years) and when it does its usually just for a couple of weeks.
i think that Osage will grown there but you might have to protect it for the first couple of years until it gets a little more mature.
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