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Dang it how do you spell chinquapin?
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Well, I’ve been looking for one for decades and finally found some in Blackwater Forest on private property where the forestry didn’t burn.
Tagged the parent while it had the tiny/spiney chestnuts growing and dug up a offspring in the winter and planted on my property.
As you can see its doing well.
Maybe I’ll get some nuts in a few more years.
Back in the 60’s, my Dad would take us along the Perdido river on the Florida side to gather the nuts.
There’re gone now mostly from forest burning I suppose.
Tagged the parent while it had the tiny/spiney chestnuts growing and dug up a offspring in the winter and planted on my property.
As you can see its doing well.
Maybe I’ll get some nuts in a few more years.
Back in the 60’s, my Dad would take us along the Perdido river on the Florida side to gather the nuts.
There’re gone now mostly from forest burning I suppose.
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Man, it's hard for me to control my anger on how badly they miss managed OUR forests. Poisoning everything! Planting profit pines at the massacre of local wildlife. I'm ashamed of my "Forestry Service " and how they destroyed the forest and local wildlife. ***** on them! (Vent ranting!)
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Plus 1!!!!!
What are the deer suppose to eat?
Crops?
Where are all the quail?
Those dummys burn during the nesting season.
Quail nest on the ground,,,am I right?
Pretty sure pressure in recent decades from hogs along with coyotes add to the reduced numbers.
When was the last time you heard a Bobwhite quail whistle??
Sacrifice wildlife for the almighty Long Leaf Pine.
This is guessing on my part, but if not for hunting regulations and Wild Turkey Federation, I’m guessing turkeys would be extinct by now.
What are the deer suppose to eat?
Crops?
Where are all the quail?
Those dummys burn during the nesting season.
Quail nest on the ground,,,am I right?
Pretty sure pressure in recent decades from hogs along with coyotes add to the reduced numbers.
When was the last time you heard a Bobwhite quail whistle??
Sacrifice wildlife for the almighty Long Leaf Pine.
This is guessing on my part, but if not for hunting regulations and Wild Turkey Federation, I’m guessing turkeys would be extinct by now.
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It has the alternative spelling of chinkapin also and I am not sure which is the most correct. The word has a native american origin.
I know where one is growing and I went back to check it for nuts. But it has been knocked down and seems to be growing up again. Maybe next year if it does not get hit again it may have nuts on it that can be planted.
Relative to forestry, a pine forest if it is not burned at about three yr intervals gets choked with undergrowth and when a fire does get started, it burns hotter and will kill the pine trees. If poison is used, it will be most often applied about right aways and yes that could kill chinquapins. Forests in this area predating the spanish were managed by burning and yet there were chinquapins and paw paws growing. The native americans saw to that. .
Keep your eyes open when out in woods and likely you will find one.
I know where one is growing and I went back to check it for nuts. But it has been knocked down and seems to be growing up again. Maybe next year if it does not get hit again it may have nuts on it that can be planted.
Relative to forestry, a pine forest if it is not burned at about three yr intervals gets choked with undergrowth and when a fire does get started, it burns hotter and will kill the pine trees. If poison is used, it will be most often applied about right aways and yes that could kill chinquapins. Forests in this area predating the spanish were managed by burning and yet there were chinquapins and paw paws growing. The native americans saw to that. .
Keep your eyes open when out in woods and likely you will find one.
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Master
There are Bunches in Blackwater. Not sure if you're not supposed to take any tree from there or not? I don't see why you can't, they burn and mow them (all kinds of trees) down every year to plant pine trees in their place. I used to get dogwood trees. Even had a fwc drive by when I got 2 of them some years ago, one was hanging over the tailgate, I was digging the other. He didn't stop, soooo I guess it's ok.
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Bla, f×ck the pine forests. The deer and squirrel can barely survive on pine nuts! It's a shame on the"STEWARDS OF OUR FORREST" THAT have destroyed our natural wildlife. Killing natural trees to forward profits from natural forest to propagate political and profitable outcomes is a HORROR!
(still ranting...)
(still ranting...)
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Or dogwoods, or anything but the profitable long leaf pine. Who cares about the ecosystem? .let's pillage all of our natural resources. F- the wildlife. I'm so sick of politicians burning our forests fo "safety" and profit,. (OMG, GET OVER IT, OK)
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It is best to have two different seedlings to guarantee pollination. I strongly suspect that the ones in this area are self fertile, but sources recommend having two of them. Mine is growing next to chestnuts so it will be cross pollinated.
Most of our chinquapins are:
There is a larger chinquapin in the Ozarks
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Master
It's Not the Officers Fault. They're just following orders from the Head Forestry Idiot in Tallahassee
When I moved into my 8 plus acres in pace about 91 there was a large covey of quail in the area. Nothing was touched by Forestry or any one else except some land clearing and what has been a farm stopped. The quail disappeared. There were a lot of fox in the area and since there had not been any fires for years the underbrush (understory) was very thick. Two summers ago one did show up to sing for one day and then nothing more.
In the last 15 years foxes have become less common just about the time that coyotes became more common, but still no quail.
The internet is full of reports.
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