#423 - What Everyone Gets Wrong About Planting Fruit Trees for Deer with Thomas Damren
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In this episode, Thomas Damren discusses the intricacies of planting fruit trees for deer and the importance of rootstock.
Welcome to the WHTL Podcast, your source for Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests. In this episode, we're back in the studio with Thomas Damren. We Discuss: Rootstock is the "engine" of a tree — it decides size, speed, and hardiness. Home Depot trees are grown on dwarf rootstock built for yards, not neglect. Start with just five trees before planting a full orchard. Seedling rootstock outgrows dwarf and semi-dwarf even with zero maintenance. Compost, mulch, and a shovel test set a new tree up to survive. Window-screen tubes protect trunks from voles without the downsides of plastic. No single apple variety is perfect — every one has a worst trait to manage. Crab apples bear younger and more reliably than full-size apples. A weeping crabapple can be bred to hang low as a natural scrape tree. Trademark protects a discovered variety's name; only a bred variety can be patented. And So Much More! Want to become a better whitetail hunter? Click the link below and sign up for the Whitetail Master Academy today! https://bit.ly/WhitetailMasterAcademy Follow along on social! IG - @WHTLDEER TikTok - @WHTLDEER YouTube - @WHTLDEER Thanks again for all of the support from…
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