Wound up with about 95 chestnuts, 75 walnuts, 5 apple, and no pecan. Decided we didn't want to plant that many soselling some. Probably going to treepro this week to pick up a bunch of 6' tree tubes. Will get picked to use as stakes. Did the wood stake route first time. Some broke off. Some rotted at ground level. Some fell over. Don't want to use t posts or iron pump rods as don't want to try to pull those up in 5 years. Also want them taller. Pvc has worked well on some other trees.

One thing I did learn the hard way. A few years ago, I bought several chestnuts at Rural King. They had some really tall ones so I picked them. Mistake. Had to stake them with 10' pvc pipe and it has been an issue ever since where they didn't want to stay vertical in the wind.

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