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Osage Orange Trees #8480037
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Anybody familiar with the process of seeds for planting? Success rate?


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Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480043
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Around here its called hedge. Leave hedge ball outside all winter. Keep squirrels away they eat the seeds. Cattle will eat the whole thing. Early spring it will be mush. Just plant the seeds. Does not take anything special. A prolific tree.


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Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480075
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Thanks Danny.


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Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480084
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I planted some dried seeds in the spring from some fruit I brought from Tbilisi last fall, same time as tomatoes and peppers. They germinated very well and were about 5 inches tall when I planted them in early May, got a bit frostbitten in late May but regrew the leaves and they're now 1-2 feet tall. Their leaves died off this week, after several nights below zero C. No idea if they'll survive the winter, but climate has gotten much milder here in the past 20 years.

Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480088
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They are easy to grow and tough and hard to kill. Should survive any where that has decent amounts of moisture.

Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480109
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How many Hedge balls do you need ?

Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480114
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Hedge apples is what they call them around here supposed to put them around the outside of your house to keep bugs out of your house.i have no idea if it works or not I know alot of people used to come to my grandfather's farm and get them every fall back in the 60 and 70s.

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Like Danny said, and I would add that I just make a pile of them and leave that whole pile to rot down over the winter. In spring I just take the goo and spread into an area of dirt so there is a nice scatter of seeds. Rake them in with a garden rake, keep them from drying out while sprouting, and you will soon have a dense bed of osage sprouts.

Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480130
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your neighbors will hate you. Hedge balls everywhere when they mature. Can't kill the darn things.
If you are wanting a natural fence, use cedars.


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Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480140
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I have a love/hate relationship with them. They make great fence post and firewood and are a very hardly tree but the are invasive and I kill hundred if not thousands of them a year in pastures.

Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480142
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Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480147
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Originally Posted by HobbieTrapper
Anybody familiar with the process of seeds for planting? Success rate?

Do not plant them they are all over Illinois

Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480150
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Some folks disregard the belief that Hedge Apples rebel spiders. We firmly believe they do. For many years we have purchased them locally and put them in various areas inside the house, and have had very few spiders. This year we have not been able to fin Hedge Apples anywhere and we have spiders all over the place.

If someone would be able to supply us with some for around the house and potential planting I would be very interested in working something out.

One question...How long does it take for the trees to produce the Hedge Apples?

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Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480152
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They dont all produce apples. Some are male some female. Takes 8 -10 years. I can just pick them up off county rooads. How many you want? Pay the shipping and I can send you some


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Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: houndone] #8480155
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Originally Posted by houndone
Hedge apples is what they call them around here supposed to put them around the outside of your house to keep bugs out of your house.i have no idea if it works or not I know alot of people used to come to my grandfather's farm and get them every fall back in the 60 and 70s.


That's an old wives tale but people still believe it. lol

https://yardandgarden.extension.iastate.edu/how-to/all-about-hedge-apples

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The use of hedge apples for insect control is one of the most enduring pest management home remedies (and myths!). Placement of hedge apples around the foundation or inside the basement is claimed to provide relief from cockroaches, spiders, boxelder bugs, crickets, and other pests.

The use of hedge apples as a pest solution is communicated as a folk tale complete with testimonials about apparent success. However, there is an absence of scientific research and therefore no valid evidence to confirm the claims of effectiveness. Research conducted at Iowa State University has demonstrated that chemicals extracted from the fruit can be repellant to tested insects (German cockroaches, mosquitoes, and houseflies). In addition, sliced hedge apples placed in enclosed, small spaces did repel insects. However, there is still no evidence that putting whole fruit around the house or in the basement will have any effect on insect pests. In large or open spaces there is so much air movement that whatever small amount of repellant chemical may be present will quickly dissipate. In addition, the chemicals may not be repellant to all insects or to non-insects like spiders, millipedes, and centipedes. It is not recommended to use hedge apples for pest control.

Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480156
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PS I have gotten into plenty of spider webs coon hunting around hedge trees. Those big yellow garden spiders. Harmless but those webs get all over you.


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Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480157
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I would take a dozen. PM what I owe for shipping and I will send you a Money Order.

Thanks!

Moosetrot

Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480169
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Back before barbed wire was a thing - early 1800’s - they used to mill the fruits to extract the seeds and sell the seeds in the mid west to grow fences. $80 a bushel for seeds. The invention of barbed wire killed that business.

Re: Osage Orange Trees [Re: HobbieTrapper] #8480177
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Have lived around hedge / osage orange / bodark / bois d'arc for a long time. They do spread some in unmaintained pastures, but nothing at all like thorny locust trees. Those are 1,000X worse. They are not good for anything beyond firewood, unless you are in the biz of selling farm tractor tires.

If you want the living fence, plant them close together in a row, then when they are about chest high, run a shredder down the row to coppice them.

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