Fruit trees

[MONSTERKEN]

Does anyone, or has anyone planted or have fruit trees on your property/lease. For the purpose of deer attractant. Trying to get my list together for what I am going to do first on my newly acquired property. I am going to plant some white oak trees, I read about planting crab apple trees, and was also thinking about peach trees. Also read about some berry bushes. What say the green screen?? I am going to purchase a couple boss buck feeders and put up a fence around each feeder to keep hogs out. Going to start running some protein and have some cameras running to see what has survived the season, and what is walking through .

[speck1]

I have crab apple, peach and plum trees. Not sure what you are wanting to do. They will need to be fenced off or the deer will eat the entire tree.

[Ironman]

I'm at the same point right now, so watching. Not sure I want to deal with peach trees though. It's my understanding that you have to stay on top of spraying them.

[mjhaverkamp]

Persimmon trees are good, the wild ones, I planted several fruit trees one year, the bucks really liked them in the pre rut, tore them all up.

[fox1]

I planted plum , pear and apple trees last year, not for the deer but they think they they are.

[xman59]

Does anyone, or has anyone planted or have fruit trees on your property/lease. For the purpose of deer attractant. Trying to get my list together for what I am going to do first on my newly acquired property. I am going to plant some white oak trees, I read about planting crab apple trees, and was also thinking about peach trees. Also read about some berry bushes. What say the green screen?? I am going to purchase a couple boss buck feeders and put up a fence around each feeder to keep hogs out. Going to start running some protein and have some cameras running to see what has survived the season, and what is walking through .

persimmon !!!!!!!!!!

[J&M Hamilton10]

I've planted kiefer pears and have wild persimmons already. Those are the main two you need that are drought and heat tolerant and they drop fruit in the fall for hunting.

Def plant white oaks i would also look at nuttal oak, sawtooth, gobbler sawtooth for seeing a good acorn crop soon.

[J&M Hamilton10]

And what area or county?

[Draco]

Look up jujube or Texas date trees. Native tree that the deer really love.

[MONSTERKEN]

I guess I was looking to see if anyone uses them as a "bait station" to hunt deer. Kinda like using a fruit trees as a feeder. To be honest with you, I would really care less about using the fruit in my favor, just using them for a food source for deer. I guess I figure that if I have fruit tress, and a feeder nearby, they would keep coming back to MY side of fence. Know what I mean??

[MONSTERKEN]

Hopkins county, South of Sulphur Springs.

[Draco]

Check out the jujube trees. They are native and are pretty hardy, just a little water until established and they should be good to go. They draw deer really well.

[MisterSanders]

I planted crab apples, Japanese persimmon, and pears at some family land I used to hunt. Tree tubes are a must. I was skeptical, but with trees starting out @ 3' and after one growing season, ending up around 7-8', I'm sold. I have a plum that ended up over 12' after cutting the top off. It was also around 3' when planted. The tubes do numerous things. First, the block the UV light needed to grow, so the tree only gets sun for a few hours a day, forcing the tree to use the energy it gets to focus on the root system, and growing out of the tree tube. (5' tree tube) It also protects against mice, rabbits, from chewing the tree up at the base, and keeps deer from rubbing the tree. It is perforated at the top half to allow air circulation, and produce a "green house" affect. You leave the tubes on until the tree outgrows it, so it's always protected while in a vulnerable stage. Be sure you mulch around the base of the trees, and spray round up or some type of glyphosphate in a 3' diameter around the tree. That's one of the most important things establishing a tree early, is making sure it does not have to compete for water and nutrients during the first couple of growing seasons. Check out www.wildlifegroup.com, they have several trees, that are for feeding deer. Good luck! ALSO, plant you a few chestnuts, they are excellent for attracting deer, and are very beneficial!

[glen]

I planted peach trees and the deer think they were planted for them. I have tried about everything to keep them out and they still find a way to steal a few.

[Patton]

My Uncle has several fruit trees for his own benefit, not the deer. They are actually fenced off so the deer can't get to them, but the coons really jacked them up last year. Trees are 3 and 4 years old, and the coons snapped a lot of branches last year getting the fruit.