Last year the hickory nuts blanketed the ground about now-

Last year was the heaviest mast ever from the area oaks that any one could recall. I have been here 34 years. It was also the beginning of a very heavy gypsy moth infestation. Could the ultra heavy mast have been partly in response to the threat of the infestation?

I've seen weevil larvae cut a nice little round exit hole right through a Tupperware container. Don't count on that keeping them out of the lettuce. That thin little plastic is nothing compared to the thick shell of a big ol' shellbark hickory or mockernut hickory nut.

Hey Gloria, your link isn't working for me.

Hey Snapple, probably not.

Don't you think both mast and masting should be listed in the Garden Terms, and highlight the difference between them?

http://www.esajournals.org/esaonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=0012-9658&volume=083&issue=05&page=1214http

I had to give my self a lesson in doing hyperlinks. This if for the abstract only, for Ecology Journal 83 No. 5, Masting by Eighteen New Zealand Plant species . . . You have to subscribe to read the whole thing. (Or go to your local university library.)

Hey Rick, the obvious is that one is a noun and one is a verb. Please do the honors of expanding the definitions by adding your comments! Entries for both mast and masting already exist so all you have to do is add comments that clarify for those who use Garden Terms. Tee he! Gotcha! Gonna put you to work!

Hey gloria125, I just got this when I clicked on your link-

Invalid Request: request=get-abstract&issn=0012-9658&volume=083&issue=05&page=1214http

The request you have made is invalid. Please click the "BACK" button and try again.

http://adt.curtin.edu.au/theses/available/adt-WCU20030721.095402/

well, here is the Chinese forest study. Again, it is only the abstract.

Ugggg(!)

http://www.esajournals.org/esaonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=0012-9658&volume=083&issue=05&page=1214

For educational purposes I am quoting from the very last link-

Excellent!

I knew all of the introduced worms were taking a toll on our ecosystems so every time I run across one I waste it. The raccoons love me these days. Nice study you pulled up from Dr. Liu.

This message was edited Sep 24, 2006 12:18 PM

Forgive me Nancy-
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/623846/
That's for you to read.

Time for me to disappear for a while before your arms reach out of my computer monitor to choke me ;)

I can see that if tree production of several species is synchronized by climatic conditions and opposed to being not synchronized in the past, those critters dependent upon the availability of fruit-nut-litter produced by the trees is going to be a feast then famine situation. Not good for biological diversity.

Oops, I need to go up to that post and fix that quote.

Wonder what happened to Levilyla? How widespread is this worm damage anyway?

It's obvious I am new at the Garden Terms stuff, but I only find "Masting" there. No "Mast". But of course they are related, and maybe we don't need two entries.

And I hope Gloria was using "mast" as an adjective (not a noun). Did I getchya, E? Otherwise I don't get it at all.

As this is the first time I have heard of mast (or masting) in the plant world (other than Shipmast locust), I doubt second or thirdhand knowledge is a good source for a written definition. But I'll noodle it for a while. If I jump in, I know you all will help me out with corrections that would be very welcome.

A quirky story about Shipmast locust: many years ago I had one, and when it was about 8ft, the trunk broke in half!

Rick

Mast appeared under acorn.

So you're new at Gardening Terms, eh Rick... I only created one entry in my entire life and that was for masting for levilyla and only after she gave me a link to where the Garden Terms were. I need help with what I added for masting. I've got the basic concept down because of what I have experienced around here but I'm no resin. Every man and woman for himself! Here I was hoping you were going to bail me out.

Gloria123, you wanna create a brand new stand alone entry for mast? You can always go back and edit.

I have to go back to sterilizing pots.

Before my exposure to this forum, I had only heard of "mast" as an adjective, as in "mast crop". An exception, is '20 years before the mast' which would be a noun, as in "shipmast locust" as used above by Leftwood. Too bad it broke before you could actually use it was a mast. I expect both of these terms derive from 'masting', i.e. the topic of this forum.

Equil: Whatcha plantin'?

No planting this weekend, it's rained too much and I truly only have about 30 native plants to go in the ground for the season so there's always next weekend. No sense slopping around in the mud that's out there.

I'm potting and repotting. 1 Cephalotus, 14 Nepenthes, 18 Pinguicula, 9 Tropical Orchids, and I should have time to repot 2 or 3 Sarracenia. I go outside and rinse my tube sand until it runs clear, toss it in the trough with Canadian Sphagnum Peat, mix those with the mortar mixer and let it sit.

I use that Sarracenia medium as a base for other mixes (exclude Orchids) which I set aside in washtubs to add other ingredients to.

I soak my pots in a bleach solution after rescrubbing them. Then I run in and out potting all day and I still get time to play on the computer.

Later on I'll start laundry. Oh yippee. Wanna come over and play at my house? I think you'd like the mortar mixer. Sort of like a flubber buster. I swear I am still vibrating for 10 minutes after I turn that toy off.

editing to change quantites repotted

This message was edited Sep 24, 2006 7:39 PM

I would like both the mortar mixer, and a refrigerator to stratify my seeds. Great ideas!

So the definition of "mast" is under "acorn".

Good Grief. All I can say is that I think like I do, and I don't think like that™.

Still mulling it all over. Somehow I sense there is more to this concept/grammar yet to be descovered.



Edited to protected the intellectual rights of Leftwood.

This message was edited Sep 24, 2006 8:36 PM

stop mulling it over and just go for it. I loved the edit to protect intellectual rights.