Anne Miller wrote:The best suggestion would be to put the seeds in the freezer to kill the bugs like is done with mesquite seed pods.
Are you going to grow mimosa trees or do something else with the seeds?
Anne Miller wrote:I never heard of making donuts with some sort of bake ware.
We make donuts with a cooky cutter similar to this:
https://www.amazon.com/HULISEN-Stainless-Doughnut-Biscuit-Professional/dp/B08DHT9B14/ref=asc_df_B08DHT9B14/
Mark Reynolds wrote:I don't have an orchard so I can't say for sure, but.....
I would say 'no' to summer as trees have largely stopped growing for the year by that point and are sequestering food for the next year. Not a good time to initiate growth. I'd say 'no' to the fall as well. I suspect you would get a lot of die back over the winter which isn't something you want. Winter would be better than fall, but you will probably still get some dieback, and you are removing most all buds for the next year. Maybe early spring before bud break? Yu won't get much dieback, but again, removing all the new buds. I'd say cut it sometime after buds have become active but way before the tree stops growing for the year, which translates to somewhat early to mid spring. The tree will interpret this as a growing leaf loss and will immediately generate new growth from the remaining stump with lots of growing season left. Cutting at this time in this way might produce what I coined as 'compensatory growth' which is growth above and beyond what would be expected had the tree not been defoliated. I did my MS thesis on browse utilization and researched that browsing often results in more twig growth produced for the year than if no browsing had taken place to begin with.
That's my best guess, theory, and explanation.