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re: Ugh...Harvey Updike is a POS
Posted on 8/8/12 at 3:43 pm to redstick13
Posted on 8/8/12 at 3:43 pm to redstick13
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I would assume we can figure out a way to transplant an oak tree?
thats not really the issue
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Posted on 8/8/12 at 3:46 pm to NYCAuburn
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thats not really the issue
Is the issue deciding on how pimp they want the new trees to be?
Posted on 8/8/12 at 3:48 pm to redstick13
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Is the issue deciding on how pimp they want the new trees to be?
Nailed it.
Posted on 8/8/12 at 3:51 pm to stat19
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Anyone know the total cost in $ so far - labor, tests, pruning, etc?
The bill from MS State to test the soil and verify the presence of Spike 80DF was $180,001.
This post was edited on 8/8/12 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 8/8/12 at 3:56 pm to MaroonNation
9/10
Posted on 8/8/12 at 4:12 pm to NorthGwinnettTiger
Posted on 8/8/12 at 4:14 pm to BamaELCo
For this to be August and the lack of leaves should tell any conspiracy theorists about whether they're dying or not everything they need to know.
Posted on 8/8/12 at 4:16 pm to DvlsAdvocat
Not that I know anything about trees, but can't it help to cut back limbs and things, and the tree will grow back healthier. Or is that just with shrubs? We cut our hedge back almost to the ground and believe me they looked terrible, but by Christmas they were beautiful again. Where they cut off the limbs sort of looks healthy, and not dead like I would have thought they would look. I don't want to hold out any false hope for you guys, but it just doesn't look like they're gone yet.
Posted on 8/8/12 at 4:18 pm to bama my heart
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but it just doesn't look like they're gone yet.
They are dead, the cut back is not to aid in growth
Posted on 8/8/12 at 4:33 pm to bama my heart
The way the herbicide works is it prevents photosynthesis. The tree will produce green leaves but will shed them shortly after. I think that's correct. I know a few guys in ag, they explained it much better than I just did 
Posted on 8/8/12 at 4:35 pm to NorthGwinnettTiger
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Message Posted by NorthGwinnettTiger 9/10
Posted on 8/8/12 at 4:38 pm to DvlsAdvocat
Sad. I still can't believe he did something like that.
Posted on 8/8/12 at 4:47 pm to Razorologist
The people at State told AU the only known antidote was massive amounts of Roundup to the root system. It's not out fault they didn't take our advice.
Posted on 8/8/12 at 4:52 pm to NYCAuburn
:goinghometocuttwigsofmytreestosellonebaytogullibleaubs:
Posted on 8/8/12 at 5:00 pm to AA7
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The way the herbicide works is it prevents photosynthesis. The tree will produce green leaves but will shed them shortly after. I think that's correct. I know a few guys in ag, they explained it much better than I just did
I'm in Auburn once a month. In late March the trees were full of buds - late April tons of tiny bright green leaves all over the limbs - late May full grown leaves were yellow to brownish and they were shedding like it was Fall. In June they started new foliage all over again and by the end of July they are dead and shedding again. The leaves/foliage can't mature, the trees can't retain their leaves even for one season.
Posted on 8/8/12 at 5:44 pm to BrerTiger
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I live about as far outside the South as one can (without leaving the lower 48) and I can tell you that it's a perception of the South as a whole and not one state in particular. Alabama and Mississippi may have some more visible memories from the 50s and 60s but let's not forget David Duke was in a runoff for governor of Louisiana in 1991 and only lost because enough of us had good sense enough to realize a crook was better than a Klansman in sheep's clothing. But I can also tell IDGAF what Yankees think about the South. 27 years of living in Baton Rouge taught me all I need to know about the people of the South. It is the people that make the South the great place that it is. The people make the food and make the culture. I love a lot of things about Oregon but it will never compete with the South when it comes to having such a rich homegrown cultural experience. There's plenty of culture here but most of it is imported from somewhere else and didn't organically evolve here. I don't spend too much time worrying about how outsiders perceive the South. They don't know what I know and I don't care if they ever do.
Great post; your sentiments are so dead on with how I feel about this. I to have strayed from the south and always think it's funny when idiots on these message boards make blanket claims like the rest of the country looks down on your SEC state but not mine. We all have some pretty significant baggage.
Only thing I would add to what you just said is it is really easy for people from lilly white places like Oregon, Connecticut , and Colorado to turn up their nose on the south's racism when they have never had to face the issue. I'm not really interested in hearing those particular people's views on the matter.
Posted on 8/8/12 at 5:54 pm to BamaScoop
10/10
Well done Harvey
Well done Harvey
Posted on 8/8/12 at 5:57 pm to thatthang
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Great post; your sentiments are so dead on with how I feel about this. I to have strayed from the south and always think it's funny when idiots on these message boards make blanket claims like the rest of the country looks down on your SEC state but not mine. We all have some pretty significant baggage.
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Only thing I would add to what you just said is it is really easy for people from lilly white places like Oregon, Connecticut , and Colorado to turn up their nose on the south's racism when they have never had to face the issue. I'm not really interested in hearing those particular people's views on the matter.
Randy Newman had a terrific song called "Rednecks" along those lines. He called out the rest of the country for all of its baggage. It's extremely un-PC and NSFW but somebody needed to say it. I'm surprised he's still allowed to play it.
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"College men from LSU. Went in dumb and come out dumb too."
The Klan was really big in Oregon in the 1920s. Until the late 40s and early 50s, Portland realtors wouldn't sell homes to blacks except in one area of North Portland. That's one big reason why Oregon is so lily white.
How quickly Yankees forget the ugly episodes from their own history... which is exactly what Randy Newman sang about.
Posted on 8/8/12 at 6:00 pm to BamaScoop
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Ugh...Harvey Updike is a POS I agree the Updyke is a piece of shite but those trees were fricked up long before he did what he did. They had been talking about these dead as trees for years and what to do about them. Those trees are actually an eye sore on the Auburn campus and have been for a long time. Rolling trees is not a tradition its a redneck past time. They need to go ahead and chop those ugly arse trees to the ground and sell wood chips to those mouth breahters on the plains.
Bama babble. The trees were iconic and beautiful. You can make up lies. We enjoy rolling the trees and it is a wonderful tradition. I see nothing redneck in that.
This post was edited on 8/8/12 at 6:01 pm
Posted on 8/8/12 at 6:03 pm to BamaScoop
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I agree the Updyke is a piece of shite but those trees were fricked up long before he did what he did. They had been talking about these dead as trees for years and what to do about them. Those trees are actually an eye sore on the Auburn campus and have been for a long time.
Rolling trees is not a tradition its a redneck past time.
They need to go ahead and chop those ugly arse trees to the ground and sell wood chips to those mouth breahters on the plains.
A for effort
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