Fast growing Shrub/biomass willow

Just wanted to share some pics of a type of willow I don't see talked about much on the habitat forums. I got some SX61 variety from double a willow last year, grew them all year and coppiced them in late winter. Now I have multi-trunks coming up and the biggest ones are over 6 foot tall. I am growing them past the point of browsing in my yard before releasing them to the deer. (Big enough to rub no doubt :)). They are bred for biomass and are meant to be coppiced after year 1 and harvest every 3 to 5 years I believe.



They are supposed to be full grown in 2 to 4 years so we will see. I have tried various hybrid willow (hramor, karsten, and big rock austree) and biggest is probably only 15 feet tall, most 10 foot or less after 4 years. Most of these were planted in plastic and tubed.



Anyway, like a lot of you guys I have a lot of issues with stuff getting destroyed so this is the route I am going now to get things established (This and using boxelder).







This is the base that was cut all the way back this spring, so it has grown quite a bit.







I did plant some on the actual property in plastic and fence them with plastic snow fence, but the deer collapsed the fence and they are all about a foot tall and browsed last time I checked.



They have some "after" pics on their website:

http://ift.tt/1m8pS4f