Giant Miscanthus

Mentions

• Real World announces that Miscanthus sales are officially open for the season. 22:13 — Episode #253 - Do Not Overcomplicate Habitat Projects!
• Don said whenever they post about Miscanthus, people falsely call it invasive. 12:57 — Episode #244 - October Lull? Don and Terry See Bucks Moving in Mid October
• Terry said he plans to make a Chasing Giants TV video after the season addressing the false claim that Miscanthus is invasive. 13:29 — Episode #244 - October Lull? Don and Terry See Bucks Moving in Mid October
• Don announces Miscanthus sales will end this coming week as rhizomes must be dug while still dormant. 8:18 — Episode #218 -Spring Food Plots - Is it time to plant?
• Don recalls a Habitat consultant with a popular YouTube channel who bashed Miscanthus after planting it in sod, where poor root competition stunted its screening growth. 11:14 — Episode #218 -Spring Food Plots - Is it time to plant?
• Terry announced Real World’s 2024 Miscanthus sales are now open after a soft launch before Christmas. 23:01 — Episode #201 - New Year, New Tools, New Websites
• Don explains Miscanthus dies back to the ground every year and regrows fresh from the base, rather than continuing to grow from its previous height. 20:39 — Episode #171 - Take What a Property Gives You!
• Don burns his switchgrass and Miscanthus plantings on a three-year rotation, and the patch burned that year always grows taller and thicker than in off years. 25:52 — Episode #171 - Take What a Property Gives You!
• Don states that Real World holds exclusive rights to its specific Miscanthus variety, so no competitor sells the exact same variety. 30:38 — Episode #169 - Don is Testing More Corn Seed. WHY?
• Don explains Real World only ships Miscanthus orders on Mondays so bagged rhizomes don’t sit in a shipping terminal over the weekend. 14:13 — Episode #169 - Don is Testing More Corn Seed. WHY?
• Don announced this is the last week for Miscanthus sales and urged listeners to place their orders. 18:44 — Episode #166 - Spring Herbicides
• Don announces the Miscanthus shipping season ends May 1. 19:11 — Episode #165 - Farmers Planting Early Creates New Opportunities - EARLY SPRING
• Don urges listeners to order Miscanthus now since supply will run out shortly after the May 1 cutoff. 19:48 — Episode #165 - Farmers Planting Early Creates New Opportunities - EARLY SPRING
• Terry recommends contacting your local dealer to see if they carry Miscanthus, since not all dealers stock it. 20:03 — Episode #165 - Farmers Planting Early Creates New Opportunities - EARLY SPRING
• Terry plans a major project on his own property this year and intends to bring back a trailer full of product, including Miscanthus, from the upcoming master classes. 65:47 — Episode #157 Frost Seeding Clover - Soil Builder - Switchgrass
• Terry reports Team Radical’s Kyle is finishing an instructional Miscanthus planting video for Real World, after being featured on the land management guide. 16:18 — Episode #152 - Are Trade Shows Dying?
• Don says he would never plant a CRP or switchgrass field again without adding Miscanthus, calling it a game changer on his farm. 7:29 — Episode #149 Frigid Temps and Deer… Merry Christmas 2022!
• Don says annual screening products like Egyptian weed are worthless in this cold, flattened or broken off, while Miscanthus still stands strong as a screen. 10:07 — Episode #149 Frigid Temps and Deer… Merry Christmas 2022!
• Don announces Miscanthus preorders opened this week on the Real World website, and he’s already received over 200 orders. 39:56 — Episode #148 - Are Bucks Shedding Antlers Early This Year?
• Terry said Real World doesn’t have Miscanthus available for sale yet. 11:39 — Episode #135 - Buck Dispersal - What does it mean?
• Within days of Real World launching Miscanthus at the ATA Show, a rival consultant released a video discouraging people from planting it. 43:02 — Episode #131 - Don forms his own Dream Team
• Terry visited one of Don’s consulting clients and saw the first-year Miscanthus already chest-high in places. 36:02 — Episode #130 - Don buys a scent elimination device
• Terry notes Giant Miscanthus sales have risen sharply because landowners plant it along roads to block passersby from viewing their fields. 20:28 — Episode #128 - Watching Summer Velvet Giants!
• Terry announced Real World only has two shipments of Giant Miscanthus rhizomes left this year before sales stop. 45:07 — EPISODE #111 COURAGE or ARROGANCE?
• Don says his roughly 12-foot-tall Miscanthus grass produces flames reaching over 50 feet and roars like a tornado when it burns. 9:32 — Episode #58 - Burning Native Grass Tips and Great Questions from 3rd Master Class
• Don explains that the Giant Miscanthus Real World sells is a sterile hybrid and not invasive, unlike some other invasive species within the broader Miscanthus genus. 42:27 — Episode #44 - New Year’s Resolutions, Bedding Cover, Hunting Cold Temps, and Sharing Hunting Property with Family
• Don clarifies that the Miscanthus they sell is a sterile, non-invasive plant, distinct from other invasive Miscanthus varieties. 25:42 — Episode #11 - Merry Christmas and Late Season Insights
• Don describes the Miscanthus variety Real World selected as a tall, sterile, noninvasive grass that spreads only a few inches per year. 18:18 — Episode #10 - December Tips - Scouting for 2020 - Big Announcement from Real World
• Don states that after weeks of negotiation with the patent holder, Real World secured exclusive rights to market this patented Miscanthus variety for screening. 21:59 — Episode #10 - December Tips - Scouting for 2020 - Big Announcement from Real World
• Don plans to roughly double his farm’s hunting quality within three years, crediting Miscanthus screening as a major part of that improvement. 37:52 — Episode #10 - December Tips - Scouting for 2020 - Big Announcement from Real World

Questions

• Ben Byler asked whether Real World sells any products they don’t personally think are the best, just due to customer demand. 59:26 — #330 - Can Supplemental Feeding Add 15”+ to a Buck? Don Higgins Answers
• A listener asked whether a late frost that browned newly emerged switchgrass and Miscanthus after a warm spell was normal and would recover. 35:48 — Prayers, Peace & Planting Strategy | Spring Food Plot Advice | Chasing Giants 323
• Terry asks Don whether he’d plant Miscanthus or conifer trees to screen the new blind location. 39:37 — Episode #267 - Spring Whitetail Habitat Projects - Is it Go Time?
• Matthew Montag asked whether mixing switchgrass or surrounding wildflowers with Miscanthus could make plantings good for both bees and deer. 55:30 — Episode 198 - Buck Traveling Long Distances After The Rut
• What can be done to enhance certain areas within a large CRP planting to draw bucks to bed closer to stand sites? 53:55 — Episode #157 Frost Seeding Clover - Soil Builder - Switchgrass
• Chris Smith asks how to create screening to his bow stands without accidentally creating new bedding areas he’ll bump on entry. 42:33 — Episode #148 - Are Bucks Shedding Antlers Early This Year?
• Nick Scarpino from Baldwin, Missouri asks whether switchgrass, Giant Miscanthus, or cedar trees is best for screening newly opened food plot edges. 53:55 — Episode #94 - Late Season is Here! Change Your Approach

Giant Miscanthus is a tall grass sold by Real World as a screening plant. Don described it as a sterile, noninvasive hybrid that spreads only a few inches yearly, dies back each winter and regrows from the base, and can reach about 12 feet, burning with flames over 50 feet. Terry noted rising sales for roadside screening, with first-year growth reaching chest-high on one client’s land. Rhizomes shipped Mondays only, ending May 1, with limited stock. Critics, including a Habitat consultant and a rival, called it invasive after poor results planting it in sod.

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