Little Longleafs

GATreeGrower · February 20, 2013, 11:27:51 AM

Planted these in April last year...they will sure grow in a sandhill

Clark · February 20, 2013, 12:12:45 PM

Nice pictures! It looks like sandy beach right there.

Longleaf pine, in the stage you show, is so very odd to me I have a tough time wrapping my head around it. Then I read "Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest" and things truly became even stranger. How exactly a tree can live on the site that LL does and live for several hundred years is beyond me. It would be fun to go down and see longleaf management in action, especially this time of the year!

Clark

GATreeGrower · February 20, 2013, 01:27:27 PM

I have that book

It is a great read.

I have a little spot on top of a rock pile where there are dozens of longleaf that have to be 150-200 years old...still have catfaces on them. Loggers can't get to it with machines and its too small to mess with, so it's gone virtually untouched except for turpentine. The understory is dotted with little LL trees in various stages of growth. I'll have to remember to take some pics next time I'm there.

RynSmith · February 20, 2013, 02:58:05 PM

Quote from: GATreeGrower on February 20, 2013, 01:27:27 PMI'll have to remember to take some pics next time I'm there.

Please do, I'd love to see that! Do you know if there has ever been any fire through there? I'd be curious to see what's in the understory too...

sprucebunny · February 20, 2013, 05:17:17 PM

They are so cute when they're that size

I've grown a few from seed in my living room here, and juvenile is my favorite. I have 2 that are 8-9 years old now and semi-bonsai...not as handsome.

GATreeGrower · February 20, 2013, 08:49:28 PM

My guess is there hasn't been any fire in there for a long time. Lots of briars and scrub. We cut some of the catfaces they could get to about 12 years ago, which I guess brought on the seedlings. Who knows how old they are, but they're growing on a pile of rocks.