Spalted pine - need help convincing my wife to like the coloration!!

[WDH]

My denim blue pine is natural too.  And organic. 

[Bruno of NH]

I market all my wood as organic

[ChugiakTinkerer]

At least half of every tree is Shade Grown as well.  :laugh:

[Evergreen Man]

I've never used pine on a floor, but I love the stained pine on walls!

[Glenn Ohman]

I would call what I see blue stain rather than spalt.

To get technical, blue stain is indeed a form of spalting. Spalting is simply color occurring inside wood that is caused by fungi.

Glenn

[goose63]

How long do the log's have to sit befor you get this denim look you speak of

I have four load's of pine comeing next week and i would like to get that look in some of then

[Magicman]

I see two different blues.  One from mildew on dead or improperly stacked lumber.  The other from beetle deposited fungus that is there before the tree is felled.  The latter to me is much more colorful.

Pine normally does not have the fungi lines that is seen in hardwood.

[Glenn Ohman]

Pine normally does not have the fungi lines that is seen in hardwood.

Sorry if I'm getting annoying but I think it's important to use correct terminology/I like to get nerdy when it comes to wood science.

The fungi lines are called zones lines and are created when two different kinds of fungi (or a fungi that no longer recognizes itself) allocate resources, i.e. build a wall between themselves.

Zone lines, popularized by Mark Linguest in the 1970's, are just one of many flavors of splating.

Interestingly enough, blue-green stain wood is one of the earliest documented uses of splated wood, dating back to intarsia masters of the late 13th century.

Glenn 

[Magicman]

You haven't annoyed me. 

If I am less than "educated" then so be it.  If I sometimes use my own terminology, then so be it.   LINK

[tmarch]

When I have it it's not "blue stain" or "spalted" it's very special denim pine and if there's more needed it becomes very valuable denim pine.

[DanMc]

How long do the log's have to sit befor you get this denim look you speak of

I have four load's of pine comeing next week and i would like to get that look in some of then

Goose,  All I know is that I cut all my logs this summer and the white pines are all blue'd.  They all have a significant population of worms drilling holes in them and it's a great deal of pleasure to cut them in half.  In my case, these logs have sat for no more than a few months.  They were cut some time maybe in June or July and were milled in Oct.  I had been warned by some people about the bugs burrowing into the wood if the logs are not promptly milled, and was shocked that it happened so quickly.  I'm not sure if you need warmer temps for this to happen, but I could see the staining from the ends of the logs before they were milled.