Pinecones wanted

woodtroll · October 11, 2011, 11:09:30 AM

Cool,
Thanks WDH, I really like the cones. The Longleaf pine are surprisingly big.
And I like the table mountain samples.
It is nice to open a box that fills the room with pine smell.

Jeremy

WDH · October 11, 2011, 08:53:51 PM

Jeremy,

I have seen longleaf pine cones that were a foot or more long.

SwampDonkey · October 12, 2011, 04:23:09 AM

Back in 1984, my mother brought back from Florida a bunch of them for Christmas decorations. ;D

One time she wanted some white pine cones, I found a tree that was stressed by blister rust, and on the ground I filled two 100 lb burlap sac fulls. Typical of my mother, wanting something then not using them, I don't think she used many of'm. :D

WDH · October 12, 2011, 07:07:39 AM

Send Woodtroll a sack full.

SwampDonkey · October 12, 2011, 02:44:35 PM

They've "disappeared" long before this. ;D

woodtroll · November 04, 2011, 06:22:10 PM

Made a trip back east to visit family, I was able to pick up some Jack Pine.
I had forgotten how serotoneus they were. Also picked up some red pine from MN. and some Scotch in WI.
Now to start building.
Still taking any good samples.

WDH · November 04, 2011, 08:21:36 PM

I need to scrape up some sand pine, pond pine, and spruce pine for you. I remember that in Forestry School, one of the most feared tests was the pine cone test

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woodtroll · November 06, 2011, 11:04:46 PM

I do not want to cause fear.
I will save room for any more you send my way!

woodtroll · December 21, 2011, 04:31:23 PM

cfarm
Thanks for the cedar cones.

My pile of cones is looking good. Now to start labeling.
woodtroll

Mooseherder · December 21, 2011, 07:25:27 PM

Seems like we have thousands of cones down right now but it's only in the hundreds. :D
You got some of ours already.

thecfarm · December 21, 2011, 08:08:47 PM

I saw some nice fir ones on top of the tree. Tree was a small one,and probably would not amount to much.I cut it down for the cones, and as soon as I touched the cones they fell apart. Mother nature way of re seeding. There's always next year.

SwampDonkey · December 21, 2011, 09:49:11 PM

Yeah, as soon as those fir ripen they disintegrate.

Not really a cone, but a catkin, a yellow birch seed catkin looks like a cone. That would be interesting for a little fun. Only thing is, they are busting apart now to. On the skiff of snow we had last week with a 20 mile an hour wind the catkins dispersed a lot, seeds and bracts all over the snow. I have a mature yellow birch in the back yard and it produces a lot of catkins most summers. Even some of my planted yellow birch have catkins and they are only 11-12 years old now. 8) Didn't notice them this year though. A moose was out there in the birch, I see tracks. If you want moose in the back yard, just plant yellow birch. :

Assuming your in moose country. ;)