Longleaf Pine

WDH · January 29, 2010, 10:31:34 PM

I look forward to see your control burn. I need to burn some too this season. Loblolly however, not longleaf, and they are 24 years old. Amazing to think that I planted them 24 years ago

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Whats time to a tree???

Magicman · March 20, 2010, 01:33:14 PM

Today was the day......to burn....

The burn begins

Finishing up with my Son and Grandson

A scorched little Longleaf Pine seedling

Clark · March 20, 2010, 03:10:30 PM

Great pictures Magicman! I've always found the early development of LL to be very interesting. You are going to get pictures of them when they take off in the next year or two, right?

Clark

WDH · March 20, 2010, 09:25:06 PM

Not many good days to burn this year. It is good that you could get it done.

SwampDonkey · March 21, 2010, 04:29:19 AM

Yesterday folks were burning grass up this way to, but not to release trees. It's the spring fever. ;D The potato fields near here are like dry powder on top, no frost. Still snow around, but going fast.

fishpharmer · March 21, 2010, 05:39:23 AM

MM, getting the family together for something as simple as a controlled burn makes for a pleasant day. Glad it went well. It should be a nice green by April 3 ;)

SwampDonkey · March 21, 2010, 05:57:49 AM

Fishfarmer, your up early on a Sunday. ;D Gotta feed them fish I suppose. ;)

fishpharmer · March 21, 2010, 06:06:43 AM

FF is the next best thing to sleep. ;) Rain and maybe thunder woke me. Fish eat better in the afternoon and evening. MM's, thread on burning made me think of some burning I need to do as well.

Magicman · June 30, 2010, 09:26:03 PM

On March 20, we burned my little Long Leaf plantation to release my seedlings from the "grass stage". Well, they all didn't release, but some of them did. It was a bit late and some areas had started to green up and didn't burn very well. I'll get them earlier next year.

June 30. 2010. Some of them are really taking off.

WDH · July 01, 2010, 09:20:15 AM

I was asking the Director of the Longleaf Alliance about how soon you could burn planted longleaf, and she said, "There is nothing bad about fire to a longleaf pine."

Magicman · August 28, 2010, 05:14:06 PM

This is the same tree that is shown in Reply #33. This tree has grown a foot in two months.

August 28, 2010.

Buck · August 28, 2010, 07:31:46 PM

wish all mine was longleaf

Magicman · August 28, 2010, 08:33:16 PM

I only have 60-75 Longleaf Pines. I planted them on my Grandparent's old housesite as a memorial to them. My main pine plantations are Loblolly.

Smoothing up the housesite and getting ready to plant Longleaf Pines.

WDH · August 28, 2010, 08:48:40 PM

That is a great pic of the longleaf seedling going phototrophic!

Magicman · August 28, 2010, 08:58:43 PM

The picture in the first post on this thread is of the same tree.

Taken January 6, 2010.

chain · August 29, 2010, 10:33:43 AM

It is so dry here, I believe a fire could start on the river side of the levee and burn all the way to Memphis. I witnessed a fire as such several years ago. I went over to the levee about dusk, the fire was coming through the cottonwoods and willows and nearly every tree had possum vines, as the fire came through it would burn and climb upwards on the vine near the crown before falling back causing sparks and new fires. Also, a full moon came up and the glow and smoke from the fire gave an erie appearance to the red-yellow moon.

caveman · October 11, 2010, 08:20:34 PM

It is good to know folks are planting longleaf pines. I am popping in on this topic way late. In Florida, the Division of Forestry reccomends prescribed fire for longleaf in the grass stage. If you are interested in killing off competing hardwoods, best results are to be had by doing a summer burn.

The longleaf in the grass stage pictured at the beginning of this thread appeared to have brown spot needle blight (it looks a lot like needle cast of pines that loblolly and slash get), which is a fungus that is known as the most serious disease of longleaf in the grass stage.

The DOF usually reccomends burning longleaf every 3-5 years except when they are most vunerable to fire which is when they emerge from the grass stage until they reach a height of 10 feet to their lowest green branch.

Caveman