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10-11-2022 05:23 AM |
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Originally Posted by Crowbob
(Post 11818591)
Blacks are VERY easy to transplant. And they grow like weeds. Seriously, 1-2 feet per year is normal.
Problem is digging out the roots. Which you need to do if transplanting, obviously.
My experience is that there’s a tap root on the buggers that I swear speak Chinese.
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I'm pretty sure they are related to pecans because they also send a root to visit cousins in China.
On a vaguely related note, here's a way to determine what is the "antipode" (spot on the opposite side of the earth) for your location.
https://www.antipodesmap.com/
Mine is in the Indian ocean ~1700 miles east of Mauritius. I checked Beijing and it's antipode is in Argentina. It makes sense that if we are in the northern hemisphere that the "opposite" side of the world will be in the southern hemisphere. So all of this time, we've been lied to about digging to China. I for one am very disappointed in our elders that have been lying to us for so many years!
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Originally Posted by Crowbob
(Post 11818602)
Guy comes knocking at my dad’s door right when dad’s on hard times money-wise.
Guy says I’ll buy those walnut trees in the woods on your northwestern corner.
Oh yeah? How much you gonna pay?
Ten thousand, cash tomorrow.
Sold!
Dad coulda got 50 easy, in retrospect. Plus, as a bonus, it devastated the ecology of the woods that took 30 years to get back on track.
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When you need money, that kind of infusion would be next to impossible to refuse. Wow, yeah, I can imagine it taking a long time for a forest to recover from a huge loss of trees.
I know the wood is valuable, but are the raw trees that valuable? Because the raw trees have to be milled, then dried before they are useful which takes a bunch of work and time.
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Originally Posted by stevej37
(Post 11818613)
^^^
Yes...mature trees are hard to replace.
I have mostly hard maples in my yard...one of them a birds-eye maple. Makes for a lot of fall clean-up, but I don't mind it.
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I'm sure your fall is beautiful. Even when there are maples down here, we usually don't get the color that you do. We had one in our front yard in our old home. It would be green, then a cold snap would hit and the leaves would go from green, to yellow to brown and fall in 18-36 hours. I assume the lack of a long cooling period is why we didn't get much color.
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Originally Posted by porsche tech
(Post 11818739)
Next door neighbor in VA had one between our houses. Nastiest tree I’ve ever seen. Always something falling out of it ALL YEAR LONG…continually staining my patio. When neighbor was getting ready to move, I offered to pay if he’d let me have it cut down before he left. He claimed he could get big money for it so he had it cut down (had to have a crane truck). It laid around for a while and I’m not sure if he ever found someone to buy it or paid someone to haul it away. I was just happy to have it gone.
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I've heard that a lot of mills won't take trees that come out of residential lawns. The reason is that it's common to find nails, screws, etc... inside the trees. And having their saw blades hit metal is bad/expensive.
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Originally Posted by stevej37
(Post 11818751)
They are usually the last trees to leaf-out in the spring...and the first trees to lose them in the fall.
The meat under the outer skin is a mess if they don't get picked up soon.
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Same thing here with pecans. I assume because they put so much energy into nut production so they have a longer "resting" period.
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