Table Mnt pine male cones
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Table Mountain Pine - any seedlings available?
Comments (10)Hi palmcityfl, Are you familiar with the term pioneer species? Such species are the first to colonize an open area. They include scrub, pitch, table mountain, shortleaf and red pines in that area. You may not have to do anything for these species to repopulate the area. If you're familiar with the Holiday Inn near Jonesville, check out the cutaway area in back. I was there about 10 years ago, hundreds of sourwood were coming up on their own. You might include sourwood, Oxydendrum arboreum, on your want list. If I were you I'd learn to recognize the seedlings that volunteer and encourage them. That's what early succession is all about....See Morewhat are the common scrubby pines in MD?
Comments (7)Look at a branch and see how the needles are arranged in a bundle. How many needles in a bundle? Look at several. How long are the needles? Both pieces of information will be helpful to you. For example: Loblolly - 3 needles per bundle, length about 6-9 inches Virginia pine - 2 needles per bundle, about 2-3 inches long, slight wavy appearance Shortleaf pine - 2 needles per bundle (sometimes 3), about 3-5 inches long, straight needles Those are the 3 common ones near me....See MoreShortleaf pine
Comments (20)As for pests--I have had some problems with sawfly larvae. Two years ago I had them on three of my young white pines. I picked them off--it took three or four tries to get them all. On those trees they have not come back. But this year, suddenly, they began to devastate my shortleafs. I tried picking them off, but after one or two tries, they became so numerous, I had to get a spray. The first one, some kind of organic insecticidal soap, killed a lot, but did not solve the problem. I then got another spray and after three more sprayings, I got the last of them. If I had done nothing, all of them would have been completely defoliated. There were literally thousands of these larvae, and they clustered in bunches of 20 or so as they ate all the needles off the twig ends. I read that this problem is worse when the young trees are growing in a field, amid weeds and brush, as mine are. When these trees get big enough to resist buckrubbing damage, I will mow around them. For now it is good to keep them more or less hidden in the weeds and brush. Of course, I keep them from being shaded. And I have the best ones in wire cages for protection. I also had a terrible problem with the sawflies on my Vanderwolf pine--a kind of white pine cultivar. They were all over this tree and would have completely defoliated it if I had not sprayed. I also had some kind of fungus attacking the needles of my shortleaf pines, but it seems it did little harm. But in the spring before the new growth started, it looked serious. I will see what happens with that this next spring. I hope I will not have to spray for that also. --Spruce...See MoreThis Bud's for you
Comments (16)Thanks Beng....looks like I should have done a gooogle search on this topic first. I found a good explanation on cone positions, which I hope is correct, that is the opposite of my newbie observations. "The pollen cones cluster at the base of the new shoots, beneath the terminal bud. Most of the pollen cones form on the lower branches of the tree, away from the seed cones, but sometimes they form on the same shoot as the seed cones. The wind usually wonâÂÂt take pollen from the base of the tree to its upper branches, so the arrangement of seed and pollen cones encourages cross-pollination." Dave, The 'Thunderhead' is already doing both so I appreciate learning that its strong growth and needle drop are common for this cultivar. Between it and my Sequoia sempervirens I may never have to buy mulch again! Thanks for the info, Barbara...See Morebengz6westmd
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