Maybe the UK should plant more....

[kernowstu]

Missed out on a lorry load of lawsons up to 70td @3.7's and up to 40td @4.9's gun barrel straight.

 

[HuntingHicap]

On 04/06/2020 at 07:34, nepia said:

Morning Squaredy.   Nostalgia isn't what it used to be...

 

 

@Squaredy @nepia a similar but slightly smaller Cedar in Cuckfield, West Sussex.

[nepia]

I wonder what happened to its top half!

 

Cheers.

[Stubby]

9 hours ago, nepia said:

I wonder what happened to its top half!

 

Cheers.

Its a coffee table somewhere .

[Khriss]

2 hours ago, Stubby said:

Its a coffee table......' somewhere...... .'     ?

? K

[wills-mill]

On 07/07/2020 at 21:44, HuntingHicap said:

@Squaredy @nepia a similar but slightly smaller Cedar in Cuckfield, West Sussex.

I do like the Cuckfield Cedar. There was a photo knocking about of the same spot in about 1910 or so, it really didn't look much different.

[HuntingHicap]

I drove under it again last week, not really possible to (legally) get a photo. Its hard to see where the top originally was, or even if there was one?

[Big J]

Out with the family today at a eucalyptus nitens plantation today (I take them to all the best places!). It's actually a good laugh with the kids as they love the peeling bark and the ground is dry too.

 

Anyway, this is the largest of the trees in the block. It's 47.5cm dbh at 10 years, 7 months. Around 25m tall too. The rest of the block averages that height and about 26-27cm dbh, but that includes loads of subdominant trees. Once thinned out, all the main crop trees will be 30cm plus. At 10 years old!!

 

 

[Khriss]

Fvvk. Thats absurd growth.   K

[Big J]

1 minute ago, Khriss said:

Fvvk. Thats absurd growth.   K

There are 4.5 hectares of the stuff too! Standing at almost 500/t per hectare at the moment. 

 

It's the density at which is grows too. Clumps of 10-20 trees where they are all over 1/2t each. There are loads and loads of 1t plus trees in there. Some of the twin stems nudging 2t.

 

This is a stand that didn't establish well either as it was planted in May 2010 and got mullered by the 10/11 winter.