Growing eucalyptus coppice for firewood

[sandspider]

[petercb]

Planted a Gunnii in our wood about 20 years ago, it grew like hell and is as tall as our mature Norway Spruces. Trunk is probably 18" dia. Load of gum nuts on it.

[neiln]

7 hours ago, Stubby said:

Depends on age and species . It does go off like concrete if left too long before splitting and if its got that helical grain that some have its a machiene job only . Burnt quite a bit over the years and it is great fire wood , in a stove that is , as it pops and spits like a goodun .

Is OK Green even with the spiral,  at least the stuff I had was.   I've not found it to spit either but then nothing does if its really well dried. 

[sandspider]

Just a quick update - I'm growing some E. gunnii from seed to add to my collection. Hopefully these will coppice better (I've also been advised to grow E. glaucescens, so may try that next year). However, the E. gunnii are growing a good bit slower than the E. nitens and neglecta I planted the first time. It's about 6 weeks after planting, and the gunnii are about 8cm tall at best. Can't find pics of the nitens and neglecta at this age, but as I remember they were at least twice as tall. They were 30 - 40 odd cm tall when I planted them out at 16 weeks or so.

[Stere]

Hasn't it being very dry this yr though ?

 

Do you use mulch or  plastic etc as thats makes a massive difference for the first 5 yrs.

 

EDIT see that you use weed mat 🙂

Edited June 28, 2023 by Stere

[sandspider]

It has been dry, but the small plants are still inside and I'm watering them manually, as I did for the small nitens & neglecta. i did use plastic weed membrane, but I probably won't do again as it's gathering soil on top and growing stuff, and also starting to break down in the UV. I'll mulch with carboard in future, and once the eucs are about 1m tall they seem to take off regardless! (Well, the nitens and neglecta did anyway)