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Must have posted something about this Coast Redwood previously, but not with numbers. Just got a preliminary volume estimate from Chris Atkins, who measured with Ron Hildebrandt, a few days ago. Ron is still crunching numbers for his method. Atkins estimates 35,500 cu. ft. volume and 309 ft. height. That would make this about the 5th or 6th largest Coast Redwood if the numbers hold.
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This image may be the magazine cover for 101 Things to do in Del Norte County near year. Probably the full color version, but I sent this version too. This redwood is in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park near Crescent City.
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One more Cathedral Tree, aka Fairy Ring
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The small redwood huts near the drive-through Coast Redwood, along Avenue of the Giants. ...
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Age is not as important as style. It can be done to an older bigger tree ... but to keep the cuts similar size, the pollard would just be bigger, taller, larger. Young or old, they can both be pollarded, along with complete pruning every year. Even with small trees, I consider pollarding to be topping ... a manicured topping
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You could probably pollard these conifers: 1. Yew 2. Coast Redwood 3. Bald Cypress 4. Ginkgo ...
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Are you sure? If someone did a genuine pollard to Leyland Cypress, I would expect them to die and not recover ... not in the same way as Yew, for example.
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Another portrait from Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. I'm entering one more shot from this set in a photograph contest this year. And may enter this one next year.
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World's Tallest Pines ... from 2011 ... "Tallest of the Tall" News Link > Tallest of the tall - News - MailTribune.com - Medford, OR Here's a photo of the tallest of those Ponderosa Pine. We found them in winter.
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Around 1985, the City of Portland Parks let a few of us golf course guys attend a safety presentation by John Deere equipment. They showed lots of graphics. One image was a man's groin. After he jumped into a grain silo, not knowing a vertical pipe was stuck down in there for who knows why. It was the bloodiest of the injury photos. Coupled with that image, they showed two red cherries. A pleasant photo to go with the injury photo.
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If you don't mind, let me add this other graphic with red, for after people scroll through your gruesome photos Also, note the two-handed grip ... lol Early 90s, I fell back off an orchard ladder, on my back, saw running. Woke up from unconsciousness after a moment, with the saw idling, chain and bar across my forearm, but no cuts. Broke a couple of ribs though. ...
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I thought it's "misspelled" ... lol ... but apparently "misspelt" is a good word too. ...
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Anyone know Conifer Propagation? Weeper in Redwoods. Spruce.
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Finally started to find a few articles online. Late summer to winter, and hardwood is what I found. Probably would be easier to keep cuttings moist if I wait for autumn. Now its a matter of waiting to see if the collection permit is approved or not. -
I bought some Kevlar palm gloves once, for handling cactus. The cactus spines were rather skinny and it did not quite work. But the gloves are sold for handling barbed wire fencing. Check farm supply places. These gloves might just work for Hawthorn. Is that a native there. We have one native Hawthorn here.
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Found what looks like a weeping Sitka Spruce in Redwood National and State Parks. Planning to submit a permit to collect cuttings and propagate. Its the only one I've ever seen. It may be one of a kind. Its small. Seems hard to connect locally with people who have answers on when the best time is. Or ... if it's possible Autumn and Winter. Greenhouse available. Because its the only one I've seen, and with a chance of damage growing in the forest, I thought propagation may be better sooner than later, if the parks even approve.
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The conifer in the OP is actually what would be a very young or medium size tree here in Oregon, which has a similar climate to the UK, at least autumn to spring. Whether that's a Leyland Cypress or not, I'll use those for example. Leylands here, grow canopy 45 feet wide in 20 years if planted single and not in a row. And height 50 feet or more, with substantial trunks.
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Your photo shows a double-stem tree. Here, for example, is a single stem tree. An Atlas Cedar planted in Sherwood, Oregon. The trunk almost 7 feet diameter ... 256 inches circumference The house is 1894 but the tree is younger than that. He's a quote I posted in a forum once, which will give an idea of how fast its growing and how young it really is: Should wrap it again this year just to see.
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Steve Sillett CARTOON (research climber upbringing)
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Sure is one heck of a deviation from the National Geographic videos. Anyway, I thought it was a rather engaging presentation for a short story. -
You folks seen this Cartoon about research climber Steve Sillett? Has a section on climbing a tree too. Enjoy. YOUTUBE Video LINK >>> ....
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Hmmmm ... thought I already posted this redwood, but apparently not ... A recent find in Redwood National and State Parks. We're curious if it's wood volume is comparable to Howland Hill Giant.
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Where you growing them? Indoors? Outdoors? Combination? Any possibility of soil contamination?
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Just posted this in the Visiting the Redwoods thread in General, but seems face-like enough for this one too. Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
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From Stout Grove in Jedediah Smith Redwoods ...
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Coast Redwoods on a hillside across from Howland Hill Rd. in Jedediah Smith Redwoods ...
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Suspended on a California Bay Laurel ... Avenue of the Giants. Leaning trunk of the broadleaf evergreen with reiterated sprouts growing upward.
