How to Grow Mighty Pine Trees from a Pine Cone
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- This video teaches the public on how to cultivate seeds from pine cones in order to repopulate the earth with living, breathing evergreen trees. Feel free to send inquiries to joseph.diehl@gmail.com. Join me in saving the planet!
Love the painting in the back 😂😂
Thanks for tips and ideas, the ‘Bootleg’ fire last year in Southern Oregon killed almost all my Lodgepole & Ponderosa. I have re-growth coming back after a year
and found your wire mesh protection more economical than those plastic tubes. Much thanks.
The wire mesh, if implanted into the soil around 1/2-1", is very durable and resilient. I've now seen them work for 2-3 years. One tree has grown over the top of the mesh, and its growth is incredible.
Thank you for your work to replace our lost resources. Good work, man. It DOES make a long-term difference.
Joe
Excellent video! I’ve been buying some scotch pines to replace many standing dead we had to cut down and a squirrel flung a fresh ponderosa cone from a massive ponderosa we have in the yard. So I dissected it and got some 20-25 seeds I plan to germinate after winter. Love the cage idea! Now to find some red fir and Tamarack seeds :)
Great video Burke-Gilman neighbor! I've been starting my own tree propagation work at home and love finding others' techniques.
Thanks Andy! I get all my cones from the B-G trail.
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Good info, thanks!
Good idea --- I just decided to plant pine tress the other day. In doing some checking I understand that you can see if the seeds are bad by seeing if they float in water, if they sink, they are not good. That is not to say that the seeds that float will be OK, but the ones that can't float are not good. Have a good day.
Great tip, Jim. Thank you for adding to the knowledge.
Got my cones from my big Lacey pine tree today, i will pop a couple cones into the freezer tonight
I left mine in for around 3 months - out of 50 seeds, only one sprouted. Maybe a 3 month freeze is too much. Joe
Let me know how your seeds fared.
Great video thank you for sharing. We planted a Blue Spruce when we moved into our first home 25yrs ago and it's huge and gorgeous. Starting to thin in the centre so I got to thinking if I could grow its babies 😊 to continue our legacy planting.
As you will discover, planting a blue spruce from a seedling to a mature tree is a long process. For example, of the 18 starts that I planted in my backyard, to date (Nov 12, 2020), only 10 have survived so far. We had some yard maintenance guys accidentally squash two of them despite their being in a small circular wire fence. 3 others were “buried” by the leaf accumulation from a nearby maple tree... I was not on top of that - no sun, the seedling dies. 3 others simply disappeared - perhaps eaten by a clever rodent or squirrel.
My suggestion - if you want a quicker turnaround, is to buy 10 blue spruce starts from a tree farm and my guess is - perhaps 3 or 4 may ultimately survive.
For kids and adults like us, the planting of
seeds from a pine cone is an amazing lesson on why a tree sheds hundreds of cones per season. Only a very few survive to become full grown trees.
If u want a fun challenge that takes 100+ years to reach maturity, purchase hundreds of Saguaro Cactus seeds and sand. Grow them indoors. The first “arm” of the cactus appears in 75 years on average!!!!
There is a tree nursery not far from me so I like to start with 2yo seedlings
I keep in a greenhouse for a year then put them in the ground the next spring.
What worries me is January frost & freeze. At 3yo so far I have had good luck.
So far. Starting with a 2yo they will be almost 4yo their first Jan outside.
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I want to bring more bio diversity to the woods in my back yard and thought I would plant some pines so thanks
I collect a lot of different pine cones - and many do not "take" but those that do, are incredibly quick-growing trees. Thanks for helping with your work. Joe
Thank u
Heck yeah I like method!
Thank you
Thanks for the comment.
What kind of potting soil did you use?
My wife and I had a compost heap and that soil that results, is the best!!!!
Do you have any experience with
Wormwood and mugwort ?
No, not at all!
Explain your experiences!
@@josephdiehl3406
I've tried growing it back in
2018 / 2019 .
Great content and thank you for sharing!
Completely unrelated, but where did you get that painting? She's a beauty!
Ha, that painting was done by a college student where, they all painted a nude model - and then people bought it at an art school auction. One day, a neighbor said, her grandkids felt uncomfortable with nude paintings she had bought. So we accepted the paintings as a gift and enjoy the talent of these young artists.
That is our story and we are sticking with it. lol
All true.
Where's the update video?
Just posted a pix of one of the trees that made it. Go to my FB page. See my post above and click the link.
Fast forward 4 years and 16 days: one of the pine cone seeds MADE IT! Check out this tree that grew to nearly 6 feet over those 1,476 days and nights. It is a fascinating example of "The Incredible Nature of Nature" - with a lecture from the late physicist Richard Feynmann on that topic. Best to all and thank you for helping my video go VIRAL. See the tree at: facebook.com/joediehl/
Thank you! Someone chopped ours and I went and got all the closed ones today
It's great to start from scratch! If however, you prefer a quicker growing and more likely replacement for your chopped up one, visit the garden department at Lowe's (possibly - at Home Depot as well) - where I found a 3-foot tall Blue Spruce in a pot, for $54. It didn't replace an existing tree, but it sure is thriving in the Pacific Northwest. In my travels, I am finding that some trees do not produce cones, and others have cones without seeds... perhaps they are genetic variants or even more likely, perhaps I need to continue my learning and experimenting. In any case, our trees provide us with our oxygen and with the thin veil of oxygen encircling our planet, we need all we can get.
Pine trees have very small needles instead of leaves so they actually don’t do much actually. They do thrive in most any soil or climate. But unless I. Wrong; those small needles don’t impact oxygen nearly as much as a broader leaf tree.
Best to plant a diverse group of trees. Pines are good as an evergreen. But broadleaf trees are much better for the environment
@@sheaconnelly4287 I used to love Silver Maples in Illinois. I don't see many here in my neighborhood.
Kinda dark and echoey but info good, practical.
Next video old bits old man on his head .😊
Some pine cones ONLY open in a fire. That’s why forest fires in nature is normal.
I will try roasting some tonight. Good tip. I found that certain types NEED a fire to propagate: "Yet for some tree species, fire is a critical part of their life cycle and without forest fires, they would die off. Lodgepole pines (also called shore pines), a common type of tree found all over western North America, are one such example of a fire-adapted plant species that relies on the fire ecology created through natural or controlled forest fires to propagate future generations."
There’s lots of seeds in open pins cones, believe me- I sell seeds for a living. I’ve yet to find a pinecone that’s out of seeds.
I found that most have at least ONE seed left and in some cases, more than one.
great video keep up the good work!!
Thanks! I am still learning...
Thank you! We have to have a pine taken down in our yard which was a sapling brought from my grandmas cottage! I want to see if I can grow some saplings from it so I can keep it in some way
Thanks for your question. Starting a new tree from a root or from a branch - is outside of my area of expertise. If there are any pine cones from Grandma’s tree - try to extract the seeds from the cone. Some folks use tweezers or pliers to find the seeds. If there are no pine cones, check with an arborist or local tree farm to see if they can give you advice on how to start a new tree from a root (for example). A friend of mine has done GRAFTING to attach Grandma’s tree branch onto an existing genetically compatible pine tree.
Good luck and let me know how it turns out!
Eh hem you owe your loyal fans an update sir
Hi Becka, well - several more of the seedlings have died, mostly due to the heat waves we experienced along with long drought periods. I gathered more pine cones, refrigerated them; extracted seeds and planted around 40-50 seeds about three weeks ago. Only one has sprouted so far. So, it is frustrating to say the least. That is my update! Joe
That ONE is doing great. Check out my recent post and go to my FB page. Above.
Get it going man... Where are they where is the proof
See my FB post. 6 feet in 4 year's evidences the Incredible Nature of Nature.
Golden knights!
My favorite shirt... I now a Seattle Kraken fan!
It's smart to consider climate change for your tree planting plans. I'm personally going to try to plan with rising sea levels in mind -- LOL
That topic will be getting a lot of attention as climates continue to change and forests - which make us oxygen, decline.