One Im working on coppicing are mulberry trees. They seem to grow really quickly, are quite hardy, grow easily from cuttings, make great firewood and produce fruit. The leaves are even edible in the spring! Seems like a no brainer. going to plant a dense 1/4 acre worth and see how it works out.
Id just like to point out to ya the paulownia ( royal empress ) can be cut to the stump , 7 years later it will be harvestable size again. You can do this ten times. You coppice , then select the leader shoot ( one that shoots up to 12 ft the first year ) prune the rest , then keep the leader pruned and straight for 7 years , sell the wood . Its very valuable . Ive recently fell in love with it and planted my first 5 Paulownia elongata this year to see how they like my soil in central indiana
Great point, Charles. Both hazel and moringa coppice well, and you want to trim both of them regularly anyways, to make it easier to harvest the food each plant produces. When you coppice hazel, and it grows multiple offshoots, then you can turn those offshoots into new hazel plants through "layering" propagation techniques.
No! Not the Empress tree, at least not in the US near natural areas. The 'desirable traits' mentioned are also what make it an invasive species. Go with the locusts.
Great point. You can buy sterile clones of empress/princess trees. I'm lucky enough to live in a northern climate where the tree can still grow and survive, but I've been told it's too cold here to produce seeds.
Hey Stephen, I also live in Michigan, and it is not an invasive species here. I hope to grow a couple thousand and use them as fence posts after harvesting them.
No, many annual and perennial plants grow better after a little pruning (removing about 30% of above ground growth at the right time), I'd say most plants and trees will be damaged if you cut back more than 50% of growth, and some of those will die.
Most European native hardwoods will coppice. Some better than others and a few (cherry, Prunus avium) and elm (Ulmus procera) will sucker (grow from the roots) rather than coppice. Coppice regrowth is initiated in epicormic bud precursors in the cambium of the trunk and stump by removal of the upper parts of the tree. The growing tissues in these parts release substances (plant hormone analogues) which normally suppress growth of bud precursors, although in some species they can develop to form epicormic buds and epicormic growth, for example if a tree is stressed for light and then surrounding, competing trees are suddenly removed. Conifers don't coppice as they have no epicormic bud precursors. Nor do they sucker. Herbaceous plants don't coppice as such, but some will regrow from the base if cut. Some annuals will re-grow repeatedly, especially if you don't allow them to fruit/set seed. If they survive a winter, they may work as a biennial or even a (facultative) perennial. Try this with the succulent and very pricey purple sprouting broccoli. Usually waist high and treated as an annual, if you harvest all the delicious shoots from an old-fashioned variety (not Calabrese) you can get a 'tree' which may last 3 or 4 years and be 6-8' high before it collapses, and yields large amounts of produce which can be picked from late winter all the way through until autumn when attempts at flowering stop. Best done in free-draining soils - beware encouraging club root fungus to overwinter. Shutting up now.
Ailanthus altissima, known also as the Tree Of Heaven, when coppiced, can grow back almost a hunded offshoots at more than 1 inch a day and are about 1 inch to 1.5 inches in diameter up to 15 feet in lenght in one growing season. It is a city tree and can survive polluted air, smog, polluted water, polluted soil, and can spread by running roots right under concrete building foundations in cities to grow a new grove of ailanthus altissima trees. Weedy and almost next to impossible to kill to clear out an area. Useful for rapid coppicing and when combined with the Jean Pain Compost Energy And Food System (journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/methane_pain.html) one can really become energy off grid overnight. Makes one wonder if pre-mixed rock dust powders mixtures and biochar mixture are used underneath it when planting it, the number of offshoots and their sizes and growth rates will be stupendous!
Sustainability is key: we need the right trees in the right places. Foreign imports can wreck biodiversity, so check first if varieties you are considering is right for your land's biome.
One Im working on coppicing are mulberry trees. They seem to grow really quickly, are quite hardy, grow easily from cuttings, make great firewood and produce fruit. The leaves are even edible in the spring! Seems like a no brainer. going to plant a dense 1/4 acre worth and see how it works out.
Empress trees are considered invasive in north america. Many jurisdictions have regulations about invasive tree species.
Id just like to point out to ya the paulownia ( royal empress ) can be cut to the stump , 7 years later it will be harvestable size again. You can do this ten times. You coppice , then select the leader shoot ( one that shoots up to 12 ft the first year ) prune the rest , then keep the leader pruned and straight for 7 years , sell the wood . Its very valuable . Ive recently fell in love with it and planted my first 5 Paulownia elongata this year to see how they like my soil in central indiana
Great point, Charles. Both hazel and moringa coppice well, and you want to trim both of them regularly anyways, to make it easier to harvest the food each plant produces. When you coppice hazel, and it grows multiple offshoots, then you can turn those offshoots into new hazel plants through "layering" propagation techniques.
btw the O in coppice is short like in cop ... not long like in the cope ... you are literally policing the woods not edgeing them
No! Not the Empress tree, at least not in the US near natural areas. The 'desirable traits' mentioned are also what make it an invasive species. Go with the locusts.
Black locust is equally invasive :D
It's kop, as in copper; not cope.
Thanks Max, I'm sure I will mispronounce it in the future, but it's good to know the right way to say things.
One thing to note about the Empress tree is that it can be considered invasive, so make sure if you plant one that it has sterile seeds.
Great point. You can buy sterile clones of empress/princess trees. I'm lucky enough to live in a northern climate where the tree can still grow and survive, but I've been told it's too cold here to produce seeds.
Sustainability Theory. Oh good to know! I live in Michigan so it's probably cold enough here to sterilize the seeds.
Hey Stephen, I also live in Michigan, and it is not an invasive species here. I hope to grow a couple thousand and use them as fence posts after harvesting them.
How about Osage Orange?
Why did you not mention Hazel or Moringa ? I believe they are coppiced the most.
I’m interested in nitrogen fixers that are native to the central United States which have leaves edible for ruminants AND are safe for horses.
black locust
@@stuttgurth I’m gonna need to be more detailed in my questions. Need to add, and not toxic to horses.
@@gkseeton Thornless honey locust
Can all plants coppice???
No, many annual and perennial plants grow better after a little pruning (removing about 30% of above ground growth at the right time), I'd say most plants and trees will be damaged if you cut back more than 50% of growth, and some of those will die.
Most European native hardwoods will coppice. Some better than others and a few (cherry, Prunus avium) and elm (Ulmus procera) will sucker (grow from the roots) rather than coppice. Coppice regrowth is initiated in epicormic bud precursors in the cambium of the trunk and stump by removal of the upper parts of the tree. The growing tissues in these parts release substances (plant hormone analogues) which normally suppress growth of bud precursors, although in some species they can develop to form epicormic buds and epicormic growth, for example if a tree is stressed for light and then surrounding, competing trees are suddenly removed.
Conifers don't coppice as they have no epicormic bud precursors. Nor do they sucker.
Herbaceous plants don't coppice as such, but some will regrow from the base if cut. Some annuals will re-grow repeatedly, especially if you don't allow them to fruit/set seed. If they survive a winter, they may work as a biennial or even a (facultative) perennial. Try this with the succulent and very pricey purple sprouting broccoli. Usually waist high and treated as an annual, if you harvest all the delicious shoots from an old-fashioned variety (not Calabrese) you can get a 'tree' which may last 3 or 4 years and be 6-8' high before it collapses, and yields large amounts of produce which can be picked from late winter all the way through until autumn when attempts at flowering stop. Best done in free-draining soils - beware encouraging club root fungus to overwinter.
Shutting up now.
Not Paulownia tomentosa. It's a giant weed. Try the better behaved P. fortunei, P. kawakamii, or P. elongata.
you could also use oak and hazel trees
Great points. Both oak and hazel coppice well, and make great lumber that can be used in a variety of ways.
The first syllable of coppice is correctly pronounced like the word "cop," rather than "cope."
Brian buffing
Ailanthus altissima, known also as the Tree Of Heaven, when coppiced, can grow back almost a hunded offshoots at more than 1 inch a day and are about 1 inch to 1.5 inches in diameter up to 15 feet in lenght in one growing season. It is a city tree and can survive polluted air, smog, polluted water, polluted soil, and can spread by running roots right under concrete building foundations in cities to grow a new grove of ailanthus altissima trees. Weedy and almost next to impossible to kill to clear out an area. Useful for rapid coppicing and when combined with the Jean Pain Compost Energy And Food System (journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/methane_pain.html) one can really become energy off grid overnight. Makes one wonder if pre-mixed rock dust powders mixtures and biochar mixture are used underneath it when planting it, the number of offshoots and their sizes and growth rates will be stupendous!
Sustainability is key: we need the right trees in the right places. Foreign imports can wreck biodiversity, so check first if varieties you are considering is right for your land's biome.
Tree of Heaven is a freaking nightmare to get rid of. You don’t want it.
Tree of Heaven is an invasive species in Pennsylvania and other states. Not a good idea for the forests here
Learn how to pronounce the word before you try to tell us how it's done