The leaves make a nice sound when the wind blows as well. My grandparents had them on their farm near Vale Oregon. I would always camp outside and fall asleep to the sound.
I once lived along a creek with cottonwoods. I hated them. They were continually shedding something including sticky buds and branches four inches in diameter.
Thank you! You taught me a lot! I’m “somewhat” familiar with cottonwoods, as I have a few on my property. I also use them for firewood, to heat my shop in the winter… I live outside of Carson City, Nevada on an acre of land. Right now, I’m actually transplanting several shoots that are coming up a couple of feet from the big ones. Here is another reason to love cottonwoods” and “another reason to hate them”: Under “favorable conditions” for the tree, they are the “fastest” growing tree in North America! They can grow up to 6’ (yes, six feet) in one growing season! I can personally attest to this, because I have been monitoring one of my cottonwoods that was a 4 foot sapling 3 years ago. Today it stands 22’-8” tall with a 6” diameter trunk (measured at 3’ above ground level)!!! They provide a lot of shade in a relatively short time! Now the “reason to hate cottonwoods”… Their shallow root system, will destroy a septic system’s leach field!!! Remember the term “favorable conditions”? Yeah, well that 22 foot cottonwood found that my leach field qualified for “favorable conditions” status! Well there ya go, and thank you again for adding useful knowledge to my brain…
Thanks for the great reply! And that sucks about the septic system. I’m having a problem with the wind breaking mine and blowing them over. I wish they could withstand the wind better.
How about all the birds that nest in cottonwood cavities, how about the water that is taken into the trunk of the cottonwood in the Spring when water is plentiful which is released into the groundwater in the Fall when water isn't plentiful, how about the transpiration cycle when water vapor from the leaves is released into the atmosphere in the Summer to cool the valley, how about the leaves, seeds and branches that are food for the invertebrates in the stream, etc.
Delighted to have found your channel. Before moving to Mexico, I had always lived in Oregon and Washington. I used to love roaming around the eastern parts of both states, and went exploring and camping as far away as the Santa Rosa Mountains in northern Nevada. Great to see an appreciation for a very common tree in those parts.
That’s great, I haven’t explored the eastern sides of these states as much as I want to. Not yet anyway. Mexico is a place I’ve always wanted to explore as well.
@@OverOnTheWildSide You'd love Mexico. There's so many landscapes of mountains, forests, ranches, deserts and villages, and a live, let live approach to life. A map, a little Spanish, a sense of adventure and you're on your way!
@@OverOnTheWildSide Some of the danger is exaggerated by news media. Some of it is real. Depends on what part of the country you're in. Forming relationships is important here, so knowing a little Spanish is an asset. All I can say is Mexico has been a much safer place to live these past five years, than were the previous seven years of living in Seattle. For camping and pursuing a stay in the country I'd recommend researching some of the north central states, maybe Chihuahua and Durango.
Looks like the inside bark would also be excellent bedding for the animals …sounds like a very useable as well as free and convenient wood…sounds perfect …thank you for sharing nature and all of its wonders and being a steward of the animals and the land…blessings wished
@@OverOnTheWildSide nah but it is near some trees that the county is gonna cut down to expand a road near my house lol. Do you know if I could move it? All the other baby trees I moved ended up dying 💀
@@ravindecavalier2912 hard to say, I don’t have much experience moving anything bigger than seedlings and plants. There’s gotta be videos on it though.
I forgot that I have transplanted some trees. It worked well, the trick is to get the roots soaked really good and soak the new hole really good. Also dig the new hole extra large and put in some soil that’s fresh. Any nursery can tell you the best soil to get. Lots of water is key though.
Nice video Richard, I did learn something new about cottonwood. I had no idea it is such a useful wood. I don't know if there's any around the area kn PA where I live but I would love to try my hand at carving a spoon out of it. Take care till next time buddy.
Great idea & great video. I live under huge cottonwoods in the forest...pretty dangerous as you say. You know how easy it is to propagate cottonwoods & willows right? ...Just snap off the tips of those fallen branches, put em in a container 50-80% full of water & you'll root whole new fast-growing trees. It seems like you should be able to grow some of the species we have here in W WA...or is it just too hot east of the mountains? Do you have berries at all?
Thanks! I do know however the Willow grows like a weed here so I don’t need anymore. I’d like for more Cottonwoods to grow but if I’m intentional about trees it’ll be maple or oak or something. I’d like to try the propagating with some black currant I found today though! I went out looking for currants today and I also saw the Oregon grape will be ripe soon. After that the Elderberries will be ripe.
Useful info and those chickens just moseying thru looking for a snack cracked me up! Inside of tipi looks inviting. Could you cover your new tipi? Have you had snakes coming in? Would love to have one but I'm afraid copperheads will be a problem. Really bad here. Literally underfoot multiple times each summer and up close where they have no business being. Take care!
I haven’t had any snake problems but I think that’s because I hardly have any snakes here. If you like sleeping in a hammock you could get one big enough for that and then hang your stuff from poles so there’s nothing for snakes to hide in. I had imagined making a fence 18” high around the outside of the tipi, out of rabbit wire, to keep snakes out. Or build it on a platform?
@@willowlaken6303 Now I wonder if there is some thing you could put on the ground that would keep them away. There’s got to be some thing that they really don’t like.
@@OverOnTheWildSide Here the most common and hardwood is the Lapacho, an extremely hardwood used in outdoor constructions due his impermeability and toughness... as furniture there are other options, because Lapacho is extremely hard to work with in more delicated structures
How about the name cotton. The seeds can be used for textile fiber, like the plant. Also can be used for friction fires. You can get a bunch of the seeds and have tinder.
I had wondered if they could be spun. I didn’t include anything about the cotton because it’s so short lived. The aspects I mentioned can be used any time of year.
curious????????do you have any clues to approximately how many gallons of water it would take to sustain a mature cottonwood tree daily in the summertime?
It’s a lot. They love having wet feet. I’m in north central Arizona and I make huge basins around the cottonwood trees and also plant them where they catch run off when it rains. It’s easy to water them when you have basins. We water them deeply once or twice a week in warm weather. We only get 19” of precipitation per year here but the trees are doing well.
@@OverOnTheWildSide my oldest ones are 6 years old and probably 40-50’ tall. We could probably water them less but my chickens love when I fill the basins up on a hot day ( which is most days from now until the monsoon starts) and they wade around in the water. I’ve got another by our pasture fence that I don’t water as much and it’s a big happy tree so to answer your question- probably yes but the chickens would be unhappy with me. 😁
The leaves make a nice sound when the wind blows as well. My grandparents had them on their farm near Vale Oregon. I would always camp outside and fall asleep to the sound.
Thank you in AK our lot has about thirty cottonwood right next to our fence. The fluff has been floating for three weeks.
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Good morning to you and good night to me! I’m about to fall asleep. I hope you have a great day Marius! Enjoy Romania for me.
I once lived along a creek with cottonwoods. I hated them. They were continually shedding something including sticky buds and branches four inches in diameter.
Cool
Reason #12-Balm of Gilead. Look into collecting the buds in early spring.
Awesome, I’ll google that
I've got some cotton woods on my property and was the delighted to learn so much. Thanks man
Awesome, I’m glad to hear that!
Cool!
sounds like you were talking about my dad when you mentioned how easy it is to carve cottonwood. and my dad makes feathers too lol
Ha! That’s awesome, I’m glad to hear someone else knows it’s value.
Thank you! You taught me a lot! I’m “somewhat” familiar with cottonwoods, as I have a few on my property. I also use them for firewood, to heat my shop in the winter… I live outside of Carson City, Nevada on an acre of land. Right now, I’m actually transplanting several shoots that are coming up a couple of feet from the big ones. Here is another reason to love cottonwoods” and “another reason to hate them”: Under “favorable conditions” for the tree, they are the “fastest” growing tree in North America! They can grow up to 6’ (yes, six feet) in one growing season! I can personally attest to this, because I have been monitoring one of my cottonwoods that was a 4 foot sapling 3 years ago. Today it stands 22’-8” tall with a 6” diameter trunk
(measured at 3’ above ground level)!!! They provide a lot of shade in a relatively short time!
Now the “reason to hate cottonwoods”…
Their shallow root system, will destroy a septic system’s leach field!!! Remember the term “favorable conditions”? Yeah, well that 22 foot cottonwood found that my leach field qualified for “favorable conditions” status!
Well there ya go, and thank you again for adding useful knowledge to my brain…
Thanks for the great reply! And that sucks about the septic system. I’m having a problem with the wind breaking mine and blowing them over. I wish they could withstand the wind better.
Great video, thanks 👍
How about all the birds that nest in cottonwood cavities, how about the water that is taken into the trunk of the cottonwood in the Spring when water is plentiful which is released into the groundwater in the Fall when water isn't plentiful, how about the transpiration cycle when water vapor from the leaves is released into the atmosphere in the Summer to cool the valley, how about the leaves, seeds and branches that are food for the invertebrates in the stream, etc.
Well the title said “11” and those would’ve made it way more than 11, so…
Delighted to have found your channel. Before moving to Mexico, I had always lived in Oregon and Washington. I used to love roaming around the eastern parts of both states, and went exploring and camping as far away as the Santa Rosa Mountains in northern Nevada. Great to see an appreciation for a very common tree in those parts.
That’s great, I haven’t explored the eastern sides of these states as much as I want to. Not yet anyway. Mexico is a place I’ve always wanted to explore as well.
@@OverOnTheWildSide You'd love Mexico. There's so many landscapes of mountains, forests, ranches, deserts and villages, and a live, let live approach to life. A map, a little Spanish, a sense of adventure and you're on your way!
How dangerous is it these days? I do know a little Spanish.
@@OverOnTheWildSide Some of the danger is exaggerated by news media. Some of it is real. Depends on what part of the country you're in. Forming relationships is important here, so knowing a little Spanish is an asset. All I can say is Mexico has been a much safer place to live these past five years, than were the previous seven years of living in Seattle. For camping and pursuing a stay in the country I'd recommend researching some of the north central states, maybe Chihuahua and Durango.
Nice! We have Cottonwood in Ohio but how abundant it is depends on the region. Maples tend to choke out a lot.
That’s crazy for me to imagine- Maples more abundant than Cottonwood!
Looks like the inside bark would also be excellent bedding for the animals …sounds like a very useable as well as free and convenient wood…sounds perfect …thank you for sharing nature and all of its wonders and being a steward of the animals and the land…blessings wished
That’s a really good idea for it.
Aspen and cottonwood are both a type of Poplar (Populus)
Just found your channel and I love it.Keep up there good work amigo!
Thank you!
Another great video bud it's interesting to learn about this, I've never seen these type of trees in Canada. Have a great day!
Thank you, have a good one!
This was very entertaining & informative!
Thank you Janet.
@@OverOnTheWildSide You're welcome!
These type of videos are nice. I've enjoyed what I've seen and this sorta topics are really interesting.
Cool, it’s not my norm but when I have info I’ve accumulated it’s nice to share it this way.
@@OverOnTheWildSide Have you ever tried to do things the way a soldier of the civil war would do?
I haven’t, I’m not into military life. I do get some ideas from it though.
Hey Richard was wondering if you could do a video on your hats! What styles, brands, the quality of the felts, and where you get them!
Thanks for the reminder! I’ve been meaning to do that, and these slow winter days would be good for it.
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Found some wierd looking thing in my garden n it turns out it was a baby cottonwood tree. It’s pretty cool n imma try to grow them boys
Nice! I hope it’s not too close to the house.
@@OverOnTheWildSide nah but it is near some trees that the county is gonna cut down to expand a road near my house lol. Do you know if I could move it? All the other baby trees I moved ended up dying 💀
@@ravindecavalier2912 hard to say, I don’t have much experience moving anything bigger than seedlings and plants. There’s gotta be videos on it though.
I forgot that I have transplanted some trees. It worked well, the trick is to get the roots soaked really good and soak the new hole really good. Also dig the new hole extra large and put in some soil that’s fresh. Any nursery can tell you the best soil to get. Lots of water is key though.
wow what a channel!
Thank you
Nice video Richard, I did learn something new about cottonwood. I had no idea it is such a useful wood. I don't know if there's any around the area kn PA where I live but I would love to try my hand at carving a spoon out of it. Take care till next time buddy.
Thanks Peter, I’m sure in PA you have plenty of options to make up for anything the Cottonwoods offer :) and more!
@@OverOnTheWildSide that we do🤠
Great idea & great video. I live under huge cottonwoods in the forest...pretty dangerous as you say.
You know how easy it is to propagate cottonwoods & willows right? ...Just snap off the tips of those fallen branches, put em in a container 50-80% full of water & you'll root whole new fast-growing trees.
It seems like you should be able to grow some of the species we have here in W WA...or is it just too hot east of the mountains? Do you have berries at all?
Thanks! I do know however the Willow grows like a weed here so I don’t need anymore. I’d like for more Cottonwoods to grow but if I’m intentional about trees it’ll be maple or oak or something.
I’d like to try the propagating with some black currant I found today though!
I went out looking for currants today and I also saw the Oregon grape will be ripe soon. After that the Elderberries will be ripe.
Good job bro
Thanks man
Useful info and those chickens just moseying thru looking for a snack cracked me up! Inside of tipi looks inviting. Could you cover your new tipi? Have you had snakes coming in? Would love to have one but I'm afraid copperheads will be a problem. Really bad here. Literally underfoot multiple times each summer and up close where they have no business being. Take care!
I haven’t had any snake problems but I think that’s because I hardly have any snakes here. If you like sleeping in a hammock you could get one big enough for that and then hang your stuff from poles so there’s nothing for snakes to hide in.
I had imagined making a fence 18” high around the outside of the tipi, out of rabbit wire, to keep snakes out.
Or build it on a platform?
Yes I had thought of making a snake fence around the general area so I could relax in the "safe zone".
@@willowlaken6303 Now I wonder if there is some thing you could put on the ground that would keep them away. There’s got to be some thing that they really don’t like.
Hey! Love the channel. Are people burning alot of tamarisk yonder?
Tamarack? If so, yes it’s the best firewood but not everyone gets it. It grows at high elevations and isn’t the easiest to get.
As a tropical country, here in Paraguay we have plenty of types of wood for every task we have :)
I bet! Probably some unique hardwoods.
@@OverOnTheWildSide Here the most common and hardwood is the Lapacho, an extremely hardwood used in outdoor constructions due his impermeability and toughness... as furniture there are other options, because Lapacho is extremely hard to work with in more delicated structures
That’s very interesting. I’ve heard of those extra hard hardwoods. Someone I know ordered ironwood from South America for his deck.
The bark makes good coals
Short lived…
We use to have a lot of it along the river here ..I guess it drinks too much water so these farmers got rid of most of them ..
That’s interesting, I suppose they would but I figured willows are worse for that. It’s not good for creeks though…
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It’s also a VERY messy tree i have 8 in my yard they keep you busy
Yeah that’s a lot for a yard unless you just let your yard go wild and stay out of it during windy days.
How about the name cotton. The seeds can be used for textile fiber, like the plant. Also can be used for friction fires. You can get a bunch of the seeds and have tinder.
I had wondered if they could be spun. I didn’t include anything about the cotton because it’s so short lived. The aspects I mentioned can be used any time of year.
We have a ton of cottonwood in Vermont
I didn’t know that. They must go coast to coast then…?
@@OverOnTheWildSide we specifically have eastern cottonwood. Not sure about where you are but they can be massive here.
@jakebarney I’m up in the PNW, I don’t know what variety we have. They can get big. I just saw some really big ones in Arizona.
@@OverOnTheWildSide you could have eastern or black but there isn’t much of a difference.
@@jakebarney I just googled it. Apparently what I have is black like you said. Arizona has Fremont which is larger.
You Forgot LODGEPOLE My FAVORITE
That’s pretty far from me unfortunately… they’re in the mountains nearby but these are right here on my property.
@@OverOnTheWildSide Ya I have to go up out of my CRICK BOTTOM to get them to
Jealous, I’d love to have a bunch closer to me. Not complaining though, at least the mountains aren’t too far and I have a truck.
@@OverOnTheWildSide I can't believe you have Pondo, Red Fir and Tamarack but no Lodgepole
I said we do have it in the mountains. On my property I have none of that.
I h ate cottonwood with all my soul.
They're weak, they serve no purpose. Hell, they're not even worth burning.
You should watch the video
curious????????do you have any clues to approximately how many gallons of water it would take to sustain a mature cottonwood tree daily in the summertime?
Good question, I know they grow well in dry areas but I have no idea on actual water needed.
It’s a lot. They love having wet feet. I’m in north central Arizona and I make huge basins around the cottonwood trees and also plant them where they catch run off when it rains. It’s easy to water them when you have basins. We water them deeply once or twice a week in warm weather. We only get 19” of precipitation per year here but the trees are doing well.
Have you been doing it long enough to see if eventually they get deep enough roots that you don’t have to water as much in the summer?
@@OverOnTheWildSide my oldest ones are 6 years old and probably 40-50’ tall. We could probably water them less but my chickens love when I fill the basins up on a hot day ( which is most days from now until the monsoon starts) and they wade around in the water. I’ve got another by our pasture fence that I don’t water as much and it’s a big happy tree so to answer your question- probably yes but the chickens would be unhappy with me. 😁
Haha! Well chickens are great, so it’s important to keep them happy.