Pine trees doing good

[richmanbarbeque]

I planted these seedlings this time last year. This is the biggest one I have seen so far. I have several really close but this one was huge in comparison. Amazing how some grew very well and some are still small. Mother nature keeps us humble.

 

[JohnnyBond]

:cool:

 

[BowGuy84]

cool glad some are doing well for you!

 

[PickettSFHunter]

Im going to have to get around to getting some spots clear cut and planted in pines fo thermal cover when I get back home. Know very little about pines, my question is, How do you keep all the vegetation and other saplings from coming up around the pines very thick and choking them? Seems like a spraying would be real difficult, do the pines just out compete everything else? Thanks

 

[richmanbarbeque]

Steve, great question and obviously I am not all knowing. The areas that they are doing the best in is the areas I cleared to the dirt. In a few areas I have tried best I can to clear competing grasses/ weeds etc. but it is very difficult. I'm sure there is some spray to use but not sure of name or price. Part of what I wanted to do is to let it go naturally. Not sure if that was a mistake or not. I am very glad I did it and know of a few other areas I may put in pines next year.

 

[pass-thru]

Im going to have to get around to getting some spots clear cut and planted in pines fo thermal cover when I get back home. Know very little about pines, my question is, How do you keep all the vegetation and other saplings from coming up around the pines very thick and choking them? Seems like a spraying would be real difficult, do the pines just out compete everything else? Thanks

Typically they will burn clear cut areas that are going to be planted in pine. It is not altogether necessary however. If you are clearcutting hardwood, regengerating stumps would be the biggest concern, because they already have the root structure. Loblolly pines grow fast. They will out grow anything else in the timber, often even smoking regenerating stumps. If providing cover is your main concern rather than future timber profit....don't worry about it too much. Plant loblollys or even shortleaf at 8x8 intervals and they will eventually outgrow the competition, and you will still have great cover in the meantime.

On our property we planted fallow fields to loblolly for timber purposes. I did a precommercial thinning with my chainsaw at about 8 years of growth over a couple of acres that were particulary choked with scrub pines because they were stunting the planted pine...with maybe 5 scrubs for every loblolly. Yeah eventually the loblolly would have outgrown them, but I was years ahead in timber value by thinning out the trash. But cover is cover, right?

 

[8 POINTS OR BETTER]

You can spray pine with ARSENAL and kill most all trees except the pines. It will also kill the pine if you mix it to strong.

 

[Football Hunter]

Pines are really good competitors