Pine Trees

[NCHillbilly]

I love to hunt the edges where pines and hardwoods come together. One of my favorite spots is a mature oak ridge with a thick cutover on one side and planted pines on the other side.

 

[Addicted to Antlers]

I use ArborGen for pine tree seedlings - MCP 2.0! 60 ft high in 10 years.


https://www.arborgen.com/mass-control-pollinated-pine-seedlings-mcp/

 

[jiminbogart]

Of course you could always go with a housing development...

That's my preferred method.

Never made much money on trees.

 

[Triple C]

I use ArborGen for pine tree seedlings - MCP 2.0! 60 ft high in 10 years.


https://www.arborgen.com/mass-control-pollinated-pine-seedlings-mcp/

Clearcutting 70 acres of 31 year old loblolly this year and doing a 2nd thinning of another stand of 21 yr old loblolly. Will be replanting clearcut with loblolly again.

 

[Addicted to Antlers]

Clearcutting 70 acres of 31 year old loblolly this year and doing a 2nd thinning of another stand of 21 yr old loblolly. Will be replanting clearcut with loblolly again.

Price for 1000 containerized MCP 2.0 seedlings was $356. Plans are to plant 500 per acre to allow room for the genetics to explode. Quote from planter was $120 an acre.

 

[fishfryer]

There's a cute old saying that has a lot of truth in it,something like if you have the money to start farming you don't need to. Think about that.

 

[Para Bellum]

It's all about succesion. When pines are first planted a multitude of other plantsi invade the sight as well. Some represent food othesr cover making the site useful for deer and other critters. This continues for several years until the pine canopy closes shading out most of that undergrowth. I won't go so far as to say the stand is no-longer useful to deer/wildlife but less useful. After the first thinning with increased sunlight reaching the ground more useful plants increase again. Burning helps. This happens each time the stand is thinned. If and when the site is eventually clear-cut the cycle starts over again. There's alot more harmful ways to use the land.

Well said Sir.

 

[Para Bellum]

Georgia is the home of 4 P's.....
Poultry Pecans Peanuts privately owned Pine

Or Loblolly PINE, Longleaf PINE, Slash PINE and Shortleaf PINE.

 

[Dbender]

I use ArborGen for pine tree seedlings - MCP 2.0! 60 ft high in 10 years.


https://www.arborgen.com/mass-control-pollinated-pine-seedlings-mcp/

I wouldn't believe everything on the internet!
Lot of variables to consider.

 

[ClemsonRangers]

Or Loblolly PINE, Longleaf PINE, Slash PINE and Shortleaf PINE.

dont forget Virginia Pine

 

[Ray357]

It does seem to be the pine state now..It is really not a big profit investment either. I had a forester tell me a pine plantation in Georgia usually results in about a 5% return on your investment from start to finish.

Yeah, but most folks use them for tax purposes.

 

[Para Bellum]

dont forget Virginia Pine

Not allowed on most loading decks. Lol.

 

[Para Bellum]

I love to hunt the edges where pines and hardwoods come together. One of my favorite spots is a mature oak ridge with a thick cutover on one side and planted pines on the other side.

I’ve killed more mature deer in pine stands than hardwoods.

 

[livinoutdoors]

There's a cute old saying that has a lot of truth in it,something like if you have the money to start farming you don't need to. Think about that.

I read on here one time, someone posted something like, it takes a whole lotta money to live like a poor ol farmer these days.

 

[NCHillbilly]

dont forget Virginia Pine

You're forgetting the white, table mountain, and pitch pines in north GA, too.

 

[Triple C]

You're forgetting the white, table mountain, and pitch pines in north GA, too.

Good ol' pitch pine. Farm I grew up on in N GA was full of those suckers. Tough trees. White pines were planted as ornamentals and most didn't last long. Saw plenty of massive whites a little farther north in the foothills of the mountains.

 

[DSGB]

Or Loblolly PINE, Longleaf PINE, Slash PINE and Shortleaf PINE.

dont forget Virginia Pine

You're forgetting the white, table mountain, and pitch pines in north GA, too.

Spruce pine

 

[ClemsonRangers]

Not allowed on most loading decks. Lol.

seen a flat land logger try to push some virginia pine through a limbing gate and choked down the skidder

 

[NCHillbilly]

Spruce pine

Yep, that's one of those deep-south ones that I'm not too familiar with. There's probably some pond pine down there, too.

 

[DSGB]

Here is a post Mr. Vernon Holt made in reply to a tree ID post I made about a spruce pine years ago.

Pine Tree ID?

These are indeed Spruce Pines. GA boasts ten different species of pines. Most of them of little economic importance. Here they are listed according to their economic importance:

Loblolly Pine; Slash Pine; Shortleaf Pine; Longleaf Pine, White Pine, Virginia Pine; Pond Pine; Spruce Pine; Table Mountain Pine, and Sonderegger Pine.

Sonderegger Pine is classified as a hybrid cross between Longleaf and Loblolly Pine.

Sand Pine has been planted somewhat extensively on deep sands but does not occur naturally in GA.