RE: pine cones
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  • Subject: RE: pine cones
  • From: &* C* D* C* U* A* 9* C* <c*@edwards.af.mil>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:41:42 -0800
Our pines seem to continually put out amazing amounts of pinecones and
most of them rarely get watered, they do pretty well on less than 10
inches a year. I don't know what kind we have though - there are surely
pines native to our mountains that are adapted to less water. But based
on what else was here when we moved in, I bet the previous owners just
went to the nursery and picked up 50 of whatever they had in stock. 
I wish I had the "crafty" skills to make something of the cones but it's
not gonna happen in this lifetime. 

Cyndi  


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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 7:26 PM
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Subject: [CHAT] pine cones

Started a fire in the fireplace this evening, since it's dropped into
the 
teens.
I've been putting it off because firewood is scarcer and more expensive
this
year than in the past.
Last year there were so many pine cones from our white pines that I
picked
up bushels - gave away at least two garbage-bags full, used another two,
toasted another to use for decorations on Christmas wreaths, and still
have
a couple of bags left.  This year there are almost no cones at all. I
went 
out
to look for them before the leaf-clean-up crew came, and there were just

almost none - I found about six.  Is this a result of the dry season? Or
do
the trees have a cycle of reproduction?
I'm noticing that the dogwoods are full of buds for next year.  Their
bloom 
was exceptionally poor this year.  I have heard that heavy bloom
indicates
stressful conditions, and surely this drought year was stressful for
them.  
We lost many dogwoods about 20 years ago when they were attacked by
a disease, but the remaining ones seem to have been stabilized in recent
years.  I hope we're not going into another spell of losing dogwoods.
This
is just about the Northern edge of their tolerance zone - not many just
a 
few
miles north of here - but we used to have many and still have quite a
few in
the wild.
Auralie

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