I experimented
Those buds will open this year and extend?
Or is it just setting buds for next year?
Why did you leave that much candle when you cut it? Just curious. I didnt know if there was a reason.
Is that what a pitch pine candle always looks like? I had the same type of candles in a few locations on my black pine and they were essentially a reversion back to juvenile growth. Is this a different form of say, adventitious young growth? @Wilson ?
How cold hardy are these trees?
How cold hardy are these trees?
Can you smell what I got cooking?
I'll be looking into this.I follow your drift. Not entirely sure to be honest.
Wikipedia says they grown in Quebec and Ontario
They dont grow in Michigan and I am not sure they would survive in a pot outside in your winter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinus_rigida
I'll be looking into this.
Oh I'd have to try that just to see.Pitch pines are one of the only pines that can be trunk chopped to below foliage and survive. I'm not sure I would have the nerve to try it though
Not entirely sure what you are asking. These candles are typical from the normal spring candles as far as I can tell except that they are not spring candles.
There is no distiction between "juninile growth" on pines like there is on junipers. Yes this is different from adventitious young growth or needle buds as we call them.
There has been some speculation as to whether Pitch pine are truely 2 flush pines and that you can treat them like JBP. Some other growers have said such. I decided to test it for myself on my own pitch pines.
I decandled the pine in July: I cut off the spring candles. It formed buds and they grew into new candles like JBP does.