Author Topic: Pinecones wanted (Read 2826 times)

woodtroll · « **on:** March 24, 2011, 05:43:32 pm »

We would like to set up a display for kids with many different pine cones.
I can come up with tons of cones... but they are all ponderosa.
If you would be willing to collect some of your local cones and send them to me, it would be greatly appreciated.
And yes I would take fir and spruce cones also. Larch too.
Please id them, save me some guess work.
Email me for the address
Thanks

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #1 on:** March 24, 2011, 06:27:27 pm »

Would be tough getting a balsam cone, they ripen and the wind blows and the cone and seed is like confetti on the wind. Spruce, larch and pine wouldn't be difficult to get except for snow in places under the spruces.

Too bad a fella couldn't send a yellow birch catkin, they look like a spruce cone. Be good to trip someone up.

How about white cedar cones?

beenthere · « **Reply #2 on:** March 24, 2011, 07:45:22 pm »

Any worry about shipping diseases with the cones?

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #3 on:** March 24, 2011, 08:11:08 pm »

Certainly may be a concern there. Personally, I was not offering to ship anything.

With that being said, universities ship material across the continent, green.

woodtroll · « **Reply #4 on:** March 24, 2011, 10:03:14 pm »

I am not to worried about disease. The cones will not be anymore of a risk then me taking a trip and bringing back a bag of cones. Or a gypsy moth on my grill, or ash borer, maybe something will infect our pine bark beetles.
I am not wanting seed, just the cones.

Catkins are a great idea.
Thanks

thecfarm · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2011, 08:05:22 am »

I've got some white pines cones.Nothing pretty like others.Went down to the horse run in to make sure they were still there.Have a trash bag full.Wife was going to to something with them.The cones are nice and dry.Will have some hemlock too,whenever they come out.Still have snow on the ground here.

woodtroll · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2011, 10:08:41 am »

That would be great.
We are hoping to mount some and have some for the kids to handle.
This will be an on going project as the cones develop.
Thank you

thecfarm · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2011, 04:54:50 pm »

A box is on the way.

WDH · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2011, 08:28:06 pm »

What is the timing? I am planning a trip to the North Georgia mountains where I can get some pitch pine and some table mountain pine, but that is a little over a month away.

woodtroll · « **Reply #9 on:** March 26, 2011, 09:28:03 am »

It will be on going. As pine cones come in I will incorporate them.
Currently I have Ponderosa pine, two different spruces and doug fir.
As we travel around we will be picking up more, especially depending on the quality and availability.
Just don't forget when you see a good specimen.

Mooseherder · « **Reply #10 on:** March 27, 2011, 08:23:05 pm »

If you would like these Slash Pine Cones from South Florida let me know.
PM me your address and they'll be on their way.

woodtroll · « **Reply #11 on:** March 31, 2011, 10:25:33 am »

Hey! The pony express came in with a box.
thanks thecfarm
The white pine cones came in and they look good.

woodtroll · « **Reply #12 on:** April 04, 2011, 03:22:01 pm »

Another box got dropped on my desk.
Thank You Mooseherder.
The slash pine cones are similar to our p pines, but thicker or more stout.

Mooseherder · « **Reply #13 on:** April 04, 2011, 03:51:33 pm »

We don't grow wimpy Pine Cones here in Florida.

WDH · « **Reply #14 on:** April 04, 2011, 08:47:32 pm »

Wait till he gets some longleaf

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SPIKER · « **Reply #15 on:** April 04, 2011, 09:53:50 pm »

send some sugar pine cones from out northern CA.

along whit some Sequoia which are rather un-impressive compared to others... I have addy, but the white pine cones have all but gone bad at my place.

Mark

WDH · « **Reply #16 on:** May 08, 2011, 07:51:39 pm »

Woodtroll,

Can you publish a list of the cones that you have? I got some for you this weekend that are not too common, table mountain pine and pitch pine. I would like to know what you have and what you don't have so I can do some collecting for you.

woodtroll · « **Reply #17 on:** May 08, 2011, 11:29:46 pm »

Sure, it is not real big yet. Most ever one had snow when we came up with the idea.
E.white Pine
Ponderosa Pine
Englemann Spruce
Norway Spruce (1)
White Spruce
Mugo Pine (2)
Slash Pine
Sugar Pine (1)
Doug fir

Thanks I look forward to seeing them. Show these kids there are more then one kind of pine tree.

WDH · « **Reply #18 on:** May 09, 2011, 09:13:34 am »

Good. I should be able to get you longleaf, shortleaf, loblolly, spruce, and sand pine as well. Let me get my boots on!

woodtroll · « **Reply #19 on:** September 21, 2011, 02:18:42 pm »

Hey all,
Just a reminder I am still wanting pinecones.
We have doug fir, ponderousa pine, e.white pine, limber pine, S Y P, lodgepole and white spruce, one sugar pine and one redwood.

It looks like this might turn into the kids 4h project.

Again
Thanks

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #20 on:** September 21, 2011, 02:56:47 pm »

No Jack pine?

WDH · « **Reply #21 on:** September 21, 2011, 07:51:43 pm »

I have been recalcitrant in sending pine cones. You say that you have SYP, but what species? I gathered up some Table Mountain pine, some Pitch pine, and some Virginia pine to send you.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #22 on:** September 22, 2011, 05:08:06 am »

Looks like red pine, red spruce, black spruce and balsam fir are also lacking. The fir however will fall apart when it dries.

thecfarm · « **Reply #23 on:** September 22, 2011, 06:04:56 am »

I've been watching a cedar tree for a while. It really has alot of cones on it. I will send some to you when they are ready.Still green for now.

woodtroll · « **Reply #24 on:** September 22, 2011, 10:02:40 am »

The SYP that I have is Slash Pine. Which the cones are almost identical to our Ponderosa.

woodtroll · « **Reply #25 on:** October 11, 2011, 11:09:30 am »

Cool,
Thanks WDH, I really like the cones. The Longleaf pine are surprisingly big.
And I like the table mountain samples.
It is nice to open a box that fills the room with pine smell.

Jeremy

WDH · « **Reply #26 on:** October 11, 2011, 08:53:51 pm »

Jeremy,

I have seen longleaf pine cones that were a foot or more long.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #27 on:** October 12, 2011, 04:23:09 am »

Back in 1984, my mother brought back from Florida a bunch of them for Christmas decorations.

One time she wanted some white pine cones, I found a tree that was stressed by blister rust, and on the ground I filled two 100 lb burlap sac fulls. Typical of my mother, wanting something then not using them, I don't think she used many of'm.

WDH · « **Reply #28 on:** October 12, 2011, 07:07:39 am »

Send Woodtroll a sack full.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #29 on:** October 12, 2011, 02:44:35 pm »

They've "disappeared" long before this.

woodtroll · « **Reply #30 on:** November 04, 2011, 06:22:10 pm »

Made a trip back east to visit family, I was able to pick up some Jack Pine.
I had forgotten how serotoneus they were. Also picked up some red pine from MN. and some Scotch in WI.
Now to start building.
Still taking any good samples.

WDH · « **Reply #31 on:** November 04, 2011, 08:21:36 pm »

I need to scrape up some sand pine, pond pine, and spruce pine for you. I remember that in Forestry School, one of the most feared tests was the pine cone test

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woodtroll · « **Reply #32 on:** November 06, 2011, 11:04:46 pm »

I do not want to cause fear.
I will save room for any more you send my way!

woodtroll · « **Reply #33 on:** December 21, 2011, 04:31:23 pm »

cfarm
Thanks for the cedar cones.

My pile of cones is looking good. Now to start labeling.
woodtroll

Mooseherder · « **Reply #34 on:** December 21, 2011, 07:25:27 pm »

Seems like we have thousands of cones down right now but it's only in the hundreds.

You got some of ours already.

thecfarm · « **Reply #35 on:** December 21, 2011, 08:08:47 pm »

I saw some nice fir ones on top of the tree. Tree was a small one,and probably would not amount to much.I cut it down for the cones, and as soon as I touched the cones they fell apart. Mother nature way of re seeding. There's always next year.

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #36 on:** December 21, 2011, 09:49:11 pm »

Yeah, as soon as those fir ripen they disintegrate.

Not really a cone, but a catkin, a yellow birch seed catkin looks like a cone. That would be interesting for a little fun. Only thing is, they are busting apart now to. On the skiff of snow we had last week with a 20 mile an hour wind the catkins dispersed a lot, seeds and bracts all over the snow. I have a mature yellow birch in the back yard and it produces a lot of catkins most summers. Even some of my planted yellow birch have catkins and they are only 11-12 years old now.

Didn't notice them this year though. A moose was out there in the birch, I see tracks. If you want moose in the back yard, just plant yellow birch.

Assuming your in moose country.

woodtroll · « **Reply #37 on:** December 22, 2011, 10:26:15 am »

I would take catkins. We have a little paper birch but no yellow birch.
I also like moose

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We are just out of their normal range. Every so often one wanders through and some one shoots the "big deer"

woodtroll · « **Reply #38 on:** April 25, 2012, 11:55:36 pm »

Hey got a box in the mail.
Thanks cfarm for the cones.

Again to all I will take anything that you may have, the shelf is not full yet.

Woodtroll

thecfarm · « **Reply #39 on:** April 26, 2012, 06:23:15 am »

You are welcome.

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Author Topic: Pinecones wanted (Read 2826 times)