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Seems a bit suspicious to me. You can't plant a tree in 5 minutes while making sure that it will actually keep growing.

by Hitton 7y ago

peteradio 7y ago
These are likely bareroot "whips" which makes planting a lot more automatable and successful, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfI_T7qG_Ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfI_T7qG_Ok
- patpending 7y ago
  It's pretty quick to plant bare-root seedlings using a spade or "dibble". About 45 years ago another Boy Scout and I planted approximately 1,000 pine seedlings on a tree farm in a single day using a variant of the method shown in [1]. Once we got a rhythm going we planted around 3 trees per minute. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqa3yeLxhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqa3yeLxhk
rullgrus 7y ago
How so? When replanting clear cuts here in Sweden with pine or fir each tree takes a few seconds to plant - you stamp your tool in to the ground which makes a hole, drop the plant down, stomp the ground and then your off to the next. There is also no need to tend to them afterwards (except treatment to deter deer/elks).
- pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  Which is a scattergun approach, no? What's the survival rate? I'd guess 1:100 if you're not tending them. But, in Ethiopia many of those trees are going to need watering, surely? Protecting from people gathering firewood? Sweden and Ethiopia seem pretty different wrt tree planting?
  - mikeg8 7y ago
    Definitely a scattergun approach but that’s similar to how nature does it, I’ve heard the survival rate for seedlings in north American confirer forests to be about 1:1,000,000.
    - pbhjpbhj 7y ago
      Is that for natural or manual (eg from helicopter) scattering?
      - mikeg8 7y ago
        Natural. Each year a forest may produce hundreds of millions of seeds but only a few thousand saplings survive.
  - noselasd 7y ago
    You do it like this https://youtu.be/VbBDX9ySk60 https://youtu.be/VbBDX9ySk60 , 80-90% survival rate is common
hello_friendos 7y ago
You absolutely can. Professional tree planters can plant a tree in around a minute.
noselasd 7y ago
Ofcourse you can. In summer Jobs while at school , planting 100 trees in an hour is pretty doable.

Seems a bit suspicious to me. You can't plant a tree in 5 minutes while making sure that it will actually keep growing.

by Hitton 7y ago

Seems a bit suspicious to me. You can't plant a tree in 5 minutes while making sure that it will actually keep growing.

These are likely bareroot "whips" which makes planting a lot more automatable and successful, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfI_T7qG_Ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfI_T7qG_Ok

patpending 7y ago
It's pretty quick to plant bare-root seedlings using a spade or "dibble". About 45 years ago another Boy Scout and I planted approximately 1,000 pine seedlings on a tree farm in a single day using a variant of the method shown in [1]. Once we got a rhythm going we planted around 3 trees per minute. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqa3yeLxhk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhqa3yeLxhk

rullgrus 7y ago

How so? When replanting clear cuts here in Sweden with pine or fir each tree takes a few seconds to plant - you stamp your tool in to the ground which makes a hole, drop the plant down, stomp the ground and then your off to the next. There is also no need to tend to them afterwards (except treatment to deter deer/elks).

pbhjpbhj 7y ago
Which is a scattergun approach, no? What's the survival rate? I'd guess 1:100 if you're not tending them. But, in Ethiopia many of those trees are going to need watering, surely? Protecting from people gathering firewood? Sweden and Ethiopia seem pretty different wrt tree planting?
- mikeg8 7y ago
  Definitely a scattergun approach but that’s similar to how nature does it, I’ve heard the survival rate for seedlings in north American confirer forests to be about 1:1,000,000.
  - pbhjpbhj 7y ago
    Is that for natural or manual (eg from helicopter) scattering?
    - mikeg8 7y ago
      Natural. Each year a forest may produce hundreds of millions of seeds but only a few thousand saplings survive.
- noselasd 7y ago
  You do it like this https://youtu.be/VbBDX9ySk60 https://youtu.be/VbBDX9ySk60 , 80-90% survival rate is common

hello_friendos 7y ago

You absolutely can. Professional tree planters can plant a tree in around a minute.

noselasd 7y ago

Ofcourse you can. In summer Jobs while at school , planting 100 trees in an hour is pretty doable.