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Surely this can’t be true. Where I live Weyerhaeuser has crazy pines that grow faster than any normal tree you have ever seen. They cut them all down and repl
by Mistletoe 4y ago
Surely this can’t be true. Where I live Weyerhaeuser has crazy pines that grow faster than any normal tree you have ever seen. They cut them all down and replant at rapid rate. I know they have to be genetically modified in some way and I don’t think it is just normal breeding. My brother’s gf’s Mom worked for them sharpening the saw blades in the mills and she was telling them about them. You can see them grow when you drive by for more than a few years and it is very impressive.
This was in 1987 and they are talking about introducing genes.-
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-31-mn-9240-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-31-mn-9240-s...
- eropple 4y agoDouglas firs grow between one and two feet a year and have for as long as people have been writing it down (in English, anyway). We've definitely gotten better at breeding fast softwoods, but we've done so through smarter silvaculture--tree positioning matters a lot, turns out--and selective breeding.