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I will over-simplify, but it works! Go to Italy/Greece/Spain. Buy a small piece of land (half an acre is more than enough) Plant an olive tree (plant two
by HenryBemis 2y ago
I will over-simplify, but it works!
Go to Italy/Greece/Spain.
Buy a small piece of land (half an acre is more than enough)
Plant an olive tree (plant two or three as a backup)
Wait 1000 years
One thousand year old tree.
- 2143 2y agoWhy those 3 countries in particular? Wouldn’t this work anywhere (provided it’s not in a war zone or a volcano zone etc)?
- ceejayoz 2y agoYou are... unlikely to grow an olive tree successfully in Toronto. Even for other kinds of long-lived trees, places without big ice storms, hurricanes, etc. that would prematurely end the tree are probably safer bets.
- labster 2y agoWait a few decades and olive trees should grow fine in Toronto. Climate change ftw
- helle253 2y agoGotta pick the right environment+tree combination. You could always settle in the Mojave, plant a grove of bristlecone pines instead. I don't know if more boreal climates support longevity, I think it has to be some combination of temperate + dry + safe from natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes
- hooverd 2y agoSouthern Arizona works too. The Sonoran is a very wet dessert.
- vintagedave 2y agoThe article is not about growing a genuinely thousand year old tree. The article is about human deforestation meaning there is an age gap of trees so there is no generation turning a thousand for the first time — no trees that will become ancient before the current ancients die. They are trying techniques to make younger trees have characteristics of older trees in order to keep the ecological presence.