dpb wrote:
| Morris Dovey wrote:
|| dpb wrote:
||
||| What variety of tree was this? If you actually cut the cambium
||| layer completely, it'll die beginning the moment the last cell is
||| cut for any species I'm aware of...
|||
||| You must not have gotten quite deep enough.
||
|| eg Let me introduce you to weeping willow...
||
|| Six years after cutting the tree down and into 8' logs, they were
|| still putting out new branches (with leaves) and trying to re-root.
||
|| I had to roll the logs every year to prevent successful rooting.
||
|| How deep d'ya gotta go?
|
| Yeah, I keep forgetting about places where it rains all the time...
|

Ya, you betcha - that was in the great tropical rain forest of
Minnesota. ;-)

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/