On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 6:55:00 PM UTC-4, John McCoy wrote:
Dick Snyder wrote in news:dvWdnd-z2ruSuK3InZ2dnUU7-
:

I am planning to make some frame and panel doors for a project at our
church. The doors will be painted. The doors will be tall (85"). I
haven't done much with poplar other than a cabinet and shelves that
needed to be painted. If I rip the stiles at 2" wide and 85" long will
it spring apart or together like cheap pine does?

Some poplar does seem to have a lot of stress in it, and
twists when ripped. I don't know that there's any way you
could identify a board that's likely to do so in advance.

John

For what it's worth, I started a thread a couple of months ago about the color of poplar and how it acted when ripping. I found that the darker the poplar was, the more it tended to bind on the splitter.

I eventually put the darkest (purplest) pieces aside and (carefully) ripped them without the splitter/guard installed.