Primitives Discuss Plant Abuse

[Dori]

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Baitball Blogger (14,818 posts)

Tree House rationale

Paraphrasing: Trees are living, breathing things, which is why I like to name them, he says as he drills a two inch boring that reaches the other side of the trunk.

Then, when he sticks in a metal peg the same size of the hole he claims that the tree thinks it's another limb and will just heal and grow around it. The treehouse, you see, is making the tree stronger.

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Orrex (39,569 posts)

1. That tree would strangle you in your sleep given half the chance
 
Drill that bastard.

Drill, baby.

Drill.

Star Member pipi_k (18,440 posts)

2. Well I don't know about
 
regular trees enjoying abuse like that, but I have a lilac bush in my front yard that refused to grow or produce flowers until I started mistreating it a little. But only because I read about that in a gardening book or whatever.

Nothing serious...just some scraping of the lower trunk bark.

Maybe a few nasty names. I think I even threatened to hybridize it with cuttings from a weeping willow.

Seems rather weird, but once I stopped treating it with kid gloves, it started growing and producing.

Another one a little farther down the hill was not in a good area and wouldn't grow. I guess they need to be abused by humans...not mother nature. Anyway, two summers ago Mr Pipi dug it up and moved it out by the pond. We didn't expect it to live.

Not only did it live, it started to grow...AND...a bit of root left behind in the original space also started to grow.

Plants are freaky sometimes...

Grey (1,208 posts)

3. Lilac bushes like a couple tablespoons of Epsom salts and water each year.
 
Mine are covered in blooms every year and have never been abused.

[GOBUCKS]

That tree would strangle you in your sleep given half the chance

DUmpmonkeys, having never been in an unpaved place, have never seen a tree grown around an old fence.

[Skul]

Oh ya.
Need the hippy crying video here.

[Delmar]

Who is this DUmmy paraphrasing?  A right wing neighbor or relative?  Why so cagey and secretive?  0 bongs, not enough details. 

[Splashdown]

Oh ya.
Need the hippy crying video here.

Here you go!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI[/youtube]

[Skul]

Here you go!

[Flame]

Who is this DUmmy paraphrasing?  A right wing neighbor or relative?  Why so cagey and secretive?  0 bongs, not enough details. 

The guy from Tree House Master on Animal Planet.  He builds awesome tree houses.  Cool show.

[miskie]

Sounds to me like a few primitives may have been abusing a few plants themselves.

[Mr Mannn]

I abuse my lawn. I treat it badly. I want it to develop a poor self image.

See, if I have an Emo Lawn, it will cut itself.

[vesta111]

Here you go!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G880gxjj9dI[/youtube]

How strange humans get.   When the old growth is removed less chance for a forest fire to destroy their homes and livelihood.     

On the other hand less old growth and the deer and other animals starve in the winter.

Taking down old dead trees allows the sun in and new trees can grow. 

We had a beautiful white Birch tree a good 40 feet taken down in the front yard by the Land Lord.  The tree still leafed out but signs of disease were on the bottom stump. One of the workers checked the stump to find the inside was so rotted he could put his arm in up to his elbow.    We convinced the workers to leave 3 feet of stump and not dig it out.

In a year or so new birch trees were growing from the stump and roots, after 4 years we had 3 new trees growing and they were by then up to 5 feet tall.   

I cannot fathom what the land was like when Europe arrived, how humans cleared land that was untouched since the beginning of time. Back breaking work not to forget the Indians that cleared land for hundreds of years to plant gardens before we ever set foot on OUR land.