Giant tree goes smash!

[@SAROXBAND]

Tremendous amount of work guys!! This should yield wild fertility soon🌳☀️ Really impressive tree!!

[@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie]

these trees break down really quickly! so the fertility will boom!

[@casalleblas2079]

Wow, really good reminder that you are not the only storm:) maybe you could make biochare from some off the wood, rhat would also give you a little more breathing time to procese the material:)

[@homesteadfarms5315]

@@casalleblas2079 albizia tends to not burn too well. Maybe would work if burned with other types of wood that do burn well 🤔

[@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie]

good insight! i havent tried to burn them yet

[@epanfile]

Subsribed to your channel. Really like what you guys are doing

[@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie]

thanks! we really appreciate it!

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

15:59 I’m sore re doing my fall intervention. Properly placing my material and chopping it up, placing big to small then heavy leaf mulch on top You live and learn. Getting prepared for spring lots of JMS, LIMO, SLABS, Johnson/Su Compost Tea. Collecting local seeds and about to do a big intervention on the older existing trees gonna leave a 40-60% canopy. I just have to properly finish the fall cutting tomorrow.

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

When I started it was bare compacted dust 3 years ago, I went through the unintentional method of slowly changing the succession of soil because I was learning natural farming and permaculture I found syntropic agroforesty around fall this year I’m mixing natural farming, Agroforesty, soil food web, permaculture methods. Makes a big difference on speeding up systems and maximizing time and space. Matt Powers covers a wide range of topics.

[@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie]

@@Dust2LivingSoil sounds like youre on the right track! just keep on mulching and let the life do the hard work!

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

@ absolutely!

[@MiAdi9]

Gracias

[@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie]

thanks for watching!

[@MiAdi9]

@ I also started planting

[@homesteadfarms5315]

I had to get a Husqvarna with 42 inch bar to deal with several huge albizia on my property pahoa. Several 8ft thick at the base that ive cut down. Those trees are no joke

[@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie]

wow 42 inch bar sounds crazy. i couldnt even imagine using that machine! 8 foot is crazy! the trees are so impressive

[@AntonColores]

wauw. tnx for sharing. did you talk with your neighbours or do they avoid contact? (sorry, I'm new to your channel, so perhaps you've mentioned it in earlier vids)

[@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie]

we tried to out reach to them about 2 years ago with no response. we dont know if their address is even valid in the county system. just kind of one of those things thats common here

[@kyniemxotxa98]

hope your durians made it. wondering if you run the wood material through a chipper to make it easy to handle

[@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie]

they were just fine! if we had a chipper that could be useful, but also we have very limited access to most of our site, so that makes things really complicated. but the chainsaw works well enough

[@Kevin-Cruz]

Wow what a massive tree! Bummer on the Salaks but I'm sure y'all will bounce back even better going forward. What 18" saw are you running btw?

[@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie]

i bet that tree was only 15 years old! they grow so fast here! yeah bummer about the salak, but i do have like 20 more in my nursery and can always get more seed. well just have to mulch the new ones extra heavy to give them a little boost! Ive got a stihl ms250 as the big saw. its so incredible the way it just eats wood. makes me wish my little echo saw was more powerful haha. but man i was sore for 2 days after we were finished, muscles arent used to using that heavy machine

[@Kevin-Cruz]

@@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie Yeah I run an MS250 as well, definitely a beast but wears you out! Hope you can get those other big Albizias managed sooner rather than later. Loving the videos btw, y'all are growing some really interesting stuff, can't wait to see how things develop over the years.

[@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie]

thanks for the support! weʻre really trying to boost the agroforestry education here. and we are also trying to create a farming model based off these types of systems to convince others that it can be economically viable. thats why we are growing the things we love, but also have major marketability, some of them being extremely high valued crops. the experiment is well on its way!

[@gorillapermacuture]

What a Falca! Falcataria moluccana or Falcataria falcata that is. Calling them Albezia is one of Hawaiis biggest misnomers. Best of the worst invasive's, nitrogen fixing, topsoil builder, shade tree. Just sucks when it falls on you. Aloha!

[@tropicagroforestryspencerjulie]

yeah theyre pretty incredible trees, but very wimpy. ive even planted them in agroforestry systems, but after year 4 they started to kill themselves after i would manage them. so theyre good in the beginning, but we cant really count on them for long term fertility. i dont feel the desire to plant them any longer which is why we plant so many other trees