Sugar Pine Cone Collections Explained

An overview of why and how the Sugar Pine Foundation collects cones from sugar pine trees in order to restore the species.

[@misscircleyayy]

I LOVE SUGAR PINES-

[@Miranda.Powers]

I would love to see these beautiful massive trees and their cones in person 💜💜💜🌲

[@misscircleyayy]

Same

[@mariamircheva405]

Come to Tahoe!

[@Average-Al]

Wow! Impressive work you do climbing the trees! When do you expect the new seedlings you plant produce cones?

[@mariamircheva405]

In 30 years or more, sugar pines are slow to sexually mature.

[@outisfound9956]

Have one with cones growing on property now 😊

[@mariamircheva405]

You are lucky!

[@goldenratio5117]

I just counted 7 on my property today. About 2800' just outside Tahoe National Forest. Boy I love these trees!

[@Jona_Villa]

Lake Tahoe?

[@novampires223]

Humans strike again..😢

[@martieg1086]

Will there be a get together to plant seedlings this year ?

[@SugarPineFoundation]

Yes, towards the end of April. Please look on our website calendar for exact dates and times or subscribe to our monthly newsletter.

[@DimaDima-md1do]

Я в России тоже её выращиваю

[@mariamircheva405]

Очень хорошо. Сколько у них лет?

[@650tonyd]

Can you make tea from the needles?

[@ArtisanArborists]

As far as I know you are able to make tea from the first 1&1/2" of any verity of pine I usually try to stick with the rule to only use the tips where they are soft and pliable of the new growth and tend to leave about a half inch of that which gives a good amount of room between the older growth which has a chemical in it that is not necessarily great for us in decent size doses but no reason to push that theory. If you have never made tea before from pine then I would suggest taking care to break up one tip using the soft new growth and then rubbing it into the ditch of arm (front side of your elbow) and let that sit for around 15-20 minutes if you have no irritations then move on to making the tea ( this is a good practice for any other edible or medicinal plants) amount you want to use will be right around a measuring cup of the new growth will generally be used for a single tea pot at my cabin for cold or vitamin C in general during the Fall,Winter, & spring using honey to make it into a pretty good tea . If I am sick I will add in some mullien (aka Indian toilet paper) which you use the same method in the ditch of the arm first Maki g sure you are not allergic and if not that mixed up with the pine in a tea is a pretty powerful medicine that I have used to cure lung infections and croup coughs , and it would be one large leaf that can have some lethargic type of feeling when adding the mullien so be wary of that part. If you do drink pine tea keep in mind it is not something you want to drink daily as you may not be happy with your results but you will be good for sure if you stick with what I wrote , and there are tons of books that have edible and medicinal plants in them for the area where you live but it is always best to go with someone who knows what they are doing if going for plants that can be easily confused as several plants can have a doppelganger effect with the second being poisonous. This won't happen in any pine tree collection for tea but just good to keep in mind if you want to benefit from the endless amount of nature medicines that the earth has growing in our back yards forests and grass lands. Cheers and happy tea drinking mate

[@Ozmoker]

How do I get some trees

[@mariamircheva405]

You can buy some on the Sugar Pine Foundation website.

[@TurboLoveTrain]

Eh? The tallest "pine" in the world is the Phalanx which is a ponderosa pine in Oregon... Great video though.

[@mariamircheva405]

Sugar pine and ponderosa go back and forth on being the tallest with new tall trees being discovered.

[@Over50YearsOffgrid]

"The only taller one had been a 269.2-foot-tall sugar pine, but it died from a bark beetle attack in California's Yosemite National Park. Sugar pines are known as the "king of the pines" and typically grow 40 feet higher than ponderosas."

[@TurboLoveTrain]

@@Over50YearsOffgrid I don't know who you're quoting. I've never heard anyone call them the king of pines but I have heard, Doug Fir, Grand Fir and Silver Fir be referred to as giant pines as they are in the pine family.