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What trees to keep?
Posted on 5/3/16 at 7:33 pm
Posted on 5/3/16 at 7:33 pm
I'm in the process of clearing some land and they have pines, sweet gums, and water oaks. Do both the pines and water oaks need to go? Or should all 3 just go?
1 water oak is about 15 yrs maybe and it is beautiful. 1 gum that is probably 40' tall. All pines are going without question. The gum and water oak will not be in the way of the house building.
1 water oak is about 15 yrs maybe and it is beautiful. 1 gum that is probably 40' tall. All pines are going without question. The gum and water oak will not be in the way of the house building.
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Posted on 5/3/16 at 7:34 pm to trident
Do NOT keep the sweet gums.
They suck!
They suck!
Posted on 5/3/16 at 7:34 pm to trident
If you any dirt over a majority of a trees roots it will die, might take a couple of years, but that tree is a goner.
Posted on 5/3/16 at 7:37 pm to wickowick
Trash the gum. Water oaks will grow for 75+ years or better. One leave dropping SOB in the fall. 
Posted on 5/3/16 at 7:50 pm to trident
I'm a sucker for oaks, so I'd keep them where you can. Pines you can work around.
frick a sweet gum.
frick a sweet gum.
Posted on 5/3/16 at 7:50 pm to trident
Kill the gum tree
Posted on 5/3/16 at 7:56 pm to trident
Cut the gum!
You don't want Gum balls in your yard.
You don't want Gum balls in your yard.
Posted on 5/3/16 at 8:12 pm to fishfighter
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Water oaks will grow for 75+ years or better.
False. They grow for 40 years. Then they die for 40 years.
Posted on 5/3/16 at 8:32 pm to tenfoe
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quote: Water oaks will grow for 75+ years or better.
False. They grow for 40 years. Then they die for 40 years.
This is correct
Posted on 5/3/16 at 8:39 pm to tenfoe
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grow for 40 years. Then they die for 40 years.
So keep or go?
Posted on 5/3/16 at 9:10 pm to trident
Take tha gum down, burn it, piss on it, and burn it again
Posted on 5/3/16 at 9:23 pm to trident
It depends on whether you are keeping a patch of woods or clearing it all for a lawn. I'm not on the gum hate train if you don't have to keep a lawn under it. If you do, however, I'd take it and the pines down.
Posted on 5/3/16 at 9:52 pm to trident
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So keep or go?
What are you doing with the land? Since the water oak is only 15 years old, why not take it out and plant better trees in it's place so in 30 years you have a very nice tree instead of a water oak you will be preparing to cut down.
Shumard Oak is a nice tree which has a comparable shape to a water oak but doesn't rot from the inside out.
Posted on 5/3/16 at 10:25 pm to Alleman
Not sure what you are doing with the land, but the only tree worth keeping of those 3 is the pine. I have no use for gum or water oak.
Posted on 5/3/16 at 10:31 pm to trident
Shade grown vs open grown trees are going to have different morphological characteristics. I would be leery of keeping an oak that was grown in a forest, where it was forced to grow up rather than out, if I was clearing everything around it. Especially if said tree was within falling distance of my new home.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 7:01 am to fishfighter
I'd cut all three down and plant another type of oak. I have a water oak in my front yard and have been very close to cutting it down every winter bc of the amount of fricking leaves that thing sheds. Haven't though bc it is a nice shade tree.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 7:36 am to magicman534
alright then. All 3 will be coming down. We will plan maybe a red oak and a live oak in its place.
Posted on 5/4/16 at 8:36 am to trident
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a live oak in its place.
This or a Shumard.
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