ghostsofevolution | FL Torreya to Ocoee Watershed: 2. Wolf Creek, NC 2015 @ghostsofevolution | Uploaded April 2015 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Thomas Mesko receives 43 Torreya taxifolia seeds from Connie Barlow, drawn from the 2014 harvest of Torreya Guardians. This video documents seeds being planted generally on north-facing slopes, between 1,600 and 1,800 feet elevation on Thomas's 50 acres of forested property along Wolf Creek, in the North Carolina section of the Ocoee Watershed.
The woolly adelgid insect is just beginning to infest the hemlock trees here. The hemlocks and White Pines in this area are near their southern-most range extent.
MARCH 2019 UPDATE: Four years later, Connie Barlow returned to the site and the original group of 3 planters walked the forest sites of their original plantings. Because no spring growth had greened up the forest floor at this time, we definitely would have spotted any Torreya seedling. Because no seedlings were observed, and because this batch of seeds (when planted in a protected zone) has been documented as greater than 50% germination, we can surmise that (a) rodent predation was total, and that had no seeds been eaten that at least 20 would have produced seedlings by this fourth year after planting. What we learned at this site (and others) is that Torreya taxifolia seeds must never be shallow-planted. Instead, they must always be planted no less than 3 inches deep. Visit our Seed-Planting Experiments webpage to learn more about what we have learned over the years about best practices for planting success. torreyaguardians.org/freeplanting.html
More information on Torreya taxifolia "rewilding" and on the overall topic of "assisted migration" of forest trees during this century of rapid climate change is available at torreyaguardians.org
Access a list of all the videos on Torreya trees posted on this youtube channel at: http://www.torreyaguardians.org/video...
Thomas Mesko receives 43 Torreya taxifolia seeds from Connie Barlow, drawn from the 2014 harvest of Torreya Guardians. This video documents seeds being planted generally on north-facing slopes, between 1,600 and 1,800 feet elevation on Thomas's 50 acres of forested property along Wolf Creek, in the North Carolina section of the Ocoee Watershed.
The woolly adelgid insect is just beginning to infest the hemlock trees here. The hemlocks and White Pines in this area are near their southern-most range extent.
MARCH 2019 UPDATE: Four years later, Connie Barlow returned to the site and the original group of 3 planters walked the forest sites of their original plantings. Because no spring growth had greened up the forest floor at this time, we definitely would have spotted any Torreya seedling. Because no seedlings were observed, and because this batch of seeds (when planted in a protected zone) has been documented as greater than 50% germination, we can surmise that (a) rodent predation was total, and that had no seeds been eaten that at least 20 would have produced seedlings by this fourth year after planting. What we learned at this site (and others) is that Torreya taxifolia seeds must never be shallow-planted. Instead, they must always be planted no less than 3 inches deep. Visit our Seed-Planting Experiments webpage to learn more about what we have learned over the years about best practices for planting success. torreyaguardians.org/freeplanting.html
More information on Torreya taxifolia "rewilding" and on the overall topic of "assisted migration" of forest trees during this century of rapid climate change is available at torreyaguardians.org
Access a list of all the videos on Torreya trees posted on this youtube channel at: http://www.torreyaguardians.org/video...
