It's a really good thread Mistwalker
The topic came up a long while ago and while we were discussing different trees that might make 'fat', someone (I think it was Xylaria) mentioned that cherry weeps resin.
I know that mine don't despite being pruned every year, but it turns out that it needs some sort of fungal infection to encourage it to produce that resinous stuff........which does burn incidentally ............I wonder if this is in someway involved in the production of fat pine.
We get it so very, very rarely here, but most of our pines are plantation, and very recent growth in the scheme of things
cheers,
Toddy
The topic came up a long while ago and while we were discussing different trees that might make 'fat', someone (I think it was Xylaria) mentioned that cherry weeps resin.
I know that mine don't despite being pruned every year, but it turns out that it needs some sort of fungal infection to encourage it to produce that resinous stuff........which does burn incidentally ............I wonder if this is in someway involved in the production of fat pine.
We get it so very, very rarely here, but most of our pines are plantation, and very recent growth in the scheme of things
cheers,
Toddy