OK guys, a bit of help here please

Phirefly

lostinrates wrote: »

We've planted lot here, and have a small copse in pots waiting to move with us too.:o:o

Oh my god you sound like Mr. P. He's becoming obsessed with tree planting after finding out the hoops we're going to have to jump through if we ever want to self-build in the National Forest... you get a lot of support for it here though...

lostinrates

Phirefly wrote: »

Oh my god you sound like Mr. P. He's becoming obsessed with tree planting after finding out the hoops we're going to have to jump through if we ever want to self-build in the National Forest... you get a lot of support for it here though...

I epect to jump through hoops too, but the trees aren't part of a big plan to combat that, I just love trees, passionately . It has been known for me to insist on turning back along a road to look at a particularly beautiful one.

I'd love an aboretum really.

JonnyBravo

lostinrates wrote: »

way out of my area of knowledge, but I had some idea that young trees were faster consumers of CO2and greater producers of O than older trees? I hink I read this as being one of the ways people can be carbon nuetrally ungreen: saying they are carbon nuetral tree planters while cutting into mature forest? Growth is nutrient heavy, but then mature trees are bigger so not sure whether the ifference would be significant.

Re tree planting, my future plans are toreplace anything harvested for wood twice, and a third diff species for diversity/other produce. We've planted lot here, and have a small copse in pots waiting to move with us too.:o:o

Clearly a large tree consumes more carbon, simply due to it's size, however it is that process of growing that is consuming the carbon. Once a tree is mature I should think it carbon consumption does drop. I suppose the truest measure is consumption of carbon per kg (/tonne/whatever unit floats your boat) the tree weighs. Clearly this will be higher in smaller trees due to thier growth but you would need so many more because of their tiny mass that the land space you'd need quickly becomes huge.
Of course you can't simply cut down mature trees to create this space. You then become carbon negative again.... unless you preserve the wood eg build with it etc as opposed to burn it.

As for your planting plans..... impressive. And yes an arboretum would be nice! You'd be gentry then though and not allowed to come into places like this forum for fear of mixing with the unwashed masses.

lostinrates

JonnyBravo wrote: »

As for your planting plans..... impressive. And yes an arboretum would be nice! You'd be gentry then though and not allowed to come into places like this forum for fear of mixing with the unwashed masses.

It won't happen: not enough land, every bit will be needed, and nowhere near enough knowledge to do it ''properly'' even if I did, or enough spare cash for more interesting trees.:o same way I'd love to have a garen nice enough for the yellow book, but will never really have the skill or the patience.