sherwindu wrote:
symplastless wrote:


The self thinning rule of ecology will take hold. Yes some may die
but they will be specifically targeted and when they die their mass
will be recycled into the soil to increase the health of the group
along the way. If you wanted to choose ones to cut a SHIGOMETER
would help.

Well, the door was left open to get in another plug for Mr.
Keslick. If you

want to measure SHIGO's this may be the tool for you.

I think that one of symplastless' many problems is that he doesn't
seem to be able to grasp the concept that your typical recreational
gardener is dealing with a back yard, not Queensland Botanical
Gardens. And in a back yard one doesn't have the luxury of letting a
tree die and go its natural course--if one doesn't have it cut down by
someone who knows what they are about then it's likely to fall on
someone's house--one's own if one is lucky or that of one's agressive
trial lawyer neighbor if one is not. And if it falls and misses the
house then one doesn't have the luxury of letting its "mass be
recycled into the soil" unless one converts it to mulch with a wood
chipper--in most areas leaving a dead tree in your yard until it rots
away is going to get you in trouble with someone--the neighbors, the
town council, the homeowners' association, etc, not to mention what
happens when the aforementioned lawyer's kids start scrambling around
it and one of them manages to injure himself.

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