Okay, so let’s plant pine trees.
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..michael a. bengwayan, founder, PINE TREE
The pine trees endemic to the Philippines are Pinus kesiya/insularis otherwise known as Benguet pine that grows in Benguet, Mountain Province, parts of Abra, Kalinga and Ifugao, Nueva Vizcaya and some parts of Bangui and Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte; and Pinus merkusii that grows in Mindoro and Mindanao, otherwise known as Sumatran pine as it is native of Sumatra.
The Agoho or Casuarina equisitifolia or Christmas pine or common ironwood is often mistaken as a pine tree. It is not. It belongs to the Casuarina family. Pine trees are coniferous trees and belong under the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae.
Since 1980, Benguet pine was also introduced in Davao and Bukidnon and lately used as landscape in Tagaytay .
Worldwide, there are about 115 species of pine trees , although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species. Pines are native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. Pines are evergreen and resinous trees. The name pine comes from one of the three chemical contents of the resin called e-pinene.
HOW TO GROW PINE TREES
1. Get seeds only from mature pine cones on pine mother trees, not those that fell to the ground from months October to December.
2. Carefully remove the seeds from the cones and air dry, not sun dry for at least a week, remove damaged or insect-infested seeds.
3. Test the seeds for germination vitality. Pine seeds are 80 to 85 percent germination viable, meaning 7 to 8 seeds will germinate out from ten.
4. Prepare soil media with ratio 1:2:3 of fine sand, compost, top soil, respectively. Put soil media in wooden box at least 12 inches deep.
5. Sow your seeds, after soaking them in water for 24 hours,at a depth of half inch, one inch apart per hill
6. Cover with soil half inch deep.
7. Water lightly with a fine sprinkler that won't uncover or wash away the soil you used as cover.
8. Ants usually run off with your seeds so watch out.
9. In ten to twelve days, sometimes earlier, your seeds will germinate.
10. Water 2x a week in the morning, never in late afternoon.
11. Transplant in plastic pots measuring 6 inches by 8 inches 3 weeks after sowing by individually CAREFULLY uprooting each seedling using a pencil thick stick, and transfering to a plastic pot with soil media already holed also with a pencil-thick stick, carefully making sure the taproot of the seedling is placed inside straight and completing the process by pressing the soil at the base of the seedling.
12. Water the seedlings after planting them. Place under direct sunlight if in cool climate.(Cordillera Ecological Center Photos)
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The pine trees endemic to the Philippines are Pinus kesiya/insularis otherwise known as Benguet pine that grows in Benguet, Mountain Province, parts of Abra, Kalinga and Ifugao, Nueva Vizcaya and some parts of Bangui and Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte; and Pinus merkusii that grows in Mindoro and Mindanao, otherwise known as Sumatran pine as it is native of Sumatra.
The Agoho or Casuarina equisitifolia or Christmas pine or common ironwood is often mistaken as a pine tree. It is not. It belongs to the Casuarina family. Pine trees are coniferous trees and belong under the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae.
Since 1980, Benguet pine was also introduced in Davao and Bukidnon and lately used as landscape in Tagaytay .
Worldwide, there are about 115 species of pine trees , although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species. Pines are native to most of the Northern Hemisphere. Pines are evergreen and resinous trees. The name pine comes from one of the three chemical contents of the resin called e-pinene.
HOW TO GROW PINE TREES
1. Get seeds only from mature pine cones on pine mother trees, not those that fell to the ground from months October to December.
2. Carefully remove the seeds from the cones and air dry, not sun dry for at least a week, remove damaged or insect-infested seeds.
3. Test the seeds for germination vitality. Pine seeds are 80 to 85 percent germination viable, meaning 7 to 8 seeds will germinate out from ten.
4. Prepare soil media with ratio 1:2:3 of fine sand, compost, top soil, respectively. Put soil media in wooden box at least 12 inches deep.
5. Sow your seeds, after soaking them in water for 24 hours,at a depth of half inch, one inch apart per hill
6. Cover with soil half inch deep.
7. Water lightly with a fine sprinkler that won't uncover or wash away the soil you used as cover.
8. Ants usually run off with your seeds so watch out.
9. In ten to twelve days, sometimes earlier, your seeds will germinate.
10. Water 2x a week in the morning, never in late afternoon.
11. Transplant in plastic pots measuring 6 inches by 8 inches 3 weeks after sowing by individually CAREFULLY uprooting each seedling using a pencil thick stick, and transfering to a plastic pot with soil media already holed also with a pencil-thick stick, carefully making sure the taproot of the seedling is placed inside straight and completing the process by pressing the soil at the base of the seedling.
12. Water the seedlings after planting them. Place under direct sunlight if in cool climate.(Cordillera Ecological Center Photos)
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