My family owns a small pine plantation as an investment, and we were very lucky to buy our saplings right before the fery vast growth varieties came on the market.
The fast growth versions have extremely soft timber, its functionally useless, even the paper pulp mills only buy it at a discount.
They are probably vulnerable to storm damage too, but we haven't had to deal with that.
Might still be useful to build a wind break and out-compete introduced varieties in phases
The fast growth versions have extremely soft timber, its functionally useless, even the paper pulp mills only buy it at a discount.
They are probably vulnerable to storm damage too, but we haven't had to deal with that.
Might still be useful to build a wind break and out-compete introduced varieties in phases