Joe: Yes, you guessed it. The height growth for red pine is set by the number of preformed primordial cells in the terminal bud, which is set the previous September.
Lee Joseph Zorzin wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Lee Frelich <mailto:[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:42 AM > *Subject:* [ENTS] Re: rain and growth rates? > > (snipped) > > > > Red pine has the least sensitive height growth response to current > summer's weather of any species I know of. Its height growth is > set by > the size of the bud formed the prior year, which depends on rainfall > that year. > > > > Lee, I find this amazing- never heard of such a thing. How does the > bud control the height the leader will grow that year? Are the cells > already produced but not yet expanded? > > Joe > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
