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OT: I overclocked my tree!!

Evadman

Evadman

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late '91 This was planted. Or it started out that size when "rescued" from a expansion of my mother's building.

Fast forward to '02. In 11 years that turned into this insane 40+ tall hazard to aircraft.

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Nevermind the 40' mark. I came up with over 60 when I used a paint program to measure it. see my later post 🙂
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This is insane. Smokeball may still have pics of this tree from over the winter. It gained a good 10 feet this summer alone.

Am I a good gardener or what? 😀

 
Evadman, you've got one hell of a green...um thumb! 🙂

40+ feet in 11 years? Nice OC 🙂
 
awesome! 😀

OC it some more!! maybe NBC will contact you this xmas season - they need a tree for Rockefeller Center!!! 😛
 
Ok, 40 feet was a bad estimate 🙂

Pic of measure

Tried to measure it using a measuable spot on the tree. The 1st white line is 5'8" long. It goes from the ground to the first fork. That would give me over 60 feet tall. Which sounds better when compaired to my house which is 29.

I used a paint program to just coppy and paste that same white line. Even assuming a large margin of error, it is huge.
 
Well, if the peak of the house is 29 ft I'd say you have an 80 footer or so on your hands. What kind of tree is it, looks like it might be a poplar/cottonwood. A tree that size that may be susceptible to wind damage that close to the house :Q
 
Wow, thats purty big. I live wayyy out in the boonies, and my house is completely surrounded by trees. I would reckon we have 4 or 5 Maple trees at over 60 feet tall and at least 7 Pine trees over 40 feet tall. The Maples are impressive, though. They are right next to the road, and overhang its entire width. They're cool 🙂
 
I have been trying to figure out the tree, and no one had been able to help me. not HD ( who said it was a sugar maple ) and the locak nursery ( that said it was a poplar. )

lirionin OT came up with this:

It looks like a hybrid of P. alba, which has more or less maple shaped leaves with a very white underside, and one of the faster growing species like P. balsamifera, or another fast growing species. I'm pretty sure it has some alba in it, but I'm just guessing on the other species because alba is from Asia and northern Africa, and they probably bred it with a native like balsamifera, to give it more cold tolerance. That's the best I can do.

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More pics:
Picture of one of the "trunks"
Picture of bottom of leaf
Picture of top of leaf

The color that you see is about as cose as you can get with a digital camera. The color is right on to the real thing. I love my 315i 🙂
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Maybe you can get my bushes to grow? Those have been there for a few years and I even moved them further out this spring and planted them in bigger holes with fresh topsoil and feed them miracle gro and nada...stuff in the back yard grows like weeds. Maybe I need a tree or two out front to give some shade 😉
 
Jeez Conjur - I've seen some people do some really goofy things but... stringing an extention cord OVER your house? 😛😉 That my freind takes the cake 😛

CADkindaGUY
 
Evadman
Let me check with my books that I have here. I will defanetly be able to tell if this is a Poplar or not for sure. A White Poplar (Populus alba) most likely. It could also be a type of Cottenwood. I can also tell you that it's NOT a silver Maple. Silver Maples have those stupid "helicopters" for seeds.

Wolfie

Added: After looking threw my "tree book" the tree most likely looks like a White Poplar (Populus Alba) This tree has been known for causing problems in CT. It's a great looking tree, but it grows fast, but also doesn't live to be an old tree. They are a FAST growing tree. This is the reason why most paper mills harvest poplar for paper. What else can I help you with? Lawn troubles? 😛

/me waves at Ray.
 
Tree's are great overclockers, since they are water-cooled.


My guess would be Cottenwood, since I know that those are the most overclockable tree (grows like the dickens).
 
kmmatney
I thought of that too at first, but the bark is the wrong type. You are right tho, cottonwoods are one of the largest (if not THE largest) tree in the eastern US. (Grows to over 200 feet)


I have narrowed it down to either a White Poplar or a special type of Aspen (me don't think so tho). I will find out more soon.


Wolfie
 
Originally posted by: gogeeta13
good god that thing is awesome! what are you going to name it?!!?
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Wow, I never thought of naming it, Good idea! 😀

 
have narrowed it down to either a White Poplar or a special type of Aspen (me don't think so tho). I will find out more soon
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I don't think its an Aspen. I'm from Denver and have 8 Aspens in my yard. One of my Aspens is exceptionally large, but nowhere near the size of this monster. There could be some type of Aspen that can get huge, but I haven't seen them in Colorado.

Big Woody?
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LOL!
 
Man I wish I had a digital camera...I would take a pic of this tree in our backyard. It's really really tall...gotta be as tall as your tree, and probably taller. There's an even taller tree in the woods, but it'd be hard to find the height because of all the other trees around it.
 
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