{"id":25773,"date":"2020-06-17T19:53:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=25773"},"modified":"2020-06-17T19:54:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T17:54:45","slug":"pinus-cembra-shedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=25773","title":{"rendered":"Pinus cembra shedding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A week ago I noticed my oldest Pinus cembra was full of male flowers (pictures at the bottom) and yesterday it was shedding pollen as you can see in the videos. In cold climates pines are the best bet for nut production although I can grow hazels and walnuts here. I’ve told the story before as to how Siberian Nutcrackers “planted” (read: cached) pine trees in my garden from plantings of this species locally on Malvikodden in the 1970s which started bearing fruits in the 1990s. Because people have planted the food plant of Siberian Nutcrackers, there is now an isolated population of breeding birds in this area and the birds are actively spreading their food plant by caching the nuts for winter food. I’ve had one cone on my tree so far a couple of years ago<\/span><\/p>\n