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@@grantofat6438 Troll

@@grantofat6438 Did you watch it? Did you learn anything?

Not completely true. Yes, denser trees grow slower while the cheap stuff grows faster. Though the standard cheap pine is planted in neat rows tight together. This will cause them to try and grow as tall as possible as fast as possible to not end up in the shade of all the pines around them. SSo they grows straight and tall. They will get all cut down at the same time after 20-30 years. The denser pine, however, grows more randomly and will not have to compete in hight with the other pines close to them. They will naturaly get more sunlight that does not get blocked by other pine trees as much. This will result in them having no need to grow tall and fast. So they use most of the energy they collect to grow thick and dense instead. These trees will in time grow large as well though it might take 50-100 years before they are cut down usually when a new unexploited forest is cut down. This way is not very profitable in the short term since it takes much longer to get less volume of wood in the same area.

​@@DragonitedVery interesting, I have never heard the theory of trees choosing their own growth rate, but they are living things.

@@rrmerlin3402 It's not a matter of choice though almost all plants have a genetic predisposition to reach for sunlight. That's why plants that are covered grow fast and long to reach the sun. Though they do that by reducing the energy needed to produce clorophyll since it needs sunlight to make enough of it. That's why they become more yellow or even white untill they either reach sunlight or die trying. This is also why you can reduce weeds by covering them with enough material so that they will die before they have a chance to reach the sun. Plants with bigger seads can survive longer and go up though the material that is blocking the sunlight. Weeds that spreads with rhibosomees will however get around this since other connected parts of the plant will supply these with the necessary energy to reach the surface. Anyway theses long shoots are usually too weak to stand up straight in the beginning since the stem is less dense than normal. If you remove the material that keept it from reaching sunlight they tend to fall over and will only get stronger after they have started to get sunlight. It's basically the same principle in forest plantation but not as severe. Since there are many trees tight together and they grow they will block out sunlight from trees in their shade which will trigger the shaded trees to grow faster to reach enough sunlight. They will in turn shade other trees which will also start to grow faster and so on. This is why lower branches have usually died of at the lower parts of the tree and don't have any large branches. If you go to a tree plantation like this and walk on the south facing side if this is not blocked by another line of trees you will notice the trees that get more direct sunlight will be shorter and have more branches then the trees behind them. This is most noticeble at south facing beaches. This happens even in normal forest as well but not as noticeble. Pine trees closest to the beach are usually shorter but they have massive branches that spread out while the denser the forest is the straighter and taller the trees get.