We got this 4 foot Scots pine as our living Christmas tree this year (it’s my first Scots pine). I’m actually pretty excited about this as raw material. I’ve taken some pics and annotated them. Because of the inverse taper half way up and the long straight internodes above that, I think I need to trunk chop it half way up (which is unfortunate because it has pretty good taper all the way up). It will end up being about 2.5 feet with the new leader. The only down side is that the new leader isn’t very think (the whirl that caused the inverse taper had 8 branches and none of them were that big). This will make a nice project throughout next year so this winter I’ll go back and rewatch all the old Scots pine streams.
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