Fast growing Pines?

[r0GuE]

I want to block the view of a utility pole. I plan to plant a pine, so that it is blocked year round. I will keep it back far enough so that it will never interfere with the lines and access to the pole itself. I'd like a blue spruce, but I've heard they grow slowly. Any reccomendations?

 

[TresCrows]

Austrian Black Pine. It has a pyramidal shape until rather old and grows fairly fast. It will have to be sprayed for Pine Tip Blight and Pine Tip Moth several times a year. Mine are growing nicely, more than a foot a year. If you are only planting a few get big ones. Austrians look best planted as wind breaks or groupings of several trees. Most of the fast growing pines will not do well in your area. I have pines on my property back home that grow 5 feet per year or so. They are trees now that I have to look up at and I only planted them 5 years ago and they do fine with no spraying. I have a Colorodo Blue Spruce--variety Fat Albert, they need spraying for bag worms. It is a pretty little tree but it's growth is about half or less per year of the Austrians. Certain types of Junipers grow fast and tall--spray for bag worms. J

 

[NIXON]

Rogue . Not a direct answer to your question , BUT try this site .
www.dnr.state.oh.us/forestry/Education/ohiotrees/treesindex.htm
Scroll down through the list . It gives a good description of each tree ,it's soil requirements and growth habits . John

 

[DAP]

Rougue, the blue spruce I've seen grow very fast depending on the particular cultivar. While moderate growth seems to describe these, a neighbor put up 6 of them and they shot up like rockets.

Check this out and some grow bout a foot a year.

 

[fivestring]

How about a Leyland Cypress instead?
They can grow 2-4 feet per year.
They make an excellent screening plant.

 

[rcaretti]

White Pine grows pretty fast, is usually inexpensive, and it's native to PA. The link given above has additional information.

 

[riptides]

I'd go with fivestring and his recommendation on the Leyland Cypruss. They are a MOST hardy tree. I would stay away from the whitepine. In my area of this planet the whitepine seems to just die at the most inopertune time. And when they go, especially the big ones, they leave big voids. Too bad.

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[SnowRidge]

Yep, Leylands if you want fast.

SnowRidge

 

[polecat]

COULD YOU GUYS PUT SOME PICS ON OF THE AUSTRIAN PINES ...DADGUMMIT... and the leylands if you have them please...the pics in someones back yaard always seem to portray them better than do the ;pics from the nurseries!!

thanks...TODD

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

We planted a couple hundred white pine seedlings about 5 years ago. The biggest ones are now almost chest high.

Speed of growth of all of the trees is going to depend to some extent on climate and soil. Might check with your local extension office for advice and help. Lots of times you can get trees spring and fall for just a few cents or bucks. We've bought from them and have had better luck than we have with the stuff we bought at the nursery.

Steve

 

[riptides]

Here are some Leylands in the Winter time.
I usually plant one, then wait a year to plant another. This gives a staggard look, and they don't die at the same time.
These are about 4-7 years old.

-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[polecat]

wow those do grow fast...how tall were they when u started them...or should i say planted them /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[MossRoad]

We had some acreage re-forested around 1990. Every other row was hard woods and every other row was white pine seedlings about 6 inches tall. The pines are now over 30 feet high, so, growth in northern Indiana averaged about 2 feet per yer.

 

[TresCrows]

I don' know if Austrian pines are correct for Maine. They do well through the central portion of the country but not down South. Southern pines are LobLolly, White and Yellow Pines etc. They don't grow up here worth a darn and that do not like the wind at all. The Austrians seem very tough and very pretty Christmas tree look until rather old when they become broader and rounder. Pines here suffer from the Pine Tip Moth and Pine Tip Blight. Easy to spray for but if you don't you will be very sorry. Some Blue Spruce do grow very fast. The two Spruce I have are the Fat Albert Blue Spruce which is semi dwarf I think and another dwarf variety called Globusa I think. It is very pretty, both seem tough and hardy but suffer damage from bagworms if not sprayed. I have a few cypress trees and they are doing OK but the best grower around here is the Pin Oak.
I have planted over 100 trees on my place here, none grow fast like back home. J

 

[riptides]

The Leylands can be had at sizes from 1 gallon to 5 gallon buckets in my area. A one gallon is about 12-18 inches tall.
I think these were about 36 inchers.

They are very hardy. One winter they went rust colored. I thought they were dead. It was so cold, they were mostly frozen to the core. I cut them back to nothing, they looked horrible. I wanted to pull them, my wife said "they will come back".

She was right.

I have white pine behind them, but the Leylands are just right for our property. One in my front yard use to get wrapped for lights every year. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif But it is too tall now, over 40 feet up. 15 years ago, I almost hit it with a mower..... If I can get a scan this w/e I'll post then and now on that tree.

Consider them for a part of your yard.
-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[r0GuE]

Thanks for all the ideas guys!

 

[Glenn9643]

Todd,
Attached picture of Leland Cypress that are about 12 years old. The smaller trees in the raised bed are false cypress. Growth rate may be different in your area.

 

[Glenn9643]

The three trees at the far right of this picture are Leyland's about 12 years old. The two trees just to the left of them are a live oak and a bald cypress, both about the same age as the Leylands. Bald cypress is a lighter green, just to the right of the umbrella on the bridge.

 

[SPIKER]

Last year I planted over 300 white pine as they are best growers here in ohio wiht LONG soft needels, the scotch and spruses have short needels and scotch look sparse so don't cover to well. the white pines in front of my cabin are about 15~20 yrs old and are 40+ feet high. the cabin was built in 93 and the pines are about 20 feet away at the base spread and 40 feet to the trunk base, spread of the pine goes all the way to the ground and can't bee seen through very well. best thing to hid those pesky neibors! they DON't LIKE ice and heavy winds though! easy to break branches, (lost about 8 big ones last winter due to ice) also have soem of the stickyest sap ever! lol

I'll try and post soem photos but the Ohio DNR site has good ones too.

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[TresCrows]

Second try, these are three Austrian Black Pines planted 4 Springs ago. They were about four feet tall when planted. J