RobertB
Chumono
While I have been reading up on black pines a lot and trying to learn as much as I can soak up, I've been noticing how high (staggering) decent material sells for. I've seen some pretty good sell prices on ebay, facebook, etc for what appears to me as decent material. It makes me think I need to load up about an acre somewhere of Black Pines, or even a half acre as a retirement fund. Maybe even throw in some shimpakus and Japanese maples of different cultivars.
Of coarse, I haven't grown these yet, so I really don't understand the amount of work that goes into growing the Japanese black pine, especially in a large operation (how much time would be required for pruning, the bugs, the disease, etc). I do see a lot of photos of nursery's in Japan and that's just about all I can see is fields of black pines. It makes sense to me that there would be large fields of black pines as they are demanding pretty high prices right now and probably have for some time. Will they still in 20 yrs?? Who knows...
Has anyone else thought about this. Seams like a decent retirement plan. I am only 35, so if I could do this with minimal investment, and in 15-20 yrs have 1000 ish black pine with half decent ramification and two to 3 inch twisted up trunks, I could get maybe 500$ + per on these. Seems like there is something I am missing here or maybe we all just need to start fields of black pines to get rich...$$$ haha
Obviously, guys like at evergreengardenworks grow cultivars from cuttings. Shoot, even doing this. Go to Japan, purchase 10 nice trees to take cuttings from and go from there.
Just some crazy idea floating around in my head late at night.
Of coarse, I haven't grown these yet, so I really don't understand the amount of work that goes into growing the Japanese black pine, especially in a large operation (how much time would be required for pruning, the bugs, the disease, etc). I do see a lot of photos of nursery's in Japan and that's just about all I can see is fields of black pines. It makes sense to me that there would be large fields of black pines as they are demanding pretty high prices right now and probably have for some time. Will they still in 20 yrs?? Who knows...
Has anyone else thought about this. Seams like a decent retirement plan. I am only 35, so if I could do this with minimal investment, and in 15-20 yrs have 1000 ish black pine with half decent ramification and two to 3 inch twisted up trunks, I could get maybe 500$ + per on these. Seems like there is something I am missing here or maybe we all just need to start fields of black pines to get rich...$$$ haha
Obviously, guys like at evergreengardenworks grow cultivars from cuttings. Shoot, even doing this. Go to Japan, purchase 10 nice trees to take cuttings from and go from there.
Just some crazy idea floating around in my head late at night.