FG wood

[matsuki]

Anyone know how difficult it is to import trees to J-land? Seems my latest hobby is more popular with the locals than I thought...

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Give or take a thousand years and you get this:

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[wagyl]

Hey a giant sequoia is fun but there is a reason that they are protected as vulnerable: they prefer a particular environment to thrive and compete with other plants, and that is not the environment you are in. If I were you I would have fun with a hinoki, which is a close cousin after all.

But if you insist, less than 2 seconds with Google brought me this http://www.pps.go.jp/english/index.html

[J.A.F.O]

I've had some seeds turned back from japan by customs. Said I need some kind of verification that its not an invasive species or carrying bugs or fungi or something. Gonna have to dig it up but I'll let you know.

[matsuki]

I already have a baby Sequoia here, potted (like above) until it's big enough to transplant....just recently getting a lot of people asking for me to bring/grow them one after showing them some pics of what they become...and wasn't sure how much of a PITA the inspection is on a sapling. (growin' them from the seeds is like a 1 in 100 shot and I can just imagine customs reaction to a bag full of odd lookin' seeds)

BTW, I think their vulnerable status has more to do with logging activity that is no longer taking place. People have them growing all over the world in quite odd environments.

[nikoneko]

Hey a giant sequoia is fun but there is a reason that they are protected as vulnerable: they prefer a particular environment to thrive and compete with other plants, and that is not the environment you are in. If I were you I would have fun with a hinoki, which is a close cousin after all.

Hinoki is actually a true cypress, you may be thinking of Cryptomeria (Jap. Cedar, 杉) which is similar to a giant sequoia and also similar to a Hinoki. But with Cryptomeria the needles are closer to a Sequoia. It is incorrectly called Cedar in English a lot, it is it's own species entirely. I thought choko's pic was a Sugi when I first saw it actually.

[J.A.F.O]

Found what I was looking for. Incoming seeds, cuttings, and sapling need something called a "phytosanitary certificate" to go with the shipment to appease j-customs. At least this was the case in 2010, not sure if regulations have changed since then.

[matsuki]

Hey a giant sequoia is fun but there is a reason that they are protected as vulnerable: they prefer a particular environment to thrive and compete with other plants, and that is not the environment you are in. If I were you I would have fun with a hinoki, which is a close cousin after all.

Hinoki is actually a true cypress, you may be thinking of Cryptomeria (Jap. Cedar, 杉) which is similar to a giant sequoia and also similar to a Hinoki. But with Cryptomeria the needles are closer to a Sequoia. It is incorrectly called Cedar in English a lot, it is it's own species entirely. I thought choko's pic was a Sugi when I first saw it actually.

Cryptomeria...nothing was ever more accurately named. Ahhh Sugi....spruce but not really a spruce, called Japanese cedar but not really a cedar, fuck!!!

[Mike Oxlong]

Found what I was looking for. Incoming seeds, cuttings, and sapling need something called a "phytosanitary certificate" to go with the shipment to appease j-customs. At least this was the case in 2010, not sure if regulations have changed since then.

Pretty common in ag import export...health certificates for livestock, etc. Each cuntry with their own rules & regs.

[nikoneko]

Hey a giant sequoia is fun but there is a reason that they are protected as vulnerable: they prefer a particular environment to thrive and compete with other plants, and that is not the environment you are in. If I were you I would have fun with a hinoki, which is a close cousin after all.

Hinoki is actually a true cypress, you may be thinking of Cryptomeria (Jap. Cedar, 杉) which is similar to a giant sequoia and also similar to a Hinoki. But with Cryptomeria the needles are closer to a Sequoia. It is incorrectly called Cedar in English a lot, it is it's own species entirely. I thought choko's pic was a Sugi when I first saw it actually.

Cryptomeria...nothing was ever more accurately named. Ahhh Sugi....spruce but not really a spruce, called Japanese cedar but not really a cedar, fuck!!!

Haha yeah. They are the big tall evergreen ones that grow very straight and usually right along side Hinoki Cypress. Tons of them were planted after the war for construction purposes, because of that they are also one of the major reasons Japan has so many allergy problems as sugi is a pollen nightmare. I personally love the Sugi and Hinoki forests though, they are so tall with the needles and branches so high up they block out the undergrowth (good and bad of course) and they are cool spacious groves with birds singing at the tops the right times of year.

Either way on the name yeah and the species and etc, it is confusing, I just call them Sugi mostly, but sometimes just Cedar. Driving home today from a trip the mountains looked almost striped, the dark green stripes which were Sugi and Hinoki, and then the lighter green stripes which were the hardwoods gaining their leaves in Spring. Something I am going to really miss about Japan is those mixed forests on the mountains. You get all kinds of crazy stuff since we are an island here, my tree book for Kobe and the Rokko Mountains alone, and only that small area has over 350 different kinds of trees. 350 trees, not plants too, only Kobe..

Also just so you know Cryptomeria (Sugi) is the national tree of Japan. Makes sense huh? Lol.

[Russell]

Well, there is a forest park in Kobe with many trees from different continents, so it is no surprise then that there are more than 350 different species of trees...

[Coligny]

Well, there is a forest park in Kobe with many trees from different continents, so it is no surprise then that there are more than 350 different species of trees...

Trees, vicious trees... They hide in forrests to rape our wiminz...

[Russell]

Unfortunately, the boob scene was mozaicked. Now I have to go to Kobe to see it in reality...

[nikoneko]

Well, there is a forest park in Kobe with many trees from different continents, so it is no surprise then that there are more than 350 different species of trees...

There are actually two, there is another up at the top of the mountains. The book though only has native species that naturally occur in Kobe and the Rokko Mts just a a lot of f*ckin different types of trees basically.

[kurogane]

Cryptomeria...nothing was ever more accurately named.

CRYPTOMERIA!!!!!!!!!!! CRYPTOMERIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Definitely one of the most awkward naming habits I ever came across: call it Japanese Cedar and somebody will bring it up, usually in a snippy tone, call it cryptomeria and only people you probably don't want to talk to much will understand WTF you mean.

I get that calling it Cedar was a mistake, but can't we just call it a Cypress (even though not that many people really know what a cypress is)??? I mean, it is a cypress..............

[Coligny]

Definitely one of the most awkward naming habits I ever came across: call it Japanese Cedar and somebody will bring it up, usually in a snippy tone, call it cryptomeria and only people you probably don't want to talk to much will understand WTF you mean.

Only if you say it five times while looking into a mirror...

[matsuki]

Cryptomeria...nothing was ever more accurately named.

CRYPTOMERIA!!!!!!!!!!! CRYPTOMERIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Definitely one of the most awkward naming habits I ever came across: call it Japanese Cedar and somebody will bring it up, usually in a snippy tone, call it cryptomeria and only people you probably don't want to talk to much will understand WTF you mean.

I get that calling it Cedar was a mistake, but can't we just call it a Cypress (even though not that many people really know what a cypress is)??? I mean, it is a cypress..............

I just call it Sugi....but yeah, "Japanese Cypress" is probably the most accurate description.

[kurogane]

I just remembered.............isn't Hinoki also a Japanese Cypress??????????????

Eeeeek. Weez fecked.

Anyways......yeah...............Sugi it is. The shrine trees actually do have very Wet Coast cedary bark, so I can almost see it.

EDIT: turns out Western Red Cedar (i.e. a BC cedar) is not a cedar either. It's a cypress too.

Turns out it's all the Lebaneez' fault.

[nikoneko]

Hinoki = 檜 = Hinoki Cypress, Japanese Cypress = Actual Cypress
Sugi = 杉 = Cryptomeria, Japanese Cedar = Not Actual Cedar

[matsuki]

I just like knowing my FG tree will eventually dwarf the local wood....even if I'm not around to see it.

[nikoneko]

***insert joke about choko's wood dwarfing Japanese wood here***

[Coligny]

***insert joke about choko's wood dwarfing Japanese wood here***

... in vagina...

[J.A.F.O]

***insert joke about choko's wood dwarfing Japanese wood here***

... in vagina...

It seems we're entering into virgin territory ...

[matsuki]

[J.A.F.O]

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[Taro Toporific]

So, this new comedy drama about a forestry program trainee really is called "Wood Job!" http://t.co/wPXpqIEnZK
Mulboyne(@Mulboyne)'s twitter May 10, 2014

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woodjob.jp the movie!

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[IparryU]

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Radiation starting to increase prices...

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[J.A.F.O]

Radiation starting to increase prices...

However the radiashuns are not increasing the size it seems.