02-04-2010, 04:22 AM
I have land in Eden Roc. There is pahoehoe with little soil, lots of uluhe ferns, lots of waiwi. There are lots of scraggly ohia. There are some younger ones that are quite healthy. There seem to be lots of old ones that are not dead but that are barely alive. They look like they nearly died in the past, with broken off tops and only a little foliage on the odd branch. As I drive around Eden Roc I lament that everyone seems to have bigger and healthier trees than I do. Because of how close these other trees are I assume that the difference is not weather related. I assume that the major difference is that I must be on top of a lot of pahoehoe, although that doesn't explain why my trees seem to have grown well and large at some time in the past but are languishing now.