03-04-2006, 06:50 AM
Dave,
If you have the 80 footer's on your land and you can't put your arms around the trunk then you probably have old growth trees the ones that first took root after the last lava flow in Hawaiian Acre / Orchidland about 400 years ago. They are very slow growing trees and I can attest to their hardness, I wanted to climb one of our big Ohia's in the back of our property to get a bird's eye view of the land and get above the thick bush so I cut up some 2x4's and grabbed some 16D nails and hiked thru the pig trails and found the perfect tree so I started to nail the 2x4 into the tree and I bent every nail hsd to go back and get more, finally made a nice ladder up the side of the tree and the view up there is so beautiful for all you can see just native forest nothing else. Another story about the Ohia about 6 months ago I noticed one of our Big Ohia's had the yellow Lehua blossom it looked soo cool amongst all the red ones since then I have found 2 more yellow Lehua Ohia trees on our property, Right now the red ones are blooming but the yellow ones not yet. I read somewhere they are 10,000 to 1 Red to yellow.
Lee
If you have the 80 footer's on your land and you can't put your arms around the trunk then you probably have old growth trees the ones that first took root after the last lava flow in Hawaiian Acre / Orchidland about 400 years ago. They are very slow growing trees and I can attest to their hardness, I wanted to climb one of our big Ohia's in the back of our property to get a bird's eye view of the land and get above the thick bush so I cut up some 2x4's and grabbed some 16D nails and hiked thru the pig trails and found the perfect tree so I started to nail the 2x4 into the tree and I bent every nail hsd to go back and get more, finally made a nice ladder up the side of the tree and the view up there is so beautiful for all you can see just native forest nothing else. Another story about the Ohia about 6 months ago I noticed one of our Big Ohia's had the yellow Lehua blossom it looked soo cool amongst all the red ones since then I have found 2 more yellow Lehua Ohia trees on our property, Right now the red ones are blooming but the yellow ones not yet. I read somewhere they are 10,000 to 1 Red to yellow.
Lee