lostcreekranch
Super Member
- Joined
- Dec 14, 2012
- Messages
- 7,716
- Location
- Austin County, Texas
- Tractor
- NH TL-100A with Bush Hog 5045 FEL, WR Long 3rd function, LS XR4155HC w/FEL, WR Long 3rd Function.
Yes, there are male and female cottonwood trees. The one that used to be next door was a female. That's the one that produces seed and the "cotton". We were once in Big Bend and visited a campground that had lots of cottonwood trees, and the RVers couldn't run their air-conditioners without them clogging up with that cotton. If you only have the male trees, no problem. But I'd not sure how you'd tell which is which if you were getting a young one to plant. I'm sure someone must know how to tell.
They also make great firewood.
Don't know Bird. Never burnt it myself. But my Dad and His Dad and brothers always cut cottonwood down at the creek, as that was the most numerous near the farm:laughing::laughing:Many, many years ago, when my parents and my brothers lived in Anchorage, my youngest brother had just bought a new house and found a place where the trees were being cut down for a power line right of way and free firewood was available to anyone who wanted it. So he went and cut up a big pickup load, hauled it home, stacked it, etc. He SAID it was cotton wood, and that the first time he burned any, it smelled so bad that he loaded it all up and hauled it off. So he said you NEVER want to use cottonwood in your fireplace.:laughing:
Now I don't know whether he knew what cottonwood was or not, whether what he had was cottonwood or not, etc. and since I've never burned any cottonwood, I took his word for it, and now I'll take your word for the opposite view.:laughing: