Why are there no research groups or scientists working on creating god trees, supertrees, or super fast growing hardwood trees?
Huge, super resilient trees that can be grown in various biomes around the world, aside from the PNW. Or even just Canada and Finland. Possibly with some type of human assistance like active watering, or some special chemical growth hormones or fertilizers.
The creation and understanding of ultra fast growing wooden structures would be a huge boon to humanity. We've been fascinated by and telling stories about ginormous trees reaching into the heavens for millennia. It's deeply disappointing to me that this problem isn't being worked on more actively.
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How big do you want them? Because wood realistically could only grow to a certain height and size before it could no longer support it's own weight and capillaries to transport water would stop working at a certain height too.
because the druids dont want you to kno
No funding and pearl clutching morons that scream about
>MUH GMO'S
Jews still need to dump more plastic off on the populace before the biosphere dies so they choose to dump plastic faster and blame the consequences on whites.
but it's not israelites dumping plastic, it's asians
Kinda has been done but with hybrids, but they're not god tree size. They're the trash ever greens you see in Walmart parking lots, that somehow survive living in a 2x2 spare of barren dirt. We don't focus or really care about big trees because they take up to much space and require a lot more effort to process. As for growth rates, because gene modding isn't as popular or as affordable as computer tech, there's not a lot of people looking into it. Oh and the people who do gene modding are generally corpos who'll copy right it's existance and make it infertile.
They would quickly deplete their surroundings, wither and die. There's no genetic stop moment for tree growth the same way there is for humans. Then there's the problem of them "escaping" in the wind and fricking up ecosystems outside of the designated lumber areas.
People would probably try to minmax it further by creating some sort of a supermushroom for a perfectly automated symbiosis, which would spread and frick up everything as well.
The trees are large BECAUSE they grow slowly. It takes more time to develop wood dense enough to support that weight.
sure, but the chemical/biological process through which that dense wood grows could possibly be improved.
https://www.livingcarbon.com/about
here's an SF based company working on aligned biotech right now:
>its tweaked poplars grew more than 50 percent faster than non-modified ones over five months in the greenhouse
Interesting. How much softer is the wood that they grow compared to normal poplar?
so there's at least two companies working on faster growing trees:
- living carbon
raised $21M this year and seems to be actively working towards some goal
- innovatree
makes the trees in pic related. they grow really fast, apparently 64% faster than non-GMO trees. idk I'm not impressed by these
there is NO company currently working on growing more resilient megatrees. I guess there's no money in it
... and then humans come in to selectively breed for quicker grow times.. This is what OP is saying
There's no substitute for time.
Bluepilled science non-believer
It's the same as saying, there's no alternatives to catching smallpox at 5 and dying from it
It literally is not.
Hybrid and selectively bred trees are more popular for the pulp wood industry than they are for the lumber industry, because wood is typically stronger the slower it grows, but there are dozens of varieties of hybrid or genemod "super trees" out there.
Some are even patented/trademarked.
https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/university-of-minnesota-trademarks-fast-growing-poplar-tree
Trees are a big pain in the ass. They smell bad, they get in the way, they ruin property, they attract birds that are noisy and dirty, they spread pollen everywhere, and raking up after them sucks. No thank you.
bitch
genius level bait
noooooo not the heckin birderino!!
Interesting thread that no one will pay attention to
I made this thread about a year ago and it died with no replies. I don't know why I appear to be the only person alive interested in this
how do I learn about tree biology and current attempts to create supermax trees / super fast growing trees?
I see no reason why this should not be physically possible
I would like to talk about trees but give me some time
i get this is bait but you should still be severely punished for this post
>I don't know why I appear to be the only person alive interested in this
Probably because you're the only person who still doesn't know that trees for wood production are already selected to be extremely fast growing compared to their wild counterparts
also post tree pics or god tree art you like