JWP Pollen Cones

[Adair M]

What should you do with the pollen cones? Pull them off? Leave them?

Here's what I do: I let them alone as they develop. Eventually, they turn yellow. Touch them then, and they'll release a little cloud of pollen. I wait until the turn a dark orange. Then when you lightly touch them, they just fall off.

Remove them when they're green, and they leave a bit of an open wound. So, wait.

Here's a yellow one:



And there's also a couple greenish ones, too.

Here's a brownish orange one:



And after I touched it:



All gone!

They're only yellow for a few days. Maybe as long as a week. Probably less.

Pines form pinecones on the very tip of the new shoots. I do remove those as soon as I see them since they use a lot of the tree's energy.

 

[Stickroot]

What should you do with the pollen cones? Pull them off? Leave them?

Here's what I do: I let them alone as they develop. Eventually, they turn yellow. Touch them then, and they'll release a little cloud of pollen. I wait until the turn a dark orange. Then when you lightly touch them, they just fall off.

Remove them when they're green, and they leave a bit of an open wound. So, wait.

Here's a yellow one:

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And there's also a couple greenish ones, too.

Here's a brownish orange one:

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And after I touched it:

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All gone!

They're only yellow for a few days. Maybe as long as a week. Probably less.

Pines form pinecones on the very tip of the new shoots. I do remove those as soon as I see them since they use a lot of the tree's energy.

I eat them to keep my allergies under control.

 

[Adair M]

I eat them to keep my allergies under control.

With butter or sour cream?

 

[M. Frary]

I eat them to keep my allergies under control.

Works better if you just snort the pollen.

 

[JudyB]

I pop mine off gently with my tweezers if it's a big year for them (this year was, last year almost none) I take them off fairly early, and have had no issues. I take them actually off as soon as possible, as if there are a lot of them and they swell, they make the neck longer than if you take them off when small. I push the first one down and to the side and then push the next one into the space the first one was and so on. They pop off very easily when purple colored.