http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-25/the-plan-to-plant-nearly-100,000-trees-a-day-with-drones/8642766

Headlines should read more accurately. Planting a billion seeds does not mean a billion trees will grow.

roughbarked said:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-25/the-plan-to-plant-nearly-100,000-trees-a-day-with-drones/8642766

Headlines should read more accurately. Planting a billion seeds does not mean a billion trees will grow.

Perhaps more accurate in placement, but I’m sure aerial seeding has been done before.

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-25/the-plan-to-plant-nearly-100,000-trees-a-day-with-drones/8642766

Headlines should read more accurately. Planting a billion seeds does not mean a billion trees will grow.

Perhaps more accurate in placement, but I’m sure aerial seeding has been done before.

Lots of aerial seeding of crops. Not a lot in regard to afforestation. Rice is quite common but it is sowed directly into flooded paddy.

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-25/the-plan-to-plant-nearly-100,000-trees-a-day-with-drones/8642766

Headlines should read more accurately. Planting a billion seeds does not mean a billion trees will grow.

Perhaps more accurate in placement, but I’m sure aerial seeding has been done before.

Lots of aerial seeding of crops. Not a lot in regard to afforestation. Rice is quite common but it is sowed directly into flooded paddy.

There will certainly be problems in trying to sow fine seeds like eucalypts, plus in paddocks with weeds like grass that will smoother small seedlings. Might be a proposition in tropical areas where seeds tend to be large and generally good rainfall during the warmer months. In southern areas might be suited for treated Acacia seed and other legumes. Wish them luck, but it will not be without its headaches.

PermeateFree said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

Perhaps more accurate in placement, but I’m sure aerial seeding has been done before.

Lots of aerial seeding of crops. Not a lot in regard to afforestation. Rice is quite common but it is sowed directly into flooded paddy.

There will certainly be problems in trying to sow fine seeds like eucalypts, plus in paddocks with weeds like grass that will smoother small seedlings. Might be a proposition in tropical areas where seeds tend to be large and generally good rainfall during the warmer months. In southern areas might be suited for treated Acacia seed and other legumes. Wish them luck, but it will not be without its headaches.

Yeah. Heaps of them. It certainly isn’t what it is being touted as.

No where in that article do they say that every seed will become a tree, I imagine there would be a ratio of seeds delivered and trees that grow, that is only sensible.

It says “We’re firing at one a second, which means a pair of operators will be able to plant nearly 100,000 trees per day “.

This implies that they think that each time they fire, they are planting a tree.

This report from 1967 indicates aerial sowing was undertaken in the Dandenong Ranges back then. Table on page 13.

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0ahUKEwjHjt7XttzUAhWCp5QKHXqRCz4QFggzMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parliament.vic.gov.au%2Fpapers%2Fgovpub%2FVPARL1967-68No11.pdf&usg=AFQjCNE6BAxFIrmxn8zfToLk20jwvk-YHA&cad=rja

No, I haven’t read the lot.

buffy said:

This report from 1967 indicates aerial sowing was undertaken in the Dandenong Ranges back then. Table on page 13.

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0ahUKEwjHjt7XttzUAhWCp5QKHXqRCz4QFggzMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parliament.vic.gov.au%2Fpapers%2Fgovpub%2FVPARL1967-68No11.pdf&usg=AFQjCNE6BAxFIrmxn8zfToLk20jwvk-YHA&cad=rja

No, I haven’t read the lot.

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