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EYESORE 9001

(28,852 posts)
Wed May 28, 2025, 06:07 PM May 28

If pine cones are a cash crop, I'm in the proverbial catbird seat


I estimate this 50-ft tree has over 2,000 pine cones in various stages of growth.
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If pine cones are a cash crop, I'm in the proverbial catbird seat (Original Post) EYESORE 9001 May 28 OP
Looks like a Norway spruce or thereabouts bucolic_frolic May 28 #1
Those are some big ass pine cones! Haggard Celine May 28 #2
Same here, EYESORE 9001. There are so many on my tree, that it is beginning to tilt. debm55 May 28 #3
Back in the day, my uncles painted sweet gum balls white with blue dots TomSlick May 28 #4
"Ever eat a pine tree?" Doc_Technical May 29 #5

bucolic_frolic

(52,013 posts)
1. Looks like a Norway spruce or thereabouts
Wed May 28, 2025, 06:15 PM
May 28

Yes cones are sold for decoration, and for craft raw materials. Exceptionally large and straight ones can be cast inside clear epoxy for hunting knife or other handles.

Check to see what they fetch on sell it sites - Etsey, eBay, and the like.

Haggard Celine

(17,389 posts)
2. Those are some big ass pine cones!
Wed May 28, 2025, 06:23 PM
May 28

People do pay for those things. They use them to decorate and some people burn them in their fireplaces. A lot of times I've seen people put them on their hearths. So yeah, you can sell them. I don't know how much you could get for them, but they do have value.

TomSlick

(12,665 posts)
4. Back in the day, my uncles painted sweet gum balls white with blue dots
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:22 PM
May 28

and sold them to tourists as porcupine eggs.

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