Something else that is genetically modified.

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We drove by one of their farms this morning.

A mile or more of identical trees planted in a grid.

Who knew that TREES were being cloned?

 

[Webster]

Who knew that TREES were being cloned?

I didn't but they can keep their cloned trees where they keep their 15-minute cities....

 

[EllieCat]

Welcome to the Matrix!

 

[passenger]

Perhaps another method of cloning??? But ancient.

Daisugi Method

 

[DrLeftover]

And a wonderful technique it is.

If you want a lot of small timber, perhaps so you can frame out a wall that is made of paper.

If you want to make a floor joist, you're going to need a lot of those small trees lamented together.

What is just as interesting as the technique itself is that damned near every article you see about it uses the same photo of the same tree.

When you go digging around, you can find a few others.

However, while it is done, it isn't as widespread even on the Japanese home islands as some would want you to believe.

It can only be done to a few very specific types of trees, and the lumber so produced isn't suitable for many applications.

A look at it by a gardener:

Daisugi or Coppicing

Circulating on reddit right now are images of an ancient Japanese practice called Daisugi. Daisugi is similar to other coppicing or pollarding practices that were used to create a continuous harves…

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Daisugi: a thousandyearold technique for optimising lumber production | Floornature

Japanese culture is particularly fascinating and in addition to sushi saké the martial arts cosplay paper houses and the art of flower arranging to mention

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