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EYESORE 9001

(29,096 posts)
Wed May 28, 2025, 06:07 PM May 2025

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 2025 OP
Looks like a Norway spruce or thereabouts bucolic_frolic May 2025 #1
Those are some big ass pine cones! Haggard Celine May 2025 #2
Same here, EYESORE 9001. There are so many on my tree, that it is beginning to tilt. debm55 May 2025 #3
Back in the day, my uncles painted sweet gum balls white with blue dots TomSlick May 2025 #4
"Ever eat a pine tree?" Doc_Technical May 2025 #5

bucolic_frolic

(52,561 posts)
1. Looks like a Norway spruce or thereabouts
Wed May 28, 2025, 06:15 PM
May 2025

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

(17,475 posts)
2. Those are some big ass pine cones!
Wed May 28, 2025, 06:23 PM
May 2025

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

(12,739 posts)
4. Back in the day, my uncles painted sweet gum balls white with blue dots
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:22 PM
May 2025

and sold them to tourists as porcupine eggs.

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