[HN Gopher] How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree
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       How to Build a Thousand-Year-Old Tree
        
       Author : matthewjpo
       Score  : 74 points
       Date   : 2025-03-07 14:36 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | RunningDroid wrote:
       | The site seems to have been HN'd:
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       | https://archive.ph/xP8YB
        
       | HenryBemis wrote:
       | I will over-simplify, but it works!                 Go to
       | Italy/Greece/Spain.       Buy a small piece of land (half an acre
       | is more than enough)       Plant an olive tree (plant two or
       | three as a backup)       Wait 1000 years        One thousand year
       | old tree.
        
         | 2143 wrote:
         | Why those 3 countries in particular? Wouldn't this work
         | anywhere (provided it's not in a war zone or a volcano zone
         | etc)?
        
           | ceejayoz wrote:
           | You are... unlikely to grow an olive tree successfully in
           | Toronto.
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           | Even for other kinds of long-lived trees, places without big
           | ice storms, hurricanes, etc. that would prematurely end the
           | tree are probably safer bets.
        
           | helle253 wrote:
           | Gotta pick the right environment+tree combination.
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           | You could always settle in the Mojave, plant a grove of
           | bristlecone pines instead.
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           | I don't know if more boreal climates support longevity, I
           | think it has to be some combination of temperate + dry + safe
           | from natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes
        
         | hooverd wrote:
         | Southern Arizona works too. The Sonoran is a very wet dessert.
        
       | noobermin wrote:
       | Just a fascinating picture into a field I know little about.
       | 
       | It is frustrating that deforestation still continues at its own
       | pace with little regard for the sometimes irreversible loss of
       | forests throughout the world. I guess this gives us a little hope
       | that we can simulate old wood in new wood trees, but once the old
       | wood trees are gone, they're gone.
        
       | bloomingkales wrote:
       | Interestingly enough, I just passed by this book:
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       | https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Forest-Radicals-California-Redw...
        
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