Thread: Sooo, what do you think this is?

Pumpkin/Squash vine?

Looks interesting Matt, is it Pecan by any chance?

Looks a bit like the piece of Peppertree I got a couple of weeks ago.

Looks like fingers. My first guess was going to be bamboo. Then you wrote about seeds. It's not walnut. I'm going with chestnut. If you are still lucky enough to find some, that is freqently wormy. Did I win anything?

All right, I'll put y'all out of your misery.



It's the stalk of a sunflower.

I turned a bit of cyprus the other day which looked similar
but given where you are ...

I type you post, not fair

Matt,
Is the color in the pic true? If not, my guess is white oak

Rick

Well slap me over the knee with a soggy platypus, I never would have got that.

I would have never thought that the stalk would have enough structural integrity. Amazing.

Originally Posted by ScrollZilla

Matt,
Is the color in the pic true? If not, my guess is white oak

Rick

True color, another one had more spaulting and color, but the center hole was too big to use, (aside from on a really large pen kit) and that was too much trouble to go to.

Now I say true color, but really, on computers the color is dependent a great deal on your monitor, it's really hard to get a "true" color on the internet, as you don't know how everyone else's computers are going to view it. Photo editors and the like "calibrate" their monitors, and my bother does this one periodically I think, so me thinks I'm good on this end, but I don't know about your end.

Originally Posted by ciscokid

I would have never thought that the stalk would have enough structural integrity. Amazing.

Around here they do, they get a couple 2-3 inches thick at the base. They form little forests, lol.

Here is the peice I wanted to use but it was too large. As you can see, they come pre drilled.

Don't I feel like a horses butt.....I didn't see the other posts....duh! My guess is sunflower lmao. That is just too cool. Now I am going to get busted for rustling sunflower stalks (once I find a field).

Rick

I'm with ScrollZilla.. I'll guess Sunflower, too.

Round here the stalk would not make it. Good thinking Matt.

Here a picture of one Aaron at Lau Lau did with crushed sunflower seeds

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Originally Posted by Matt88s

Worm hole in this one, they always seem to have worm holes. We used to play under them as children, I remember digging tunnels under their roots, making caves, all for little action or lego men, we used to build Lego forts in their branches as well. As I grew older I'd shoot grasshoppers off their branches.

Good times, I miss being a kid.

Originally Posted by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Pumpkin/Squash vine?

Say, either your kids over there are smaller than over here or your Pumpkins and Squash are something to behold.

Originally Posted by ScrollZilla

Don't I feel like a horses butt.....I didn't see the other posts....duh! My guess is sunflower lmao. That is just too cool. Now I am going to get busted for rustling sunflower stalks (once I find a field).

Rick

They don't last long, they are surprisingly woody and tough after the plant dies and they dry out, but at the same time they break down and degrade pretty quickly. These were from last summer, but they had grown into a fence and been held in the air. If they had been on the ground, they probably would have already gone punky and would be beyond use. The outside would still be hard, but they kind of rot from the inside out, the middle is just a channel of punk, it's where the moisture is drawn up into the plant, and it still works even after they die.

Then again at the same time, if you get them to fresh, they are all green and sappy and get sticky stuff on you that is almost impossible to get off, rubbing dust on your hands works best. I'd harvest some and stick them in the garage or something. Then again at the same time they get some interesting coloring/spaulting from being exposed to the elements.

It's kind of neat looking stuff, I took it in to woodcraft and they didn't know what to make of it either, they guess bone or antler, and it does look like bone.