{"id":465,"date":"2010-05-06T11:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T15:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/candling-longleaf.html"},"modified":"2010-05-06T11:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T15:40:43","slug":"candling-longleaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/candling-longleaf.html","title":{"rendered":"Candling Longleaf"},"content":{"rendered":"In case you wondered why the growing bud on a longleaf pine is called a candle:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/4583527125\/\" title=\"Candle by faul, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4017\/4583527125_f4a588235b.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Candle\" \/><\/a>\n<p>\nThis nine foot loblolly is about 3 years old,\nas you can see since John S. Quarterman can reach 8 feet high and it&#8217;s a foot higher than that:\n\n<!--more-->\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/4584163574\/\" title=\"Loblolly by faul, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4022\/4584163574_aa56d0fc53.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Loblolly\" \/><\/a>\n<p>\nThis ten foot slash is also about 3 years old:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/4584166862\/\" title=\"Slash ten feet tall by faul, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4055\/4584166862_6560e7c1bc.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Slash ten feet tall\" \/><\/a>\n<p>\nThis longleaf is only 2 years old, and already 5 feet tall:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/4584171830\/\" title=\"Chest high by faul, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4037\/4584171830_3ef1c037b5.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Chest high\" \/><\/a>\n<p>\nPictures by Gretchen Quarterman, 19 April 2010, Lowndes County, Georgia.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In case you wondered why the growing bud on a longleaf pine is called a candle: This nine foot loblolly is about 3 years old, as you can see since John S. Quarterman can reach 8 feet high and it&#8217;s a foot higher than that:","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,70,60,36],"tags":[1500,1524,1525,3,5,2802,2787,2,1144,426,2768],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-longleaf","category-plants","category-silviculture","tag-19-april-2010","tag-bolting","tag-candling","tag-georgia","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-loblolly","tag-longleaf","tag-lowndes-county","tag-pictures-by-gretchen-quarterman","tag-pine","tag-slash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-7v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}