All this effort for a wood species with massive limitations. There is a reason it was never commercially developed in California. The wood is too fast growing and has practically no moisture resistance. I've personally witnessed it rotting away on the exterior of modern buildings all over the northeast United States.
Well, this is the most cultivated pine species in the world. The main reason it was never cultivated in California is because we have natural forests of other suitable trees; Douglas Fir, Ponderosa Pine, Jeffery Pine, Redwood, etc. We don't so much need to cultivate them, they are managed in natural forested areas for the most part. There really was no place to cultivate Monterey Pines here as every place suitable to forests already has forests.
@@SylkaChan They're nice but they need a lot of water as they come from a wetter climate that gets rain year-round. California's rainfall is seasonal with a dry season lasting up to six months sometimes. Those long-leaf pines wouldn't do well out here.
