twig/branch

[beorhthelm]

When does a twig become a branch? no trick question, just a vitally important inquiry. is length or girth the most significant metric?

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Perhaps it occurs during that mysterious period where a sapling becomes a tree?

 

[NMH]

When a twig can hold a weight of 200 ounces, it is then considered a branch.
When a branch holds 200 pounds, it is a limb, and at 1000 pounds it's a trunk.













I just made that up.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

As someone who has responsibility for pruning a grape vine (the roots are in my neighbour's garden, but half the growth is our side of the fence and the thing wraps itself around our house as well as next door), I need to answer this question every year, when pruning time comes round. Does this shoot go? Or do I leave it to become a proper branch? As beorhthelm says, it's a VITALLY IMPORTANT question.

The answer is:- a branch is a twig that I decide will flourish.

But that only applies to vines. An alternative answer (applicable to everything else) might be:- a branch is a twig that has more twigs growing out of it.

 

[Trufflehound]

a branch is a twig that has more twigs growing out of it.

Wouldn't that be a sprig?

 

[Twinkle Toes]

When a twig can hold a weight of 200 ounces, it is then considered a branch.
When a branch holds 200 pounds, it is a limb, and at 1000 pounds it's a trunk.













I just made that up.

You should've left your admission at the end off. You had me hook, line & shrinker.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

I would say a branch is if it is CONNECTED to something else whereas a twig isnt?

 

[Titanic]

This is the sticky subject of much debate.

 

[Trufflehound]

I BOUGH to your superior knowledge.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

SIZE isn't important.

If it was, how would you explain how bonsai trees have branches?

 

[Giraffe]

It's an age thing. A twig becomes a branch when it reaches puberty somewhere between 11-14.

 

[Man of Harveys]

There'll only be a binfest. I say LEAF well alone.

 

[Trufflehound]

SIZE isn't important.

[Dougal]Are we talking 'small' or 'far away' here?[/Dougal]

 

[Trufflehound]

There'll only be a binfest.

As with every other NSC binfest, it will be conducted by SAPs and its BARK will be worse than its bite.

 

[Gazwag]

I'd be careful asking questions on here, the tree protection league may get upset if a lumberjack answers it

 

[Man of Harveys]

As with every other NSC binfest, it will be conducted by SAPs and its BARK will be worse than its bite.

Very true. All I'm saying is, let's not go down that ROOT.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I'd be careful asking questions on here, the tree protection league may get upset if a lumberjack answers it

Does Lumber have a brother called Natter?

 

[Twinkle Toes]

As with every other NSC binfest, it will be conducted by SAPs and its BARK will be worse than its bite.

Salient points as-ever, Mr T, but perhaps on this occassion the NSC-ers will just be harmlessly ROOTING around?

Doh! Fixtured..

 

[Trufflehound]

Very true. All I'm saying is, let's KNOT go down that ROOT.

Corrected, because you missed an obvious one...

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

It is a THORNY subject.