As an Arizonan, using saguaro cactus skeleton was the perfect wood for our state. Also, these grow literally everywhere. Once you leave the city, you’d be hard pressed to find 200 square feet without one of these on it.
I guess I'm the odd Arizonan out. I absolutely love mesquite. It makes everything taste better. It branches out really well, creating shaded areas. I think the natives made flour out of the pods too. It's my favorite desert tree.
Just a heads up, because the Saguaro fruit is sacred to the native people, they are the only ones that have access to the fruit and you won’t be able to get any from the National park gift shop. You might be able to find a shop where the natives sell some, but the National park services don’t touch the fruits.
Oh yeah, I know! I should've been more clear but I was talking about visiting the region to get some syrup from some local native sellers, not the national park specifically, a good clarification for sure!
As a person from Tucson, Saguaros are genuinely everywhere. It's actually really cool you did that for Arizona. Hopefully one of the other nearby states get done with a velvet Mesquite
As a Tucson human you really don't have to go far to find them but idk saguaro national Park is kinda overrated 😅 maybe it's cuz I live right there and see it often but idk
I was always intending on doing desert ironwood for Arizona (which would've been awesome of course) but once a viewer sent saguaro wood I was SO STOKED to switch that up.
My grandma lived in Arizona and I fell in love with the “saguaro skeletons” growing up. They are so unique and beautiful. I visited the Desert Museum down there last fall and it is beautiful and so many cool plants and wildlife.
If you can I suggest coming in the winter "Some how Christmas hat just like spawn on the cactus 🌵" it's amazing to see and google Snow on the saguaro cactus Your welcome
I just wanted to stop by and let you know that you inspired me to get out and get to know my local trees. Now 4 months later I have a fairly busy wood working side hustle that focuses on making items from locally sourced lumber. I have some beautiful spalted sycamore, elm, sugar and silver maple, hawthorn, you name it! Thank you for your incredible videos and for inspiring my wood working journey.
Grew up in Tucson and this made me SO proud of my homeland, and I was so worried you'd get facts wrong but nope, sounds like you got everything right, even pronounciations! Seriously, Saguaros are awesome. I have a small flash tattoo of one and I'd love to get a big watercolor-inspired tattoo of one some day. People just don't get how beautiful southern Arizona can be - it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, and the saguaro is a big part of that for sure.
Love this and glad I didn't disappoint! Researching this has me SUPER ready to hop in the car and head down to check them out myself. Deserts are such special places!
For 3d artists, the best way I can approximate this effect was by using anisotropy to bend the highlights like youd see in wood. I tried to make this effect using substance designer, trying to mimic what you'd see in like a pearl instrument inlay. Woodn't have known it was called Chatoyancy if it wasn't for this!
As a Tucsonan I was really happy to see this build! I got to admit I was a little concerned about where you might have gotten the wood, but it's cool that one of the viewers was able to find some ethically! I hope you come to this neck of the woods and get to do some Saguaro fruit picking, since they're all in beautiful bloom right now!
Between your description of it as a keystone species in it's environment,(flowers for nectarvores, shelter for birds, etc) and your mention of it's hardy support structure that can be used by humans as crafting material, It's stuck how similar it's role is to many trees. Thanks for the info Justin!
I've lived in Arizona practiaclly my entire life, and nothing fills me with more pride and happiness that Arizona's getting the recognition she deserves. (Except all the new people moving into the state, that kinda recognition can stop, plz 😅) Growing up, you'd be hard pressed to find any kind of media or talk about AZ - let alone its fauna, unless itself mesquite trees. Having a whole video dedicated to the Saguaro feels like an odd but welcome form of validation, appreciation, and respect. Also, big ups to that subtle Catlctus ✨️CHETOYANCEY✨️. Loving this series, keep up the great work!
As someone who grew up in Arizona this video reminded me of so many memories that I had forgotten. Like being read picture books about the lifecycle and ecological importance by the school librarian. And road trips across the state to visit family. As soon as you leave any suburban or city area you are surrounded by them. As a child it's like having a bunch of friends waving as you go by.
As someone from Arizona and currently living there, i didn't realize how much I didn't know about our state... flower?, Tree? Cactus? Anyway I thank you for your passion and knowledge of plants and trees.
So excited for Minnesota! I know with it being a northern state it may be typical to think of a coniferous tree, but growing up in the southern half I can't state enough how gorgeous and plentiful the mature oak, maple, black walnut, and elm trees are here. I know those are very common though, just wanted to shout it out 😊
hey, I have a suggestion for tennessee! I'm cherokee, and because tennessee is named after my tribe's tanasi city located in the region that would become the state, you could do an important wood to cherokee culture, the shagbark hickory! the bark is used to make green dye and the nuts are pounded into a meal to make a nut milk/soup called kanutsi, and it's clear you genuinely care about researching and appreciating the history of these trees, so it'd be nice to see :)
I remember reading about the uses of a saguaro as a kid and seeing pictures. It was especially fascinating to me as I grew up on a farm in the middle of Amish country in Pennsylvania, so the desert fascinated me. I'd like to get out that way someday!
Saguaros are awesome plants! I had no idea you could do woodworking with them! Also, it would be great to see you make Kansas next! Maybe out of cottonwood, the state tree!
I went to tuscon around a year ago it was amazing how many saguaros there were around it! They can be impressively big up close and i was really surprised to see snow on some at high altitudes. i've never heard of that internal skeleton before it's so cool!, and also looks beautiful on the map! can't wait to see if you ever do get some saguaro fruit. btw love the story if the shooter being killed by the cactus he shot
i am always happy to learn more things about my state and the life here, i think the saguaro is a perfect representation of arizona. Fun Fact: when i was a lot younger i gave a big ol' hug to one of these towering beasts, needless to say it didn't go too well.
My parents live in Wickenburg, AZ and are surrounded by these beautiful beasts! I was lucky enough to bring home some cholla cactus bones from my last trip down! 🌵 Beautiful piece dude! Perfect representation of Arizona! I've never seen anything made out of Saguaro bones, and it turned out amazing! ❤
all cacti homicide jokes aside, it was a great video as per usual. i really appreciate the fact you're not just a woodworking channel, but an informative one at that. always look forward to your cooking vids :D
I'm not sure if you've already covered this tree yet, but it would be cool if you did the Pacific madrone for either California or Oregon. It's such a beautiful tree and the berries are edible! :)
I have family in New Mexico and we've been around to Arizona and Colorado, so I'm very lucky to have seen a saguaro in person since I'm from the east coast. It's truly amazing, they're *massive* and they almost feel like sentinels in the desert because of their size and how they loom over you
Have lived round here for 24 years. Used to hike in saguaro national park as a kid. It’s quite an interesting place. Though under the sun it is scorching. Just remember if you run halfway out of water your journey is half way done and it’s time to turn back. Edit If you can see it with snow on the ground it’s amazing. I’ve only seen it twice.
I'm just using a blank US map I snagged on Wikimedia commons. I have the reference file on photoshop and use the divide slice tool to export each individual state to consistent printer-paper sized pieces.
I visited USA from Australia in 2017. One of my stops was at Saguaro National Park. It blew my mind learning about these awesome cacti. Beautiful place!
I live in the mountains of Arizona and we only get some prickly pear here. But my kids loved going down to the valley to visit family, and saguaro cactus were the landmarks that let my kids know we were close after a couple hours driving. So they always loved them! Thanks for teaching me stuff even I didn't know after living in this state my whole life.
I live in Arizona and so I see them everywhere. They are truly so cool and huge! I've seen skeletons of them before just in nature but never noticed until now how interesting they really are!
As North Carolinians me and my mom nominate the River Birch! Its my mom's favorite tree and I remember always seeing it when exploring the trails near bodies of water! ♥️❣️
My grandmother used to have one... in South Carolina. She collected Cacti when I was younger, something my curious child fingers always forgot. I remember hers being about three or four foot tall in a porch pot.
This is the first channel that I have heard talk about the saguaro cactus. Thank you for letting everyone know they do have a skeleton. It's so awesome you can walk through the desert find them everywhere usually it's just because they have gone through droughts didn't have enough water fold it over there skeleton couldn't hold them and then you find a saguaro skeleton. Fun facts from AZ!!!!!
I was born in Tuscon, so I used to see these all the time. I moved away when i was 5, and this video opened the flood gates on a lot of childhood memories. I remember my grandparents had a massive one in front of their house had had fallen over, so my grandfather had it put back up and concreted it into the ground
I think that Saguaro is my favorite national park. A lot of that is a big grouping of super cherished memories from a trip there as a high school student (there was seventy of us, and we were in Arizona for six days). The nostalgia factor is a major contributor, but I also just really loved the nature of the park. It’s such an austere environment with a wholly unique beauty. It was a formative experience that taught me a lot about a variety of cacti, beauty, nature, and myself. I highly recommend it. Also, if you go, I recommend getting something prickly pear flavored from the gift shop. It’s such a different fruit.
Walking through the Sonoran desert, there is millions of these saguaro, every one and a while id spot a fallen over saguaro skeleton. What a magnificent plant. I've also one seen one about 20m tall with like 50 arms at saguaro National park.
I spent ten years of my childhood in Tucson. So grateful the algorithm sent me here. We spent a big chunk of school learning about the Sonoran desert flora and fauna, and it hurts my soul how little anybody else in the US knows about it. I actually got into an argument with my Ohioan high school biology teacher about palo verdes, who didn't believe that photosynthesis could happen in bark. Anyway, this made me so happy.
Hey Justin! For your state, I was thinking you could use the one, the only, Utah Juniper! The wood is really beautiful (and has a lot of 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲), and I think it would also be a good representative of Utah, and also ironic because the Utah Juniper was once tried to be the state tree (as you said in the state trees video). I also cannot wait for when you finish this map because it would look so good.
i've watched this entire series (up to this point) in one sitting and absolutley loved it! so many interseting facts and cool looking wood types! keep up this kind of video!
I remember seeing a comment in a previous vid about Arizona being a really cool wood and you didn't disappoint! Cactus wood sounded more and more like a no-brainer the more you explained it, plus it looks cool as Hell 😆
Another interesting thing about saguaros: in addition to needing a permit to move one, movers must be careful to face the cactus in the same direction it was orginally grown in. I was lucky enough to see one transplanted to a neighbors yard and the moves first came by in their truck with a compass on the dash to determine which angle to pick the cactus up from in order to place it the right orientation. As you can imagine for such a heavy plant, you need to get it right the first time. Its not like you can spin it
I live in California and it's amazing when you drive from Cali to Arizona the instant you go over the boarder you see these cactuses! I truly believe these plants in some way shapped the boarders of the American West
You make me homesick for AZ lol. I mostly grew up and went to college there but moved away well over a decade ago. I really do miss so many things about it, there really is nothing quite like stepping out into 110 degree weather, and it has the best thunder and lightning storms too. I took a plants of the desert class which I consider one of my favorite classes of all time, I still have a folder filled with pressed cuttings from various plants which was a project for that class. The saguaro wood was an amazing choice, it looks incredible.
Wow! Wow! Beautiful, fascinating wood! This is my favorite video yet! I had no idea about the ribs and internal wood of those giants; wonderful, informative episode!👍
I'm writing a dnd location that's a take on the "giant ethereal tree with elves in it" cliché with a giant cactus in the desert. This video is some really good and really convenient inspiration!
I was born @Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson Arizona. I was raised in California unfortunately. I remember going by greyhound bus to see my dad with my sister & I was 7 years old. When we walked into the bedroom he had set up there were two beds and a corner table that he built out of a lot of Sarguaro cacti. It was really cool bed. So thank you for doing this video on the great state of Arizona. And the way you finished the piece was something to behold! Oh and I have never been to the grand canyon. Go figure!
I live in North Phoenix on and my neighbor has a 15-20 ft cactus in their yard and I'm currently visiting my sister in Tucson. There are saguaro cacti everywhere outside of the city. Too often we take it for granted. thanks for the reminder to enjoy these remarkable plants.
I have only ever seen those cacti on tv, I had no idea they got to be so huge! And heavy! And especially so much so that they needed an internal support structure! Wow! 😲
I was fortunate enough to visit Saguaro Natl Park back in my college days, though we weren't able to spend very much time there. It's a gorgeous part of the country, and the cacti are awesome to see. Highly recommended for anyone traveling to the area.
I only found your channel tonight and I have become an instant fan... I think I've binge watched nearly all of your regional maps videos. I'd love to see you tackle Australia and all our native trees. We've got some fantastic woodworking trees here, though a lot of them are quite hard... like we literally have the hardest tree in the world, the buloke (Allocasuarina luehmannii)...
As an Arizonan, using saguaro cactus skeleton was the perfect wood for our state. Also, these grow literally everywhere. Once you leave the city, you’d be hard pressed to find 200 square feet without one of these on it.
As an Arizonan I agree fully
totally agree!! even inside of phoenix they are not hard to find. the dbg also has some beautiful rare saguaro morphsi always love seeing
I guess I'm the odd Arizonan out. I absolutely love mesquite. It makes everything taste better. It branches out really well, creating shaded areas. I think the natives made flour out of the pods too. It's my favorite desert tree.
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@@FlimsyIndomesquite is great but it's not even close to being unique to Arizona 🤷♂️
I’ve never seen a cactus skeleton.
That’s a sentence I’d never think I’d hear
Aren't they cool??
@@Justinthetrees extremely!
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Interestingly saguaros aren't the only cactus with skeletons. If you want to see something neat look up cholla skeletons.
Just a heads up, because the Saguaro fruit is sacred to the native people, they are the only ones that have access to the fruit and you won’t be able to get any from the National park gift shop. You might be able to find a shop where the natives sell some, but the National park services don’t touch the fruits.
Oh yeah, I know! I should've been more clear but I was talking about visiting the region to get some syrup from some local native sellers, not the national park specifically, a good clarification for sure!
I love how respectful and informative people are in this community
@@batsardcat3285 same also w username
what if… hear me out… locals have just been going and getting their own fruits off the saguaros for years 🤯
@@uzileopard6199thats impossible you clearly need a middle man; people can't just go out and forage for crops. I mean what are we cavemen.
As a person from Tucson, Saguaros are genuinely everywhere. It's actually really cool you did that for Arizona. Hopefully one of the other nearby states get done with a velvet Mesquite
As a Tucson human you really don't have to go far to find them but idk saguaro national Park is kinda overrated 😅 maybe it's cuz I live right there and see it often but idk
@Xxwondering_cat Not overrated for me since I'm from Chicago lol. Saguaro National Park might as well be an alien planet 😂👍
@@amistry605 😂 yeah your right
@@XxWondering_CatxX 😆
That’s so funny. Here in Florida, they’re SOOOOO EXPENSIVE! I’ve wanted one for so long. But they’re insanely expensive, even tiny cuttings.
Hell yes I was hoping you’d use a saguaro skeleton for AZ! No choice fits the state better! And I went to Saguaro NP in February and it’s amazing!
I was always intending on doing desert ironwood for Arizona (which would've been awesome of course) but once a viewer sent saguaro wood I was SO STOKED to switch that up.
My grandma lived in Arizona and I fell in love with the “saguaro skeletons” growing up. They are so unique and beautiful. I visited the Desert Museum down there last fall and it is beautiful and so many cool plants and wildlife.
If you can I suggest coming in the winter
"Some how Christmas hat just like spawn on the cactus 🌵" it's amazing to see and google Snow on the saguaro cactus
Your welcome
@@XxWondering_CatxX I have been during Christmas actually! It was so bizarre coming from the Midwest where there is snow.
@@Dirt994 occasionally it will snow and it's a sight to see
Same! I love the desert museum, especially the enclosures with the venomous species of snakes. My brother almost stepped on a Diamond back there
I had no idea their internal structure was like that! It's gorgeous!
I’m not sure if you can still find them but a lot of tourist shops had walking canes/ sticks made from the ribs of the saguaro.
Our cactuses can be quite pretty, can't they😊😊
I just wanted to stop by and let you know that you inspired me to get out and get to know my local trees. Now 4 months later I have a fairly busy wood working side hustle that focuses on making items from locally sourced lumber. I have some beautiful spalted sycamore, elm, sugar and silver maple, hawthorn, you name it!
Thank you for your incredible videos and for inspiring my wood working journey.
Grew up in Tucson and this made me SO proud of my homeland, and I was so worried you'd get facts wrong but nope, sounds like you got everything right, even pronounciations! Seriously, Saguaros are awesome. I have a small flash tattoo of one and I'd love to get a big watercolor-inspired tattoo of one some day. People just don't get how beautiful southern Arizona can be - it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen, and the saguaro is a big part of that for sure.
Love this and glad I didn't disappoint! Researching this has me SUPER ready to hop in the car and head down to check them out myself. Deserts are such special places!
I didn’t even know cacti had skeletons! This was a very interesting video as always!
Right? NATURE IS SO NEAT!
Cactuses*
Cacti is what you’d say if we were speaking Latin. We are speaking English.
@@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 Oh vere? Latine loquor et cacti pergo dicere.
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For 3d artists, the best way I can approximate this effect was by using anisotropy to bend the highlights like youd see in wood. I tried to make this effect using substance designer, trying to mimic what you'd see in like a pearl instrument inlay. Woodn't have known it was called Chatoyancy if it wasn't for this!
As a Tucsonan I was really happy to see this build! I got to admit I was a little concerned about where you might have gotten the wood, but it's cool that one of the viewers was able to find some ethically! I hope you come to this neck of the woods and get to do some Saguaro fruit picking, since they're all in beautiful bloom right now!
Between your description of it as a keystone species in it's environment,(flowers for nectarvores, shelter for birds, etc) and your mention of it's hardy support structure that can be used by humans as crafting material, It's stuck how similar it's role is to many trees. Thanks for the info Justin!
Awesome! I’ve seen these everywhere all my life. Arizona rocks! My favorite saguaro is definitely the ones that grow limbs that look like Afros.
This map is coming along so beautifully!! The wood is just gorgeous, and so is your craftsmanship!!
I've lived in Arizona practiaclly my entire life, and nothing fills me with more pride and happiness that Arizona's getting the recognition she deserves. (Except all the new people moving into the state, that kinda recognition can stop, plz 😅)
Growing up, you'd be hard pressed to find any kind of media or talk about AZ - let alone its fauna, unless itself mesquite trees. Having a whole video dedicated to the Saguaro feels like an odd but welcome form of validation, appreciation, and respect. Also, big ups to that subtle Catlctus ✨️CHETOYANCEY✨️. Loving this series, keep up the great work!
This channel is something I never knew I needed. 😊
As someone who grew up in Arizona this video reminded me of so many memories that I had forgotten. Like being read picture books about the lifecycle and ecological importance by the school librarian. And road trips across the state to visit family. As soon as you leave any suburban or city area you are surrounded by them. As a child it's like having a bunch of friends waving as you go by.
As someone from AZ, it's so cool to see saguro being used.
As someone from Arizona and currently living there, i didn't realize how much I didn't know about our state... flower?, Tree? Cactus? Anyway I thank you for your passion and knowledge of plants and trees.
I never knew they have wood in them. But it makes since seeing the photos of bobcats and other animals climbing them.
The wood is so beautiful!
So excited for Minnesota! I know with it being a northern state it may be typical to think of a coniferous tree, but growing up in the southern half I can't state enough how gorgeous and plentiful the mature oak, maple, black walnut, and elm trees are here. I know those are very common though, just wanted to shout it out 😊
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I see the skeletons all the time when I go hiking. I never saw one cut like this before, this is awesome! I hope you enjoy yourself when you visit us!
So cool! Can’t wait for the next state on the map!
hey, I have a suggestion for tennessee!
I'm cherokee, and because tennessee is named after my tribe's tanasi city located in the region that would become the state, you could do an important wood to cherokee culture, the shagbark hickory! the bark is used to make green dye and the nuts are pounded into a meal to make a nut milk/soup called kanutsi, and it's clear you genuinely care about researching and appreciating the history of these trees, so it'd be nice to see :)
I remember reading about the uses of a saguaro as a kid and seeing pictures. It was especially fascinating to me as I grew up on a farm in the middle of Amish country in Pennsylvania, so the desert fascinated me. I'd like to get out that way someday!
Saguaros are awesome plants! I had no idea you could do woodworking with them! Also, it would be great to see you make Kansas next! Maybe out of cottonwood, the state tree!
I went to tuscon around a year ago it was amazing how many saguaros there were around it! They can be impressively big up close and i was really surprised to see snow on some at high altitudes.
i've never heard of that internal skeleton before it's so cool!, and also looks beautiful on the map! can't wait to see if you ever do get some saguaro fruit.
btw love the story if the shooter being killed by the cactus he shot
i am always happy to learn more things about my state and the life here, i think the saguaro is a perfect representation of arizona. Fun Fact: when i was a lot younger i gave a big ol' hug to one of these towering beasts, needless to say it didn't go too well.
NEEDLEss to say, hehehehehe
was that an i think you should leave reference WITHIN the first ten seconds?? glorious
My parents live in Wickenburg, AZ and are surrounded by these beautiful beasts! I was lucky enough to bring home some cholla cactus bones from my last trip down! 🌵
Beautiful piece dude! Perfect representation of Arizona! I've never seen anything made out of Saguaro bones, and it turned out amazing! ❤
all cacti homicide jokes aside, it was a great video as per usual. i really appreciate the fact you're not just a woodworking channel, but an informative one at that. always look forward to your cooking vids :D
I’ve never seen something so cool. A big wooden map tailored specially to each state. You’re very creative to come up with that.
That is some beautiful wood
It is
Beautiful video!! Can’t wait to see New Mexico
I'm not sure if you've already covered this tree yet, but it would be cool if you did the Pacific madrone for either California or Oregon. It's such a beautiful tree and the berries are edible! :)
I really respect that you make woodworking about the tree, and not just the wood.
I loved your video on kiidk'yaas you should make a video on General Sherman.
I have family in New Mexico and we've been around to Arizona and Colorado, so I'm very lucky to have seen a saguaro in person since I'm from the east coast. It's truly amazing, they're *massive* and they almost feel like sentinels in the desert because of their size and how they loom over you
Never imagines a cactus had that inside 😮
as someone said on a video before; please write a botany/woodworking/recipe book! your storytelling is so engaging and unique ❤️
Amazing!
Have lived round here for 24 years. Used to hike in saguaro national park as a kid. It’s quite an interesting place. Though under the sun it is scorching. Just remember if you run halfway out of water your journey is half way done and it’s time to turn back.
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If you can see it with snow on the ground it’s amazing. I’ve only seen it twice.
What wood oil do you use? Wood looks amazing
I am from Arizona and my childhood consisted of seeing my great grandparents who live in a rural desert area, so seeing them just brings memories back
Where do you get the shapes for each of the states while also keeping it in proportion?
I'm just using a blank US map I snagged on Wikimedia commons. I have the reference file on photoshop and use the divide slice tool to export each individual state to consistent printer-paper sized pieces.
Oh ok got it
I used to live right at the edge of the Saguaro national forest, so this episode felt especially special ;) You did a beautiful job on this piece
I thought the 🌵 they showed in cartoons were imaginary 😂
"They're real, and they're spectacular!"
@@Justinthetrees"Not that there's anything wrong with that."
I visited USA from Australia in 2017. One of my stops was at Saguaro National Park. It blew my mind learning about these awesome cacti. Beautiful place!
The bones are their money. So are the worms.
He said he wanted something spooky
This video is the second time I've seen someone reference this joke today. I think it's a sign...🪱
I live in the mountains of Arizona and we only get some prickly pear here. But my kids loved going down to the valley to visit family, and saguaro cactus were the landmarks that let my kids know we were close after a couple hours driving. So they always loved them! Thanks for teaching me stuff even I didn't know after living in this state my whole life.
I live in Arizona and so I see them everywhere. They are truly so cool and huge! I've seen skeletons of them before just in nature but never noticed until now how interesting they really are!
This video was so good - it combined so many of my favorite things.
Omg I never expected for a cactus to be part of this series. So interesting to learn all of this!
As North Carolinians me and my mom nominate the River Birch! Its my mom's favorite tree and I remember always seeing it when exploring the trails near bodies of water! ♥️❣️
My grandmother used to have one... in South Carolina. She collected Cacti when I was younger, something my curious child fingers always forgot. I remember hers being about three or four foot tall in a porch pot.
This is the first channel that I have heard talk about the saguaro cactus. Thank you for letting everyone know they do have a skeleton. It's so awesome you can walk through the desert find them everywhere usually it's just because they have gone through droughts didn't have enough water fold it over there skeleton couldn't hold them and then you find a saguaro skeleton. Fun facts from AZ!!!!!
I was born in Tuscon, so I used to see these all the time. I moved away when i was 5, and this video opened the flood gates on a lot of childhood memories. I remember my grandparents had a massive one in front of their house had had fallen over, so my grandfather had it put back up and concreted it into the ground
I think the saguaro wood is my favourite one so far, it's so unique and adds a nice contrast on the map. I love it!
Having lived in AZ for half of my life so far, this warmed my heart. Perfect addition to the map.
Wood inside a cactus absolutely blows my mind. I saw a bunch of those things on a trip last year but had no idea they were secretly so cool.
As a native Southern Arizona native this is pure brilliance! Thank you for the beautiful work!
I think that Saguaro is my favorite national park. A lot of that is a big grouping of super cherished memories from a trip there as a high school student (there was seventy of us, and we were in Arizona for six days). The nostalgia factor is a major contributor, but I also just really loved the nature of the park. It’s such an austere environment with a wholly unique beauty. It was a formative experience that taught me a lot about a variety of cacti, beauty, nature, and myself. I highly recommend it.
Also, if you go, I recommend getting something prickly pear flavored from the gift shop. It’s such a different fruit.
Walking through the Sonoran desert, there is millions of these saguaro, every one and a while id spot a fallen over saguaro skeleton. What a magnificent plant. I've also one seen one about 20m tall with like 50 arms at saguaro National park.
Absolutely loved this episode. Great “wood”, cool facts and a National park to add to the list. What more could you ask for.
I spent ten years of my childhood in Tucson. So grateful the algorithm sent me here. We spent a big chunk of school learning about the Sonoran desert flora and fauna, and it hurts my soul how little anybody else in the US knows about it. I actually got into an argument with my Ohioan high school biology teacher about palo verdes, who didn't believe that photosynthesis could happen in bark. Anyway, this made me so happy.
Hey Justin! For your state, I was thinking you could use the one, the only, Utah Juniper! The wood is really beautiful (and has a lot of 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲), and I think it would also be a good representative of Utah, and also ironic because the Utah Juniper was once tried to be the state tree (as you said in the state trees video). I also cannot wait for when you finish this map because it would look so good.
i've watched this entire series (up to this point) in one sitting and absolutley loved it! so many interseting facts and cool looking wood types! keep up this kind of video!
I remember seeing a comment in a previous vid about Arizona being a really cool wood and you didn't disappoint! Cactus wood sounded more and more like a no-brainer the more you explained it, plus it looks cool as Hell 😆
Another interesting thing about saguaros: in addition to needing a permit to move one, movers must be careful to face the cactus in the same direction it was orginally grown in. I was lucky enough to see one transplanted to a neighbors yard and the moves first came by in their truck with a compass on the dash to determine which angle to pick the cactus up from in order to place it the right orientation. As you can imagine for such a heavy plant, you need to get it right the first time. Its not like you can spin it
I live in California and it's amazing when you drive from Cali to Arizona the instant you go over the boarder you see these cactuses! I truly believe these plants in some way shapped the boarders of the American West
You make me homesick for AZ lol. I mostly grew up and went to college there but moved away well over a decade ago. I really do miss so many things about it, there really is nothing quite like stepping out into 110 degree weather, and it has the best thunder and lightning storms too. I took a plants of the desert class which I consider one of my favorite classes of all time, I still have a folder filled with pressed cuttings from various plants which was a project for that class. The saguaro wood was an amazing choice, it looks incredible.
West Virginia for sure needs to be apple wood. We have an absurd amount of apple trees, and it's where the golden delicious was originally found!
When I went hiking in the Superstition Wilderness they were everywhere and it’s crazy to think they are that old!
Oh wow I couldn’t help but swoon over this beautiful saguaro 🌵 thank you for teaching me so much about trees.
Wow! Wow! Beautiful, fascinating wood! This is my favorite video yet! I had no idea about the ribs and internal wood of those giants; wonderful, informative episode!👍
I visit Arizona often, so I see them every once in a while. They are my favorite plant besides palm trees.
the wildlife out here is so underrated man it’s beautiful
I was driving thru Arizona when I saw them. The landscape is beautiful.
I'm writing a dnd location that's a take on the "giant ethereal tree with elves in it" cliché with a giant cactus in the desert. This video is some really good and really convenient inspiration!
As a Arizona native this video was awesome! Perfect "wood" to represent the state. Love this map idea as well.
I was born @Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson Arizona. I was raised in California unfortunately. I remember going by greyhound bus to see my dad with my sister & I was 7 years old. When we walked into the bedroom he had set up there were two beds and a corner table that he built out of a lot of Sarguaro cacti. It was really cool bed. So thank you for doing this video on the great state of Arizona. And the way you finished the piece was something to behold!
Oh and I have never been to the grand canyon. Go figure!
Wow! Thats so cool! I had no idea that they had skeletons.
I live in AZ and CA. I bought some saguaro seed and have a large one growing in my yard in CA now. It approx 6 1/2 ft right now.
This is so interesting and educational. I bet my niece and nephew would enjoy these videos.
I live in North Phoenix on and my neighbor has a 15-20 ft cactus in their yard and I'm currently visiting my sister in Tucson. There are saguaro cacti everywhere outside of the city. Too often we take it for granted. thanks for the reminder to enjoy these remarkable plants.
I have only ever seen those cacti on tv, I had no idea they got to be so huge! And heavy! And especially so much so that they needed an internal support structure! Wow! 😲
i grew up in the tucson Arizona area and lived there most my life so it was awesome to see this video. keep doing what you're doing
I was fortunate enough to visit Saguaro Natl Park back in my college days, though we weren't able to spend very much time there. It's a gorgeous part of the country, and the cacti are awesome to see. Highly recommended for anyone traveling to the area.
I only found your channel tonight and I have become an instant fan... I think I've binge watched nearly all of your regional maps videos. I'd love to see you tackle Australia and all our native trees. We've got some fantastic woodworking trees here, though a lot of them are quite hard... like we literally have the hardest tree in the world, the buloke (Allocasuarina luehmannii)...
I can't wait to see the finished product it's already looking so beautiful
I am so very impressed! This might be my favourite state video of all!!
I went to Tucson Arizona, about two years ago. I would definitely recommend you go. It is beautiful, such a great place to connect with nature.
Every single piece on this map is seriously so stunning
Something I find very interesting about saguaros is the very unique sound wind makes as it wistles through the spines
we love those skeletons made a very nice couple a patio the whole thing was covered in saguaro skeletons love what you do keep on keeping on
Another Arizonan here - thank you. Great job!
i know i shouldn’t laugh but the cactus falling on the guy shooting it was like the best karma 😭
Holy biscuits, that turned out gorgeous!