if redwood is naturally rot resistant, why can’t we grow redwoods to build our buildings?

Question

Redwoods are still an evergreen and fast growing. Alternatively, we could put the tannin producing gene in a regular lumber tree to make it naturally rot resistant to be a green alternative to lumber treatments

In: Biology

Answer 1

We still don’t really use what we’ve planted to make stuff, a tree takes close to a whole human generation to be viable for production. redwoods are also picky about the conditions they grow in compared to other trees