In fact, if you go over to the Reddit discussion on this post, they all agree.
New growth has much fewer knots and issues because they are grown in a way that does not force the trees to compete for sunlight.
As such they grow straighter, taller, and with far fewer knots and anomalies.
The old stuff is denser but that is the only advantage.
It's worth not throwing out but it's not magically better.
We don't care about making new growth denser because we created lvl, lsl, psl, clt, etc.
In fact, if you go over to the Reddit discussion on this post, they all agree.
New growth has much fewer knots and issues because they are grown in a way that does not force the trees to compete for sunlight.
As such they grow straighter, taller, and with far fewer knots and anomalies.
The old stuff is denser but that is the only advantage.
It's worth not throwing out but it's not magically better.
We don't care about making new growth denser because we created lvl, lsl, psl, clt, etc.