The Torrey pine cone drops most of its seeds during the autumn of its third season. The cone will stay on the tree, and some of the seeds will stay in the cone until it falls in two, three, or ten years. There are two seeds under each scale of a cone. An average cone of a Torrey pine will have about 100 seeds. The giant Coulter pine cone can have twice that many.
Pines have winged seeds.
The purpose of a wing is to carry the seed away with the wind. A Torrey pine has a very large seed with a very small wing. The only utility I can see in this is that the wing is like the fins on a bomb. It may aim the seed straight down and help it spear through the duff and into the soil. It seems as though a lot of Torrey pines are planted by scrub jays.