How are your oaks doing?We can start a new thread on trading seedlings.
The coast live oak you sent me just started to break the soil. The cork one still taking their time. Before the trade, I bought 10 seeds of cork and coast live oaks. Those are the one you see in earlier picture. I also sowed a few hundreds of southern live oaks and Willow leaf. They all did really well until the squirrels start to have a taste for them. I really pissed that they did damaged most of it.How are your oaks doing?
I have at least one of each type of acorn you sent me, that are peaking through the top soil.
Not so lucky with my first batch of japanese persimmon
Hmmm... I added these to my list:
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Here they are....The coast live oak you sent me just started to break the soil. The cork one still taking their time. Before the trade, I bought 10 seeds of cork and coast live oaks. Those are the one you see in earlier picture. I also sowed a few hundreds of southern live oaks and Willow leaf. They all did really well until the squirrels start to have a taste for them. I really pissed that they did damaged most of it. View attachment 179602 I really missed the first batch of coast, cork and Willow. My problem now is how to protect them. I'll take more pictures when I get home. Can't believe I enjoy doing this kind of thing.
You don't need to soak elm seeds,just stick in the dirt and add water.I have American elm seeds that I soaked for 24 hrs. About 90% of the seeds were still floating. So being disappointed I threw in more seeds to soak. Still lots of floaters after 48 hrs so I start to to pull out the floaters to throw them away and I notice that they are already germinating.
Isn’t unusual that the floaters are germinating? The sinkers weren’t yet germinating.
I have American elm seeds that I soaked for 24 hrs. About 90% of the seeds were still floating. So being disappointed I threw in more seeds to soak. Still lots of floaters after 48 hrs so I start to to pull out the floaters to throw them away and I notice that they are already germinating.
Isn’t unusual that the floaters are germinating? The sinkers weren’t yet germinating.
Thanks! I didn’t know that. I haven’t grown American elm. I don’t think I have ever seen one in real life before.American elm seeds are designed to float. The trees natural habitat is in the low lands and flood plains of rivers and creeks. The seeds are designed to float down stream and grow once the hit something they can root in, be it dry land, mud, muck a rotting tree or what ever.