2021 from seeds !

[SeanS]

Well.. End of summer. My AP 'arakawa' seeds gave a pretty good crop. Lets see how many develop a rough bark.

I grew these with a mesh on top of them for the first months. About 6 weeks ago I removed the mesh. Yesterday I thinned the leaves, to also give the weaker individuals a bit of late summer sun. I think I need help. I have too many plants.

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Just noticed the frog

 

[Glaucus]

I have a lot of frogs hiding in among my seedling trays. They like to sit in the shade but on warm plastic? I don't know what it is. Or they jump in and are too lazy to crawl out unless chased out.
Many of them small frogs. But one larger one tried to bury itself in one of the pots. Not the best winter hybernation spot. Sadly, no picture of that guy.





I have a little more than 2000 of these. Sowed in winter 2020-2021.

 

[AlainK]

I have a lot of frogs hiding in among my seedling trays.

It's a bit like "Where's Wally?"... Fun, fun, fun!

 

[Glaucus]

Yeah, it is a bit like every 4th tray has one. And you hear a sound, then they try to crawl out. Like they are a bit stuck in between the pots and they can barely squeeze out.
I guess I will start to miss them soon...

 

[0soyoung]

I've lost track of time . Ref post #23:

• no carp turk germination (purchased seed)

• callicarpa japonica (purchased seed)

• acer pentaphyllum (fun!!! purchased seed)

• no germination rhododendron macrophyllum or 100% infant mortality (not sure if I saw sprouts of them or of indigenous weeds during winter (seeds gathered in Deception Pass State Park)
• picea sitchensis (from a cone found in Deception Pass State Park)
• prunus emarginata (from seeds found in the ACFL)

 

[Arlithrien]

I'll have a few samaras to collect soon. Hundreds from plain A. palm., but I already have so many seedlings that I will give them away. I won't bother to collect from the few cultivars that have some either, they're usually rather disappointing and since I hate to throw young trees away I'll just let mother nature follow its course.
There are two though that I will try to germinate. From Acer palm. 'Atropurpureum' because many are fairly true to the type (red leaves in the spring until the middle of summer at least), and about two dozens from 'Hana matoi' because seeds from dissectums can be interesting as I think I said before.

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Hey, wrong year! I think it's about time for a 2022 from seed thread.

 

[SeanS]

It’s spring here South Africa and last month I stumbled across this crabapple in full bloom. I plucked off a few of the last remaining dried up apples from the tree and sowed the seeds. 1 has sprouted and another has just started to poke out of the soil

 

[SeanS]

Around 120 JM seedlings, seeds collected from a local botanical garden in autumn earlier this year.

 

[Gert]

My 2021 Japanese Maple and Japanese Black Pine seedling cutting crop. Excited to pot these up.

 

[badatusernames]

Nice work, this makes me want to go wander around the nearby arboretum to see what seeds I can find...

 

[BeepBeepBonsaiSheep]

Went to a botanical garden today. There was an Arizona ash full of seeds. They still looked a little green so didn’t try to get any

Yesterday I got a bunch of Chinese pistache berries. They’re drying in the garage

Got some honey locust seed pods back on Thursday

 

[MorddexxBonsai]

I just put 2oz of European hornbeam seeds in the fridge for stratification. Had about 20 seeds that were floaters that I threw away after soaking in warm water for 24hrs. The rest sank so hopefully they are pretty good seeds.

 

[leatherback]

I just put 2oz of European hornbeam seeds in the fridge for stratification. Had about 20 seeds that were floaters that I threw away after soaking in warm water for 24hrs. The rest sank so hopefully they are pretty good seeds.

You're in michigan. WHy put seeds in a fridge? Let nature do her thing!

 

[Shibui]

Here are a couple of seed trays at Shibui Bonsai. Note that it is spring here now.


Last week i decided to start pricking some out into individual pots.
Everyone will have their own ways of doing this but I get good results like this..

Lift seedlings out gently.


Some already have lateral roots starting to emerge from the main root.

I chop just below some likely looking laterals


Some don't have any laterals yet but the main root can still be chopped. New laterals will then grow near the cut.

 

[Shibui]

Due to limited space I just potted 30 in that session. I'll probably do another batch in a few weeks and continue to prick them out through spring and into summer as time and space permits




Also a tray of Japanese maple seedlings. These from seed harvested from some of the smaller garden JM and some with smaller leaves just to see what comes from them.

I probably won't even bother pricking these out into pots this year unless I see any that are particularly interesting. They will grow quite happily in the tray through summer and I can pot some or all up next winter.

 

[MorddexxBonsai]

You're in michigan. WHy put seeds in a fridge? Let nature do her thing!

I would but I have no where in my yard right now where I want to plant a few hundred seeds. I tried sowing outside but until I get a caged raised box or something you can't because squirrels are like rats in my area they get into everything.

 

[AlainK]

Seeds taken from a cultivar rarely come true to the type, and if they do, they can't be called from the name of the parent tree.

That being said, if none of my 'Sango kaku' sown in the winter 20-21 showed a red bark, or a bark thst is interesting enough, quite a few of my 'Ryusen' apparently have this weeping feel from the parent tree :



I'll repot some of them, and maybe prune them to see what happens :

 

[thatbonsaiguydb]

Nice colors on those seedling.

 

[Arlithrien]

Seeds taken from a cultivar rarely come true to the type, and if they do, they can't be called from the name of the parent tree.

That being said, if none of my 'Sango kaku' sown in the winter 20-21 showed a red bark, or a bark thst is interesting enough, quite a few of my 'Ryusen' apparently have this weeping feel from the parent tree :

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I'll repot some of them, and maybe prune them to see what happens :

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I'm sure they will. Many of the coral bark cultivars are seedlings of Sango kaku, my Summer Gold for example looks strikingly similar in form. I also have a few random seedlings with comparable red bark.