Volunteer Maples....what you got?

[just.wing.it]

I like my weird Feral Maple...
This is the second year I've had it...
It was chopped to a little stump when I obtained it....still waiting for a new leader to take off... Might need to ground grow this one for a few years...

 

[Stan Kengai]

My Sharp's pygmy maple had a ton of seeds last year. I always heard that the cultivar was sterile, but I have had a few seedlings sprout below it. I collected about 50 samaras last fall and stored them over winter. I soaked them this spring and got about 2 dozen sinkers. Planted those, and exactly 1 sprouted. It will be interesting to see how much of the pygmy's traits it carries.

 

[RKatzin]

My Makawa yatsabusha is in full seed this year. I will be starting as many as I can, should be interesting
I have about two dozen Japanese Maples from various trees around town here. I started with a couple hundred seedlings and first selected for colors. Then I selected for leaf size, internodes and stem length. Some I have kept for extraordinary color in spite of long stems and internodes.

This one I call Seedling Surprise, it grows like that. I haven't trimmed it yet. It is the only one in a whole bunch of collected seedlings that came off like this.

Some that hold good color into summer and great fall colors.

 

[just.wing.it]

I think mine is a seed from a Bloodgood...most likely anyway...those things are like mail boxes in this state...every damn house has one.

 

[Wilson]

I have two ridiculous clumps of sugar maple seedlings I have had in the ground for a couple seasons. There are some other random sugar maples that I abuse around the garden.

 

[TyroTinker]

My Sharp's pygmy maple had a ton of seeds last year. I always heard that the cultivar was sterile, but I have had a few seedlings sprout below it. I collected about 50 samaras last fall and stored them over winter. I soaked them this spring and got about 2 dozen sinkers. Planted those, and exactly 1 sprouted. It will be interesting to see how much of the pygmy's traits it carries.

When do you collect the samaras?
I have a couple trees that I want to get their offsprings. I'm curious on how different they might be from the mother tree. There seem to be a lot of different maples around my neighborhood

 

[jmw_bonsai]

When do you collect the samaras?
I have a couple trees that I want to get their offsprings. I'm curious on how different they might be from the mother tree. There seem to be a lot of different maples around my neighborhood

Japanese Maple Seed is collected in Fall.

 

[Wilson]

 

[cbroad]

I have a few, probably going to pot them all up in larger containers pretty soon. I've had these for two years and they came come from different jobs (other people's yards).

I wired them last year and let them bite in pretty hard but most of them still managed to bounce back to their original shape... So I'll be rewiring probably in a week or two.

 

[Stan Kengai]

When do you collect the samaras?
I have a couple trees that I want to get their offsprings. I'm curious on how different they might be from the mother tree. There seem to be a lot of different maples around my neighborhood

I honestly couldn't tell you. I just watched them and waited until they started to fall naturally.

 

[pbrown00]

I don't have any better pics at the moment, but I have a couple big leaf maples. Not very practical, but I enjoy them for the novelty.

 

[J. Adrian]

Bloodgood, coral bark, sharps, & lastly amur.

 

[jd_bonsai]

My Makawa yatsabusha is in full seed this year. I will be starting as many as I can, should be interesting View attachment 196757
I have about two dozen Japanese Maples from various trees around town here. I started with a couple hundred seedlings and first selected for colors. Then I selected for leaf size, internodes and stem length. Some I have kept for extraordinary color in spite of long stems and internodes.
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This one I call Seedling Surprise, it grows like that. I haven't trimmed it yet. It is the only one in a whole bunch of collected seedlings that came off like this.
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Some that hold good color into summer and great fall colors.

I’ve got a Mikawa Yatsubusa that is full of seeds this year as well, when do you plan on collecting those mikawa seeds? Fall?

 

[jmw_bonsai]

I’ve got a Mikawa Yatsubusa that is full of seeds this year as well, when do you plan on collecting those mikawa seeds? Fall?

Yes, fall. For your location late sept, oct, nov

 

[Cadillactaste]

Not quite certain what a Volunteer Maple is...this is one many have seen. Once a landscape tree. (Husband's favorite in the yard.) Arctic winter out of no where hit and a tree with many years in the ground suffered significant die back. No branches on the lower trunk. But was budding less than a foot from the ground showing it wasn't fully dead.) Planted as a slant to allow to weep down over the side easier.
Moved into the shade with heat advisories today.
Weeping Ryusen Maple was definitely not planned...but it's fun...and fall colors a dream.

 

[just.wing.it]

Volunteer Maple

Just a seedling that pops up in another tree's pot or in the yard or garden...as far as I know haha!

 

[Cadillactaste]

Just a seedling that pops up in another tree's pot or in the yard or garden...as far as I know haha!

Yeah...none of those. Lol thought you meant an unplanned tree.

 

[cbroad]

Just a seedling that pops up in another tree's pot or in the yard or garden

I didn't count all of the red maple seedlings that seem to be in every single pot of mine...

 

[cbroad]

I keep telling myself I'm going to do something with all of the rubrum seedlings but haven't yet, just like I was going to do a forest planting with these sweetgum volunteers that are now over 6 feet tall...

 

[cbroad]

@just.wing.it
And since you're working on a tulip poplar, here's a volunteer I let grow, pulled back the vinca and saw some pretty cool natural movement!