catscratch
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Lots of different stuff on the internet. Anyone have a proven and effective method to prep eastern red cedar seed?
I have wondered about this myself? Maybe its a another good classroom experiment for you this winter?!
I have wanted to just take a 5 gallon bucket of seed and toss it over an area and see what the success rate is. Seed is easy enough to collect and even if you only had 10% germination you would be set. Part of me thinks that it is crazy to think every red cedar is the result of some critter eating it and then taking a poop. I bet if a guy called their state nursery they would tell you their process.
Didn't you buy a bunch of sandplum seed last yr? Was that from Sheffields?sheffields has all kinds of seeds and they may give you some advice
Thanks for the info. Sometimes it's just as good to know what doesn't work as to what does.A lb of cedar seeds is a lot of seed!
I collected a ziplock full a couple years ago. Planted into a prepped garden bed, and ive not seen that first cedar germinate from the effort.
I took a handful of those seeds and put in the fridge over winter. I had something like 4 germinate. Which was about 2%.
Somewhere i read to soak the seed in hot water, then plant. I just decided buying seedlings and digging volunteers was easier. But, id certainly follow your progress with it.
Wish they hadn't deleted everything!There was a guy on the old site that had a process where he used a blender and had a high germination rate
I could be wrong but I think there are male and female cedar trees.Ive noticed very few cedars actually have seed in a given year. Anyone else noted that?
I could be wrong but I think there are male and female cedar trees.
Ha. Ive thought that same thing. I guess birds are good at finding them and they will germinate and grow on a rock.They are male/female. From reading I think it takes about 10yrs before they produce seed. The male trees get cones (I think they look like berries) that are reddish colored. These are only for pollen. I've probably mistaken them for seed, would hate to spend a lot of time processing and planting pollenThe blue one's are the female seed.
For as invasive as these things are in places it sure seems like a specific and difficult process to get them to germinate.