How to Grow Trees from Seeds
Three easy steps to plant trees from seeds, includes tips, plus great deals on trees and tree seeds and watch our featured video.
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Planting trees from seeds is both interesting and rewarding. Before you decide to plant your seeds you need to choose a suitable location away from sewer, water, and power lines. You need to prepare the soil if you are starting them in the ground or before you transplant them into the ground. Choose your seeds carefully then put them in water to see if they float. Seeds that float will not usually produce a tree. There are several methods to start a tree from seeds but you should do a little research before you get started. Scroll down to see three easy steps to plant trees from seeds.
Three Basic Steps to Grow Trees from Seeds
Raising trees and shrubs from seeds by Peter Gosling has many detailed pictures, descriptions, and helpful tips for growing various types of trees from seeds and presents three basic steps you need to do to grow trees from seeds.
The three main steps or stages in sowing seeds and raising seedlings are:
1. Take pre-treated, non-dormant (occasionally ‘chitted’ or sprouted) seeds and undertake one of the following:
• Sow onto or into any moisture-retaining medium of loose particles such as peat, peat alternative, sand, soil, moss, perlite, vermiculite (or any desired mix of these) contained in a plant pot. Gently firm the surface. Cover with a layer of light colored grit no deeper than plant pot. Gently firm the surface. Cover with a layer of light coloured grit no deeper than 2-3 mm.
• Broadcast sow onto suitably cultivated soil. Gently firm into the surface. Cover with a layerof light colored grit no deeper than 2–3 mm; or
• Sow in drills prepared to a depth of no more than three times the diameter of the seed.Back fill the drill.
2. Provide a suitable environment for germination either naturally (outdoors) or artificially (e.g.on a shaded window ledge, in a cold–frame, glass house or poly-tunnel). Water, ventilate and shade as necessary.
3. Transplant seedlings to a wider spacing when necessary. This will result in sturdy young plants.
"There is a phenomenon known as dormancy. There are many definitions of dormancy,but for anyone interested in raising trees from seed all you really need to know is that the seeds of some species have an absolute requirement to be ‘pretreated’ before they will germinate at
all; and the seeds of other species are merely reluctant to germinate until they have been pre-treated."
Reference: Retrieved on 12/01/2014 from Gosling, Peter.Raising trees and shrubs from seeds. Forestry.gov. http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/fcpg018.pdf/$FILE/fcpg018.pdfScroll down to see our featured video.
The three main steps or stages in sowing seeds and raising seedlings are:
1. Take pre-treated, non-dormant (occasionally ‘chitted’ or sprouted) seeds and undertake one of the following:
• Sow onto or into any moisture-retaining medium of loose particles such as peat, peat alternative, sand, soil, moss, perlite, vermiculite (or any desired mix of these) contained in a plant pot. Gently firm the surface. Cover with a layer of light colored grit no deeper than plant pot. Gently firm the surface. Cover with a layer of light coloured grit no deeper than 2-3 mm.
• Broadcast sow onto suitably cultivated soil. Gently firm into the surface. Cover with a layerof light colored grit no deeper than 2–3 mm; or
• Sow in drills prepared to a depth of no more than three times the diameter of the seed.Back fill the drill.
2. Provide a suitable environment for germination either naturally (outdoors) or artificially (e.g.on a shaded window ledge, in a cold–frame, glass house or poly-tunnel). Water, ventilate and shade as necessary.
3. Transplant seedlings to a wider spacing when necessary. This will result in sturdy young plants.
"There is a phenomenon known as dormancy. There are many definitions of dormancy,but for anyone interested in raising trees from seed all you really need to know is that the seeds of some species have an absolute requirement to be ‘pretreated’ before they will germinate at
all; and the seeds of other species are merely reluctant to germinate until they have been pre-treated."
Reference: Retrieved on 12/01/2014 from Gosling, Peter.Raising trees and shrubs from seeds. Forestry.gov. http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/fcpg018.pdf/$FILE/fcpg018.pdfScroll down to see our featured video.
Today's Verse
But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Matthew 13:23
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