Francky Vee
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Hi there,
So I've just ordered seeds for a few coniferous bonsai I intend to start from seeds (Douglas Fir, Mountain Hemlock, Lawsons Cypress). My plan is just to stratify a few seeds of each, get them to germinate & try them on. In the meantime, I do intent on buying a grown plan (maybe something easy like Junipers) just to get some practice for the later stages, so I don't mess it up too much with those trees from seeds once they grow up.
So I live in the northern hemisphere, so late fall/early winter is coming here. I intent to grow these indoors only, because I don't have much options for outdoors growing (apartment building).
For those species, the stratification takes 4-6 weeks. It's indoors, so I guess I have some leeway for temperature, however the days are going to be fairly short. It's going to be ~9 hours of sunlight/day for the next number of weeks. I have great sunlight in my appartement, so I can make the most of it. I'm pretty eager to get started, so my inclination would be to start those right away.
That does mean they would sprout with relatively short days (e.g. in the 9-10 hours of sunlight per day). Does it matter all that much? Can I still successfully grow them? Or should I really wait to stratify them so that they are ready to plant in the spring, when days are longer?
So I've just ordered seeds for a few coniferous bonsai I intend to start from seeds (Douglas Fir, Mountain Hemlock, Lawsons Cypress). My plan is just to stratify a few seeds of each, get them to germinate & try them on. In the meantime, I do intent on buying a grown plan (maybe something easy like Junipers) just to get some practice for the later stages, so I don't mess it up too much with those trees from seeds once they grow up.
So I live in the northern hemisphere, so late fall/early winter is coming here. I intent to grow these indoors only, because I don't have much options for outdoors growing (apartment building).
For those species, the stratification takes 4-6 weeks. It's indoors, so I guess I have some leeway for temperature, however the days are going to be fairly short. It's going to be ~9 hours of sunlight/day for the next number of weeks. I have great sunlight in my appartement, so I can make the most of it. I'm pretty eager to get started, so my inclination would be to start those right away.
That does mean they would sprout with relatively short days (e.g. in the 9-10 hours of sunlight per day). Does it matter all that much? Can I still successfully grow them? Or should I really wait to stratify them so that they are ready to plant in the spring, when days are longer?
