Deshojo Seeds
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Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Cultivars are not propagated by seed. If someone claims to have this, they do not.
Kullas
Shohin
Would be the best way. When you get seeds you don't know what kind of maple pollinated it so you don't know for sure what cultivar it is or a cross between the 2.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
I would say it is the oly way. Seed by definition are not the same as the parent plant. You need cutting-propagated plants to get a deshojo
Kizerk
Yamadori
Japanese maples as a species do not grow true to seed. So any named cultivars need to either be cutting grown (not often done because of their generally week roots) or grafted.
Anyone who claims to have seeds of a named cultivar is lying and scamming those who do not know better.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
Well.. Japanese maple as a species grow true to seed.
It is the named cultivars that cannot be re-grown from seed (In fact, for any other species it is doubtfull the cultival remains the cultivar when propagated from seed).
Kizerk
Yamadori
@leatherback you are too right I did generalize maybe a bit too much.
It's normally easier to say that they don't grow true to seed at all because a large majority of Japanese maples at least in the US are some verity of cultivar.
It's normally easier to say that they don't grow true to seed at all because a large majority of Japanese maples at least in the US are some verity of cultivar.
Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
You have to buy a clone... There are three ways to find a clone:
(1) Graft
(2) Cutting
(3) Air-layer
Anything else will not be genetically identical to the source material.
