evanjt's Six Year Japanese Black Pine Contest Thread

[evanjt]

I just order my seeds and will be posting my progress to this thread. Let's get it. See you in six years.

 

[evanjt]

I bought 1000 seeds from http://www.rarexoticseeds.com/en/pi...s-thunbergiana-japanese-black-pine-seeds.html

500 seeds for $6.80. But I needed the minimum $15 purchase, so I bought 1000 JBP seeds and 100 Chinese Juniper just to experiment.

 

[Bonsai Nut]

Rock on!

Put your location in your user profile, just so we can give you good horticultural advice!

 

[evanjt]

My seeds arrived Friday, January 19, and I started soaking them that night
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[evanjt]

Today, I decided to try plant some right away with no stratification and test to see results.

I also put the rest in the fridge, where I will plant some at 1 month and another group at 2 months of stratification after.

After that, I will plant some at half a year and then a whole year, just for fun.

 

[dirk hoorelbeke]

Do you plan to leave them in the fridge after soaking for a year? They will sprout faster.

 

[evanjt]

Yea just for fun because I order quite a lot so I will be planting them at a rate that my current living space permits

 

[evanjt]

I planted some of the seeds on 1/21/18 after 24 hours of soaking just for fun and 1 already popped out!!!

 

[evanjt]

2 weeks later and I have a little over thirty seedlings. Some threw off their seed casing and some are still just breaking the soil of the surface.

 

[evanjt]

I repotted these seedlings earlier in late February.

I also made some seedling cuttings, but I decided to directly plant them in some colanders, both plastic and stainless steel, just to experiment.

I will continue to document their progress, so let's so how this goes.

 

[evanjt]

I haven’t been able to post a lot on here, but about a month ago, I repotted some of my JBP contest seedlings. As you can see, the size and growth has varied between each seedling. The ones shown below is some of the biggest and figures below also show the different kind of pots I used.



Also here are some of JRP seedlings I started a little bit before those JBP seedlings:

 

[evanjt]

Updates ... haha sorry

 

[evanjt]

Some were also planted in the ground.

 

[evanjt]

Here's an update to my Japanese Red Pines too.

 

[evanjt]

Sorry for the late update but here is a picture of one tree from 2022.

 

[evanjt]

Here are two more from this year.

 

[Clicio]

Here are two more from this year.

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It looks very nice and healthy, congrats!

 

[evanjt]

Repotting in preparation for the end of the contest.

 

[Fonz]

Nice tree, but I thought we weren't allowed to post pics of the trees anymore until the end of the contest...

 

[evanjt]

Oh sorry I didn't know. Thanks for letting me know.