I Found a Couple of Chinese Elm Seeds

[AZbonsai]

Ok...probably couple hundred thousand! That time of year in AZ for the school courtyard elms to start dropping seeds and leaves.



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Proven to germinate!

 

[M. Frary]

You do know they dont need cold stratification?
Like red maple you can take the seed from the tree and plant and it will grow. Very fast if allowed to stretch it's legs.
They're awesome trees.

 

[AZbonsai]

Can not say I did know that. I do know they grow like crazy. Our courtyard will be full of seedlings come spring. I have a few spare pots I keep under the trees filled with soil and there will be 3 or 4 small trees ready to be transplanted come spring. Forests could be made with a bit of effort to be sure.

 

[Tieball]

Cool. With all the seeds you have, I’d plant a bunch of them, lots and lots of seeds, in a good sized flat. Let them grow and weed them out for a massive forest. Letting nature help your tree selection process along the way. Let the strong trees fight for dominance. Probably ending up with a forest of 57+ trees or more. Roots all nicely together in a flatter planting. Would be a fun project over time seeing as how you have plenty excess seeds a a good growing environment.

 

[AZbonsai]

First sift on the Chinese elm seeds/leaves.
A little over 4 inches deep. The pile is about 16 inches across.

Works like a charm. Just the right size on the largest gradient.

About half way through!

 

[AZbonsai]

Well I ended up with just a bit more than 5 gallons of elm seeds. Enough for Christmas gifts for the bonsai club...going to send some @milehigh_7 for his new online prebonsai site TreeOfLifeBonsai.com and to @Ryan H who wants to plant some to sell on ebay. I guess I will keep a handful myself.

 

[Ryan H]

Wow man that’s awesome!! With all those I will need a bigger space haha much appreciated

 

[milehigh_7]

A little care package arrived today from @AZbonsai! Sheffield's tells me that there are 105,581 seeds in a pound of Chinese Elm seeds. This comes out roughly to 6599 per oz.

Using my handy shipping scale I figured out that the paper bag weighs .4 ozs and Mr. @AZbonsai sent me 4.2 - 0.4 for a total of 3.8oz of seed that's around 25076 elm seeds. Yea, that should keep me busy! LOL! Thanks!

The best part is the ornament his daughter made! Totally made my day. I needed the pickup. You know, I'm not real big on the whole Christmas Spirit crap but this really made me feel good. I needed it today to be sure. What a nice thing to have done.

 

[sorce]

The best part is the ornament his daughter made

@AZbonsai thats darling!

Tell your daughter we are impressed!

Sorce

 

[AZbonsai]

Hey have to keep my only online plant supplier happy! Glad it lifted your spirits @milehigh_7 and yes that should keep you busy for awhile.

@source thanks for your kind words and I will pass them on to my daughter. She made $62 profit selling her ornaments at our club meeting. Grateful to them as well. Daughter glad to have some spending money to buy family and friends Christmas gifts.