Jcmmaple
Chumono
Wow thanks, yeah there are a lot of maples in the neighborhood.
I collect seedlings any time during active growing collecting as much root as possible and bare root. Haven't lost any seedlings from collection yet. Got enough sweet gum seedlings now to work on a forest.Thanks, I was wandering if I should take enough soil or not. I didn’t want to completely bare root though, hopefully they will say yes they are an older couple so I don’t see why they want them. So when you say best time to collect is June, you mean like this kind of collecting. I thought it was a bad time to collect after bud break, I mean there are some hornbeam I want at my friends house but I thought I had to wait early spring next year?
Anything that is "open pollinated" is going to be a mixed lot, just like your own human children. Most will look like Mom (the pod parent), except when Mom is a cultivar, which will have seedlings like the type, in this case Acer shirasawanum. That said, there will be some children who are better endowed than the lot. I have had the foresight to have no fewer than 11 Japanese Maples in my yard including a Golden Full Moon, Autumn Full Moon, and the species. I am gifted this year, ~first time ever~ with a full-tilt boogie crop as pictured. Ta Daaaaa...Has anyone grown seeds from a Golden Full Moon?
I know it won’t be same as parent; but, just wanted to see the results and variation... since it isn’t a palmatum, might be different??
Could u try for a pic of the parent tree?So I went to the house that I saw had three seedling growing in the bushes and turns out they were pretty cool and said take all you can find. Well on my way to knock on the door I estimated 10, I was so excited. When I went to get wife and help me dig them, well we collected 56. So meeting new neighbors and getting free maples, that’s a win win in my book. View attachment 247974