Look - Five New Baby Giants!!!

[TNTreeHugger]

Five of my Giant Sequoiadendron seeds have sprouted!!! (I think I planted ten)
So excited!!

I bought the seeds on ebay and followed directions exactly:
Soaked them in water for 24 hours
Put them in with moistened pearlite in a ziploc baggie in the fridg for four weeks
Set them in potting soil, mixed with some of the pearlite, in the trays and put the tray inside a larger baggie in front of a window.
Voila!!
About seven day, and they are up!

Wondering... how long should I leave them in the tray before transplanting?
What size container should I transplant them to?
When would it be safe to transplant into the ground?

 

[TNTreeHugger]

#6 has popped up since I posted this!

 

[Heffalump]

What are their names?

 

[TNTreeHugger]

What are their names?

Why, how nice of you to notice and comment on my new babies!
I haven't named them yet - waiting to see if they survive.

I did find their next new home while shopping in town today...

 

[Dave Hadden]

Worst looking pot plants ever!!!








Take care.

 

[anlrolfe]

Got a big greenhouse?

 

[TNTreeHugger]

You guys are making fun of my little sprouts!? :****you:
At least you looked.

 

[Jason Douglas]

Your little sprouts are lovely.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Your little sprouts are lovely.

Thank you.
There are seven now.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Seven was a piece of grass and six expired so I'm down to five now... but they are all doing well and are putting out their second set of leaves!
I may be simpleminded, but I'm pretty excited about starting from seed something that could live a couple hundred years or more... especially something as special as a giant sequoia.

 

[LegDeLimber]

A brief google search comes up with this result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum
Is that the species you have?

Whatever you do, please don't plant it anywhere near a property line!!
Seems to always lead to a neighbor cutting roots and limbs, eventually.
I think we've seen a few threads here, covering the battles over that.

Heck. You might even try to be a bit psychic(?) and predict how your land might be divided after you're no longer around.
In my neighborhood, I've seen a nice row of 65~80 year old Oaks, that were set back nicely, only to get torn out for a couple of houses to built.
That's the one of sadder things about how this area is "gentrifying" now.
There was an old (healthy & nicely balanced) 4' diameter tree,
that was where the owls always came to,
cut down because someone didn't like to see the leaves on their grass.
I offered to come over with my blower (once a week) and help.
But they wanted the leaves up daily and that just wasn't in my physical abilities anymore.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

A brief google search comes up with this result.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum
Is that the species you have?

Whatever you do, please don't plant it anywhere near a property line!!
Seems to always lead to a neighbor cutting roots and limbs, eventually.
I think we've seen a few threads here, covering the battles over that.

Heck. You might even try to be a bit psychic(?) and predict how your land might be divided after you're no longer around.
In my neighborhood, I've seen a nice row of 65~80 year old Oaks, that were set back nicely, only to get torn out for a couple of houses to built.
That's the one of sadder things about how this area is "gentrifying" now.
There was an old (healthy & nicely balanced) 4' diameter tree,
that was where the owls always came to,
cut down because someone didn't like to see the leaves on their grass.
I offered to come over with my blower (once a week) and help.
But they wanted the leaves up daily and that just wasn't in my physical abilities anymore.

People can be real assholes.

Yes, that's what my trees are.
I don't live in a subdivision and have one neighbor near my property line... and the waterline runs between us, so I won't be planting on that side of the property.
I do, always, look into the future whenever I plant something in my yard, seeing in my minds eye what it will look like fifty, or a hundred years from now.
However, beyond that, I have no control over the future and most especially after I'm dead and gone.
If the next property owner after me wants to cut these down, so be it.
I just might come back and haunt them though.

I know I am limited to how many I can plant on my 2.5 acres.
I might secretly plant them elsewhere.

 

[stihl sawing]

Pretty cool, hopefully they survive. Maybe in a few centuries when they reach for the stars some of your descendants will be in awe of their size and beauty. the original ones had a beginning at one period in time.

 

[KenJax Tree]

Pretty cool, hopefully they survive. Maybe in a few centuries when they reach for the stars some of your descendants will be in awe of their size and beauty. the original ones had a beginning at one period in time.

Didn't you plant the very first one?

HBD SS

 

[ropensaddle]

People can be real assholes.

Yes, that's what my trees are.
I don't live in a subdivision and have one neighbor near my property line... and the waterline runs between us, so I won't be planting on that side of the property.
I do, always, look into the future whenever I plant something in my yard, seeing in my minds eye what it will look like fifty, or a hundred years from now.
However, beyond that, I have no control over the future and most especially after I'm dead and gone.
If the next property owner after me wants to cut these down, so be it.
I just might come back and haunt them though.

I know I am limited to how many I can plant on my 2.5 acres.
I might secretly plant them elsewhere.

I once secretly planted a species in the courthouse planters still haunts them today

 

[67L36Driver]

Granddaughter's Arbor Day tree from last year.
Red oak.

Was doing very well until the kid I hired got too close and it sucked under his mower.

That was three weeks ago.

Now look!

Twerp is coming up from the stub.[emoji106]

 

[TNTreeHugger]

Granddaughter's Arbor Day tree from last year.
Red oak.

Was doing very well until the kid I hired got too close and it sucked under his mower.

That was three weeks ago.

Now look!

Twerp is coming up from the stub.[emoji106]

Nice!!
Are you going to let it clump, or make a single leader out of it?

I like to cut back the volunteer maples that come up in my yard, I prefer the clumps.

 

[67L36Driver]

Nice!!
Are you going to let it clump, or make a single leader out of it?

I like to cut back the volunteer maples that come up in my yard, I prefer the clumps.
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I like trees that grow UP! Like the three pin oaks I'll trim off the lower branches until I can't reach them with my HT75.

 

[grizz55chev]

You guys are making fun of my little sprouts!? :****you:
At least you looked.

You have a potty mouth, lol.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

You have a potty mouth, lol.

Yes, I do, but I didn't actually spell that one out - I used the cute little emoticon and it was censored.