One seedling is only a couple of inches high, Never came out leaving a 1/2 inch high single stem which is green but does not do anything for month after month. In these 'slow' cases, the brown seed case came up in the air and seemed to trap the two starter leaves and the starter leaves Three have not got beyond the 1/2 inch high single stem. They are definitely metasequoia glyptostroboides, and not weeds !. The seedlings have continued to grow, generally well. There were many seeds put into each square hole approx 1.25 inches side.Ģ4th July 2011: These were the seedlings as of April 2011. It is interesting how all six seedlings appear to have come from seeds that were at the side of the soil, Leaves above do look like the real leaves on the tree. If they are real Metasequoia then the germination rate is very low, like 0.05%. Based on the previous experience above I am uncertain - they may be Some I put in tissue paper and put them in a teacup withīoiling water for a minute to simulate a forest fire.Īpril 28th 2011: The untreated seeds may have started to germinate. Anyway I sowed the seeds in several trays. Then shook them up and tipped out the cones leaving the seeds at theīottom. I collected the cones up making about half a bucketfull. We had lots of really cold frosts so the seeds got some This winter our tree produced hundreds of cones and they stayed up the tree till February. None of the Metasequoia seeds had germinated at all !ġ5th July. Big disappointment - when they reached about 2 inches high I realised they were just weeds. The warm, suddenly about 25 shoots appeared. Then the weather warmed up and it got quite hot in the conservatory with the sun shining in. They were buried in sand/peat about 5mmĭeep. After taking them out I put then across the top of a small seed tray for two weeks. I then put them in the fridge for one day and then in theįreezer for 2 weeks. I mixed the seeds with a little sand and added water so they got well soaked for 24 hours. The seeds are brown about 0.5mm, each at the centre of a thin brown disk about 3mm diameter. In May, I stared pulling the cones to bits and extracted all the seeds I couldįind. These fellĭown and I put them in a cardboard box and rattled them from time to time. In the winter of 1005/2005 we noticed for the first time that there were a hundred or so small spherical cones with a spiral construction. This is good as it brightens up the garden in winter and also reduces the chances of it being In the autumn is turn aīeautiful brown before all the leaves fall. The foliage is lovely, coming out fresh each spring in bright green and fluttering in the wind. The metasequoia glyptostroboides tree has a reddish coloured tapering conical trunk and delicate branches which spiral, slightly - very In 1978, which is the one in the two large images down below, as seen Feb and It's a tree ! We grew our first one in 1975 and then another one
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