I find that covering the seed with a thin layer of vermiculite can give greater numbers of seedlings than covering with sand or compost. If you are using the second option, cover the seeds with a fine layer of sieved compost or vermiculite. You can choose to germinate the seeds in the bag and then transplant them into compost or you can plant them onto compost and wait for seedlings to appear. After 2 weeks, the seeds should be ready to sow and will need to be placed at around room temperature (21 C/70 F for germination. Place the bag of seeds into the fridge and check them regularly to make sure the substrate remains damp but not saturated. I find that vermiculite works well.Īfter placing your seeds in/on the moist substrate that you have chosen to use, you need to put them into a re-sealable plastic bag. The soaked seeds need to be put in or on some type of non-soil growing medium such as a damp paper towel, rockwool or sterile sand or vermiculite. Once the water has been drained off you need to cold stratify your seeds in the fridge for around 2 weeks at around 4 Celsius. The seeds should first be soaked for 24 hours in clean water. It is these difficulties that make them especially rewarding for those who succeed in getting them to grow. Even after the seeds do germinate, they require a skill to get them beyond the seedling stage. Germination, Sowing and After Care Information forĭawn Redwood (metasequoia glyptostroboides)ĭawn Redwood are difficult to germinate as they are very particular about the conditions they need for germination. Please note that metasequoia seed always has a relatively low percentage of viable seeds, typically only 15-20% and I will include germination and after care information with every order. The seed that I am offering was collected from sustainable populations in China. In drier regions it must be grown adjacent to a body of water such as a pond or stream. It is tolerant of air pollution and very hardy, down to lows of -25☏ (-32☌) and is very tolerant of soggy, water-logged soils as in the wild it is adapted to growing in flood plains. Only one natural forest containing around 5400 trees is known to exist.ĭawn redwood has proved an easy, fast growing tree in temperate regions, and is now widely planted as an ornamental tree. Planted specimens have already reached 25–40m (82–130 ft) in height and 1–1.3m (3.3–4.3 ft) in diameter, despite being in cultivation for less than sixty years. It was only discovered in 1943 and due to World War 2 was not studied further until 1946 and only finally described as a new living species, metasequoia glyptostroboides, in 1948. Although it is the shortest of the redwood family, it grows to at least 200 ft (61m) in height. It is native to the Sichuan-Hubei region of central southern China. The Dawn Redwood, is a fast-growing, critically endangered deciduous conifer and is the sole living species of the genus Metasequoia and one of three redwood species.
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