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With one growing cycle complete it is time to wrap up (literally) the season dressing the trees into their "winter clothes" and start a new cycle of seeding.
The landscape of the park looks very different now.
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| Nursery with foam cones over one year old sequoias and other smaller seedlings. November 2016 |
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| Winterization wider view. November 2016 |
Meanwhile, back in the warmth of the home the new cycle of germination has begun.
I still have a lot of the Doug Fir cones from the trip in 2015 to Olympic National Park where I collected them at the Matt Albright center in Sequim, WA. I was unable to extract the seeds from the cones, so I just broke the cones to be smaller pieces and placed them into the containers with coffee paper filters. For all germinations I now use chlorotholanil instead of water.
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| Attempt and germinating Doug Fir from Washington state visit. Seeds from 2015. November 2016. |
Another batch of Norway Spruce was also started. It is unclear why I had such a low survivability of these seeds last year.
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| A new batch of Norway spruce started. November 2016 |
And finally, a couple hundred new Giant sequoia seeds started germination in two containers. One is from my order in 2013 and the other from earlier this year.
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| Giant sequoia seeds from 2013 and 2016 were put for germination. November 2016 |
So basically you covered them completley, no light gets through those?
ReplyDeleteThe ones under the foam cones, correct. The one with burlap had some light from the top. The ones under cones survived much better. Pictures coming in soon in a new post.
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