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Cannot germinate Royal Empress tree
On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:27:19 -0000, Charlie Pridham wrote:
On 23/01/2017 22:28, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:08:25 -0000, Charlie Pridham wrote: On 23/01/2017 18:26, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: I bought a pack of 100 Royal Empress seeds on Ebay, and not one will germinate. Am I doing something wrong? I sprinkled the seeds on some fresh compost in some pots, and kept them warm (20C) and in lots of light (some on a windowledge and some under a growlamp). Absolutely nothing happened. Duff seeds or difficult plant? I did think it odd the seeds should go on top of the soil, but that's what it says online. I've always put seeds a cm under the soil (tried that too and that failed aswell). I often grow these from seed, it is quite correct that they need to be literally sprinkled on the top of the compost with no covering and I never use heat but let nature take its course, normally sowing 1st Feb, seeds needs to be fresh, when I have tried to use the previous seasons seed I got nothing. They take a few years to start flowering 5-7 in our case, try and put the tree where there will be a dark back drop, we didn't and ours flowers well but against the blue sky and we can only see the flowers properly from a bedroom window Where would you recommend I start them in Scotland? Current outdoor temperature is 0-10C. I thought indoors would be nicer for them to get going. You say the previous season's seed doesn't work, so perhaps the ones I bought from Ebay were expired? I wish I could just buy a sapling from somewhere, but I can only find one company that sells them, at £50 each!!! We sell small ones for £8 but of course the carriage pushes that up! :~) Seed is normally ripe in October. Not sure what sort of temps they will go down to, be worth checking before parting with any money Can I not buy a seed which will work at this time of year then? How much would you charge for postage? A small one is fine, I just want it to have germinated as I seem to fail at that! -- In 1839, the imperial Chinese commissioner Lin Zexu wrote a letter to Queen Victoria warning that, unless the British stopped supplying opium to China, he would cut off rhubarb supplies to Britain, killing everyone through mass constipation. |
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