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Harvest birch seed when ripe and then plant outdoors in fall. The cold winter temperatures will ensure stratification for spring germination. If you save seed and decide to plant in the spring, you need to plant your seeds in a small container and moisten the soil mix. Then place in a plastic bag and put in your refrigerator for one to three months. Then either plant outdoors or in containers for later transplanting. Sometimes, seeds will begin sprouting in the refrigerator.
* * * * Terry
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What exactly do I do in the fall? Plant the seeds in a pot and leave them outside for the winter?
quote:Originally posted by obywan59: Harvest birch seed when ripe and then plant outdoors in fall. The cold winter temperatures will ensure stratification for spring germination. If you save seed and decide to plant in the spring, you need to plant your seeds in a small container and moisten the soil mix. Then place in a plastic bag and put in your refrigerator for one to three months. Then either plant outdoors or in containers for later transplanting. Sometimes, seeds will begin sprouting in the refrigerator.
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I would suggest germinating and starting the seeds inside. Green houses often germinate their seeds on either a damp soil bed or just a damp bloater cloth, though a paper towel will work. If the substrate is keep moist at all times with the seed set on top you will be able to tell how many seeds will germinate. Plant in just a small pot a watch it grow, try about 20 seeds for each tree you want to grow. The trees used at reforestation tree plants are usually greenhoused for two years then planted in the spring
* * * * Shani May the wind always be at your back and your keel in the water Plants: 1248 | From: Brampton, ON, Canada | Registered: Jun 2004
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Here is a little info on harvesting birch seed. I also looked in one of my books on plant propagation and learned that stratification (cold treatment) is not necessary if germination takes place in light.
* * * * Terry
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