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| Hey everyone! I just purchased a couple of weeping cherry tree seeds and wanted to know how i could go about planting them. I have absolutely NO experience with gardening but I would like to be able to grow weeping cherry trees. I would greatly appreciate any feedback! |
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| Weeping cherry - Prunus subhirtella pendula Most of the weeping cherry you see in landscapes are not seed grown, but grafted plants grown on other rootstock. If you want to try, the seed requires 2 - 3 months cold stratification (moist chill at approx 40F) To provide that, you can sow about 1/4" - 1/2" deep in pots now and place outdoors, or use your refrigerator. The seed can be slow, sometimes taking 18 months to germinate....you've picked a project that requires some patience for your first seed growing attempt :) |
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| Thank you so much for your kind response! I intentionally wanted to start from seed, hoping that years from now I could recollect memories of when I first started to plant the tree. Do you have any recommendations on what kind of fertilizers I could use (or if miracle grow potting soil is ok to begin with), how often i should water initially, and how big of pot I should use to plant the seed? I'm not even sure where I would like to plant it but for now I'm concerned with just getting the plant to start growing. Thanks again! :-) |
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| A weeping cherry grown at ground level has very little weeping room and as was mentioned, needs height to weep. If you intend to keep this in a container permanently you could raise the container to get the height. Al |
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- Posted by amartin244 (My Page) on Fri, May 28, 10 at 22:15
| I was fortunate to find a weeping cherry seedling growing from in the crotch of it's parents branches. I now have it growing on the edge of a land terrace to assist with the weeping room. It survived the winter! I transplanted it in the fall, so didn't realize that the supposedly sunny spot is now shaded. Now that it's getting second year leaves and what looks like side branches, what's next? It's parents are growing in a park and I've seen them in bloom. They're beatuiful and old! |
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