How to stratify/grow pine trees from seeds

hey guys welcome to today's video on how to stratify pine seeds if you don't know stratification is it is the process of taking tree seeds and putting them through a cold period in order for them to properly germinate and grow - tree seedlings now stratification is a natural process that occurs regularly in the environment you know a large variety of tree species have to go through this process in order to reproduce and have seedlings of following year such as you know Oaks bowl Cypress even some Redwood species so what stratification really is is you'll see trees shedding their either their acorns or seed clumps or whatever it is and they'll be shedding him right in the fall time and what's gonna happen is those seeds they drop are gonna go through a cold period which is the winter time and they're gonna bloom into seedlings and you know the following spring now what we're gonna be doing is simulating that but doing it at home and it's a lot easier to do it at home and you have a lot more control over a lot of you know a variety of factors and it's easier to monitor and have a good success rate with your seedling so now for the new guys let's get into the video okay guys I start our video what you're gonna need first is gonna be your tree seeds and what I have here is the pine seeds of the species I want to use I don't know the exact name offhand but here's a comparison between a lollipop pine seed right here and the species that I'm gonna be using species I'm gonna be using is a lot more slim and I have loved the way the trunks look and yeah overall I think it's a lot more beautiful than your standard pine so to begin our video what we're gonna do is you need a plastic bag and I've seen people use containers as well you don't have to use a plastic bag I just prefer it I think it's simpler it saves on space and what you're gonna do is get some moist dirt I've seen people also use peat moss and saying it really does not matter that much what you're gonna be using what matters is that it's moist and really it's gonna be kept cold so what I do is I just take a little bit not a lot especially since these tree seedlings are so small so now that we have our bag full of moister guys what we're gonna do is now sprinkle in our seeds and now I'm gonna be putting all of these in here I mean there is no real set rules or whatnot in which how many need to be putting in your bag and the consistency what I just do is I put in a little bit then I add some more dirt and I actually just sprinkle in a couple more because these seedlings are very small and you know it takes a long time so I want to have a high success rate so as many as possible alright so now that I have my seeds in my bag you can see my fingers as well and now what I'm actually gonna end with is adding a little more water because this soil is not that moist you want to get too much it's not going to be evaporating at home but you know just enough to make the soil nice and moist so now after I've done that I'm gonna take it make sure I sealed my bag table I should come over here grab a marker and I'm gonna date it so I know when I need to pull out the seeds this day is September 2nd and these are pine alright guys other than that what you want to do is pop this in the refrigerator and you know depending on the species of tree you can either be a couple weeks maybe a couple months I mean there's some tree species that even take a couple years but most most the time it's not gonna take a couple years that's very rare but what you want to do is just check on it regularly you know every couple of weeks and if you see any of the seeds start to root into the dirt then you know it's time to pull them out you can start to sow them and start growing them okay guys that's gonna be today's video I know it's a short one but there's really not too much to this one main things you want to remember is make sure you have the right seed and you know you don't wanna have the wrong species and think you have the right seed a good way to check this is you know we're looking at the tree's leaves and looking at the bark and all that good stuff and making sure you really have the right one and look up online you know what the seed looks like you know specifically what Oaks there's quite a variety of you know white oaks red oaks and red oaks or the species that need to go through stratification whereas white oak stone and they both drop the red corns during the fall time so I can be really confusing and kind of trying to identify everything so you know make sure you just know and have a good little maybe a picture or an image of the seed or the acorn and just you know so you know what it is and you can efficiently pick it out and just plant it properly without any mistakes and a girl in the wrong point they'll be really horrible but guys here is actually the actual pine tree seedlings I just put in for stratification these are the same thing I did and it was around a year ago and this is what they're looking like now so you know they're real small real tiny and only got three going right here I mean I did take it pretty serious in the beginning but towards the end I just kind of fell away from it so I haven't monitored them as much as I should have and you know probably giving them proper conditions and all that good stuff but yeah guys this is the results you're gonna be seeing after you know around a year or so right here and that's just some young little client seedlings anyways guys I hope you enjoyed the video and hope to catch you in another one you know I have any questions comments concerns you know leave them in the comments below guys and I really appreciate it

Channel: Green Thinking

Views: 81,909

Rating: 4.7010818 out of 5

Keywords: trees, pine, seeds

Id: 8PEXxWoOFuQ

Length: 4min 56sec (296 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 25 2018