I collected some cones off of a bald cypress tree today and they fell apart in my hands once I pulled em off. Basically I’m trying to figure out what the actual seed is here, are these all seeds? I removed the pieces of outer shell and I’m left with these. They’re all different shapes and sizes.
Bald cypress was one of the first trees I've ever grown from seed over 10 years ago. I've been growing them nearly every year since. I still to this day have not figured out what the actual seed is. I just put all of it in the soil and let nature sort it out.
😂 it is quite hard to tell isn’t it. Being that you have so much experience growing them you’d be a good person for me to ask this question. How do you go about stratifying these seeds? My plan was to place them in a Tupperware with damp potting soil in the fridge for a few months.
Don’t have to stratify them, just keep till spring, then put some seedling mix in plastic container with a clear lid, make the soil super wet, put the seeds in, put the lid on, put outside
Something like one of those black Chinese takeout containers with the clear lid.
That’s so strange, I heard from so many sources that they need to be cold stratified. I’m in the north, could it be that there’s different subspecies? Or are most sources just wrong
Last November I picked a cone. Kept it in my desk drawer until early mid spring, the method that I said to use had 100% success rate (I’m in Florida)
Soak them for 24 hours and directly sow them. They are native to south Florida so they don't need cold stratification. That said, I typically just sow them in winter and have grown them in south Florida and NC and neither germinate until spring.
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SeedsToTrees says the main difference is that cone fragments are more grayish… okay!
https://www.seedstotrees.org/swohio
Ah gotcha, throw them all in the dirt!
Yes, everything pictured is a seed.
Awesome thanks just wanted to make sure
Yes these are the seeds. I found them nestled between the flaky scales.