RE: Buckeye seeds
- Subject: RE: Buckeye seeds
- From: "Neely, Ronald C." N*@missouri.edu
- Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 14:22:08 -0500
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- Thread-topic: Buckeye seeds
The trick is to start with fresh seed--no more than 2 days out of the shell. I plant my buckeyes in 2 x 10" root trainer tubes in a fast draining, organic potting mix. I then overwinter these tubes by burying them in my bark mulch pile. I dig them out in the spring, put them in a shady corner of the nursery and forget about them until mid summer when they start to push out top growth. At the end of the first growing season I upcan them to 2 gallon pots. Over the years I've averaged 95% germination rates using this method.
-Ron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal or Nancy Robinson [r*@icx.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 11:56 AM
> To: woodyplants@hort.net
> Subject: Buckeye seeds
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> Does anyone know of a good way to get buckeyes to germinate? I have
> tried one seed to a gallon size pot but can I keep them in
> the ref. and
> pot up next year?
> Nancy Robinson Tennessee zone 6b
>
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