Lots of maple seeds today! Acer opalus, platanoides, campestre, trautvetteri, monspessulanum ssp. ibericum
Should i use hydrogen peroxide with acer campestre? The seed coats are very very hard.. or just hot water @emery @AlainK @Whachamacollit @LoverOfMaples
Ill soak the campestre for now. I tried cutting off some of the pericarp for a small batch of seeds using scissors for scarification but i cant do that to 400 seeds lol.
Wow! Can I ask where you got these? I'll be very interested to see what the A. heldreichii ssp trautvetteri look like. As far as I know it's almost impossible to get sound seed from Western countries, but maybe the Russian seed will be better. Let's hope so. We mostly see pseudoheldeichii. The only trick I know with campestre is to soak multiple times, changing the warm water every few hours. Of course scarifying helps, as does waiting a couple or three winters to get them to come out of dormancy. I like to put some copper in with the seeds to avoid fungal issues.
I got it from sheffields.com, they ship internationally from the US. Best seed company ive found so far. Link Also i opened up the A. Trautvetteri and the pericarps had a fabric like interior cushioning, and the embryos were still green despite being nearly 10 years old. I assume this is related to acer heldreichii?
