Tom Waits – “Hold On”
I transplanted two sugar maple trees which had germinated themselves. I put them into small pots.
Booker T. & The M.G’s – Green Onions
Today I will also be putting sugar maple seeds and cherry tree seeds into the fridgerator. Both of these types of seeds must be fooled into thinking they survived a winter.
Noam Pikelny – “Sugar Maple”
“Stratification in cherry tree seed germination is a process of pre-treating seeds to mimic the natural winter conditions needed for them to break dormancy and germinate. Many cherry tree seeds require a period of cold and moisture to trigger germination, and this process is artificially replicated through stratification.
Cherry Tree Blues · Tab Benoit
Here’s a more detailed explanation:
Natural Dormancy:
Dormancy
Cherry tree seeds, like many other tree seeds, often have a natural dormancy period that prevents them from germinating immediately after they are dispersed.
Cold and Moisture Requirement:
Cold Weather Blues · Muddy Waters
Many seeds, including those of cherry trees, need a period of cold, moist conditions to break this dormancy. This is what stratification aims to provide artificially.
Simulating Winter:
Stray Cat Blues · Johnny Winter
Stratification mimics the winter conditions the seeds would experience in the soil, allowing them to germinate when spring arrives.
Methods:
A common method for stratifying cherry seeds involves mixing them with a moist medium like sand or peat moss, placing them in a sealed container (like a plastic bag), and refrigerating them for a specific period, usually several weeks or months.
Benefits:
By undergoing stratification, the seeds are more likely to germinate when planted and are less likely to rot or be affected by fungal diseases.”
In following this method, I hope to put a couple dozen cherry trees and sugar maple trees into pots for germination in three or four months. (October or November) Since this will be during a time when it might freeze outside, I will do this germination downstairs in the winter garden under grow lights. Next spring I will put three sugar maple trees in the backyard and six cherry trees.
Flower Garden Blues · Arnett Cobb
Two sugar maple trees and cherry trees I will give to a fellow gardener off the alley, and the rest I will sell in a garden sale next June. This will help fund my gardening activities.
Royal Garden Blues · Branford Marsalis
Nana: Velzora Laura Brown-Flanagan (Born in 1905) and
Grandpa Bill: William Henry Wilson (Born in 1899) are ancestors from Iowa who inspired my gardens in Missouri, California, Arizona, Oregon and Montana Nana had a small flower and herb garden behind her house. She taught me to fish in the early fifties. Nana kept a doll hospital in her basement, a parakeet in the kitchen and told fortunes with playing cards. Grampa Bill Wilson tended a large garden on his lot in Marshalltown. He told wonderful stories about hia rime with the merchant marines. Bill retired from working as a machinist and loved golf, gardening and collected ceramic dogs.
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