Ever Grown A Tree From Seed?

Yes I did grow a tree from a seed. Well it will turn out to be a very short tree. And it is still in the process of turning into a tree. I planted a orange seed and a mango seed as well as a lemon seed. The mango and lemon seed germinated. The lemon plant has gown to be six foot high till now. SO hopefully it can grow soon. Mango is growing at its pace.

Good Morning, I lived in Florida most of my adult life, and I loved it. I have always loved working in my yard. And the thrill of working with flowers, tress, just anything I could get to grow. I had a beautiful, huge gardenia tree in my yard, (I planted it as a baby) Whenever I would trim it every year, I just thought that I would try putting these little trim off pieces in seperate pots. My husband kept telling me that I was wasting my time, they will never grow. Well he was wrong, even though they did look pretty rough for awhile. When spring came, I saw new growth on my little gardenias, they were actually growing. Well I did this every year, and when we moved from my home, I had about 30 of these little bushes growing all around my home, and I gave my neighbors little ones to grow. They were beautiful and they smell so wonderful. It was great fun for me.

I have grown trees from seeds a few times. Mostly maples, but I have tried to get beechnut and other nut trees going after bringing home some from my woods. I tried buckeye trees a few times and never had any luck. (Buckeye is the state tree for Ohio, and since I live there...) This year I have a couple of maple seedlings growing. I'm doing it as a fun project with my grandson (who's only 6.) He knows that I plant a new tree for each important occaision (births, family wedding, etc.) He is very proud of his own 'birthday tree' and helps take care of it. I thought since he has such an interest that anything to foster it along would make a great spring project for us. So far so good, he's in charge of keeping the pot we started it in moist and everything. It's my philosophy that kids who grow up with a respect for nature, and replenishing the earth, will always keep that lesson in the future. The one we started for his new cousin, so that he can have his own special tree marker too. In the front of my one barn we have my one Uncles Christmas tree, planted when he was a child...it's over 90 years old now and towers over the 2 story barn. I like the idea of having some personal history behind a tree...makes it more than 'just a tree', if you know what I mean lol.

I think they would survive. Big trees like maple are quite resilient and its wonderful how much strength they have inside them...I have seen quite a few such wonderful tres growing at roadsides with nobody to care or water them and yet they do grow up so big and sturdy. Regarding myself, yes I have grown from seeds, mainly flowers and vegetables. Regardign flowers we get them from nurseries but veggies you know, my mom would just throw a few seeds after chopping the veggies and the plants would peep out after a few weeks. We have had peas and pumpkins and string beans and gourds like that.

Yes, I got some acorns once and tried to germinate them in pots though without success. Having failed in this, I through the entire contents of the pots out onto the back garden. The following spring I was surprised to see that one of the acorns had germinated. That was a few years ago now, and the little oak tree is now a couple of feet tall and is just starting to put out this years leaves. Thinking about it, I think that the acorns need a winter's cold before they will germinate. I know that a lot of seeds need to have a cold period before they will germinate, so maybe acorns do as well.

I haven't planted anything but well, I remember once... it was a group activity in school. I was in grade three and we planted acacia trees within the school campus. When we were done with it, we started calculating when it will grow and become a fully-grown tree. But after sometime, our excitement faded and we forgot about what we did but the trees didn't die, the school maintenance looked after them.

Your maple trees are probably going to do just fine. You could probably have just put a couple of inches of mulch around them and left them where they were, but if they had a good established root system and the ground didn't freeze the roots they'll be fine. I have a mimosa tree. When I moved here I dug up some gladiola bulbs from my old place and planted them here. When they came up there was a mimosa tree coming up with them. It was probably a bean from the neighbors tree where I moved from. It hasn't received much care. I did move it, but I ran over it one year with the hand lawn mower and I think my son ran over it with the riding mower a time or two. It's finally gotten big enough it can be seen. Maybe in another 15 or 20 years it will be a real tree. I rarely water it and just make it do with what nature gives it, so it's a pretty slow grower.

I have but quite by accident. One day about 40 years ago, I threw a plum seed into the trees in my moms yard. I noticed suddenly a few years later that there was a plum tree growing in the middle of the lilac bushes.. My mom kept it there and let it grow and we enjoyed delicious plums every year. It was purely a fluke thing that it happened at all. We were so shocked to see the tree, that I suddenly remembered the seed I had thrown in there a couple of years prior.