Outstanding video. Great commentary. I find the Redwoods to be quite enchanting trees. Especially magical is the Sequoia Semperviren Coastal Redwood. It's rich green juxtaposed with the dark reddish brown bark makes for a mysterious, interesting and beautiful tree. Thank you Connie for all your involvement with these magnificent trees. These trees along with rich carbon sequestering soil is the key to clean air, water and a sustainable planet. Connie you exemplify what it means to be a good steward of this beautiful earth. Thank you
I had read that they germinate within 2 weeks of moistening, and that seemed to be the case. Also, I had spent a winter near-coastal Humboldt County (the heart of Coast Redwood habitat) and I don't recall it ever dipping into freezing temperatures. But, yes, many seeds do require winter stratification. Right now I have over a thousand pawpaw seeds overwintering in several foot-deep holes I dug in a nearby cemetery (as my husband and I live in an apartment). Because pawpaw seeds are very poisonous, rodents are not eager to dig them up - but other overwintering seeds I have (450 Torreya taxifolia right now) I do have find rodent-proof ways to keep them cold - but never freezing. So that's a lot more delicate to do over an entire winter (here in Michigan).
For Coast redwood I had good success with one month cold stratification in +4 degree C. For Giant redwoods I had good success with 2 week cold stratification in the same temps. Both of them I soaked in water for 24h before puting them in fridge. This gave me 23 seedling from around 60 seeds of Giant redwood. And Green carpet of seedlings from around 80 seeds of Coast redwood (im too lazy to count them all besides they are quite young, they might still fail). Mind however if you stratify Coast redwood for only 2 weeks like I did in my first try you might end up with 3 seedlings off 50 seeds.
Coast redwoods used to go through oregon all the way up to the gulf of Alaska until the railroad cut down the trees for ties and people settled. Oregon coastal redwoods are all but extinct here and long overdue for a comeback. The university of oregon introduced a program that plants redwoods and added some around the ducks football stadium but they were sequoia giganticus the california version NOT sequoia sempervirens. The problem is that people refuse to coexist with trees of any kind and until we start building skyscrapers on living, rooted sequoia trees there's no sign of that ever changing. Hard to find places to plant redwoods because of their near invasive root structure but worth the effort considering their contributions to our environment.
I see I have never yet issued a reply to comments here. I apologize for that. As to this newest comment, the best place to learn is to visit the website of the Seattle area citizen group that is now massively engaged in assisting this species northward along the Coast. It is PropagationNation: propagationnation.us/
If a brown cone is on the ground, have the seeds already fallen out or been eaten by squirrel? I've tried to find seedsin brown cones but I don't see any.
Good question. Notice on the title slide of this video that even the green cones open their scales enough for all the seeds you see there to fall out when I shook the cones vigorously in a paper bag. My observation was that, unless squirrels nipped them off the branches and had the cones fall for later harvesting, no cones will fall off the tree until the short leafy twig segment they are on falls off starting in August. So all scales open and seeds disperse from late fall to March (wisely, during the rainy season). Very different from Giant Sequoia in the Sierras, for which cones can stay alive and green for many years: waiting for the heat of a ground fire to signal them to open.
@@MCPetruk If the cones are brown, the scales will all be open, and there will be no seeds. If the cones are green and the scales barely open, shake them in a bag and some seeds will fall out. I created a photo-rich webpage of lots of more things to see and understand in Coast Redwoods here: www.torreyaguardians.org/redwood-2019.html
Do the seeds start to fall out of the cones once the cones are dry? I picked up a handful of cones on my last journey and would like to transplant them, but they were already brown. Did I make mistake and grab the incorrect ones?
Outstanding video. Great commentary.
I find the Redwoods to be quite enchanting trees. Especially magical is the Sequoia Semperviren Coastal Redwood. It's rich green juxtaposed with the dark reddish brown bark makes for a mysterious, interesting and beautiful tree.
Thank you Connie for all your involvement with these magnificent trees. These trees along with rich carbon sequestering soil is the key to clean air, water and a sustainable planet. Connie you exemplify what it means to be a good steward of this beautiful earth. Thank you
Where can I get seeds to grow.
I can propagate like crazy one of my favorite hobbies.
When you germinate your coastal redwood seeds do you put them thru stratification.
I had read that they germinate within 2 weeks of moistening, and that seemed to be the case. Also, I had spent a winter near-coastal Humboldt County (the heart of Coast Redwood habitat) and I don't recall it ever dipping into freezing temperatures. But, yes, many seeds do require winter stratification. Right now I have over a thousand pawpaw seeds overwintering in several foot-deep holes I dug in a nearby cemetery (as my husband and I live in an apartment). Because pawpaw seeds are very poisonous, rodents are not eager to dig them up - but other overwintering seeds I have (450 Torreya taxifolia right now) I do have find rodent-proof ways to keep them cold - but never freezing. So that's a lot more delicate to do over an entire winter (here in Michigan).
For Coast redwood I had good success with one month cold stratification in +4 degree C. For Giant redwoods I had good success with 2 week cold stratification in the same temps. Both of them I soaked in water for 24h before puting them in fridge. This gave me 23 seedling from around 60 seeds of Giant redwood. And Green carpet of seedlings from around 80 seeds of Coast redwood (im too lazy to count them all besides they are quite young, they might still fail). Mind however if you stratify Coast redwood for only 2 weeks like I did in my first try you might end up with 3 seedlings off 50 seeds.
Great video
Very good video!..❤
Thanks for the video! I found it very informative and answered a lot of questions that I had. Thanks1
Coast redwoods used to go through oregon all the way up to the gulf of Alaska until the railroad cut down the trees for ties and people settled. Oregon coastal redwoods are all but extinct here and long overdue for a comeback. The university of oregon introduced a program that plants redwoods and added some around the ducks football stadium but they were sequoia giganticus the california version NOT sequoia sempervirens. The problem is that people refuse to coexist with trees of any kind and until we start building skyscrapers on living, rooted sequoia trees there's no sign of that ever changing. Hard to find places to plant redwoods because of their near invasive root structure but worth the effort considering their contributions to our environment.
I'd love to grow some redwood trees, if done right how many years would it take to get them to 3' tall?
I see I have never yet issued a reply to comments here. I apologize for that. As to this newest comment, the best place to learn is to visit the website of the Seattle area citizen group that is now massively engaged in assisting this species northward along the Coast. It is PropagationNation: propagationnation.us/
If a brown cone is on the ground, have the seeds already fallen out or been eaten by squirrel? I've tried to find seedsin brown cones but I don't see any.
Good question. Notice on the title slide of this video that even the green cones open their scales enough for all the seeds you see there to fall out when I shook the cones vigorously in a paper bag. My observation was that, unless squirrels nipped them off the branches and had the cones fall for later harvesting, no cones will fall off the tree until the short leafy twig segment they are on falls off starting in August. So all scales open and seeds disperse from late fall to March (wisely, during the rainy season). Very different from Giant Sequoia in the Sierras, for which cones can stay alive and green for many years: waiting for the heat of a ground fire to signal them to open.
@@ghostsofevolution So the small cones I see on the ground right now, in late september in Marin, contain deeds or no?
@@MCPetruk If the cones are brown, the scales will all be open, and there will be no seeds. If the cones are green and the scales barely open, shake them in a bag and some seeds will fall out. I created a photo-rich webpage of lots of more things to see and understand in Coast Redwoods here: www.torreyaguardians.org/redwood-2019.html
Do the seeds start to fall out of the cones once the cones are dry? I picked up a handful of cones on my last journey and would like to transplant them, but they were already brown. Did I make mistake and grab the incorrect ones?