It’s a good idea to know that your seeds are viable so you don’t waste your time trying to grow them. If the seeds are hollow inside or the embryo is brown or brown and mushy, that seed is no good. The tissue should look firm and healthy with good color. The inside of the seed should green or cream in color. As you do this notice what the consistency of the seed is like. Place those seeds one at a time on a cutting board and cut through the seed with a sharp knife. Check the seeds for viability.Īfter you collect the seeds you can spread them out on a table and randomly pick a few seeds from the batch. If you harvest seeds before they are ready, they are not going to grow because the embryo will not be fully developed.Ī Japanese red maple leaf. Japanese maple seeds are produced in the spring and the summer and they need to hang on the tree into the fall so they have a chance to mature. A Japanese maple seedling with green leave would be Acer palmatum.
They are nothing more than red seedlings with the botanical name of Acer palmatum atropurpureum.Īcer is the botanical name for a maple tree, palmatum means Japanese maple and atropurpureum means red leaves. But you can’t call them Bloodgood, Oshi Beni or Emporer I. Seeds from those trees are likely to produce seedlings with nice red color. Bloodgood is one of the most popular, another is Oshi Beni and another is Emporer I.Īll awesome plants. There are a number of Japanese maples that are notorious for deep red color. If you collect Japanese maple seeds from a tree with really deep red color, chances are, many of the seedlings that you grow will have good red color and are likely to hold that color pretty well throughout the growing season. Maybe not all of them, but of them are likely to have green leaves. If you collect Japanese maple seeds from a Japanese maple that has green leaves, chances are your seedlings will have green leaves. There a few things about collecting Japanese maple seeds that we think we know, but there is always that complete unpredictability that makes this fun. There are more than 1,000 Japanese maple varieties in the world today, so there are plenty of chances that your seedling could be the next big variety to come to market. But there is always that chance that one of your seedlings could the most awesome Japanese maple ever!
Some with red leaves, some with green leaves, what most would consider “generic Japanese maples”. Truth be told, if you grow Japanese maples from seed, you are probably going to end up with some rather generic seedlings. Growing Japanese maples from seed is exciting. If you care to read that story you can do so here. Not a Japanese maple, but a truly amazing plant that was a “chance seedling”, discovered by a very astute gardener and developed and brought to market by a very talented nurseryman. Honestly, when an awesome chance seedling is discovered, it is nothing short of a miracle and all of us who love and appreciate plantsare better because of it.Ī perfect example of that is the Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud tree. when chance seedlings do appear, a very astute gardener needs to be nearby to actually take notice and realize that something really special has happened. This beautiful tree, the Lavender Twist Weeping Redbud tree is the direct result of a chance seedling being discovered by a very astute gardener.Īnd. Asexual reproduction is how nurserymen or nursery women create hundreds and hundreds of identical plants so homeowners across the land can enjoy them. Without “asexual reproduction” most of the beautiful and amazing plants that we have come to love would never be known to us because there would only one of them. Asexual reproduction produces an exact clone of the parent plant. When a plant is grown from a cutting, a graft or a bud that is considered asexual reproduction because it that is not the way that nature intended for plants to be reproduced. Growing a plant from seed is considered sexual reproduction. It has to be budded or grafted to a seedling. A Japanese maple like this cannot be grown from seed. The leaves are much smaller than a regular, or generic Japanese maple and they have very interesting jagged edges. Dissectum meaning split-leaf or cut leaf. The Japanese maple in the above photos is Waterfall, which is in the dissectum family of Japanese maples. Most of the rare, or interesting varieties of Japanese maples are actually grafted on to a Japanese maple seedling, which of course is grown from seed. It’s important to understand that not all, in fact, many Japanese maples are not grown from seed. Japanese maples grown from seed are not an exact clone of the parent plant. Crimson Queen Laceleaf Japanese Red Maple.
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