A year ago I started this project. You can see the stratification process right here.



I forgot to update this blog with how the germination and growing process went over the last year. Well, from the 96 seeds I put in the sowing trays I ended up with 78 seedlings (81,25%) at the end of the year so that’s pretty decent.

Here’s a picture I took when I first sowed the seeds on April 15th 2018.

Today I decided to slip-pot the seedlings into slightly bigger pots where they can grow for another year so I can start using them for a few different projects in 2020 (trunk fusion, ground growing,…?).

Slip-potting means you just take the seedling with the little clump of soil out of the tray and put it in a bigger pot without disturbing the roots.

It’s not really common to do this in January but the temperatures allow it and it won’t be freezing any time soon.

The sowing trays with 8 month old seedlings:

The soil that I added to the pots, 80% potting soil – 20% river sand. Notice the cheap chinese nursery pot/plastic bag thinghy.

1 done, 77 to go:

Finished the work. I did keep 5 seedling in a tray to use for a project I’ll start this year (small 5 trunk trident bonsai).

There you go. In a few months I’ll start a new project with the 5 seedlings in the tray.