This is the 2nd post of my Bald Cypress from seed project.

Apparently I forgot to take pictures from this project the last couple of months. Here’s a quick recap:

I sowed about 80 seeds in regular potting soil. Only 4 germinated…

The 1st one that germinated did pretty well in it’s first weeks but then I made the mistake of letting it stand in full sun, it dried out and died…

Of the next 3 germinators 2 died before the cotyledons got out of the seed.

So now I’m left with only 1 seedling from 80+ seeds…

What have we (well I) learned? Keep the soil pretty wet all the time and give them some sun but not too much. Oh yeah and maybe I should pick my next seeds straight from the tree and not after they’ve fallen to the ground.

Anyway, the one seedling that survived is doing really well after I put it in it’s own nursery container and looks like this now. Keep growing little one!