How to grow a maple tree from a seed ?,I try in the ground and it does not grow?
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Depends on the type of maple. Red & Silver maple seeds have no dormancy. You can plant them in spring. Soak the seeds in cold running water to leach any germination inhibitors and improve germination success just before you plant. Don't plant too deep. A seed should only be planted as deep as twice its diameter.
Norway & Sugar Maples require cold stratification (2-3 months) or fall planting. Sugar maples don't produce very reliable seeds. Maybe only 65% of a Sugar maple's seeds will germinate. Plant multiple seeds with a Sugar Maple.
In some cases it takes a long time - maybe a couple of years or longer - for the conditions to become favorable enough to germinate certain seeds. Growing a maple tree from seed is going to be a really long process. If you want a maple tree that bad, just buy a tree and plant it according to the accompanying instructions.
come on over to my house! LOL I have seedlings in places you wouldn't even think of...dang "helicopters"! they were even growing in the kids sand box!
it doesn't sound like you live in an area where maple tree grow naturally. Usually the "keys" of maples just float and land on the ground and the grow anywhere they landed. Where I live you have to pull them seedlings out like weeds.
you need to just put it in the ground but dont water it or anything. It will take a long time.
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