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"What is the best way to germinate and grow
ginko trees from seed?"
And this is from Chuck right here in Memphis.
So look Doc, he wants to grow ginkgo trees, right?
- Patient, patient folks who are interested
in growing trees from seed, and I must admit,
I'm really more of a just, graft it and give me
something a little bit larger.
- I'm all for going to the nursery and pickin' out
what you want and goin' home and transplantin' it.
- Many of the ginkgos that we buy may actually well
be grafted, 'cause for the most part we're trying
to select male trees, because of the well,
putrid, sometimes, scent of the female, with their seeds.
- Yeah, you'll definitely know if it's a female tree or not.
For sure.
- After a while.
- After a while, after a while, definitely right about that.
But, you know, I actually sat in a couple of
propagation classes with some of the gardens.
If you wanna do it by seed, of course--
- (Natalie) Certainly possible.
- It's possible.
We're talking about warm stratification,
cold stratification though.
So you'd have to of course, separate the seed
from the fruit itself.
Put the seeds in a bag with some sphagnum moss,
the sphagnum moss has to be moist, of course.
Ziploc bag, shake 'em up, room temperature,
warm stratification, right?
68, 80 degrees.
Then after a couple of weeks you put that
in the bottom of your refrigerator where you keep
your vegetables, for the most part.
There's your cold stratification.
So anywhere between, what, 30, 40 degrees?
- Yeah.
I think a normal refrigerator would normally be appropriate.
- Right, and you have to do that for weeks and weeks.
- Simulating fall and winter.
- Right, right, this is exactly what you're doing,
and from there, you know, depending on who you talk to,
or what publication you read it, like 10 to 12 weeks.
Then they germinate, you can either put 'em in
the potting soil or you can put 'em outside.
There you have it.
But again, you have to be patient with that, Mr. Chuck.
- (Natalie) It's possible.
- It's possible, patience, but it is possible.