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Seedy Subjects! => Seed Exchange => Topic started by: Kristl Walek on June 11, 2010, 03:27:45 PM

Title: Acer rubrum
Post by: Kristl Walek on June 11, 2010, 03:27:45 PM

Acer rubrum was recently wild collected here in Nova Scotia.
This seed is ephemeral, and must be sown before it dries out; cannot be moist packed to preserve viability because it is an immediate germinator.

I have excess seed if anyone is interested---but let me know asap---as seed will not keep.

Kristl

Title: Re: Acer rubrum
Post by: Linda_Foulis on June 11, 2010, 03:56:12 PM

Do you think it would survive here in Zone 3? 

Title: Re: Acer rubrum
Post by: Kristl Walek on June 11, 2010, 04:06:20 PM

Linda---yes, I am pretty confident it would be fine in the Calgary area, especially when grown from seed. I do know it is growing in Edmonton.

Title: Re: Acer rubrum
Post by: cohan on June 13, 2010, 06:11:02 AM

Quote from: Kristl Walek on June 11, 2010, 04:06:20 PM

Linda---yes, I am pretty confident it would be fine in the Calgary area, especially when grown from seed. I do know it is growing in Edmonton.

red deer is a touch cooler in summer than edmonton, but better snow than calgary and less dry, fewer winter melts than calgary, so if its growing in edmonton, there is hope :)