I meant to do this in December, but I’ve finally gotten around to stratifying some maple seeds. I have Japanese, Amur, Rocky Mountain (or maybe Bigtooth), and some normal green maples that get golden leaves in the fall. I collected the Japanese maple seeds from my tree in front of the house, and they were hanging on the branches until early January. Hopefully, they’re good seeds. The others were collected from street or parking lot trees and even some bushes (Amur maples) at an amusement park!

Today’s step is to soak them in water for two days. Then I’ll put them in a ziploc with moist peat moss in the fridge. I’m following directions from this earlier post.