I Am Wanting To Grow Bald Cypress From Seed...

[PalmTreeDude]

I want to grow Bald Cypress From Seed this winter but I heard that doing this could effect their cold hardiness? They are fully hardy here, but something about the seed not going through witnter? Anyone hear about this? I am wanting to germinate them in the winter and plant them in the spring. Will this even work at all since they are not evergreen and it would be winter?

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

I think you mean the seeds need to be cold stratified,  which is correct. 

[PalmTreeDude]

On 8/31/2017, 6:44:30, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

I think you mean the seeds need to be cold stratified,  which is correct. 

Thank you, that is what I meant. Do you happen to know if the can be grown from seed now or soon and left out in a pot for winter (they are fully hardy here, zone 7a/7b)?

[TexasColdHardyPalms]

Leave them in a pot outside,  or in your fridge.  

[westfork]

There are also a lot of interesting cultivars of this tree.  Check out some of the ones selected by the late Earl Cully.  He would put out 20,000 seedlings at a time, selected from promising parents from the Illinois part of their native range, and maybe find one that was far superior to all the others.  Sadly, he died this spring at the age of 90.

Edited September 4, 2017 by westfork

[PalmTreeDude]

On 9/3/2017, 11:48:45, TexasColdHardyPalms said:

Leave them in a pot outside,  or in your fridge.  

I am not sure what to do exactly, if I leave them in the fridge could I just throw them in a cup and leave them there pretty much all winter? Do they need to be in soil or anything? I am assuming once Spring comes and I take them out they should sprout and then I can plant them in the ground from that point? I haven't grown many hardwoods from seed, sorry for my ignorance there.