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Post by shoshannah on Sept 22, 2016 19:03:43 GMT -5
Our camellia tree has 7 seed pods and two have dried and opened up.  There are several trees together if they needed cross pollination. |
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Post by steve1 on Sept 23, 2016 2:29:08 GMT -5
Yep, did that (sesanqua camellias) a long while ago... Plant them in potting mix and leave them outside and moist to chill for the winter. In spring they should appear. They were slow though - about 7 years to flowering. Not an overnight project...
Hope that helps.
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Post by khoomeizhi on Sept 23, 2016 3:57:04 GMT -5
i've grown tea camellias from seed - fresh seed in the spring.
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Post by esoteric_agriculture on Jan 12, 2017 19:34:02 GMT -5
Camellias are quite easily germinated. The seeds do need to be stored cool and damp for best longevity, but will grow like beans if sowed fresh and kept warm. Japonica, Sinensis, Sasanqua, and hybrids thereof typically flower for me from seed in 2-5 years. They don't tolerate overwatering and can be quite prone to Phytopthora. Japonica is the easiest, most vigorous, least disease prone. I struggle with Oleifera, have germinated hundreds over the years and only have 3 small , stunted, disease prone plants that never have flowered, although some are 10-12 years old. Deer love Camellias and will walk right up to our house to eat our Tea Camellias!! Camellia Forest Nursery sells seeds- all of mine have come from them.
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Post by steev on Jan 13, 2017 1:00:55 GMT -5
Don't know where you are, cnwallen, but camellias are one of the few plants deer, in the SF East Bay, don't seem to bother.
Species preference, perhaps? Ours are mule deer, thoroughly urbanized.
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Post by esoteric_agriculture on Jan 14, 2017 12:50:31 GMT -5
Hi Steve, I live near Gettysburg, PA. The deer around here are a particularly cruel and vicious tribe . They enjoy eating our Hellebores as well as our Camellias. Unfortunately they are illiterate and have yet to learn that deer don't eat toxic plants like Hellebore, or distasteful ones like Camellias.
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Post by diane on Jan 14, 2017 18:56:17 GMT -5
Our West Coast deer don't eat my camellias.
I haven't paid attention to how long it takes for them to flower from seed.
Of the several different species and many cultivars I grow, only one of Nuccio's single japonicas regularly sets seeds. I have never pollinated
any, so don't know if the others could produce seeds. They bloom when there aren't many pollinators about, and I suspect the reason Ginyo Tsubaki
is successful is because it flowers an incredibly long time, and somewhere in there, there must be some sunny days that get the bees out
foraging.
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