Hello I'm looking for Japanese Maple tree seeds and other maples. These are the ones I would like to get: 1. CAROLINA RED SCARLET MAPLE Tree - Acer Rubrum Seeds 2. Flame Amur Maple - ACER tataricum Ginnala Flame I have cuban tobacco seeds to trade and oil paintings that I paint my self....I don't know if this is something anyone would be interested in but since the art is about nature I think it might be a good trade. Thanks everyone :)

Just wanted to correct something from Debi's post above. Baking soda has a pH of 8.3 and so will raise the pH, making the soil more alkaline. I'm not planning on using baking soda for weed seed germination inhibition, regardless. Baking soda has sodium in it and will increase the salt levels in soils, both short term, but also long term in areas without enough rain or irrigation to flush the salts out of the soil. Sodium will inhibit root growth as well as seed germination, though there are salt-tolerant plants. I prefer to plant densely and mulch. I think Carolyn's original idea of Preen and mulch is probably better. I would be more likely to just use mulch as I prefer not to use Preen in my garden. I live with lots of red maples around the house and gardens, and find that only the surface or near-surface ones germinate. Ones under a good layer of mulch or soil don't, and I don't see maple seeds as being viable for a particularly long time, so I don't think that they are likely to sprout a few years down the road if the mulch is disturbed, unlike a lot of weed seeds. Just my experience and preference.

Interesting, the publication by Wright also shows hybrids with Acer platanoides (Norway maple) and Acer negundo (Boxelder maple), as well as Acer saccharinum (Silver maple) and Acer negundo (Boxelder maple). It would be interesting to see such a study replicated, and for a full growth cycle for the hybrids to take place. I live in Utah, and the native Acer grandidentatum (Bigtooth maple, close sugar maple relative) flowers at the same time as the invasive non-native Norway maple in our foothills at about 4,500 ft. Sometimes bees cross-polinate them, I'm sure of it when both trees grow near. Bees still prefer the Norway maple for its showy and nectar rich flowers. Both insects and wind pollinate them, but mostly wind because sometimes it is too cold for bees to work. I have grown some potential hybrids between the Norway and Bigtooth maple, from a Bigtooth maple 'female' tree, and the seedlings were weak, waxy/glossy, and lime green possibly from iron chlorosis. None of those made it after a week...

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