Thank you for your reply. Do you think it would be ok to plant/sow them in a pot or does this need to be in the ground please? ==>>> you have enough seed.. to try a variety of methods ... and i suggest you do so ... when i have no learning curve ... i do .. say.. 10 seeds every way ... and one of the methods usually works.. based on my level of incompetence ... lol .. when you rely on one methods.... one thing wrong.. total fail ... been there.. done that ... so spread the odds ... i bet in ground ... is the easiest.. most forgiving method.. pots in winter.. can be very problematic .. for the newb ..but maybe not.. in your area .... ken

The drought and record heat hit the redbuds a bit here last year. Esoecially a recently transplanted fellas was likely to have issues. Tri color in full sun in St Louis just seems to be a crispy looking keaf waiting to happen. Heck go to MOBOT and check out their well shaded ones in August! A heck of an eye catcher that beech is but the one at....McNair(?) park off Zumbehl north of 70 is the only really good looking one I have seen in person. The St Peters rec plex has an alive one ehich is decent under all them shade trees. In my non professional opinion as long as the top is not flat or bellowed where it holds water and dirt I would leave it alone. Oops, gotta run.

Hello Citrusenthusiast, If you are willing to start small, take a handful or more 4 to 5 inch cuttings, and follow the rules for rooting them with rooting powder or liquid. I took three cuttings from my Key lime this past fall, dipped the cut ends in the rooting hormone powder, popped them into separate little two inch pots, kept them under plastic bags in indirect light in my house, and got one to take. I lost the other two because I totally forgot to check to see if they needed watering. Regarding the fear of spreading disease, I think that unless every last suburban landscape crew, professional and amateur, in southern California is practicing "safe" pruning techniques you really are unlikely to be guilty of a major crime. I lived for a decade in Florida, including a couple years in Sarasota in the early 90s, where citrus canker disease was a major concern, and I used to watch the supposedly professional landscape crews working through the citrus trees that grew on the apartment complex's property, and I never ever saw them sterilize their pruning tools--which were reportedly a potential way the disease could spread, even though Sarasota had several major citrus groves within a few miles of the location. Up here in Connecticut, I try to remember to always wipe my pruning shears with rubbing alcohol after trimming each tree I have, even though, obviously, I don't exactly have to worry about infecting nearby citrus plantations. I hope you have good results, and that you get a few other people interested in your Grandma's tree. Don

Thanks for the link.