Planting a Sugar Maple seed.
Pippers
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Are sugar maple Sammaras/seeds ripe now?
Comments (25)Yeah, it looks like the samaras were shed. Sometimes one windy day can carry them everywhere. They can hybridize. As Dax said, it is probably black maple. Black and Sugar can hybridize easily, and in fact, it's sometimes thought that the Sugar Maple cultivar 'Green Mountain' is actually a hybrid of black and sugar, but I don't think that has ever been proven. Sugar Maple, I believe can hybridize with any of the other "sugar-type" maples: Acer nigrum (Black Maple) Acer grandidentatum (Bigtooth Maple) Acer leucoderme (Chalk Maple) Acer floridanum (AKA Acer barbatum) Florida Maple or Southern Sugar Maple Acer skutchii (Mexican sugar maple) I don't know if it can hybridize with others, but I'm pretty sure it cannot hybridize with the other common Eastern maples, at least not the commonly found large ones (Red and Silver). I don't know if they're pollen-compatible, but the bloom times don't overlap, so it at least won't happen in nature. I also don't believe it can cross with Norway Maple (Acer platanoides), despite their superficial similarities, they're actually not that closely related. There may be some Asian maples they could cross with, but I'm not sure. Someone more knowledgeable can chime in I'm sure....See MoreHow long does it take for a Sugar Maple tree seed to sprout?
Comments (2)I had both, scarified & stratified the seed. It was in the fridge for over a month. A sprout began to come out of the seed. The sprout was about....1 inch in length. Then I placed it in a soil mix (from Miracle Gro) and placed it outside. It sat outside for like a few weeks but nada. Then I finally gave up and decided I'd root around through the pot/planter and it looked like it was all dried up. The funny thing is, I watered it every 2 days so I'm not sure why this happened. Anyways, this time I purchased one of those Jiffy Peat domed planters. Hopefully I'll have better luck with that. :)...See MoreSugar Maple Seeds
Comments (2)They need 60-90 days of cold stratification. Even if you put them in the refrigerator to stimulate this, it would be August or September before you get them to sprout and grow. If you're in the northern hemisphere, you wouldn't have enough time for the growth actually mature before winter. I would just hang onto them until around January then stratify them, and plant them in Spring 2016....See Morelong term storage question sugar maple seeds
Comments (1)Maple seeds do not store well. They are best sown fresh, but if old ones are sown, give them a long time to germinate just in case some will. It seems a good idea, keeping them in the fridge. In fact, I wonder if freezing some would work. I'd be tempted to try that....See MorePippers
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