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Posted 5 years 7 months ago #49820
As you can see from the title I was hoping to plant some more seeds.

The last time I did this the seeds were from a bonsai starter kit which from the feedback was a bad buy!

I just wanted some suggestions on where to buy seeds? I wasn't sure if there were any websites I could check out...
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Posted 5 years 7 months ago #49822
It is a lot cheaper to collect them yourself. Anyway, I would never recommend starting with seeds. It is just too slow a process, great if you are growing other trees at the same time but not if that is all you are doing. Anyone selling a bonsai seed kit in my opinion should be prosecuted. As for where to buy seeds no idea I have never bought any. If you want to start growing trees for bonsai then why not get along to a show, join a club, look around a garden centre and see what you can find. Even dig something out of a hedge, with permission of course. Or go to a nursery and see the variety that is available. Much easier and quicker and more reliable than seed.
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Posted 5 years 7 months ago #49825

Philihar wrote: I just wanted some suggestions on where to buy seeds?


Actually, that's not really a bonsai related question. Seeds are seeds. You can buy them at any seed handler.

Often they have a 'bonsai' section - but notice that does not mean they sell bonsai seed, they sell seed of trees that are suitable for bonsai.

for example.
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Posted 5 years 7 months ago #49827
I have tried seeds over and over. You need a large field, hundreds of seeds, and years of patience, or you get a little pot with a little plant that dies.

Any tree produces thousands of seeds a year, and has one or two offspring growing around it. There is a lesson here.

Except southern white pines, but those are weeds.
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Posted 5 years 7 months ago #49828
From the UK, I buy them here:
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Posted 5 years 7 months ago #49829
I have succesfully used
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Posted 5 years 7 months ago #49830
Thanks for everyone telling me to not buy seeds. Really supportive bunch haha. I have already got a few trees actually, one 5 years and one just hitting 11, I don't plan to grow thousands but I like the idea of working on trying to get some seeds to germinate while also looking after 2 main trees. I'm sure it can't be that hard. Out of 5 seeds I sowed from the starter kit I managed to get one coming up, 4 months later it is looking pretty good.
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Posted 5 years 7 months ago #49832

Philihar wrote: Thanks for everyone telling me to not buy seeds. Really supportive bunch haha. I


What? Just one said he did not recommend it as it is a slow process, which it is. Think 15 years, at least.

I explained there is no such thing as 名媛直播 seed - it is simply tree seed. I gave you a link to a seller that sells seed of suitable species. The others gave you links of sites where they successfully purchased seed.

So what are you talking about?
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