I am up to my eyeballs at the moment with my seedlings. Because i use a polytunnel i can add a month to either side of my growing season, and although its early may i have over 300 seedlings potted on (with a view to going into the allotment space next year).

So far i have had good results of:-

Trident maple, Small leaved trident maple (been growing these for 3 years, the leaves are less than half the size of the standard plant), Giant Dogwood, Chinese Juniper, Japanese Maple, Scots pine, Common Yew and Mugo Pine. I must have 300 more of these to prick out and pot up over the coming weeks.

I  have only managed to grow 3 out of 15 seeds of a particular plant, the leather leaved Trident Maple. This are rare in the UK, so if all i get from them is a stock plant for cuttings, im more than happy.

My Japanese Pines are just starting to pop through as well. I didn’t keep these in the polytunnel as i had them in larger flats, and as such they had better frost protection in comparison to standard plastic seed trays. I have 1000 in flats as i will be needing lots of rootstock over the next 4 years. I have also got a flat of Mikawa Japanese pine, a seed i have been growing for 2 years, and yielded great results last year. I hope to use these asrootstock for grafting cork/rough varieties of pine, as Mikawa develops rough bark naturally, and will ultimately lead to better grafts.

My Temple Needle Junipers, Arctic Scotts pines and Savin Junipers are also popping through. It will be a few weeks yet until these need to be pricked out.

Better go source some small plat pots i suppose.

Regards