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Growing Tips

Germination Treatments

Species

Stratification Required

bur oak

none

caragana

none

chokecherry

14 days warm; 120 days cold

Colorado spruce

30 days cold

cranberry

140 days warm; 110 days cold

dogwood

90 days cold

green ash

60 days cold

Manitoba maple

60 days cold

American plum

35 dyas warm; 150 days cold

paper birch

none

pincherry

60 days warm; 90 days cold

potentilla

none

poplar

none

Russian olive*

90 days cold

Saskatoon berry*

100-120 days cold

sea buckthorn

30 days cold

Scot's pine

none

Siberian crabapple

21 days cold

Siberian larch

14 days cold

snowberry

120 days warm; 180 days cold

villosa lilac

30 days cold

wild hedgerose

90 days warm; 90 days cold

wolf willow

70 days cold

*scarification not required but may help