Jacaranda Trees
Catherine Devlin
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Jacaranda Trees how do u grow from seed?
Comments (8)I can understand anybody's frustration with seed planting of tropicals as sometimes the instructions from the seed source seem the same for every package ... And maybe that's true ... basically the same thing applies to all of them, moist soil, 75 degrees or above, to about 85 degrees. But some of these seeds can be tricky as I have pointed out in my first response to this post. The nice thing about the seeds I show above is that I have about 12 Jacaranda seeds and so can experiment a bit, saving some seeds for when I feel comfortable that I have it tacked. The packet of Tabebuia seeds has 16. I can work with that. My first packet of Tabebuia Chrysostricha seeds was planted all at once and nothing ever germinated. Will I get something later? I don't know. But I got some more seeds to try again under more controlled and experimental ( indoor ) setups. Sometimes that is what you gotta do ... experiment. Look up on the web and find as much info as you can and then try to setup conditions to do the trick. If you had a saltwater aquarium, you'd worry about temperature, Ph and Salinity, Ammonia concentrations, etc. etc. Well, some people germinating seeds get down to doing similar monitoring and adjusting. I don't think we as dumb dodo gardeners need to get so specific, but you may have to try and try again with a different tack until you succeed. Try to think about how plants grow in their native habitat, starting under high canopies, shaded from the sun, perhaps drenched in water, sandy soils with lots of acids from decay products. Without sun they only get as tall as perhaps two to three feet, but if they are lucky and an old growth tree topples over and they aren't crushed, the sun will break through the canopy and away they go ... growing to fill the hole as new giant. So seedlings often need to be shaded at first and given sun after they reach a certain maturity. They don't print that stuff on seed packets. You have put yourself there in your imagination after reading up a bit on the plant. Then recreate the temporality of that situation so that the plant starts out shaded and then gets that lucky break when you physically move it and put it out in the sun. Is a Jacaranda a savanah type tree? No. Is it a dry climate tree? Perhaps. Dig into it. This is the fascinating part of growing tropicals. Don't let me spoil it for you by telling you the details. Discover them for yourself. Good Luck and use some imagination to help you achieve your goal....See MoreJacaranda Tree
Comments (58)I know I posted that I wanted one back in 05 but since then I have had a chance to observe how they take the winds that roar through here in fall and winter. They are pretty brittle and break often enough that I decided against one as gorgeous as they are in spring. Crape Myrtle is my choice for flowering tree. Too small to cause any damage if they blew over. One of my young ones with a trunk as thick as my thumb got blown over because the stick broke in the wind. I just straightened 'er up and restaked. Didn't hurt it at all. It's a nice darkish purple. I also have red, hot pink and lavender ones. They also have a bonus of coloring gorgeously in the fall. For big shade I picked London Plane and Sycamore. I never got around to staking one of them. It grew so fast it didn't matter. Both kinds are very wind tolerant....See MoreJacaranda Tree
Comments (0)I have a new jacaranda tree. It has been in my yard one year and I bought it from the local nursery when it was one or two years old. So o think it's either 2 or 3 years old. At the most I think 4 years old (guessing). I don't see any branches, it's just a straight shot up about 7 to 8 ft. It does grow the green branches from the top of the tree but is there a certain point when actual wood branches will start to grow as offshoots from the main trunk? See photo:...See MoreJacaranda Tree
Comments (8)John.....Wow thats a lot of water! Don't trust a landscaping co. In fact most would say stay away from them except for mowing and edging. Do your own research on what that tree needs and do it right away or it will be dead. Questions that need to be asked before determining the water amount and schedule. What kind of soil? Clay...rock..sand etc. How is the drainage? How hot or cold is it! How much rain have you gotten? You get the picture. Remember the more you know the better off you are when it comes to growing stuff in this BAD soil or extreme heat Just wanted to add...we had one in S. CAL and they do loose leaves in the winter. They also drip this sappy stuff....See MoreUser
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