Wollemi Pine seeds germinated in UK

[@germinator200]

Hi, thanks for your interest, I will be posting an update to this story in a few weeks with maybe a link to buying the seeds. Bear in mind these seeds won't be ripe until about September. But it does look like another bumper crop.

[@windsongsue]

Have got seeds germinating at South Riana in Tasmania.

[@kmata1000]

Thanks for this. Can you share the source of your seeds? I would like to try them too

[@tanakakokilovad1594]

Thanks you 🌱for planting wollemi pine trees🌱 👍🌱😊🌱🍃🌿🌲🌳🌳🌳🌍🌎🌏🌱🍃🌿🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌳🌳

[@germinator200]

We sell these plants from our nursery in Northampton. They are becoming extremely rare in the UK as Australia have stopped exporting them.

[@blooky102]

are seeds still imported as that doesn't harm the trees?

[@duff5ooo]

What is the deal with putting them in water? Is it just that the viable seeds sink? After putting some in water i cant see any difference between the ones that sink and the ones that float.

[@caballarius503]

Hi, I come here more than 10 years later to see if there is a way to buy you some seeds, i'm 23 atm and if I plant it now i'll have a very cool story to tell to my futur kids, (I'm a 23 french)

[@germinator200]

Hi, it’s been a few years since my Wollemis have produced seeds. Hopefully they’ll start again in the near future 🙏. I’ll bear you in mind 👍

[@caballarius503]

@@germinator200 thanks you for your answer, how much years is a cycle ?

[@ashleybronaugh242]

Hi there are you still selling the seeds? Thanks

[@germinator200]

Unfortunately I don’t have any seeds this year.

[@31093jeknowles]

Any more seeds for sale?

[@germinator200]

Well done, it would be brilliant to bring this species back from the brink.

[@germinator200]

Hopefully have some more seeds next autumn.

[@XxCrescentxXYoutube]

Do you still get seeds from this tree? I'd love to get some.

[@blakespower]

omg it produced 3000 seeds from such a tiny tree I guess germination rates are low, or they should be more widespread in Australia

[@cheeyingtam3842]

where can i buy this plant or seed?

[@Canaanite_Roman]

What kind person will give a couple of seeds ?! I would have raised, but this is a rarity in our country.

[@solar0wind]

It's easier to buy one made from cuttings. I found a hobby plant seller in my country that imports wollemis from England.

[@My1Homeboy]

I want some of those...

[@tyreza79]

me toooo can you send me the seeds i live in morocco this trees looks like bunya pine am i right ?

[@KiwiCatherineJemma]

Yes it's a close relative of the Queensland Bunya Bunya pine. See my longer reply, elsewhere on this video-reply

[@blakespower]

why cant I find any in the United States? I guess Australia and teh UK are more close with each other than the USA and Australia. BLIMEY!

[@catholic3dod790]

Yes, Australia always sell wollemi seeds to England...not the world...why? 🤔

[@ErikAdalbertvanNagel]

it looks similar to yew

[@tyreza79]

send me some , i live in morocco i wanna try some seeds here, i would love to spread this tree in my area, can you help me in that please ??????? just 2 or 4 seeds in a regular letter ! i hope you can do it man !!!

[@KiwiCatherineJemma]

Wollemi pines are native to slightly inland of Sydney city in Australia, which has an often humid, reasonably high rainfall climate. They are VERY unlikely to thrive or even survive in most of Morocco. However it's Southern Hemisphere cousins, like the Chilean Monkee Puzzle tree is native to a wide area of Chile and South America and is known to tolerate conditions including some heat and drought, as well as cold, frost and snow and some coastal exposure. Monkee Puzzle trees along with, as far as I know, all the existing Southern Hemisphere conifers, also have edible seeds. The Queensland Bunya Bunya has huge pine-cones, each one filled with 100 Brazil-nut sized edible nuts, and although they are native to well watered parts of South East Queensland state I have grown them in inland Western Australia, a dry "Mediterranean" climate area, providing them with some extra water to get established. The Southern Hemisphere conifers seem to be a bit, shall I say "random" depending partly on which variety of tree it is. Often trees are only male, or only female, so therefore a minimum of 2 trees are required to get fertile seeds, with fertile seeds ONLY being borne on the female trees. However some texts also reference that sometimes, some trees are hermaphrodite and self-fertile (so only one tree, will give your fertile seed). Be aware that texts refer to pretty much all the Southern Hemisphere conifers as being able to be grown from "tip" cuttings. Some texts indicate that they must be from upward growing main stem tips, because using side branch tips will give way to a prostrate version of the plant. Personally this is something I'd like to try as an experiment with a huge forest tree like a Norfolk Island pine ! Wollemi in particular have often been grown by tip cuttings in the earliest days of their discovery, plant conservationists used helicopters to take such tip cuttings.

[@tyreza79]

looks like bunya pine

[@brianpetkovic4579]

TU UK.

[@canmoore]

Please do not plant these trees outside of your house! Invasive species are already a problem as it is! Who knows what might happen if these become invasive!

[@07thomasdd]

What a moronic comment.

[@footscorn]

They are struggling here in the Blue Mountains in a unique sheltered micro climate. Last year's bushfires nearly put an end to them but they were saved. I doubt if a hostile environment on the far side of the planet would allow them to become an invasive pest.

[@cyborgar15]

Yes , the world could end if you plant these trees so you better pay your carbon tax now!!!!