Living log

Gleditsia from seed

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composition
Type
composition
Acquired
2023-04-03
Origin
seed
Status
dissolved
Last soil
organic 60% · pumice 20% · akadama 20% (2024-05-16)
Divisions
Gleditsia seedling #1Gleditsia seedling #2Gleditsia seedling #3Gleditsia seedling #4
Interventiondivide→Gleditsia seedling #1,Gleditsia seedling #2,Gleditsia seedling #3,Gleditsia seedling #4
Soil
organic 60% · pumice 20% · akadama 20%
A repotting scene on a balcony bench: a terracotta pot of feathery honey-locust seedlings, a small empty pot, a chopstick, a glass jar and a blue bowl of water on a bamboo tray.A hand holding an uprooted honey-locust seedling, feathery green foliage above and a long, well-branched bare root system below, over paving.
A metal scoop resting in a tub of chunky bonsai soil mixed with pale dried moss and gravel, seen from above.Four honey-locust seedlings potted up outdoors on paving — one in a terracotta pot and three in small black pots — each with fine pinnate leaves in sunlight.

Maybe it would have been fine to wait for next year, but since it was still May I though why not seperating the plants straight away? To pot them up in their new homes, I chose to use a bit of sphagnum moss maybe it helps the roots. You can see the long-fibred strips of sphagnum moss in the image together with the other components. I used so many because I wasn’t sure what to use, so I mixed a bit of everything I had.

Observation
Two honey locust (Gleditsia) seedlings in a terracotta pot on a saucer, fine pinnate green leaves, on a pale wooden floor.

In 2023 I went on a month vacation in Sevilla. A really nice time where I lived near a central park in Sevilla named Parque de María Luisa, it’s a green oasis where I collected some seeds from a Gleditsia tree, that are planted along the streets of spain very regularly. I planed these maybe in Febuary - sadly I didn’t take a picture so I don’t really know. But around that time. Please note that this tree is foreign to Germany - although I saw a few examples planted in the streets. Not sure about the exact varity, I think it’s something like japonica because the features aligned mostly with the ones I saw planted in this park. Anyways it’s in any case not a native species in Germany so I’ll keep it in the pot and keep a close eye on it when it’s getting older.