Rewilding My Lot

Two weeks after potting Texas Mountain Laurel (Sophora secundiflora) seeds, there are now 18/28 that have green shoots (18/24 for the seeds that had germinated by the time I potted them). For now, they will stay in the guest room here because I think it would be too hot for them outside.

There is still significant mold in some of the pots, and I don’t know if that will hinder growth. I probably had the germination environment too wet, and I did discard some of the seeds at the time of potting.

Nevertheless, this seems like a good proportion of success on my first try using this technique. In nature, Texas Mountain Laurel seeds take years to sprout, and efforts to accelerate that process are often unsuccessful. Certainly, the time I tried it before, I had zero success.