I grew 1,200 Giant Sequoia trees on my balcony this year

I turned a little hobby into a giant experiment because I was disappointed with the amount of data available on growing your own giant sequoia trees from seed.

[andrewcheshire]

There's nothing cooler than somebody geeking out on nature. Here's to you, cool nerd.

[eventtrading]

I live in California right next to a grove of 8 coast redwoods. They are in the 200 foot tall range and stand ram rod straight. Except when the wind comes up. Last winter we had a Pacific storm roar in with sustained 50 MPH gusts. I watched in amazement as they turned from redwood to palm trees. Literally bent over close to horizontal. It was shock and awe. They are young redwoods so I'm sure that accounted for that incredible flex. A sight I will never forget.

[kodzos]

I hope you will have the time to write up your findings into a paper/instruction and publish them! Hopefully you’ll find a home for the rest of your sapling before they become too big to remain on your balcony.

[cvin]

This is great info. Would love to see a follow up video with a care guide for young saplings

[GeorgeLucas]

Man this is so necessary. I wish every plant species had this level of data available so wonderfully presented on youtube. God's work

[logtothebase]

FYI, your bedroom is haunted by a grey ghost dog.

[MF-fcvk]

I have grown oak, judas, wisteria, pinus radiata, all becoming larger trees in large pots. Still healthy . Love growing, strangely satisfying hobby all for future bonsai. Also have a 10year old sequoia doing great.

[ferrugenfish]

Thank you so much! I too have been frustrated by the anecdotal information on the topic so i was really refreshed to see what you did here and very appreciative that you posted it. I'd pay $10 for your published findings... you have to be considering it

[maigematthews]

Questions:
1. What was your overall budget?
2. Although it’s been over a year, do you still have any seedlings?
3. If you could do it all again, what would you do differently?
4. Would they be able to survive in the following United States locations? Elko-Nevada, Luna-New Mexico, Valencia-New Mexico, Hondale-New Mexico, Van Buren-Arkansas, Cheraw-South Carolina.
5. Is your guide only to be used in the UK?
Thank you for all of your help!

[m.santana]

I've been growing and planting sequoias and coast redwoods for some years now, and eventhough I live in the pacific northwest I can tell you it's no easy task, especially getting them to a point where they are mature enough to plant in a permanent location. just discovered your channel, thank you so much, I'm gonna try what you did. Hopefully I'm successful.

[simonpaine]

A small tip! Please leave an outtro on your videos. This enables us to like the video on TV's before it just dissappears at the end, unlike phones where it hangs around.
Great video. Thanks for your intensive work.

[savesoilsaveearth]

Thanks George for making this video
It helped me I'll also plant some sequoias for my future generations and as a symbol which would represent me and I'd live 3000 years via this tree 🌲 .

[jozefj.]

I love the scientific approach you've taken. It would be amazing if you could share your data with the rest of the community.

[LoganJohnson-lmbh]

This is good stuff I'm glad you did it and shared it

[LittleSpaceCase]

Im from northern california and now live in seattle where some scientists are talking about encouraging assisted migration of giant sequoia trees: so this information is very helpful in preserving these trees within their native range and their potential future native range.

[deirdredear]

Fabulous! Mr. Johnny Appleseed of Sequoias. You educate and inspire me and now let's get to the rest of the wold!

[Nifty-Stuff]

Excellent work with this experiment. YES, please put together a guide video on germinating and growing sequoia trees!

[duncanidaho]

Got a smile out of the STATA graphs. Excellent work.

[pdterre]

Greetings from a fellow hobby tree grower. I grow oak and linden from local seed. It started with our children brought home a wool ski hat full of oak seed from the day-care yard. The survivors we planted in memory of grandfather and I just have continued from that year. Cheers from Finland

[ИнтеллектИнтеллект-шд]

Wow.. Good job👍 can you show those trees on these days. Hello from Kazakstan👋