Confused about my Acer tree seedlings.

[SteHyatt]

Hi

 

Started growing some japanese maple/acer tree seedlings but I am confused at what they look like.

 

Some of the high stems are 12 inches + looking at them but they look like grass?

 

Not flat grass though. Harder more rounded grass.

[dumper]

I can confirm that they are not acer tree seedlings maybe a sedge or reed could be xanthorrea or maybe dasilirion but definitely not acer

[timbernut]

Reed def not sedge (reed always round if cross cut and sedge triangular)
What made you think they were acers?

[dumper]

Japanese acers could you have bamboo seedlings? They are monocotyledons an acer would be a dicotyledon 

[SteHyatt]

Hahahahaha. I planted orange acer tree seeds myself.

 

A few weeks in I noticed some green shoots but also some soil bugs. So I changed the compost. Pulled these out as had good roots. Binned seeds that didn't take.

 

Didn't think to look for the seeds these roots came from which means I binned all the seeds with old compost. The old compost had this reed/grass in.

 

Hahahaha. Feel so stupid. It was some type of grass when I pulled it out and cleaned the roots. 

[SteHyatt]

I wanted to grow one as I have a red acer doing quite well and a green (not doing as well).

[dumper]

24 minutes ago, SteHyatt said:

I wanted to grow one as I have a red acer doing quite well and a green (not doing as well).

Keep it in the shade slightly larger pot than you would normally use better if it’s deeper use John inness ericacious compost soil based with added composted bark and water with rain water if you are in hard water area, this will give it the best chance 

if germinating acer seeds put the in damp compost in the fridge for a month before planting makes them germinate better. 

[SteHyatt]

8 minutes ago, dumper said:

Keep it in the shade slightly larger pot than you would normally use better if it’s deeper use John inness ericacious compost soil based with added composted bark and water with rain water if you are in hard water area, this will give it the best chance 

if germinating acer seeds put the in damp compost in the fridge for a month before planting makes them germinate better. 

Thank you for the advice. Will do. Cheers.