I usually plant the seeds by placing them directly from my mouth into the soil. The pots stay outside in a spot where they’re unlikely to dry out. Around the last week of March the following year, I bring them indoors, and that’s when they start to germinate. I keep them inside until the risk of late frosts has passed—then they’re ready to go back outside.
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Yeah, I the goumi seeds I germinated didn’t require warm stratification.
If planted immediately after harvest, the goumi seeds get warm stratification naturally since the fruit ripen in summer. They will have months of warm & moist (cause you’ll keep them watered) before winter comes to give them cold stratification. This has worked very well for me. Only problem is that when they do germinate, something likes to mow them down so now I have to also give them protection.
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I had great success this year with E. umbellata germination. I fermented the fruits for a couple of days after harvest and then washed off any remaining fruit pulp, and then put them into pots and left them outside during the winter. I had almost 100% germination rate like this. But from my experience, seeds from fruit that ripen in fall are much easier than summer ripening fruit, because those often need that warm phase and are much more prone to drying out. Cornelian cherries for example are still giving me a headache. I hope Goumi will germinate just as easily as Autumn olive.
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Hey there, grüess di. I read with great interest your thread here. I’m Swiss. So im quite close to you. I saw the Variety Daigoumi the first time on hortensis. But he isn’t yet selling yet. I wonder if you offer rooted branches from your specimen? And if you can send them.
I’m trusted with E. umbellata since 5 years and i quite enjoy their many advantages. Since this year i’ve planted cuttings from E. multiflora: cherrific, sweet scarlet and Dr. Szczepan.
Best greeting
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Hey there grapevine, may I ask your where you’re from? Im Swiss and i’d love to get my fingers on the Daigoumi. Maybe theres any chance you could send me rooted plants? thanks for an answer.
I’m in the US so it would not be possible to send rooted plants.
My two goumies… red gem and sweet scarlet were purchased from one green world spring 2020.
They still have the OGW tags on them.
My red gem is a little larger than my sweet scarlet.
Of course they could have had them tagged wrong.
When we sell our current home… the red gem and sweet scarlet will go with the home.
That is why I did the air layer of Carmine… to plant in my new orchard. That air layer has bloomed and set fruit now.
I added 3 grafts of raintree select to my RG and SS this spring… and all 3 are looking good… two have bloomed on the growth on the gtafts and are setting fruit.
I cant tell much difference in the taste of RG SS or C. They all taste very similar to me. I would much rather eat the larger berries…
When I plant that Carmine air layer in my new orchard… the next spring I will graft some Raintree select to it for pollination. Those are both larger berries.
If I have those two larger berries… I will not miss RG and SS.
TNHunter
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