so in other words.. you have the seed.. and can we teach you the rest???

i will give it a shot with the variable that usually makes me stop thinking these things.. lol...

i would say 5 to 7 years to get them to bloom ...

in my world.. thats a deal breaker...

besides the fact.. that they probably dont come true from seed .. and that would mean 5 to 7 years before you find out if you have a salable plant ... and can you conceptualize how big a couple hundred 5 to 7 year old tree will be .... do you have acreage????

if you had the latin name.. we might get that info ... e.g. if its a species plant .... perhaps we can predict its seedlings ....

google: Growing magnolia trees from seed..

good luck

ken

ps: the real question would be whether named varieties are grafted plants ....

If you want to make money, I suggest you stop right now.

If you want to see if you can grow a Magnolia from seed and then are prepared to donate the trees to friends, family, or the local horticultural society for fundraising, it's actually quite easy. I would suggest Google or a library and borrow a book on plant (trees & shrubs) propagation. There will usually be some detail regarding Magnolias.

You cannot grow a magnolia tree from seeds. You have to have a old magnolia tree to produce stemilings from the root . They will pop up around old bigger magnolia trees. And then you must dig the stemmling up and cut it from the root. And plant it. That's the only way to produce more magnolia trees.

"You cannot grow a magnolia tree from seeds."

Well, that's just nonsense!! Of course you can grow a magnolia from seed!! That's why there are all those websites and YouTube videos instructing one how to do so. And how the trees reproduce in nature.

Once again we have someone appearing out of the ether to make a single, inaccurate comment on a very outdated (8 year old) thread.

I'll join the fray!

Magnolias reproduce themselves in their native environment from seed all the time, as noted. Sometimes, you may (under the right conditions) find a seedling in your home landscape. So, the initial poster's interest in growing out seedlings was a plea for assistance and direction.

If your goal is to reproduce a clone of a known selection, then vegetative reproduction from layering, cuttings, or grafting is what you must do. Seedlings will have variability within the genus or hybrid.

Magnolia grandifloras are have been popping up in my yard, from seed, in North Jersey, for the last two years..., so pretty sure they are able to reproduce from seed in their older, native, established ranges. Now, I just rip them out of the yard along with the volunteer seedlings of maples, oaks, elms..., whatever.

stemilings ..... ===>>>>

why bother arguing with someone who makes up their own horticultural terms ...

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=stemilings&ia=web

ken

It's like rubberneckers at the scene of a wreck, or men gathering to look at a hole in the ground at a construction site...almost irresistible.