Hey Will,

Windy Ridge Nursery sells 1 - any amount of grafts for about 4 bucks a piece and does custom grafting (disregard that they say they are wholesale).

Have a good one.

Dax

No luck at Gees and the Windy Ridge site doesn't show any mariana available. Tanks Dax.

Willis

Head up north, and ask a forest ranger for permission to collect seedlings on National Forest land.

Resin

Western Maine Nursery has P. mariana seedlings but the 'catch' is you are required to buy minimun purchase which is probably a 100X what you need!

conifer50

Itasca Greenhouse lists them. They look to be sold out currently but available in late Aug 07.

I have ordered a number of trees from them before and they are plug grown. The majority have done well for me.

Customer service is good and shipping has been cheapest of anyone I have ordered from. Less than $10 for 50+ seedlings
No minimum order.

Keith

Here is a link that might be useful: itasca greenhouse conifers

Thanks Keith, looks like a good source.

Resin, then I would have to be able to identify Picea mariana, and worse yet seedlings. I'd come home with a bunch of Norway spruce and 1000 mosquito bites. My dad is going to Quetico park in a week, maybe he can throw 20 in the boat for me. He'll far even worse in the ID part though.

Willis

Mckenna,

'JUST' buy the seedlings from Itasca. Windy Ridge does any type of grafting going on the assumption that they will 'try to locate scionwood for any customer'.-)

I've spoken with them on the phone. Least you could do in any worse case scenario is to get the understocks for anybody you know that grafts.

Send them to me for example.

Dax

If you just want plain seedlings, here's a place. I placed an order with them earlier in the year for some Black Spruce, and was pleased:

http://www.coldstreamfarm.net/productlist-new.asp?ID=2&SID=11

I want some. I think that the range of black spruce up to the arctic circle makes this a very intersting tree since it's something that most of the continent never gets to see in person. I will order in the fall and see if I can get P. mariana to survive here in Atlantarctica, GA.

Point of interest . . it is growing perfectly well (and regenerating) here on the edge of zone 9. But that is of course with cool oceanic summers, which makes a huge difference.

For Willis - here's what you want to look for. Can't help with the mosquito bites, but the worst of them should be over by the time the cones are ripe.

Resin

Does anyone have a source for POTTED black spruce? I refuse to buy bare root evergreens.