It looks like you did. My wife says the same thing to me every time she has to go into the back yard.

Hey, Lou,
I'm there for you, buddy!! (mine was the same way this past spring!
J.D.

Lol.

Ahem... I collected hundreds of montezuma cypress seeds and 'Sentido' weeping MC when I was in Nacogdoches at Stephen F Austin State University last weekend. I am trying something different this time. I have tried "Midlothian" cypress seeds and I only had 5 seedlings out of hundreds. I collected hundreds of seeds from that tree too this year. What I'm going to do is place them on moist paper towel in a flat plastic container and leave them in the fridge till mid-March and sow them. Leave them inside where the temp is 70*F for germination. This method is called Deno method. It worked much better with shantung maple and japanese maple. Same for Trident and red Japanese maple but I forgot about them... as they took 2-3 months to germinate at 40*F on moist paper towels. With Deno, species are different so you'd have to get a book from Deno on how to do it.

Lou, just curious ... do the red Japanese Maple seedling hold true to the parent, or do they revert to the species green Japanese Maple? Either way would be good though. I have a species (green) Japanese Maple seedling that my Mom gave me 13 years ago from her tree. It is now 15 to 20 ft tall and BEAUTIFUL. Surprisingly tough plant too. Two trees that to me are definitely wise "investment" plants for a landscape are Japanese Maples & Yaupon Hollies. So glad I planted them over a decade ago. At least I did some things right back then!

Randy