Purple Japanese barberry ‘Atropurpurea' bush seeds 20 fresh floated seeds

Description: Purple Japanese barberry ‘Atropurpurea' bush seeds.Collected 12/04/2021. You will receive 20 seeds which have had the pulp removed and floated. I will keep refrigerated until sending. Will send first class mail I cannot guarantee germination and I cannot sell outside usa. Purple Japanese barberry ‘Atropurpurea’ is perhaps the most popular variety of the species. It is a perennial, spiny deciduous bush that gets from the 2nd to the 5th year, almost the final size. It has a height of between 1 and 1.5 m (3.2-5 ft) and a diameter of 0.5 to 1 m (1.6-3.2 ft), while it is extremely compact in appearance, although it sometimes happens that its young shoots give a more free form to the plant. Its shape is ellipsoid – spherical, its crown is symmetrical while its texture is characterized as fine. Under ideal circumstances Purple Japanese barberry lives for more than 25 years The plant grows many stems of the root, dark brown in color, and is multi-branch. The bark is thin, greyish brown in color and yellow inside. On the nodes of the stems grow the spines of the plant 1 to 1.5 cm long, from the base of which the leaves come out. The leaves are simple, alternating, appear in rosettes, are obovate to spatulate and 1.5 to 2.5 cm long. Their color varies depending on stage of development, season and exposure. The young leaves have a rich and deep red color that gradually turns dark green, while in autumn, just before the fall, it turns orange into red shades. It is worth noting that the red color of the leaves occurs only when the plant is completely exposed to the sun. Otherwise, if planted in a semi-shady or shady position the leaves become green – which is true of all Japanese barberry varieties. Flowers of the plant appear at the end of Spring in elongate racemes, growing in contracted umbel-like clusters, 2-5 together, are bisexual but do not have any particular decorative value. The fruits are oval solid berries, 0.8-1.5 cm long, red in color, and remain in the plant until almost the following spring. Fill 3-inch peat pots with a mixture of half medium-grit sand and half coir or peat moss. Moisten the mixture. Sow two red barberry seeds in each pot at a depth of 1/2-inch. Water each pot to a 1-inch depth. Wrap each peat pot in a sheet of plastic wrap. Poke two or three small holes in the plastic wrap. Place the pots inside a refrigerator for one to two months to cold stratify the seeds. Water whenever the sand feels mostly dry just beneath the surface. Move the peat pots to a cold frame after the cold stratification period has ended. Remove the plastic wrap. Warm the peat pots with a germination mat set to 75 F during the day and 55 F at night. Water the red barberry seeds whenever the sand and coir mixture dries out in the top 1/2-inch. Add water until it feels moderately moist but not sopping wet in the top inch. Avoid overwatering, as the seeds might rot. Watch for germination 30 to 40 days after warming the pots. Remove the smaller of the two red barberry seedlings from each peat pot, if both seeds germinate successfully. Grow the red barberry seedlings in the cold frame until spring. Move them to a lightly shaded area after all frost danger has passed and nighttime temperatures stay reliably above 50 F. Transplant the red barberries into 6-inch containers filled with garden soil once they grow to 3 inches in height. Grow them in partial sun with weekly watering until autumn. Transplant them into a permanent bed after the first rain.

Price: 4 USD

Location: Pittsfield, Illinois

End Time: 2024-08-05T13:55:22.000Z

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