This tree in my back yard has produced lots of seed pods this year. I am not sure if the seeds are viable for propagation since I have only one tree. Never the less I would like to see if the seeds will successfully burst out into seedlings. That would that be great!
I would like it if you could share some input in your experience. All comments welcome. Thanks!

I have no experience with them, good luck.

Karen

kqcrna said:I have no experience with them, good luck.

Karen

I finally harvested the seeds today and will wait for the weather to warm up before doing something with them.
Thank you for your kind reply!

If you have a lot of seeds, you could break open a couple of them and check for embryos. Some trees (in my experience, like with Acer griseum) that are isolated more often than not produce seeds, but with no embryo inside, called parthenocarpy. These were seeds produced without fertilization, and for some reason I had a hard time finding information online about how these trees reproduce and was unable to look into bloodwood trees specifically.
But in short, if you are unsure about if anything will grow from them, it would be a good idea to just break a couple open and see for yourself (before investing a lot of time into empty seeds, like I did with the A. griseum)

Ohhh…. Thank you so very much for your advice. I real do appreciate it. I do have abundant seeds that I retrieved from the pods. I am not sure if there are any embryos inside any of them or not.
You are spot on about finding no information online which leaves the gardener out by exclusion. It does not looking like many people are growing these. I could be totally wrong about this.