# Growing bonsai from seeds

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**Category:** Horticulture\
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/growing-bonsai-from-seeds/3685 "2019-07-11T14:38:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anthony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Anthony](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/Anthony)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/growing-bonsai-from-seeds/3685/13 "2020-03-29T17:54:05Z")

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Great thread. I have a bunch of trees growing from seed. I experimented a bit with JBP And found it by far the easiest to germinate. It works fine by standard scarifying (1 day is water, discard the floaters) and stratifying (30-60 days in damp perlite in a ziplock in the fridge) and then planting in soil.

But the paper towel method works even better. Take your stratified seeds, place them on a damp (not sopping) paper towel, fold so you have a single layer over top of the seeds and place in a ziplock under light. In a week or two you will have germinating seeds you can transplant.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/2X/f/f89668506024f6ef0627694e255ec4704cd52f70.jpeg). I got around 90% germination w this technique.

Now I have so many I don’t know what I’m going to do with them all.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/2X/4/4d82d73a316beefd41a388cc001b9fd9cad899f2.jpeg)

I have also started a thread on growing nothofagus species from seed so won’t repost that but here is [the link …](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/nothofagus-species/5224/11)

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