The first 12,5 years of two giant sequoias
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Once upon a time a long, long time ago (12,5 years) in a place far, far away (in Holland; Europe), two feet below sea level, two little sequoias started to grow.
And now, 12,5 years later, the sky is the limit…….
The seeds were bought in 2006 in the Grant Village Visitor Center in Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park in California, USA. The music is Beethoven Symphony no. 5.
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Been watching your sequoias grow for years now, so happy to see they're both still doing well. Well done!
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
@@martinvn123 we're did you get the seeds I would like to grow some of my own
@@ricksieberg4115 I actually saw some today at Walmart of all places.
i want to be like you when I grow up. Just an old man and his plants. He's lived through enough to realize that patience is the only thing that matters. Without patience, we appreciate nothing. The best things are worth waiting for.
And 100 years later someone will decide to cut it down... because some solar panel won't get enough light.
I know someone that cut one of these down because he thought that doing that would actually RAISE the value of his property...
In my minor opinion it's the exact opposite.
Really shows the saying - the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is now.
still growing nicely! i managed to get one going last spring, and it survived the winter. now it's growing again :)
Great. I hope your tree will do well.
I ve been watching these two beautiful trees for years and i wait the new video every year so continue🙂
I live in central Illinois and our elderly neighbor's son baught one in a pot that was already 18-20 inches tall in California and planted it here in Illinois in late April last year. By late October it had grown a foot.
That's great, the more trees, the better.
What part of Illinois, is there a photo of it?
I am trying to grow that and bristlecone pine btw I am in north Indiana
How well did it survive through the winter, though?
Still alive?😊
We’re due for the first 13,5 years of a giant sequoia
Wait for the first 14 years
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I live in Greece and it's my first time growing those beauties, I have 8 of the so far, 2-3 month seedlings, I hope I will manage to grow them all
475 cm = roughly 15 feet 7 inches. Great! Keep making updates every few years. I hope there is something to protect them from being cut down or damaged. But then any sort of sign might attract unwanted attention or intentional damage/destruction. Maybe best to stay incognito.
The biggest one is now 550 c, (18 feet) But the bigger they get, the more they will be noticed. They can't hide in the woods anymore.
@@martinvn123 yeah, and it seems like you planted it in a public location, so the landscapers may think about removing the tree.
@@martinvn123 You may wanna try growing coast redwoods next. They grow much faster but require more water.
@@Otto-cz6by, more water? No problem in the Netherlands..lol
It rains constantly.
@@Nephila23 yes it rains very much here. I meant coast redwoods need more water than giant sequoias. And actually, most of the water they receive comes from fog, which condenses on the trunk, and waters the tree. So, there really isn't any place on the earth that receives enough rainfall for coastal redwoods.
Amazing video! Inspiring to grow sequoiadendrons!
Start growing them!
Thank you very much for making me dream with your video and work with those two wonderful young trees!
I'm watching you from New Caledonia South Pacific.
Is it possible to have picture of them of today?
Nature can be wonderful when we treated fair. Good to see this species gets it,s start .I hope those buildings don’t keep encroaching. Thank you
Coming back to this history. What a magnificent effort, Martin. Congratulations. We hope to follow the updates on this beautiful tribute in the years to come.
I hope I can make those updates :-)
I think I’ve watched this video three times. What a beautiful video! I can’t wait for the 50 year update
Thanks. I made a 14 year update. ruclips.net/video/j8M8aGuocco/видео.html
I'm excited for the 2020, end of summer update ;)
they are growing nicely. Compared to me they become taller and I am not shrinking.
Great job! Excellent work. I have just received Giant Sequoia seeds and will begin the germination process within a few days. Thank you for the inspiration!
We need to save them😢
Last 2 years I’ve visited the national forest so many burned in the fire
A labor of love to have done this for the earth to enjoy its growth! Thank you very much, not just for doing this, but for sharing it with the rest of us.
I live in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia, in Bucks county. One of my neighbors has an absolutely gorgeous enormous trees on one corner of his lot. One day I asked and he told me it was a sequoia (at least a hundred foot), that was planted 35 years before. Another 35 years and they’ll have to move the house.
I'll try to grow one in East Texas we get about 44 inches of rain each year so they should be ok
They should do well. Just keep them slightly shaded. I had a bunch die off cause of our intense heat.
Sure, but keep a close eye on them. They need CONSISTENT moisture. Like water them every day. Rain alone won't be enough. They grow well on a small strip in California, due to the summer fog in the area.
The Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) is grown in all zones. Zones refer to climate. Extreme environments like low desert and far north present challenges for the sequoias. Specimen sequoias can be found in most climates indicating that the species is remarkably adaptable. A sequoia can suck the ground dry on a warm day. If there is no natural means of replenishing the soil moisture consistently the grower must supplement the sequoias with irrigation. Failure to keep the soil moist results in a dead tree. Sequoias require moist, rich, balanced ph, and well-drained soil. Permanently swampy or muddy soil will not work.
For more info: see: www.giant-sequoia.com/faqs/giant-sequoia-landscape-questions/
@@martinvn123 Crap I cant Grow Giant Sequoia Because I Dont Have All Zones And Its Cold AND Poor Ph Soil
Good, I’m in North Texas and have been wanting to grow one for years but my family thinks that it wouldn’t be possible but you give me hope
what a great movie, kudos!!
Great! Please continue)
i love everything about this video, especially the end
Congratulations. Is the video I needed to go to sleep with renewed faith in humanity.
We live in Rio Nido California in a Giant Redwood Forest. I'm super proud of you WOW great work🤩
Incredible dedication! Thanks for taking the time. What a great timeline also if man vs tree. Godspeed! 🖖
So soothing...!! Its a treat to the eyes !!
Ik ben even wezen kijken hij staat er mooi bij!
I love the outro about the grandkids. Awesome legacy!
“We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
― David Brower
Currently training my less than 2 year old giant sequoia how to be a tree in Ohio, USA.
So nice, i was expecting bonsai but it was great to see they actually getting bigger :)
doesn't look like they grow that fast, have a three in my garden and they've grown over 1 meter in 1 year.
but i love the fact that you showed the location, now n forever ppl will be able to go n visit the trees
Sequoias get so immensely big, and live for such a long time, that you would think they'd be very slow-growing. In fact they grow quite vigorously, as we see here when these two got into the ground.
They grow 80-100 cm a year. But in this video they don't grow fast?
They are already tall but not even as tall as most mature european trees, it’s kind of a amazing thing to think that those trees will easily outgrow a flat. Nice to see they can grow and live in the Netherlands(i’m from there)
The biggest one in Holland is 35 meters. It is in Brummen.
so beautiful to see them grow
They are gorgeous trees. We planted one at our home in Oregon in 2010. I imagine it must be close to 40 feet tall at this time.
There very slow growing like Bonsai Tree , That why they need protection from lumber mills! It takes thousand of years for them to be 150' tall and taller > They need to replanted all over the world! and protected. They need to be studied too make there grow faster and bigger That some thing you should be proud of! your trees got growing I THINKS THAT IS ASWEOME
From www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1151 "... whereas the giant sequoia is more likely to grow about two feet in height per year throughout its first fifty to one hundred years. On the other hand, the massive trunk of the giant sequoia continues to grow - increasing its overall volume - at a rate far surpassing that of any other tree. Growth rings one half inch in thickness are common in young giant sequoias under optimal conditions. This amounts to an increase of one inch of diameter per year. And rapid growth is likely to continue even when the trunk has become one hundred or more feet in circumference. By then the annual growth rings may have become narrower, but the overall volume of growth may be continuing at the same or an increased rate."
I live in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia, in Bucks county. One of my neighbors has an absolutely gorgeous enormous trees on one corner of his lot. One day I asked and he told me it was a sequoia (at least a hundred foot), that was planted 35 years before. Another 35 years and they’ll have to move the house.
Spectacular ! I’ve always wanted to do a similar project but until now never did 😞 . Well done.
So awesome!!! What is the secret? I want to do that too but i live in a warm climate
Sir we want more love you sir you're great 💯
Would it grow taller faster if the lower branches were trimmed?
The deer came by and ate all the branches off. Some just died. Then we had the minus 30 degree and more Polar Vortex cold snap in BC Canada, which mostly wiped the rest out. A couple survived, which I will take to the Coast.
No way!!
Keeping them in containers gave you … Bonsai trees!! 👍
Hi, Mr. Martin.Wonderful, wonderful. I would like to meet these trees in person. One day I still do that. Thank you for providing this follow-up. I'm trying to do the same with 14 sequoias seedlings that I planted here in Brazil, and I hope to have at least half of your determination and success ...
Great, I hope they will do fine. Go for it!
I think the surrounding deciduous trees need to be thinned out
Soon the sequoias will outgrown them, but some have already thinned out.
Absolutely beautiful tree. Thank you for sharing this journey with us!
2057. Lets see now. I’m 89. I’m on pins and needles waiting for your daughters 50 year update. Great video. Everyone should see these trees in California at least once in their life time. They just leave you completely in awe!
Now look at what you've done. In a thousand years the low country will be covered with giant trees!
Lovely stuff!
Fantastic, I’m going to do the same now in Hillsborough,Northern Ireland.
Ah Northern Ireland! Go for it David!
Thank you.❤😮😊
Bravo!
Another year, another update: the first 15 years of two giant sequoias; At the end the introduction of the little nephew, donated to the ancient Duivenvoorde castle.
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At what point (years old) would you switch from a pot to the ground for maximum growth ? Seems like you could have done this earlier. I have a couple on order for spring delivery. Just wondering....Thanks for the video.
After one to two years, I think , depends how big they are and how strong they look. Mine were too long in the pots, but that was because I hadn't a good place to plant the trees.
Nice
Awesome man
Thanks
I have 3 seedlings. They have a bit crooked trunks, but they are alive and growing :-)
It is not how you look, it is how you grow.
@@martinvn123 The biggest of them is 8,5 cm now. I will buy a bigger pot for it tomorrow. Lets hope for 17cm in a month. I give them 18 hours of light.
These are the coordinates: 52°05'57.4"N 4°23'24.9"E
There's also a streetview and they can be seen on it. One is just behind some green van. (commented on MAY 2024 - streetview from OCT 2022)
Amazing! Hope it grows giant! ❤
When visiting the Okeefenokee Swamp in Georgia (USA) in the 1990's I picked up some bald cypress seeds and then planted them on the bank of my pond in South Florida. One is now at least 5 feet tall. This does not seem so remarkable except that all of the cypresses in my area are pond cypress which are much, much shorter at maturity. This one will be the giant of the neighborhood. It was an experiment on my part. I had learned that cypress seeds should be planted in soil that will be wet or damp for at least 3 months. I don't own that property any more but I visit the next door neighbor; you can count on me to peek over the fence to see how it's doing.
keep up the good work and enjoy your life
Hello, are they still alive?
That tree will grow BIG! It has unlimited axcess to water..
Your patience is inspiring, I planted one as well in our weekend cottage in the mountains in Serbia and I'll be back in a week for another visit and see it's progress along with other specimens which I brought over from the States.
🤔 So, 7 years to grow only 125cm in a little pot, and in the other 5 years it reached 475cm in nature.
The lesson here is: never leave a tree in a pot for more than 1 year. Roots need space to grow healthy. Unless you want a cute bonsai 😆he he.
Yes boys and girls, this is why you don’t cut down trees unless you absolutely have too, because they take generations to regrow back. Hard to watch those cut down great trees that took 100 years to grow.
I got some seeds and germinated in trees looking like your sequoias but someone told me they are cypreses because of the shape of the leaves ... I am confused now! Hopefully mi e grow as beautiful as yours, congratulations good job, Kind Regards from México 🇲🇽
Holy shit! What a project!
Amazing!
I don't have to do much anymore. Just to watch and take a picture once in a while.
I'm disapointed there were no pictures with Christmas decorations on the tree 😂 come on, it would be epic! I planted my own sequoia seeds a couple of weeks ago and yesterday I saw the first little sprout. Hope they survive and get big and beautiful like yours. And I'll definitely decorate them this coming Christmas, no matter how small they would be by that time 😂
I think the General Grant Tree in Sequoia NP is the Nation's Christmas Tree in the USA. In Holland we don't have a national christmas tree, but perhaps in 100 years these two trees could become the national christmas trees. Hope uour sprouts will survive ande one day become a christmas tree.
1:3 I like this music... remind me of tom and Jerry fighting when tom plays for the concert 🙂😂😂
I hear they are not actually fast growing trees often all the online information I find confuses the 2 redwood trees Coast Redwood and Giants Sequoia. the Coast redwood grows fast especially if temperatures never get below freezing or much above 25c, and Giant Sequoias grow on the sides of western facing mountains at about 400 meters and higher
You reached the top human IQ...and you know in what i refer to.I am so glad.Maybe there is hope.This journey is extra ordinary!
Growth changed exponentally when they took it off from the pot
I did plant 5 Segovia trees. They are about 5 to 6 feet now, in Riverside California.
We need to continue to plant stands for Giant Sequoia Seed in multiple locations around the world to save them from drought and wildfires in their native range, and Sierra Nevada’s.
I've set a reminder to come back here in the year 2057. I will be 50 by then. Hi future me!
Very nice!
According to Google: giant sequoia is more likely to grow about two feet in height per year throughout its first fifty to one hundred years, so Are you sure this is Giant Sequoia?
How do these treew reproduce. I wonder if you cross bred a giant redwood and a dawn redwood if you would get a hybrid that grows larger than the dawn redwood but could survive the cold climate.
Appreciate your Idea. Best of luck hope we see it rech 40m and above in this lifetime.
I'm looking forward to see how they are doing in the year 4024
I have 5mature oaks on my standard residential yard
Hoi Martin! Ik kweek ook graag bomen die ik graag buiten zo uitzetten. Heb je hiervoor toestemming aan de gemeente gevraagd of heb je dit gewoon gedaan en heeft niemand hem gekapt?
Some people have pics of their humans on their phone, this guy's got pics of trees on his.
I dk much about trees but i bet that the fact that he didn't untangle the root ball made the tree less efficient
We have a Gorgeous one, 5 years old and 8 ft now grown from General Sherman seed!
From what I’ve read, this tree will eventually struggle in this area. Part of the reason they strive in the northwest is the fog. The trees grow so tall that they struggle to pull water up to the top. The fog provides much needed moisture for the canopy. They won’t have that in most areas.
These two trees won't be tall enough to have that problem for a great many years / decades / centuries, and I suspect they would just cease getting substantially taller if the transportation of water to the crown was becoming too difficult.
That sounds like the related Coast Redwood ( Sequoia) to me- not this species ( Sequoiadendron). Coast redwoods live ( as the name suggests) much closer to the coast in Ca, where fog is a much more common occurrence than inland at higher elevations- where Sequoiadendron is native. Sequoiadendron ( also known as Giant Sequoia, grows well in much more variable conditions around the world.
I could be wrong, but I do grow multiple trees of both at my home in Washington state
@@timmillan6701 could I get a variety to grow in Maryland?
Kinda curious how strong it grows with 20% worm castings in its soil mix.
If only you planted it in the ground & not in pot it would grow a lot faster & bigger
Does the Dutch government allow foreign seeds and plants to be brought into the Netherlands?
No that is not allowed. There are all kinds of rules for which plants and trees may and may not be imported. It depends on what kind of plant trees they are and what countries they come from. Sequoia seed is allowed. file:///C:/Users/Van%20Neck/Downloads/Register+Invoerverboden+bij+import.pdf
I was boren 2007
I guess the trees has outgrow you by now .....
Seems like after the first 7 years, they really start to grow
Magnificent... That is life 🍀🎵🎶🧿😊
What exactly do you mean 12,5 years?
In some countries they use a comma instead of a period as the decimal point. It's also the reverse for how we use commas in large numbers (thousands separator).
USA: 3.14 & 3,000,000.
Other countries: 1,99 & 2.591.900
Or they'll just use space i.e. 10 000 000
So, 12,5 years = 12.5 years.
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@@johnr5252 and that is what they say about us 🤣
Update? Thank you for the video!
I feel like they grow a little faster then pine trees
It’s been another 3 years! I wonder how they look now.
Cool and just think they are still babies.