I grew 1,200 Giant Sequoia trees on my balcony this year

There's nothing cooler than somebody geeking out on nature. Here's to you, cool nerd.

FYI, your bedroom is haunted by a grey ghost dog.

I hope you will have the time to write up your findings into a paper/instruction and publish them! Hopefully you’ll find a home for the rest of your sapling before they become too big to remain on your balcony.

OMG!!!! I've also been doing this for years and I have also been developing my own methods. I honestly can't believe how you have managed to get such a high percentage rate, so much more difficult than people realise. If I try to germinate 100 seeds I can often expect to get 5 trees to a good enough size to plant outside. So weird that I follow you for your mountaineering content but you've dropped a video with the exact info I need for something else.

This is great info. Would love to see a follow up video with a care guide for young saplings

A small tip! Please leave an outtro on your videos. This enables us to like the video on TV's before it just dissappears at the end, unlike phones where it hangs around. Great video. Thanks for your intensive work.

Im from northern california and now live in seattle where some scientists are talking about encouraging assisted migration of giant sequoia trees: so this information is very helpful in preserving these trees within their native range and their potential future native range.

Greetings from a fellow hobby tree grower. I grow oak and linden from local seed. It started with our children brought home a wool ski hat full of oak seed from the day-care yard. The survivors we planted in memory of grandfather and I just have continued from that year. Cheers from Finland

I have grown oak, judas, wisteria, pinus radiata, all becoming larger trees in large pots. Still healthy . Love growing, strangely satisfying hobby all for future bonsai. Also have a 10year old sequoia doing great.

Excellent work with this experiment. YES, please put together a guide video on germinating and growing sequoia trees!

I've been growing and planting sequoias and coast redwoods for some years now, and eventhough I live in the pacific northwest I can tell you it's no easy task, especially getting them to a point where they are mature enough to plant in a permanent location. just discovered your channel, thank you so much, I'm gonna try what you did. Hopefully I'm successful.

Fabulous! Mr. Johnny Appleseed of Sequoias. You educate and inspire me and now let's get to the rest of the wold!

I love the scientific approach you've taken. It would be amazing if you could share your data with the rest of the community.

Thank you so much! I too have been frustrated by the anecdotal information on the topic so i was really refreshed to see what you did here and very appreciative that you posted it. I'd pay $10 for your published findings... you have to be considering it

Questions: 1. What was your overall budget? 2. Although it’s been over a year, do you still have any seedlings? 3. If you could do it all again, what would you do differently? 4. Would they be able to survive in the following United States locations? Elko-Nevada, Luna-New Mexico, Valencia-New Mexico, Hondale-New Mexico, Van Buren-Arkansas, Cheraw-South Carolina. 5. Is your guide only to be used in the UK? Thank you for all of your help!

Thanks George for making this video It helped me I'll also plant some sequoias for my future generations and as a symbol which would represent me and I'd live 3000 years via this tree 🌲 .

You and your teammate did something amazing science here. We need more of like you and wishing a widespread growth of those wonderful trees in your area.

Wow, how beautiful. Here’s a big hug and kiss to all of you who plant trees.

The Giant Sequoia is an awe inspiring species, well done!

Hi George, Thanks for all the work you've put in. It could definitely help me. I've come up with a plan to increase the biodiversity in a young forest (15 years I think with only couple early species) by helping nature along. I'll try and use my knowledge of food forests and permaculture. I will grow seedlings of local trees that are really big so they have proved themselves. There are two sequoias with two miles which I want to use seeds from. Your findings and possibly upcoming guide should help me along. Now I need to find some volunteers to help and offers growing space and get going. We'll have a great forest by the time I'm ready for my wheelchair. :-)