I always buried my seeds about 1/4" or less.

Those don't have enough girth really. What you can try is to use a baby spoon (great tool) and lift one up and if you see roots at the bottom, if so, then you can safely move it to a 4" pot or similar. Next year about this same time you transfer them to gallon or quarts, or, simply plant them.

My past experience was sowing the seed around Feb-Mar and moving the plugs to 5" tall Anderson band pots around late May-June-July and by the end of the summer my seedlings were a foot tall. The following year I planted from the band pot. Since I had far too many, I donated to a city parks & rec department.

Dax

Thanks, Dax. I poked the remaining seeds in with a pencil, so hopefully a few more will germinate - I was hoping for a higher percentage than I've got so far. Should I care that some of them are hitting the top of the humidity chamber?

I like this little seed chamber. Has a water reservoir that lasted about a month filled up and it wicks the moisture up to the coir using a fabric mat that the ends rest in the water..

Get rid of the dome for those seeds. Metasequoia doesn't require that. A heat mat will help you along, just be aware that media dries up real fast.

Dax

My brother once produced a large crop of DR. Not sure what exactly he did though. It looks like in the picture that the mix is all peat? I use 5-1-1 Al's mix as explained in the container forum. Plants love that stuff.

I think I used some sort of potting mix but I can't remember what brand. I left the trees in the tray until they were probably 6 inches or so. Basically tall enough so I could pull the whole tree/root system out of the cell without damaging anything.
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