Silver Mountain Nursery-Growing Christmas Trees from Seed
Silver Mountain Christmas Trees has our own seed orchards where we nurture and harvest the select Christmas tree seeds used to grow our seedlings. The trees are hand pollenated to produce special crosses (hybrids) of trees, bred to have superior characteristics in terms of shape, frangrances, and minimal needle drop.
We've accomplished a great deal in our new, state-of-the-art seed lab and stratification facilities, and this allow us to raise a more unified and higher quality crop.
When the cones are mature, we return to the orchard to harvest them and thrash the seed out. Once cleaned, the seed is ready for planting.
For planting, we use our own vacuum Precision Seeder, developed right here on our farm, to assure the seeds are planting in the precise row widths and depth we require. This seeder was developed to give us better control of the planting, and is now available for sale to other growers.
The young trees will now remain in our seedling fields for two years, where high quality seedling care assures growth of strong, healthy plants.