These are the bok choy bases- one week of sitting in water with a drop of houseplant fertilizer. Also the spring onions. They are looking a bit sad now, but in a month or so will be lush and green.
To be honest I am going to straight talk on this one. You get 5 or 6 spring onions in a bunch from the supermarket of pencil thickness. Why bother to flaff about when you can get a packet of spring onion seeds for a quid or less. I chit my spring onions as I do for most of my seeds and get 90% plus germination. I just don't see the point. It's the same with other supermarket seeds from produce. Someone somewhere recommended doing it with carrots. You have to wait a year to set the carrot for seed even if you are lucky enough that they have not gone rotten over winter. Let's be realistic seeds are cheaper enough and if you follow common sense you will get a crop. I grow enough to feed my family and neighbours and I would not have the patience to mess about like this in fact my family and neighbours would go hungry.
I have germinated mango stones, avocado stones, loquats, lychees and pomegranates. Pineapple tops grow fairly easily.
How long did it take to get fruit in any of these?
As I said above, I have never grown anything to fruiting size. I just tried for the fun of seeing if I could get germination. I have even found avocado stones in my compost heap with a strong root growing from them. Nothing to do with me. Just Mother Nature determined to survive.
Partly because it's a bit of fun that costs nearly nowt and partly because (for tight people like me😉) there's a sense of getting something for virtually nothing.
I cut and come again with chives all summer long and never thought of being able to do the same with spring onions. If they're anything like chives a couple of bunches could last me years! I can't tell you how many times I've bought a bunch of spring onions when I only need 2 or 3 for a recipe and the rest of the bunch have sat getting sadder and sadder in the fridge.
Similarly with pak choi. Had never thought of trying to root them to have leaves available for cut and come again. Usually only need a few leaves for stir fries or asian soups and they only seem to come in pacs of 2 bulbs in the SM so I'm left scratching around for ideas to use up the second bulb.
Definitely going to try these two ideas.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Most of us know we aren't likely to be producing fruiting Avocado, Mango or Citrus in the UK from stones/pips tho Pineapple is feasible given the heat and the patience and P. edulis is also a winner. That's not really the point tho - just looking at the success posters have had with various things, I certainly think it's worthwhile trying. I've had success with some that have been mentioned but I'll also be trying some I'd not thought of before. Experimenting may not be for everyone as per @Whiterot but how did we get half our plants without someone, somewhere thinking " I'll give this a go " ?
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Sunflowers will grow from a cheap bag of bird seed.
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Partly because it's a bit of fun that costs nearly nowt and partly because (for tight people like me😉) there's a sense of getting something for virtually nothing.
I cut and come again with chives all summer long and never thought of being able to do the same with spring onions. If they're anything like chives a couple of bunches could last me years! I can't tell you how many times I've bought a bunch of spring onions when I only need 2 or 3 for a recipe and the rest of the bunch have sat getting sadder and sadder in the fridge.
Similarly with pak choi. Had never thought of trying to root them to have leaves available for cut and come again. Usually only need a few leaves for stir fries or asian soups and they only seem to come in pacs of 2 bulbs in the SM so I'm left scratching around for ideas to use up the second bulb.
Definitely going to try these two ideas.
Most of us know we aren't likely to be producing fruiting Avocado, Mango or Citrus in the UK from stones/pips tho Pineapple is feasible given the heat and the patience and P. edulis is also a winner.
That's not really the point tho - just looking at the success posters have had with various things, I certainly think it's worthwhile trying. I've had success with some that have been mentioned but I'll also be trying some I'd not thought of before.
Experimenting may not be for everyone as per @Whiterot but how did we get half our plants without someone, somewhere thinking " I'll give this a go " ?