Fruit trees
On my last birthday (February) the girls next door gave me a present of some apple and grapefruit seeds all wrapped nicely. I dutifully sowed them more to humour the little ladies next door than to expect any worthwhile outcome. The apple germinated within 10 days and having been repotted twice is now 3ft high! The grapefruit on the other hand showed no signs of life so I consigned it to my compost bin in June. On leaving it's pot I noticed the seed had a small clump of roots. I then hastily repotted it, it emerged in July and as of this morning, and I hasten to add in an unheated greenhouse, it is 8 inches high with a couple of flower buds on it. Is not gardening a truly joyful experience. I realise that any fruit may be of no culinary use but those little gals (and me) are thrilled.
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Wow. Congrats. I do love sowing random seeds and seeing what they turn out like.
I have a dragonfruit plant on my windowsill
Nothing to beat a seed germination Hotspur
In the sticks near Peterborough
The future of the world lies sleeping inside a dormant seed. I do have a largish garden pansyface but am also thinking of using the tip of the new apple tree to graft onto an existing tree and see what happens, then plant the remaining little sapling and stand back and watch what happens!
The first 'Bramley's Seedling' apple tree grew from pips planted by Mary Ann Brailsford in 1809. You never know what will happen!