Re: Seed watch

It's just that I have ideal conditions--no fault of my own except I moved to zone 10--for many seeds to sprout and grow and I've gone to a bit of trouble to create the suitable conditions for most cuttings to root.

Maybe I should set up a service where northerners send me "slips" [as you call them], I root them and send them back. I could easily double the number and size of cutting beds in my lath house.

But while we're on this subject--Andrea, if you're tuned in--I checked the oleander cuttings today; they have developed nice calluses but no roots yet. Probably a couple of weeks.

On Sunday, July 4, 2004, at 03:19 PM, Donna wrote:

Does everything you touch sprout and grow?!? Wish I had that luck....

Donna


Time before last when we went to the fruit stand on Pine Island, I
bought a mamey apple [Mammea americana]. When I ate it, I saved the
seed. The fruit is also called Mexican apricot, so that will give you
some idea of what it tastes like, although it has less acid than an
apricot, so it's blander.

Anyway, I planted the seed in a 1-gallon pot and left the pot on the
cutting bench in the lath house, where it gets misted three times a
day. This morning I noticed that the soil in the center of the pot is
erupting like something major is trying to poke its head out. I keep
going out there and checking it; it's like watching eggs in nest.

Mammea americana is a tree about the size of an avocado [to 80 feet
with a 40 foot spread at maturity] so I think I've got room for one of
them for the foreseeable future. Forty years from now someone will
probably curse me for planting it.

Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]

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27.0 N, 82.4
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]

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