My pouterias.
On the left are Abiu on top (p. caimito) and p. salicifolia. In the middle are two Cinnamon Apples ( p. glomerata/hypoglauca). On the right are 2 mamey sapotes on top (p. sapota) and Ross Sapote (p. sp). I don’t know how old the Ross or salicifolia are as I bought them as seedlings, the rest I grew from seed. The two mameys are the youngest (under 5 months) and the Abiu is the oldest (about a year).
What are you planning to do with your yuzu seedlings?
Plant them out somewhat sheltered in the Spring, see if any survive the Winter.
The loquats didn’t fruit in the past two days, but I moved them to their own pots.
If polyembornic means “can have multiple seedlings in the same seed” then yes. Had one send up 4 trunks before.
4 trays of pigeon pea seedlings. I will probably only keep 1 or 2 of them to increase my genetic diversity. The rest will be given to my coworkers for use to fufill some grants or sold at street fairs. I believe these seeds are offspring of my black seeded pigeon pea, which has yellow and red flowers as opposed to pure yellow (and black seeds instead of tan/brown).
Community pot of mamoncillo/genip (Melicoccus bijugatus). These were fresh from fruit. They actually have a little paper coat on the seed, taking that off seemed to speed up germination by about 2 weeks.
Eugenia langsdorffii. One lost its germinated root when I planted it, doesn’t seem to have slowed it down at all
Eugenia uniflora, either Zill’s Black or Dasyblasta (I have another pot with the other that is slowly sprouting).
Round leaves at the top and bottom are Gin/Rum/Orange berries (glycosmis pentaphylla). Middle right is Myrcia sp. roxo. Middle left is Chocolate Fruit* (tocoyena bullata). I tried myrcia sp. before but it rotted and it set up a weird stem that had no cotyledons and rotted and died. Already doing better.
What is the best way to grow apple seedlings indoors (NY) in the winter?? I currently have 200 seeds in a moist papertowel in my refrigerator. When is the best time to pull them out and into potting soil? do I have to wait till they start growing a root or after 60 days in cold stratification I can plant them in soil and hope so see growth?? Love to use them as seedling rootstock!
I usually keep them in the ziplock back with the paper towel till they start sprouting and put them in a warmer area to to get them sprouted when I want to plant them, usually double bag them with the second bag having a few drops of water to keep it from drying out.
Those probably would come up rapidly in a warm spot, towel looks a little wet though.
I wouldn’t be too worried about the roots growing while still in the bag. I’ve had great success with seeds that already had ~1.5" roots, biggest problem with the roots in the paper towel is they can break off if you’re not careful when moving them to dirt.
That was my fear with the paper towel. The moisture built up fast. I try to leave it unzipped a little. They have been in since 12/31. Has enough time passed?
I am pretty confident they have had enough stratifying. You could just sandwich the wetter paper towel and seeds between a dry paper towel and let it wick into it.
I would just plant them when you are ready. I have already planted mine indoors to get a head start and because I have more time now than in spring, but indoors damping off is a bigger problem than outdoors especially with apples which seem very susceptible to me.
When I see a couple sprout in the bag I usually plant out the whole lot. They all start germinating together if they are from the same kind of source apple.
This is what I do too. One way to save space is put a few together in a pot. Then in a couple months break them up into individual pots or the ground. I did singles and multiples side by side and the growth rate was no different.
Group sprout:
A few months later beside the single potted sprouts:
The ones with really long roots probably won’t be in a very good condition by April. The ones with little to no roots ought to be fine.
Not a fruit tree, but I found what I thought was a white flower growing straight from some roots. After a few minutes of everything tell me it was an oak, which clearly do not flower from the ground. I pulled it up.
Edit: Apperently there is two of them.
Wow! That would be neat if they live.
