Impressive that they can survive that!
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This 2nd year seedling from a highly polyembryonic (I got 8 plants from one seed) TDE mandarin has 4 flowers already, though I assume it won’t hold any fruit. This is a 1 gal pot, I’m debating giving it a large pot but I already have too many citrus trees so I’ll probably be giving it away in the local free plant library instead.
The osage oranges are probably about ready to be separated into their own pots and/or final spots in the ground:
My Lucy Glo apple seedling had a little mildew recently and has been growing very slowly, but seems ok otherwise:
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Plum sucker from my in laws unknown plum tree starting to show a little life!
A couple of suckers from an unknown crab apple tree where I work.
A couple of suckers from my in laws golden delicious apple tree.
My end goal is to graft onto these with various other varieties.
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My first two did this week, too! I just finished separating the ones with the best looking roots into treepots/deepots:
The ones that I cracked the seeds off last month are sad, unhappy things and their roots were less developed, so don’t do that. I planted the ones with the less impressive roots together in one hole in the ground outside, in lieu of composting them immediately, but I don’t expect they will make it.
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I just watered and moved around some of my random new seedlings that I’m starting this year, figured I’d post a few photos.
My Eugenia uniflora seedlings range from second set of leaves to barely breaking the soil:
Though they were started much later, repanda is about the same:
The Psidium cattleianum seedlings have been very sluggish with the cool nights, but mostly are about this size now:
The mystery Myrcianthes species from Marcos is coming up:
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Looking good! I have started a small collection of Eugenia seeds as well. They look like yours basically so I’ll share this tamarind seedling which I thought was weird.
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Loquat seedlings anyone? Haha basically planted every seed I got from my fruit this year. Wanna spread loquats all over my community
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Love it. Made my day.
I have been doing that with pawpaw. I have access to many seedlings from an old Rebecca’s gold tree and have been planting them in the shady hollows of the creek that bisects my lot. There are lots of flood plains down creek without any developments that are there for just erosion control. All the good dog walking places.
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My Mandrinquat and Kumquat seedlings are slightly bigger. Need to up pot them pretty badly.
Pawpaw looks a bit more pawpaw-like than the pink worm thing it had going on for quite a while.
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Next wave of incoming seedlings… my third (perhaps final) attempt to find some mango seedlings able to withstand a winter in a Seattle greenhouse that’s only heated to prevent freezing. Here are four polyembryonic “Guava” mango seeds after being briefly germinated in damp paper towels:
I also started:
- 2x Pickering (mono seeds)
- 1x Lemon Zest (poly)
- 2x Nam Doc Mai (poly)
- 1x Maha Chanok (looked mono but maybe a couple very tiny embryos hiding under the seed coat)
- 1x Dwarf Hawaiian (looked mono, but with strange ridges in seed)
For anyone who hasn’t looked closely at a polyembryonic mango seed, once it starts germinating you’ll see all these cracks widen between the individual embryos (with some also fusing a bit):
I’ve seen as few as three clearly separate embryos, but sometimes it is a dozen or more. By contrast, monoembryonic mango seeds look like this once they germinate:
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Do you have a method to pick out the pollinated one? Is it as simple as just picking out the one that is growing differently?
I have no method or desire to do so, and my understanding is none of the methods used are very reliable. And sometimes the zygotic embryos can also divide, so there’s not even a guarantee that there is only one zygotic seedling per seed.
I’m just hoping to find a seedling that can handle my greenhouse without getting sick or dying, and if I find any then I won’t care whether they are zygotic or clonal.
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Got it, that’s interesting. Hope you hit the jackpot!
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An update. Last year, I saved seeds of Crimson Royale Pluot, Spice Zee Nectaplum, and an apple my sister was eating.
I ended up with 4 pluots, 4 nectaplum, and 2 apple. The pluots all but died, one is hanging on in my yard, and one in my aunt’s yard, but neither look good. The apples look good, but aren’t growing fast, that’s ok. The nectaplums, however, are going nuts! The red one in my front yard isn’t growing much, but I put the 3 green ones in my back yard, growing as a 3-in-1 hole situation.
Look at these things! They’re in a little fence, and I removed the fence to clear out the amaranth that was growing in there, so I took some pictures. I wanted to grow them this way because I don’t need 3 individual experimental nectaplum trees, but this will allow me to compare trees and fruits. I’m expecting different fruit from each tree since the original seeds are hybrids.
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June 5th - picked some over-ripe black morus alba from under the tree. Dumped them into a bowl, squished, covered with water and left to ferment outside in a sunny spot.
June 7th - washed out hollow seeds and pulp and sown. Left outside in shade.
June 21st - Hello world!
Too easy. Right after apple seeds that you find germinating inside the fruit.
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