I am.in zone 6b. The seeds were planted mid-May and sprouted after about a week. They are now 4 - 6 inches tall, and haven’t grown much in the past month. Should I overwinter them indoors or put them in the ground and hope they make it? I technically have enough seedlings to do both, but I wouldnl’t want to kill them if it can be avoided.
Many thanks
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They are pretty tough in 6b.
Could plant out in ground this fall.
Or cover pots with soil / mulch on ground for winter.
Above ground in pots with no protection in 6b, is “ iffey” depending on how cold the winter is ?
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LuckyP fixed me up with seeds and I also have over a dozen…but yours are bigger and healthier.
They better be tough enough to go through winter outdoors.
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They should be fine outdoors in Z6, especially if planted or at least pots sunk in ground or deep mulch.
Tree those seeds came from spent at least one KY winter as a seedling in a pot, above ground, with no protection whatsoever - but I wouldn’t necessarily recommend that.
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Thank you!
What do you use those seedlings for? I have a trifoliate orange tree and seedlings all over the yard. I wonder if it’s possible to graft something more useful on them.
You can graft plenty of other citrus onto them, but nothing that would survive in zone 6 unprotected/outdoors.
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Advertise them at $5 apice, and reduce it to a buck if they take 25 or more.
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Since I have about a dozen, I was planning to plant a couple in the front of the house as ornamentals, train one or two as a bonsai and experiment with grafting the rest.
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