🌱Growing With Ben🌱 ~ The Chonicles of the Troublesome Seeds

[All4Eggz]

All the ones in the egg carton died off after a couple days. Likely from lack of space.
Well, that took a few more off my hands.

The others are doing good.

Lemons are doing good… I found a SIXTH sprout this morning. Next to the big one.

So if anyone plans on ever growing lemons… my advice would be to WAIT. I planted these seeds weeks ago. Over 4 weeks ago. And one sprout JUST came up.

 

[jerryse]

Looking good! How did you start the blackberries and raspberries from seed?

They are complicated . In nature a bird or animal eats them and poo out the seed . This is chemical scarification .They go through summer . this is warm stratification . Then they go through winter . This is cold stratification . Then with luck they sprout in spring or summer . I treat with battery acid , then plant in a pot outside . Let the weather do the rest . So a 9 - 10 month process .

 

[All4Eggz]

I planted some strawberries the other day as well.
I took a thin slice from a couple strawberries and planted the slice in the pot. Plastic wrap on top for humidity, keeping it well watered.

Did anyone ever use this method?

It’s been almost exactly one month.
I woke up to a strawberry sprout!

They have been covered with plastic wrap this entire time and sprayed with water once daily. In case anyone was wondering.

I’m so excited!! I wasn’t expecting them to sprout!

 

[R2elk]

Didn’t have an update in a while.


So I’m obviously doing something wrong with the lemons. They have hardly grown since my last update.

There is some white (fungus) growing in one of the lemon pots. Could this be delaying or stopping growth? Lemons are alive just not growing…

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Lemons in the second pot grew a little bit^..

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Strawberries didn’t grow at all so I gave up on them.


Peppers…
Are doing much better than expected because of how little space they have.

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Not very bit but they have flowers!!
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I have to run to the store and grab some dirt and possibly miracle-gro to help the lemons perk up. Don’t have enough dirt to fill my large white pots yet.

The most probable cause for slow growth on the lemons is

#1 Too short of daylight hours.
#2 Too small of a container

 

[NanaK]

Plants in my garden (outside) and indoor houseplants will grow slower this time of year due to shorter daylight hours. Agree with R2elk.

Mold on indoor soil can be discouraged by increasing air circulation, such as adding a fan blowing gently nearby, not directly on the plants as this is very drying on foliage. I start tomatoes, peppers and some flowers in late winter inside under lights and have seen this type of mold on soil many times. Adding a fan and not overwatering helps. Sometimes I bottom water them as well, seems to help.

They look good!

 

[R2elk]

Peach tree coming up in the garden.

 

[R2elk]

Mango tree has a few new leaves.

 

[R2elk]

First peach tree

Another one has come up.

 

[R2elk]

Mango tree

 

[R2elk]

Starting a pineapple.