Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Indoors in the garden

I have pruned the Easter cactus and potted the cuttings. Although I can't tell if they are taking, the original cactus has rewarded me with several new bright green baby leaves. The avocado is growing quite slowly, while three of my kumquat seeds and one of the pears have turned into little seedlings just as I was about to give up on them. I also have an unknown seedling in my tray. Perhaps a tomato? I did put some seeds in but didn't expect them to grow as I didn't let the pulp go mouldy first. It can't be a weed because we're indoors!
(The above paragraph is the result of my tendency to start writing a post and then save it for posting later in the week! We now know that the mystery plant is a tomato, as I said in my previous-but-more-recently-written post, and that there is a new, very tiny, mystery plant).

The mango has produced a shoot... or possibly a root... hard to tell as it's mostly red. I took the thick husk of the pit off, and wrapped the pit in a wet paper towel before putting it in an open plastic bag to keep it warm and moist. In no time it had developed this shoot, which is curly because I put it back the wrong way up and so it curled around to face the right way. I stupidly forgot to take a picture of it before planting. Hopefully it will emerge from the soil soon, I hear they're very pretty.

Pineapple seeds, who knew?

I am so stoked today because not only has my wildflower post been used over at learning cooperative ABCand123 - thank you, Katies - but at lunchtime we found seeds inside our pineapple! I have never seen this ever before. Little black seeds, like apple pips but smaller.
Which I didn't think to take a photo of, of course. But I have wrapped them up in some damp polyroll and put them in a plastic bag to see if any will root. I've also cut the stem off, as advised in various places on the Web, to see if we can make that grow too.

At the moment I am nurturing pepper seeds, pineapple seeds, birch seeds and a variety of other things I have found lying about and don't know the names of, all in plastic bags and kitchen roll. And today we planted out the entire contents of the seed tray (including a new mystery seedling, not a tomato this time - the last one was, by the way) so everything is in proper pots. The Engineer will be pleased!