Growing store bought lotus?
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Will lemons grown from store bought fruit grow?
Comments (4)Sure they will, eventually. Most lemons are polyembryonic, which means they produce more than one seedling from a seed. The first and strongest seedling will be the clone (same as the mother plant). It can take anywhere from about 3 to 12 years for seedlings to flower and produce fruit. I have a seedling pummelo (pummelos are monoembryonic, so it's a hybrid, and my "experiment") that is about 4 years old now, lush and zero blossoms so far. Lemons and limes are a little more precocious. So, some patience and good care should provide you with lemons down the road. Patty S....See Morestore bought fruit -growing seed ?
Comments (1)The seeds will produce many vines. HOW LONG it will take for them to sprout is relative to the temps you provide - patience is the necessary virtue in growing from seed!...See MoreLotus seeds
Comments (2)I am from z6a and I started growing lotus last year from tubers and from seeds. On container started from tubers, I used fertilizer tab, and on container started from seeds, I used the recipe from Joyce's lotus planting recipe http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/1548701/lotus-barrel-pix-and-other-bowl-lotus-pix-for-rodney. The one that started from seeds did very well-it got 2 flowers....See MoreGrowing tomato seeds from store bought tomatoes
Comments (18)While it is really somewhat questionable to plant seeds from what are almost certainly hybrid tomatoes, since what you get may be a formally edible but unexciting fruit, it should be understood that planting seeds straight out of a plant is not optimal for germination. Mature seeds should be fermented, by placing them in water with some of the pulp and left in a warm place for a week. Then wash off the icky stuff and dry. Tomato seed harvesters know this strategy well. Here's why. When seeds mature, they are naturally encased in a protective gel coating. This is the slippery coating around seeds when they come out of the fruit. That gel coating has a hormone called abscisic acid that actually inhibits germination. That's why when you crack open a mature fruit, the seeds aren't all already sprouting! Microbial fermentation is an easy way to break down that gel, metabolize abscisic acid, and allow germination. Not all seeds have this protective gel. Solanacea and Cucumis commonly do. Some may say that, hey, I can plant mature seeds without fermentation, and they grow fine! That's because sitting moist in soil, especially anaerobically, the gel will break down naturally, But it will require more time, and may not work completely. That gel is natures way of making sure that new seeds don't sprout in the winter, but will wait a while, ideally until spring. FWIW, fermentation can also kill off disease spores....See MoreSara_in_philly
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