Anyone have any luck sprouting Flowering Pear tree seeds?
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Comments (18)Its been six years since my original post and I figured I would give an update. I have three of the seedlings left from this experiment. The seedling trees were all forgotten about and left alone in their pots in 2016. Nearly all of them died because they were never watered except for the rain. That year my garden as a whole was neglected. Of the ones that survived I planted them in the ground spring of 2017. Of the three trees that have survived my Forelle seedling has still done the best. The tree is about 16 feet tall and puts out beautiful foliage. It did developed thorns but I expect or hope they will go away in time. I grafted over the Bosc seedling and the grafted tree is doing well. The lone Seckel seedling suffered the greatest damage from the neglected year and basically died down to the ground. It has since grown to a height of five feet but it looks a bit like a shrub. I should mention that the Seckel seedling is growing in a lot of shade. I nearly tossed it a few years ago when it looked so terrible but decided last minute to plant it in a shaded area near a large oak. None of the trees have bloomed yet and the Forelle seedling was the only one to develop thorns. Matt...See MoreAnyone in San Diego have any luck with Red Perilla/shiso?
Comments (17)Thanks Seysonn, that's helpful. I ended up letting the ones that were further along go to seed and have started collecting seed for next year. Meanwhile, I picked all the flower buds off the ones that hadn't gone completely to seed and made a ginger-shiso-toasted sesame oil pesto with the flower buds. Pretty tasty, but the sesame oil dominated...next time I'll go with olive oil. Hopefully, we'll get a few more weeks of leaves out of the plants I de-flowered. Yes, Jim, according to Japanese sources, shiso seeds stay dormant for at least 6 months before they will germinate. Smart temperate climate annual weeds, if you ask me. Very unlike it's cousin basil that will germinate right away - perhaps partly due to more extensive history of cultivation and selection in favor of fast germination?...See MoreDoes Anyone have any GST host plant seeds/plants for trade???
Comments (16)Tom, I got my seeds last week...thanks a million!!! ;o) I was calling some of our local nurseries before I received the seeds to see if anyone had a Wafer Ash & I found a tree locally. When I called, the nurseryman said he thought he had one but it wasn't in very good shape & I could have it for free. I said, "YES, I'd LOVE it!" Not realizing that he was referring to a 25 gallon tree! It is almost 8ft tall & looks like "Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree"!!! IT's HUGE!!! It is alive & he said that it has been in the pot way too long. It had a year on the pot of 2006. It also had a price of $225 marked out to $50...I can't believe he gave it to me!!! What a blessing! I took it home last Thusday thinking I could get it in the ground this weekend & it has now been raining for 4 days straight! Maybe this week some time, I can play "hooky" from my work & I can get it planted...it's supposed to rain next weekend, too! I have a BIG hole to dig...LOL!!!! I've included a link to the picture of it...it only has about a dozen leaves on it...the GST cats must have eaten the rest at the nursery! ;o) Here is a link that might be useful:...See MoreDoes anyone have luck in total shade??
Comments (6)Thank you Mr.Impatiens! I was hopeing to hear from you! The Brunos this year have been a bit funny. The bed they are in is literally 1/2 sun 1/2 shade-as in the back half is all shade, front half is all sun, and this bed is only 3 feet deep!. At first, the best looking plants, and best flowers were in the back (in the shade). It took a really long time for the front flowers (in the sun) to really take off. I mean, there were weeks where the front plants seem to suffer dearly in the full sun, were barely growing, and the back half was as very lush and a good 6 inches taller than the sunny ones. Two months later, the shaded ones have stopped blooming and the sunny ones are just a solid bed of color. The sunny impatiens are extremely floriferous, and the shaded ones have stopped blooming. The shaded ones have also grown much taller and leggy compared to the front ones. I am certain there are other factors contributing to this, for one thing I have the plants way way too close together (I had done this on purpose as an experiment). I am sure another factor could be needing pinching; until I had read this forum I never realized impatiens needed pinching, they always were self cleaning in my experience, although I am sure pinching helps everything. Another factor could be from when I grew them as seedlings. Some of my Brunos got pinched, some of them didnt. The reason why is because I had noticed that other impatiens I had grown took a real real long time to branch out and flower after having been pinched as seedlings. So I did this experiement to analyze this. As a result, all of the Brunos (pinched or not) flowered at the same time! This surprised me, I had thought the unpinched ones would flower much much sooner. Bruons have very large flowers, as do all impatiens I have grown. In fact, I have never grown the tiny flowered standards that you get at the nurseries, either that or I am doing something wrong, because all impatiens I have ever seeded ended up with large flowers. I am certain this is a variety issue. Anyone else have experiences with Brunos? Do you have a better suggestion for this bed, as far as varieties?...See Morerhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
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