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Elen Gunawan
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Comments (10)Just one additional comment. When I save seeds I do a thorough drying operation of at least 1 full month indoors before they go into plastic packets and then into the freezer. I dry them after cleaning/fermentation/recleaning for 1 week on wax paper. They them flake right off the wax paper and go into plastic cups or jar lids properly labeled for another 3 weeks for final drying. Got to be careful to put them where wind/varmints/children/cleaning spouses/etc. wont mix them up or pitch them out! I'm sure I am probably overdoing the drying thing, but it's free and other than the storage hastle works good. I think freeze drying would be a great help for bulk lots--wish I had the means to do it and work out a process. Larry...See MoreCrossvine seed questions / have seeds will trade
Comments (1)Would you trade for other plant species? Joseph...See MoreGardeners: A Lemon Seed Question
Comments (18)>>So, what am I doing right/wrong. I have a five foot Meyer lemon tree in my kitchen, 8 years old, producing fruit. Two fruits today. Slow to ripen but who cares, it has been producing for 5 years. It will go out side my kitchen deck as soon s the weather clears. (we had snow/frost just yesterday morning). Good grief, stop telling those in cold climates they cannot grow fruit. Such a beautiful tree we love.>> I never said you COULDN'T grow citrus in Northern climates. It's merely more work than an aspidistra or a Kentia belmoriana. Many people grow them in pots very successfully. However, if you want to bear the maximum, you must feed it, simple as that. Citrus are like roses - they'll live in lousy conditions, but without optimum nutrition, they don't produce as well nor do they live as long. Meyers, btw, unless you have access to one of the pre-1965 trees, are now only sold as "Improved Meyer". Meyers were taken out of production and all commercial stock destroyed when it was found they were host to a serious plant virus. So in planting a Meyer seed from a commercial Meyer, it may or may not be a tree (the original Meyer; only one small commercial nursery was allowed to continue selling their stock until exhausted) or a dwarf/tree/bush (Improved Meyer). Residential trees were unaffected, but it was almost 20 yrs before the "Improved Meyer" was hybridized and then cloned in enough quantity to return to wholesale and retail outlets. Meyers are specifically bred to produce high yields. They will do so up to their last dying leaf, so to speak! We have three of them, in ground. Except for fertilizing and an occasional watering they need no care. Properly fertilized, a Meyer will produce for upwards of 75+ years before declining. An average crop will range from 75-150 POUNDS of Meyers. After about 8 yrs, production of well-tended trees will be year-round, although heaviest flush is always in early spring. This was the smallest of our Meyers at 8 years of age in 2011. I bought two at the same time, and interestingly enough, the one in our front yard took more of a tree shape, while this one spread out more into a bush. The oldest, a Meyer that grew from a dropped seed (and is therefore a true bush shape), is more than twice as wide/tall....See MoreGrass Re-seeding Questions
Comments (3)Need to know where you live before getting conclusive. Generally spring seeding does not go well, as you found out. No, you do not need 1/4" of topsoil. Could you post a picture of the area you are seeding? Is it already a lawn, or bare, or weedy, or mixed? Is it level? Mother Nature never, ever, applies 1/4" of topsoil before doing anything. Certainly not when reseeding the prairies. What She does is knock the seeds onto the top of the soil and then trample the seeds with Her hooves which press the seeds into the surface of the soil with a surprisingly gentle force. Animal hooves are big enough to distribute the weight so they do not generally compact the soil by walking over it. You can do the same thing using a water filled roller (rented) after you seed. What you want is seed to soil contact. You can get that without topsoil. As for using Scott's seed: you can mix and match any seed you like. The biggest difference in seed is the weed and Other crop percentages. The ideal amount for those is 0.00%. The reason is that bermuda seed and creeping bentgrass seed are the size of dust, so the weight percentage of 0.001% weed could be thousands of seeds. You can get 0.00% seed online, but not in stores. It doesn't sound like you need the expensive seed. Before getting into the nuts and bolts, it would really help to know where you are and see a picture....See Morefloral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
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