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- From: kvk@questor.sw.stratus.com (Ken Koellner)
- Newsgroups: alt.bonsai
- Subject: Re: pomegranite
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 18:23:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.135144.12142@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov19.135144.12142@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> fnorman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (J Farley Norman) writes:
- >Hi Folks,
- >....
- > Yesterday, I bought a pomegranite. Any hints
- >from anyone who's tried this ?
- >
- > Farley Norman
- > fnorman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
-
- A week or so ago I bought a pomegranite. I cut it up and put 5 or 6
- seeds in a 6" pot of prepared soil. I keep it watered and it's on the
- floor by a full-length window (indoors). I'll post if anything
- happens as I'm a week or two ahead of you when you try it.
-
- Last winter I got a few of these real cute miniture pears at the
- supermarket. I forgot to eat them and they got mushy. I planted a
- number of seeds from these. They sprouted two to four weeks later in
- late winter (indoors). The've grown through one spring, summer and
- fall. I have five trees of heights 5", 6", 7", 12" and 18". I just
- started the first initial cut-backs on these. I also wired the tall
- one into sort of a double 's' shape. I'm going to winter them outside
- now as they are likely a temperate variety.
-
- The thing about modern produce is that a lot of the varieties are
- hydrids or possible produced by grafting. Thus, my miniture-pear pear
- seeds might not yield miniture-pear, pear trees. You can't be sure
- unless you research the variety. Pomegranites will likely breed true
- though as they are a very old fruit dating back to ancient Greece.
-
- I also bought a couple limes. I thought I'd plant the seeds of these
- also. Cut one open, no seeds! I have to try the other one. I know
- I've gotten limes with seeds, just not a lot. It seems there are
- never more than two or three per lime. Hopefully the next one won't
- be zero.
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