Here are the first pictures of my dragon fruit seedlings. These seeds came from a dragon fruit which I bought in a supermarket. I was so taken by the appearance of the fruit that I immediately thought about growing one from seeds.
The dragon fruit is an amazing looking fruit. It doesn't taste as spectacular as it looks but there's nothing wrong with it either. Please feel free to read my review about eating the dragon fruit.
I followed the same procedure with the dragon fruit seeds as I did with the orange pips. I soaked them in warm water for a couple of hours and then I planted them in moist compost. I don't know if the soaking is necessary but it was the advice I read for the orange pips and it seemed to work for them. Other seeds from colder climates would need to be subjected to a period of cold called stratificiation before they would begin to germinate but I guessed the dragon fruit, coming from warmer climes wouldn't need this.
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Just an update on the Orange tree seedlings that I'm growing from pips.
The shoot that I first saw (A) on November 11 developed mould on one of its leaves. I removed the leaf and hoped that that would be enough. However the next day the mould was back and had passed onto the shoot that was growing beside it (B). In order to protect the one remaining shoot (C) that was growing I decided to cut my losses and removing the affected seedlings.
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When it came to choosing a Christmas tree this year it was natural enough that I would try to make it coincide with my interest in bonsai. Since I live on my own in a small flat anyway there was never any chance that I was going to be getting a massive tree. I had even half-seriously thought about decorating my ficus retusa and making that my Christmas tree.
In the end the solution to my problem came yesterday when I went for a ramble around some shopping centres in Sligo with Michelle. The town has changed tremendously since my time there many years ago and since we had a bit of time yesterday I wanted to have a look around some of the new developments there.
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I bought my first seeds in July, 2007 on a spur of the moment when I wandered
into a bonsai shop and this blog is my account of my experiences of trying to grow trees from seed.
In addition to my seedlings and cuttings I also own three grown bonsai; a ficus retusa, a serissa foetida and a ligustrum.
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caro (Spring!): wow!!! Your Bonsais are t…Adam (Growing fig trees…): Hi SeĆ”n, very interesting…
Adam (Growing Dragon Fr…): Can’t wait to see the res…
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Tamara (My Bonsai Christm…): Wow, that is a wonderful …
Sean McGoldrick (Man or Squirrel?): Hi Bill I’m at the same l…
Bill Murphy (Man or Squirrel?): My grandson (who thinks h…
Sean McGoldrick (Oak trees survivi…): Hi Mark, nice to meet you…
Mark D'Cruz (Oak trees survivi…): Shaun, Welcome to the W…
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