Grow Your Own Oranges - Part 3
By Gus Kilthau
@Ceerios (4698)
Goodfellow, Texas
January 27, 2017 2:59pm CST
Grow Your Own Oranges - Part 3 -
Germination is happening - maybe time for some penicillin?
Here we are at 120 hours with the orange seeds on the damp paper towel, and things are happening. Several of the seeds (at least) are really beginning to stick their little feet out. Maybe looking around, too. Like "Where's the real dirt? This stuff on the towel is only wet water stuff. Nothing to eat here, Gus. So, let's get with the program, OK?"
12 more days until "moving day," and maybe I should clue these little seeds into the reality of things. I guess that I will figure out how to bring them along with us to the new "digs" such that they will also be happy transplants when all of us arrive at the new home.
Not bad work for the little seeds. Stick seeds like these into just plain dirt without removing their hard shells and you are going to be waiting around for up to 30 days for some action. This way, it looks like everything is moving right along, doesn't it?
Image source - Gus Kilthau.
Grow Your Own Orange Tree - Part 2 - This is a follow-up post that might be useful to those people who want to grow their own orange tree but who may not be...
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@Chellezhere (6421)
• United States
27 Jan 17
One of these days when I am back in a bigger home, I plan to grow a lot of fruits and vegetables, etc. myself.
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@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
28 Jan 17
@Chellezhere - Yes indeed. And when the good tasting stuff grows on a tree (like oranges, apples, etc.) you do not have to mess around with turning the soil and the like. -Gus-
