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Post by garrett on Jan 30, 2014 16:40:42 GMT -5
calling all fellow moochers......lol anybody gots any freebie fruit tree seeds.... cop's got me all wound up on nuts..... would take ANY fruit tree seeds anybody wants to donate to da acres cause...grins would try to reciprocate back tos ya in several years... gots to grow em out and up....grins thanks ya'lls garrett
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Post by kay on Jan 30, 2014 18:26:18 GMT -5
Would you like all my peach pits this summer? I usually put up about three bushels of six different varieties.
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Post by garrett on Jan 30, 2014 21:15:45 GMT -5
that would be super peachy keen kay.smiles
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Post by LinFL on Jan 31, 2014 10:26:17 GMT -5
If I get crops, I can send you apple seeds and peach pits this summer. Who knows, maybe my cherries will bloom this year and I can send you cherry pits, too. The cherries are the new low-chill types.
You know the peaches will probably come true from seeds, but the apples and cherries will be a genetic crapshoot.
What about grape seeds? I have a seeded green grape that is darn near unkillable here. It makes a fine jam/jelly.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2014 10:40:32 GMT -5
Prunus-peaches. They have a better than average chance of growing more-or-less true to type. Just don't dry out the stones. get the stone back inna pot or ground right after you spit them out.
For those of us who want to ship prunus stones, wring out a news paper or some peat moss and put stones in damp medium inna zip-lock baggie. Then ship. plant on arrival.
I'm gonna take a hit from OIKOS Tree Crops this year, he has a fair smattering of saplings. Please be patient. I will send out stones as I make some.
OIKOS has the stuff of minature trees, beach plum and other similarly small. Which also come on mostly minature trees, they are bad for the pests them little trees. meaning less spraying.
Grape seed are somewhat a crap shoot, but its mostly in the eye of the new grower. If you are a vintner and that extra 2% sugar is the blood and bone of why you grow a grape. Grape grown from seed has a whole lot more hand-wringing involved.
if your just a back yard moonshiner and grape jelly maker, maybe not so much.
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Post by LinFL on Jan 31, 2014 12:09:11 GMT -5
Thanks for the advice on how to ship peach pits. I was wondering, since I had read that you should not let them dry out. Do you ship cherry pits much the same way?
I assume it is okay for apple seeds to dry out and just ship them like you would most veggie seeds? Would you happen to know how to ship grape seeds?
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Post by garrett on Feb 1, 2014 1:00:39 GMT -5
If I get crops, I can send you apple seeds and peach pits this summer. Who knows, maybe my cherries will bloom this year and I can send you cherry pits, too. The cherries are the new low-chill types. You know the peaches will probably come true from seeds, but the apples and cherries will be a genetic crapshoot. What about grape seeds? I have a seeded green grape that is darn near unkillable here. It makes a fine jam/jelly. rock and roll i'll plants em all! big grins
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Post by LinFL on Feb 1, 2014 1:24:04 GMT -5
Cool. Try to remind me in May - that's when the earliest fruit will start ripening. The grapes should be last; they usually ripen the first week of July.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2014 11:50:57 GMT -5
Thanks for the advice on how to ship peach pits. I was wondering, since I had read that you should not let them dry out. Do you ship cherry pits much the same way? I assume it is okay for apple seeds to dry out and just ship them like you would most veggie seeds? Would you happen to know how to ship grape seeds? The one prunus I've never tried growing are almonds. I dunno if they need to be kept moist to germinate or not. *Shrugs shoulders*. All the rest that I've tried cherry, plum, peach, apricot, nectarine all germinate at a much higher rate if kept damp & planted to pot or field promptly. A cold winters damp slumber don't hurt a thing. Apple & crab apple germinate at a fairly high rate after drying for a while. Um, um fer instance 2013 seed needs to get into the pot (or field) not much later than march or April 2014, if you delay past then they are toast . Grape I've potted moist seed a couple times, and dried (like apples) a couple time. Both ways they germinated OK. But nothing would surprise me less than, they have a real short term limit, like apple. Only a few really rugged tree seed can stand drying and still germinate latter. Rose and witch hazel will sleep an entire extra year if dried too well. Plant them damp and let them freeze outdoors and the next spring they sit up and march. Dry them and the seed will just sit in its pot and glower for an entire extra year... I'm still running trial and error on cranberry and mullberry.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2014 12:22:21 GMT -5
Japanese maple comes in about a hundred or more cultivars. Some don't set seed (the original scion was airlayered off of a parent tree). Others set seed that are sterile (mostly) and a few sit up and march if kept moist till planting and allowed to sleep rough outdoors. Dry that seed out and fewer than 1 in 100 will ever germinate. Bloodgood is a lovely old (fertile) cultivar that makes about 97 different shades of red or green leaves. Do not ever dry seeds!. Never never never, you was warned .
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Post by garrett on Feb 9, 2014 20:47:36 GMT -5
thanks copp......
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Post by catherinew on Mar 8, 2014 17:37:33 GMT -5
Currants aren't a tree, but I'll save a few seeds come September when they're ripe. Don't know anything about saving/drying/sending seeds, but you're welcome to them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2014 6:37:12 GMT -5
Currants aren't a tree, but I'll save a few seeds come September when they're ripe. Don't know anything about saving/drying/sending seeds, but you're welcome to them. I have a memory like a swiss cheese, (fulla holes), But I am up to my suspenders in making food islands locally and with Robin Marble.
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Post by garrett on Mar 9, 2014 10:05:16 GMT -5
they sounds good to me.smiles
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