General Chat

Thanks AuntySherlock and all for your contributions.
AuntySherlock, had to laugh at your last sentence about getting fruit after 7/10 years. At my age, don't think I will be around then.LOL. But, we have two on the allotment. I wanted to grow things from stones/pip, for the foliage.
Many thanks again
Julia in Derbyshire

Here is your cherry tree instructions courtesy of google. I also believe there has to be a male and female tree within close proximity for there to be fruit. Oh puleeeeeze, don't ask me to go into detail this is a family thread!!!

The cherry, like all temperate fruit trees, requires a "chilling" period or winter to prepare the seed for growth. The hard shell of the pit does not need to be removed, but the seed should be placed in moist vermiculite or peatmoss and stored in the refrigerator for six to eight weeks before planting. Do not let the seed dry before beginning this treatment.

Once the seed has been treated by chilling, it may be planted—outside if the weather is already cool, or in a pot in a window or greenhouse. If planted outside, it will experience further chilling and begin growing in the spring. If planted in a pot, it will begin growing in a few weeks.

Plant several seeds because it is possible that only a few will grow. In about seven to ten years you may begin eating cherries from your tree.

Morning All, very suprised to see this thread still going, but I love to read other peoples ideas on this, so please keep them coming.
Yesterday, I ate three of the very expensive cherries I mentioned, and left the stones to dry on a tissue. I noticed that they appeared to have a 'seam' on them. Just now, I cracked one open, and there is a 'seed' is inside. So, will now try cracking the others open, very,very carefully, and see what happens.
Julia in Derbyshire

Teresa you have to have a female and a male kiwifruit before you get any fruit and they are vines. My parents in N.Z. had them and they were all over the garden and had so many kiwifruit they didn't know what to do with them so they pulled them out.
I have a date palm that I grew from a pip when I used to eat fresh dates. It is more than twenty years old and I have grown a big advocado shrub from a pip never had any fruit on it because I never fertilized it. I bury all my fruit stones in case something feels like growing. Roses from rose hips are quite easy and you never know what you are going to get.

Puss, Avodados are easy to grow altho I have never had one flower so no fruit. The best way is to shove it into a tub or pot outside with other things and watch it grow, then you can carefully lift it out and pot it up, or you can do it in it's own pot straightaway. The other way is to stick it over a jar so it sits in the neck and put water in the bottom just touching the base of the stone and roots will form and shoots grow ( a bit like growing a hyacinth in one of those special glass pots, which I suppose will work in the same way)

Have fun.

Lizx

The year before last i bought a kiwi plant.Didnt do much last year but this spring its going mad and im thinking of setting up a "kiwi fruit" door-to -door delivery service to sell the tons of excess fruit im going to harvest!

LLPC. Are you talking about avocado.

Now a word of warning to all of you who are growing fruit trees from pips, you do realise that there is a possibility you will not have fruit on your trees. Note I say possibility. It is something to do with rootstock and grafting. I am no gardner, so I suggest you google the particular fruit you are growing and read the info.

However the bushes and trees are still a lovely addition in any garden.

Julia. I am in Australia, but in the temperate area not the tropical pineapple growing region.

i think you mean an advocado, so yummy when filled with prawns and mayonaise mmmm

puss i only eat normal food,,,,,,,,ha ha,,,,,,

what a bout a quacomolie thingy what they called lol big stone in the middle i lurves them lol

~~Julia,

If you try a peach crack it open and use just the nut inside under half inch compost,,,they need heat to germinate...I did have one grow about 7 inches but then it died on me,,,,;}}}}}

Thanks Kay cherries love them Julia xxxxx

Hi Ladies, back from my foray in M*****sons. I'm afraid the most exotic fruits I got to buy to try and grow, were a lemon,lime and pink grapefruit. The peaches and nectarines were all withered. Still it will be a start, once I have used the fruit.
Many thanks for your tips, and I will use them.
I did, however, get a bag of cherries with about a dozen and a half in, I eat very few sweets, and, bewarned. They were £3.18p for the bag, or £11.99 kg. The till girl warned me before she passed them through. Said they have to warn everybody.
Happy fruit growing

Julia in Derbyshire

no puss,,,,,I put cling film over pot this keeps the compost wet enough on a bright window sill ,when the pip sprouts keep it well damp,and out of direct sunlight till it grows a bit.....then water from the bottom.....they will need repotting lots when they do start growing,,,,,,when the roots come out the bottom.
dont plant the pip to deep,about 3/4 inch,I do anyway,,youll get some that dont grow so put loads in a pot to start with.....

Hi Shirley.. Interesting , Ive never spilt the pip just went in as it was....but gave it a blast of boiling water and soak just before planting,
they hate drafts......

kay should i be watering the pip every day now then ? xx

the leaves do smell lovely when crushed plus Harold the tortoise loves to munch them
I do use a summer & then a winter citrus feed on it to keep the leaves a lovely shiny dark green

Hi
this is how I did it, I split the outer skin of the pip and then soaked it for a week in a cup on the kitchen window ledge. Planted it in compost in a 4inch pot where it then sprouted , gradually potted it into larger pots.
Used to put it out in the summer and bring indoors for the winter. found as it got older it didnt like to central heating too much so would keep it in the enclosed porch.
I have grown several this way that i have given away.

Julia,

If you do a citrus pip......wash it well and let it dry off,good damp compost in a small pot,the roots will be out the bottom before you know where you are,,,,pinch them aswell.....the crushes leaves smell lovely......they drink water like mad in summer.
I use pre boiled water...

Hello girls im growing a orange pip, tried for years but nothing then i thought about the climate they grow in and stoped watering it and now i have 3 leaves whoopie, its been indoors but ive now put it in my plastic green house , so now ive planted some apple pips xx

I have an orange tree in a LARGE pot that lives on the patio all year ,its too big and heavy to move now, i grew it from a pip some 12 years ago. It doesn't like being covered by fleece to protect it so it takes its chance now with the cold winter weather ,a few of the top leaves get frosted but a pruning gets it going again with lots of new growth .It stands about 4 feet tall and has a canopy of around 2 feet.