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What are the chances to get an edible apple from a tree grown from seed?
My experience is different. It is very easy to have a apple tree from seed.
But apple trees are not auto-fertile. This mean that to have apple on a tree, you need pollen from an other trees (and ...
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What is this whitish feather on my Echinacea seedlings?
That looks like fine root hairs on the hypocotyl of a normal , healthy seedling still in the cotyledon stage.
These root hairs greatly increase the surface area of the root and are thought to aid in ...
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Concerned about slow growth of my seedlings
I'm by no means an expert, however I am pretty sure that, at least for Zucchini, Cucumber and peppers 1% more light = 1% more growth. Thus in order to increase growth, maybe you should start moving ...
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A seedling with three (instead of two) cotyledons
It happens occasionally - not uncommon in chilli pepper, tomatoes and cannabis plants. It doesn't seem to confer any advantage and usually, the seedling continues to grow normally, with two true ...
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What to do if too many seedlings are in the same pot?
You seem to have more than a hundred seedlings overall. Are you willing to grow every single one of them into adult plants? I'm assuming not. If that's the case, you'll be discarding them at a later ...
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What's the best pot size for rose seeds germinated in the refrigerator?
All plants should have pots matching the plant size, otherwise you risk root-bound plants or trouble with watering. That's why we re-pot as needed and only go up a few pot sizes at a time.
Roses like ...
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What do sunchokes look like when they're sprouting?
The sunchoke, also frequently called Jerusalem artichoke, is a species called H. Tuberosus, in the Helianthus genus of Asteraceae, which is a large plant family that includes sunflowers and daisies. ...
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Is using tomato slices really viable for starting seedlings?
Think of how tomatoes grow "in the wild" fruit drops to the ground, slowly rots, and when conditions are right a new plant emerges. So cut open the fruit and cover it in soil, the results are not ...
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Weed Identification
I planted some Oxalis deppei in the garden at my university last year and it looked just like your plant. It had little dark pink flowers and spread like crazy, from 15 bulbs planted in spring I got ...
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Do young plants prefer their pots be rotated?
Do they prefer it? No, not really. Plants have evolved to grow and orient themselves to get the most light in any given conditions. It could even be argued that turning them away from this orientation ...
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Why are my tomato plant seedlings dying?
Disclaimer: This answer is mostly based off of my own experience.
Yes. That appears to be classic transplant shock. As Ecnerwal said, it could be cutworms, too, though. Anything that disturbs (or ...
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How can I grow seedlings from commercial apples?
Put the seed in a pot (if you want it potted) and put the pot in the ground; or plant directly in the ground. Wait for spring.
The seeds require "cold treatment" - they are programmed not to sprout ...
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Should I add soil with living things, like worms, to a potting mix?
The trouble with introducing 'life' by inoculating with garden soil is you have no control over which life forms you are introducing, and some of them might be pathogenic when contained inside a pot ...
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Planting too many seeds in small pot
Your plants will have to compete with each other for light, and root space. Because they are so packed and crowded, none of the plants will grow optimal this way. If you just want basil cress, you can ...
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Will my Mango seedling survive after being attacked by my cat?
I can't promise it will live, but I've seem mango seedlings survive some pretty rough treatment.
The main thing is to keep your cat or anything else from inflicting more damage. I think it has a ...
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When is a good time to thin your seedlings?
A lot can happen between now and then. I usually wait until there are a few true leaves and it's clear which plants have taken off.
Last year, I had one little runt that never grew more than a few ...
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Improving Maple growth?
I tend to agree about the numbers game. Sugar maples run about 50% viable seed. The most frequent occurrence is that 1 seed of a samara (double wing helicopter) is viable.
Your technique of getting ...
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Is sunlight from my window enough to grow cherry tomato seedlings indoors?
Seeds don't need light to germinate, they just need moisture and heat. But they need light to grow. Fruiting plants need the most light of all edible plants as the energy from sunlight is needed to ...
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How do I care for grapefruit seedlings?
In the mid-ninties (probably '94), I planted several grapefruit seeds. Several germinated, and they all got some white fuzzy stuff on them that made them sticky, and all but one of them died (maybe it ...
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Is this a potato plant?
Sorry, neither is a potato plant.
A potato sprout is medium to dark green (sometimes with reddish undertones just when breaking through), looks like a little whirl of wrinkly, thick leaves, then ...
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What is this plant/seedling growing from hard, oval, mottled-brown seeds?
That's a castor bean, Ricinus communis. Seeds.
If you have winter, they'll grow 10-14' (3-3.5 meters) in a year, with nice ball shaped flowers/seed pods. In regions without winter, they can grow to ...
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Why are the leaves of my Lemon sprout turning yellowish?
You have to post a picture but from what your questions states, sounds like OVER fertilization. No plant needs 'heavy nitrogen' and depending on the age of your lemon tree you certainly want lower N ...
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Can I cut off cotyledons? Do they fall off?
In most plants the cotyledons fall off at some point, in others, they shrink, shrivel and dry out.
There’s no need to cut them off and I would discourage you to do so while they are still green - ...
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Any hope for these pepper seedlings?
Your seedlings look to be suffering from "damping off" — a fungal disease that is generally due to overwatering when seedlings are young. Indeed, your media looks very wet. Seedlings of this ...
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Can I plant my maple seedling in the fall months?
Yes, go ahead and plant it. It's actually better for it to be in the ground over winter anyway, as it helps protect the roots. Planting trees in the fall is a common practice, your tree should do just ...
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Is sunlight from my window enough to grow cherry tomato seedlings indoors?
Unfortunately, that level of light is probably not direct or strong enough to support the seedlings. Even if it was, seedlings reach for the light, so they'll not only be leggy, meaning with tall but ...
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How can I grow seedlings from commercial apples?
To elaborate on @Ecnerwal comments about "crab apples":
The DNA of apples is more complex than ours; a recent sequencing of
the Golden Delicious genome uncovered fifty-seven thousand genes,
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My seedling looks stressed and the leaves are wilting.
You haven't said what the seedling is, nor whether the sunlight was outdoors or in, but as a general rule, small seedlings should not be exposed to direct sunlight until they're grown on a bit and ...
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Questions about soil block usage
I tried this supposedly-plant-nirvana-inducing method one year.
Suffice to say that it was a one-year experiment. Some folks seem to love them, and write paeans to them, but I just didn't find much ...
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