June 29, 2017: Down to One

My apple seedlings have been living on the window sill and have been knocked down a few times.

One finally met it's end from gravity.

The remaining one now lives in the plant room with the avocados.

I'm hoping that this last fall has not finished it off as well.

May 22, 2017: Apple Tree Seedlings

While eating a Pink Lady apple I reached the core and saw that some of the seeds had germinated. I put the core back in the plastic baggie to keep it moist, and kept it in the fridge until I could take it home.

At home I carefully pried out the germinated seeds, finding five such germinated, and two that had not. The five germinated seeds were planted, plus one ungerminated, just in case.  

Four grew a stem and leaves. The fifth germinated seed never poked it's head out of the dirt, I think I buried it too deeply (1.25" or so). The ungerminated seed stayed a seed.

Two of the four eventually yellowed and wilted. I tossed them.

June 18, 2017: Avocado Experiments, Juniper and Maple Updates

June 18, 2017

This is my first avocado pit, which sprouted in January or February, I think (the major part of why I'm trying to keep this blog, as a way to track the tree-lings progresses).

Per a forum that I can't find now, I soaked a scissors in a 4-5 parts water to 1 part bleach solution and pared down the leaves.

I also cut the new shoots coming up in order to see how the tree reacts.

These maples were "taken out of the wild" on May 17th, the same day I removed the junipers from the yard (my parent's yard).

The happiest juniper was the one protected by the "lee of the stone [wall]," i.e., the one least mown over.

Innaugural Post

May 21, 2017

Dug four little junipers (I think) from the yard. The brown is from being mown over a few times. The last two photos are of a nearby tree I suspect these little ones came from (when are junipers mature enough to produce little ones?)