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GROWING YOUR OWN SEEDLINGS
You can also start your own plants from seeds.
Some of the seedlings will have to be transplanted, and
others will continue to flourish in the original planter.
Date Palms -- You must be sure that date seeds are
non-pasteurized, so when buying packaged dates, read the
label carefully. Although date palms grow to heights of
sixty feet in their natural habitat, they make strikingly
unusual house plants. Plant about three or four seeds in
soil, in a pot of about four inches across. As the palms
grow into seedlings, transplant them, one by one, into
larger planters.
Grapefruit, Orange, Tangerine, Lemon -- Although we
think of these as the sunshine fruits, they have been known
to grow in underground caverns, such as mines, planted by a
workman, and nourished by nothing but a single light bulb.
Seeds should be planted, as soon as they are taken from the
fruit, in a mixture of soil and sphagnum peat. Keep the
soil mixture damp (not wet), in a lighted place, but out of
the direct sun.
Apple Tree -- Plant apple seeds in a soil mixture
that has been provided with good drainage. They will grow
into tiny apple trees.
Avocado -- Plant the avocado seed as soon as it is
removed from the avocado. Plant it in a mixture of peat
and soil, with the pointed end up, just above the soil. It
will take the seed from thirty to sixty days to sprout, and
as the young plant grows, it will develop large, glossy
leaves, something like those of the rubber plant. When the
plant is about eight inches high, pinch off its top; this
will produce a low, bush-like plant.
All seed plants should be provided with drainage.
Punch holes in the bottoms of the containers, then put in
about a half-inch of crushed rock. Finish filling the
planter with the appropriate soil mixture.