General Chat

Hello Jonathon and Suzie,
I hope 'Trumplee and Relumpte' are the ones still going strong... what's the third one's name?

You will find that once you are able to get them outside, the fungus will begin to subside, it might also pay to transplant them into fresh soil.

I haven't been able to grow much this year as we moved last Spring and have major building works to contend with, so the glasshouse is a bit redundant.

I do, however have a bay tree cutting in a propagator at work and will soon start sowing my vegetable seeds. This year will be a better one for me.

I hope your plants go from strength to strength.

All the best.

Tina x

Thanks Tina, yes i've repotted all three recently, but did damage Relumpte's root a bit, which i'm kicking myself about, but it seems ok so far touch wood. The third one we've unofficially named Tempurle. It might be a while before we can get them outside so hope the fungus can be kept in check.

Checked some pear pips we've had in the fridge for a month last night and one has germinated, which came as a surprise. We know it is unlikely to give us anything edible, but we would be really pleased if it can create any fruit for the birds etc. or even if we can just get a tree out of it.

Good luck with the bay tree and your veg.

Anyone else fancy growing something? Our pear pip was just wrapped in a slightly damp sheet of kitchen roll in a plastic bag for a month, really simple.

had a book for christmas, apparently greengage seeds will produce something pretty close to a greengage, but probably not exactly. We will need another plum tree to pollinate it though as they cannot pollinate themselves.

Hi my initial seedling (Trumplee) has pretty much finished it's seed leaves. It's currently in compost, but do i need to start feeding it now?

Hello Jonathan
Sounds as though they are doing well.

If you have recently transplanted them there should be enough food in the compost for the time being... over feeding at this stage could cause plasmolysis (reverse osmosis) and be disasterous. It might be an idea to check on the compost bag to see what the food ratio is and maybe give it a couple more weeks.

Tina x

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Thanks Tina, always appreciate your advice. It was a cheap bag from a small garden centre, might pop back there next weekend and see if they know.

The pear seed i took out the fridge five days ago already looks like a min triffid

You have started these seeds at just the right time of year. I do hope you have success with them. I might just try it all next year.

well let us know if you do and what you try and grow. We're liking the idea of taking cuttings to try and get a root, might try it with something unimportant, just to see if we can get it to work

Taking cuttings is really exciting... fushias and pelargoniums are probably the easiest to start with and the most successful.

Best get back to work..... planting sugarbeet steckles .

Is that what you do as a job, or are you working in your garden?

Yes taking cuttings looks quite good

We were worried we'd done the seeds a few months too early

Went to garden centre on sunday, it's a little one with a really helpful lady. She basically told us that we'd overwatered and were keeping the seedlings in the wrong place so we've changed that accordingly, Jon and Suzie.

she said that i can bring my plants to her if i'm in difficulty

Hello Jon and Suzie,

Glad you have got some good advice form the garden centre and the offer of somewhere for them to go if the need arises.

Are they growing well still?

Hi Tina, we think they are still growing, they seem quite a way above the soil line again. Did notice some fungus on one of them's cotyledons the other day, scratched it off and applied some fungicide.

Have you or anyone else on here any plans to grow anything yet?

Another thing we're thinking of doing is at some stage buying a young fruit tree of a local variety. Here in Cornwall there are loads of apples, but we're quite interested in the local plum varieties if they can be bought from somewhere

Have just put some Onion seeds in the propagator, that's all so far, bit early yet. Plan to do a host of veges though and the normal annuals and hanging basket plants. Will start the about middle to end of February.

well good luck with all that, better get back to work now

Been keeping seedlings in porch during the day and bringing them into the main house, which seems to have helped keep the mould away for now. Now my main seedling has got a leaf going brown. Hard this plant rearing...

Im growing tomatoes from May, had some brilliant tips from Fred when I posted last year.