As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
As I sit here being dehydrated and steam fills the rooms, due to last night our water from the municipal tap suddenly tasted like moldy bread, and TL looked up and found it was some algae leftover bloom and boiling it seems to make it taste like boiled water........and I think if I wanted the adventure of drinking water that tasted like buffalo piss, I could at least have the wallow to sip from and enjoy the hunting, that I long for the merry splashing of our own well in which there are fewer people in for me to ask God to avenge me upon..........
That God is teaching me like woodworking and bread, that one does not count their chickens before they are hatched. Oh some predator is eating them again, and Mom had a skunk run between her legs while giving treats to goatikins......so what an adventure it all is eh?
So God was very good in my first two apple seedlings. Oh so you know, this is a baby apple seed update to teach you things.
I am telling you specifics as specifically, things are not working out as the Youtube videos show, and I found a blurb that said most apple seeds do not sprout..........hmmmmm that makes sense, but I have something to up the ante on this so stay tuned, as when God teaches me I do become an expert in it.
The fridge is cold and I do not know if warmer like 50 degrees would help, but I do know that the second seeds sprouted and just sat there for 10 days. These are the seeds which I helped with an x acto knife to get them out of the husk.........the experts are right in this, and do not do it.
I put them into my Chinese take out seed flats. Nothing happened. So I sat them in the sun to warm........nothing happened. The two which were a bit more advanced, I stuck into those plastic cups I mentioned from Dairy Queen, and after like 3 weeks of sitting there, they are putting out leaves now.
The others either burned off, rotted off or flooded out due to a rain.
In the meantime, I had read in dealing with hazardous chemicals that sometimes peroxide is a bleach thing which should not blow up and might clean pants........I did not try it, and instead resorted to carbuerator cleaner, but I saw a blurb that said it would sprout seeds.
TL had some old peroxide in the store grade sitting there so I wetted the seeds again, and 10 more of the unsproutable seeds put out roots.
Some were sort of growing roots, so I put them into these quart plastic berry containers from the throw away, and have them sitting outside at night and warmed in the morning..........this is like 2 days now, and no progress, and I keep them with a crack in the lid, and watered them again, so am waiting for the data on this experiment to birth these seeds along.
Thing is, I did not have access to any tomatoe seeds this year......and not having them, I got some Romanos out of the grocery and gutted them, fermented the seeds in a plasticware thing, washed them, and stuck them into this berry container thing......warmed them in the sun, left them out at night, and in 3 days I had Eureka........on day four which is this morning at 6:30 AM, I found that in planting 6 seeds that I got 8 plants.........I miscounted, but this sure blew the seed hull like gang busters, and I have them in a plastic throw away flower pack of 6......one in the original crib and another by it's lonesome in a new wee baby crib.
I relate the tomatoe situation, to make the point in tomatoes are not that generous unless in perfect conditions to sprout at times.........so if they all sprouted out of the womb, then these sprouted apples seeds should be doing more than looking veg head.
I know God will in the Holy Ghost work this out as He always does and I am just looking for the way through again like in bread dough or bending wood to my will. It is not all bad, as this location is teaching me things like a deck with morning sun is like day care with free candy to plants. I have never been in a location where my plants would not dry out in a day due to the arid air. Where this location is, is humid, even if it is not Missouri cut with a knife liquid air. The plants do not dry out, but suck moisture from the air, and it is like California to me in things just grow with 1/4 the effort as I used to have to deal with.
It really is something to experience this what most people have for growing conditions. There really is not any work involved at all and you can just watch the plants grow and bloom.
I stupidly in a throw away container put an Armenian cuke and a Japanese squash, which are doing well.....the cuke broke a leaf in the wind yesterday, but they are looking good.
TL got a purslaine and I think I am sold in the nursery hybrid in they have a flour like a portulaca or moss rose, and if you water the blessing out of them in the pot, they bloom pretty.
Back at the ranch though, the citrus Filipino orange limes are in heat now starting to react like tropicals and grow. I am really pleased in this, as they are expensive to buy and I was able by God's Grace to have 3 of them now since the mum plant went bark up.
The sugar maple.......I do not know if it is mutant or what, but the old tree which I see is green leaves and this one is red tinged leaf with almost a golden color in the second leaves. Might be soil mineral content.......time will tell. It is now thinking about sending up a shoot for a third growth, but is sitting there too.
The wee baby first apples though are really going to town. The elder is doing an effort to catch and pass the maple and the young un is trying to catch up too. They look better than the Youtube ones feature in being robust with little red bark and green leaves. I do not know if these are Honeycrisp or some Braeburn seeds tossed in in these 4. If the other 9 put down root, I will imagine that I have Honeycrisp parentage in them.........second set of seeds is mostly Honeycrisp, so that should settle that when I try it with them in a hopefully home location. I can't haul a forest around with me or some police state thug will probably think they are weed or something like calling the USDA for state import permits or some damn thing.
I do not know about the Chinaman food container for sprouting, even if I got one of 4 Kuri squash and two of like 11 apples to not go tits up........and 2 of 5 fire limes to come into the world.
They are marvelous for holding in moisture which is the big bugaboo on this in seeds drying out or tomatoes sprouted having their hulls stuck to the leaves killing them. The lids make things easier on them and me.
At this point I look back to several years ago in trying to sprout some Spitzenberg seeds off of my tree that was dying, and it did not work at Mom's. I am estimating that I had something like 50 apple seeds I saved over the winter, and two sprouted when I had sliced part of the seed hull off in cutting the apples, and then these 9 which just sat there......and I put them out to warm them, and the little roots on two just browned, so that does not work either.......and I do not know about this new batch in what will be the learning curve on them. It is a point of learning the million dollar knowledge and with peroxide I think I found a way to increase sprouting.
Here am I resorting to God caring in the tomatoes and these apples, as it seems more times than not, He figures it out better. Every year I would sprout tomatoes by the few, and by the time I was ready to plant them, their individual containers would have sprouts coming in them, that God was caring for......yes it was increased heat and sun, but I have to be shown the right combination to get them past sprouting in these apples, to the bursting out of the hull..............I am given that trigger than this should be a done deal.
The neighbors here must think me nuts. I know they are all snoopy and watching me as I am out there for periods of time just kneeling down and gazing at the wee baby plants. When things are going right, you can see changes in them over night.
I am sold on these heavy duty clear plastic cups. The plants do very well in them. I think the maple might like something larger for it's shallow roots, but I am going to wait and see what it does for the next week if it bolts or just sits there.
I would so have loved to have had access to internet and resources like this when I started this adventures, as I would have been so far ahead by now in figuring all of this out with God's Grace.
It will work out though without a ten million dollar University lab. My main focus though is not Honeycrisp offspring, but gaining perhaps heirloom seedlings I read about, with the foundation of those two Minnesota apples in Wealthy and Fireside, as for my taste a Wealthy is what an apple should taste like in a red and the Honeygold is what a yellow should be like fresh off the tree...........I do think the Northwest Greening or what was it Rhode Island Greening is a better apple than a Granny Smith.....although you can not get good Granny apples any more from producers.....and the Greenings are hard a rocks which is their one problem.
I am not kidding you on this. Those Greening apples are the hardest fleshed apple and are difficult to bite.
Just have to see where things settle out in gaining some seeds as they do not breed true to parent, but even with a next year start with blessing, it will be 5 to 10 years before an apple would appear.
"Humans live too long in destroying themselves in lusts, fears and wars, but their lives are not long enough in planting of apple seeds and the decades it takes to learn of that one tree."
- Lame Cherry
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