As I mentioned in a previous post most of my gardening is by way of experimentation. I grew tomatoes from grocery store produce, and I've tried growing things out of season, in the wrong season, wrong time of year, but always I come back to grocery store produce experiments.
So bit of a back story to this experiment. Last year I bought some grapes from the produce market. Nice and juicy with quite large seeds. I ate them at my desk and once done had a large collection of seeds just sitting on the plate. Not one to waste I had a choice, save them or compost them. I decided to save them. Mid February I wet some paper towel and set the seeds on the towel and waited.
Now my germination rate was pathetic. One out of the bunch of about 20 sprouted, but it was also the biggest seed, so maybe the only fertile one? Hard to say. Anyway ONE sprouted!!! Focus on the positive! The rest became compost fodder :)
I grabbed a pot from the gardening supplies (ok it's an old canola oil container with holes in the bottom), filled it with potting soil and carefully placed the sprouting seed into the pot, and placed it in the kitchen window. 2 days later I had this:
Since then it's grown, a lot! I came into the kitchen one dinnertime and found it leaning right through the blinds to the window clamoring for sunlight! I'd say it's about 8" high and getting another set of leaves!!! I knew I had to figure out my grow light system anyway so now it's sitting under the grow lights in the hopes of straightening it out a little, before I try and harden it off for planting in the garden :) Once I find a place for it! Oh and the straw is for support, it is afterall a VINE!
The perfect place would be in the back (south facing, grapes love sun!) basically where the bougainvillea is now. Which means lots of work to get the bougainvillea out (or transplanted), the bed built and then transplant it. Till then I may look at a container or something. I have plenty of spare containers right now :)
Lots of work ahead with all these experiments!
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