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Just planted Anjou pear tree and fruit coctail cherry tree with van, sam, bing cherries
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I was at my local nursery looking for a pear tree. He had Bartlett and Anjou. I picked the Anjou because it seems Bartlett pears are very common. While I was there I found that he had a multi-grafted cherry tree. I picked it up as well, since it has several sweet cherry varieties and the branches were already about 6″ to 1' long and marked as to the variety of each branch. For $10 more than buying a stick from e-bay with bud grafts that you don't know if they even took, I thought this was a good deal.
Small rant. When I went to e-bay looking at a 5 in 1 Asian pear tree, I asked the seller if the branches of each variety were marked. The seller responded, there was nothing to mark (there were no branches for the buds. Okay, fine. I can accept that. After a few hours of deliberating, I decided to purchase. Guess what? The seller blacklisted me from buying or asking any more questions. I also noticed that the question wasn't posted on the item page. Seems this seller just wants to get money from people that don't know anything. They probably figure by the time the buyer knows that none of the grafts took they can't post any bad feedback. Rule of thumb, if the seller has 100% feedback but won't let you buy from them, chances are they are doing something shady to keep that feedback rating.
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Tagged anjou pear, bing cherries, bing cherry, cherry tree, grafted cherry tree, sam cherry, van cherry
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Last night I planted some blue prince/princess holly seeds. Going to try to grow Holly from seeds
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A member of another forum Sherry (AKA Hollyberry Lady) gave me some holly seeds last year. After many months in the refrigerator I took them out and planted them in a container. They kind of looked like sunflower seeds to me, but I could be mis-remembering what sunflower seeds look like. I planted 5 or so. I hear that it takes 18 months to 3 years for them to germinate. I’m just going to leave the container alone and see what happens. I sure hope it doesn’t take 18 months but it would be so cool to have a nice holly bush in a few years knowing it all started from a seed. I don’t know how many hollys are even grown from seed these days since it seems to take a long time and most people could just get a bush from their nearby nursery for some instant gratification.
Has anyone else grown holly from seed?
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Tagged blue prince, holly bush, holly from seeds, hollyberry, princess holly
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