tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19154645.post2951674241635167963..comments2024-03-28T02:24:12.428-07:00Comments on Oh, True Apothecary! : Writing, Gardening, & Post OfficingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19154645.post-37947448253487416892016-02-10T09:14:58.841-08:002016-02-10T09:14:58.841-08:00Thank you for the information on the mango. Very u...Thank you for the information on the mango. Very useful. I'm still waiting for some of the seedy things to pop up. If I remember correctly, the bergamot took a while and I actually thought it wasn't going to happen, and then it did.Justine Cranehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16224192086918363871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19154645.post-87707781623873351602016-02-09T15:49:04.879-08:002016-02-09T15:49:04.879-08:00Ah, it was leaving the leafy lovelies in the tende...Ah, it was leaving the leafy lovelies in the tender care of my Other Half that did for them - they'd been neglected for weeks and then guiltily drowned in too much water too late when I was due to return!<br /><br />My only lesson concerning home-grown Mango plants is that they really don't like to have their rootball disturbed when you have to pot them on, so no teasing out the roots for them; they seem happiest here when they are busting out of the pot! Finicky about water too - not too little and not too much. Definitely Goldilocks plants (and the OH did for one of them as well now that I think of it!).<br /><br />Good luck with your bergamot babies!<br /><br />cheerio, Anna in EdinburghAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19154645.post-72185447932871757142016-02-03T10:51:47.269-08:002016-02-03T10:51:47.269-08:00Ooh, I've never tried mango pits -- that's...Ooh, I've never tried mango pits -- that's something newly on the agenda (thanks). In the past I've gotten four bergamot orange pips to grow. They made it to the three to four inch mark, and I left for a three-day weekend and came home to them dead and withered -- the folks I'd left in charge of watering the wee babies didn't. That was also the weekend I had to resurrect nearly all the plants on my front porch as nothing was being taken care of while I was gone. Depressing, that. I haven't tried growing bergamot again because I didn't have the opportunity until now to get the seed. We'll have to wait to see how it goes. Something's got to grow, right? I mean, I planted the seeds from nearly 20 pounds of bergamot all over the place here.Justine Cranehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16224192086918363871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19154645.post-87716802334149264412016-02-03T09:25:40.784-08:002016-02-03T09:25:40.784-08:00Hi Justine,
I too put citrus pips (and apple seed...Hi Justine,<br /><br />I too put citrus pips (and apple seeds) in my indoor pots and let them take their chance to grow. They do grow, reach a few inches in height, and they then give up the ghost. Tomato seeds, sweet pepper seeds, mango pits and date pits are happier to keep growing here and their plants are more determined to live, I've found! I'll take any handy hints you've got to keep the citrus and apple plants growing:-)<br /><br />cheerio, Anna in EdinburghAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com