Planting a plum stone/tomato/pepper seeds from the vegetables

cjb02

Farway wrote: »

It will make a nice LARGE house plant, I did same as you years ago, they grow into trees, big trees that reach the ceiling if not kept in check

Did you ever plant it outside and did it survive?
I have one in a pot in the garden and put it in the greenhouse during the winter.

As for a growing a plum from a stone, why not

but just be aware as others have said it can and most probably will get very very big, so you need space, it wont necessarily give a viable crop and that could take 10/15yrs to find out but then again it could and only time will tell.

Personally I would pop in to LIDL or ALDI in February as they sell bare rooted plum trees for about £4

Farway

cjb02 wrote: »

Did you ever plant it outside and did it survive?
I have one in a pot in the garden and put it in the greenhouse during the winter.

They will not survive outside, according to GQT on radio 4, they are really large tropical trees and will never fruit in this country

I tried mine in unheated greenhouse one year and it suffered from cold, leaves browned & dried, and I am in Hampshire, now it moves into the conservatory overwinter

Primrose

I save many of my tomato seeds. It's easy and saves money. If you grow more than one variety of tomato, obviously you should save the seeds from each variety separately. (Plants grown from saved seeds from Ferline & other F1 varieties won't grow true but most popular tomatoes, including the favourite Gardeners Delight cherry variety are fine to reproduce in this way).
Swish the seeds around in a small cupful of water for a couple of minutes to remove most of the muucus type sticky material. Drain the water away through a couple of layers of kitchen tissue paper and allow the seeds to dry until hard on the paper. Store in a cool dry place. If the seeds are stuck hard to the tissue, don't worry. You can sow the tissue as well when the time comes and it will disintegrate without harming the seed.
Pepper seeds can simply be dried and stored. Always use seeds from ripe fruits though as the seed won't be mature from unripened plants. I wouldn't bother with the plum stone. You'll probably be dead before the trees are mature enough to bear fruit! If you want a plum tree, get one from a recognised fruit tree supplier which has been grafted onto reliable stock.

cjb02

this is an interesting thread on allotments4all about a person who did grow a plum stone and what results she got.

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,54813.0.html

kelloggs36

ktpie wrote: »

I did think after I posted earlier for a plum it would depend how much garden you had to spare!

I have a 60ft garden, so I have plenty of room to put one.