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Old 10-22-2010, 10:28 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Default Re: First loquat to sprout

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Originally Posted by Willow87 View Post
I planted 80 loquat seeds but only a few made it. This one was the first to sprout and its opening up more and more. I've never been really successful growing plants from seeds but I'm so happy that I got at least a few loquat trees to sprout. I'll keep posting updated pictures. Hopefully they will flourish. It took about a month for them to germinate.
If you are trying to sprout them outdoors, the rest might sprout when the soil temperature returns to the 70's F in the days and nights. Loquats do not sprout "true to type", so the seedlings are used as rootstock for a proven cultivar.
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