I posted on here last year, asking for an identification of fruit, which we 
agreed was spindle.
I planted two berries in a pot, the pot was outside all winter and no show 
yet.  How long do they take to germinate?  Anyone?

Tina

In article ,
   Christina Websell  wrote:
> I posted on here last year, asking for an identification of fruit, which
> we agreed was spindle. I planted two berries in a pot, the pot was
> outside all winter and no show yet.  How long do they take to
> germinate?  Anyone?

> Tina

I reckon that if they haven't they probably won't now. I would be temped
to look at the seed and see if it looks rotted at all.

"Robert Seago"  wrote in message 
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> In article ,
>   Christina Websell  wrote:
>> I posted on here last year, asking for an identification of fruit, which
>> we agreed was spindle. I planted two berries in a pot, the pot was
>> outside all winter and no show yet.  How long do they take to
>> germinate?  Anyone?
>
>> Tina
>
> I reckon that if they haven't they probably won't now. I would be temped
> to look at the seed and see if it looks rotted at all.

I thought someone might say that!  I have visions of my grandfather coming 
back to haunt me though, he was a great gardener and was always telling me 
off as a small child when I dug up my seeds to see if they were growing yet 
;-)
I have great memories of pottering about in the garden with him from a very 
young age. The tale is still told within the family of when I was about 4. 
We were in the greenhouse, he was tending to his grapevine, and there was a 
mat of green at one end of it.  I asked him "Grandad, what's that called?" 
He said "Mind your own business"  and I burst into tears.  I rushed back to 
the house and told my grandmother that my grandfather had told me to mind my 
own business.  She was so cross because I was crying that she marched down 
the garden to confront him.  He hardly knew what hit him - until she was 
told that the plant *was* actually called "mind-your-own-business"!  I still 
remember it myself.
I wonder if being included in gardening from such a young age made me have 
the interest in plants that I still have.  I cannot go past a wild flower 
without mentally identifying it or if it's one I don't know, getting my book 
out.  I still have to know "what they are called"

In article , Christina Websell
 wrote:


> >
> > I reckon that if they haven't they probably won't now. I would be
> > temped to look at the seed and see if it looks rotted at all.

> I thought someone might say that!  I have visions of my grandfather
> coming back to haunt me though, he was a great gardener and was always
> telling me off as a small child when I dug up my seeds to see if they
> were growing yet ;-) 
I recall my grandad scraping the soil away from the spuds to see how they
were doing before committing to actually digging them up.  I do the same.
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> He hardly knew what hit him - until she was told that
> the plant *was* actually called "mind-your-own-business"!  
I have more of that than I can really do with in the front garden.

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Good on you, there are few of us about:)