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Originally Posted by UncleWede
Sprouting is the easy part. When you try to transplant, and hope the roots don't die off, now THAT is tough. I think it took me literally a dozen trees, of varying degrees of maturity, before I got one to reach the point of actually producing fruit. I'd go out, notice suddenly all the leaves were gone on a tree, and with a slight pull on the trunk the whole tree came out of the ground.
The trick, I learned from a local with a bunch of fruit-producing trees, was a rusty nail driven into the trunk.
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That last sentence...
But I've read up plenty and we'll see. The thing is, the chances of it actually producing fruit is slim to none.
I'm doing it more for a nice attractive Houseplant.
