That Was Quick
A few days ago I planted my two pear seeds that had sprouted, and I checked them today to find that one of the pair of pears sprouted.
I thought this would take a number of days, or maybe even a week to happen and I'm kind of excited.
Here it is, poking through with the seed still covering some of the leaf.
I thought it came up backwards or something, when I saw the seed. But, on close inspection you can actually see a leaf/ bulb growing from it, and at some point the shell will fall away.
It's cool to think that these seeds were just going to end up in the bin before I germinated them. From now on, anytime I see seeds I think I'll just try grow it. No point wasting it, after all.
Think of how many apple/ pear seeds we throw away each year. What if we all just ran an initiative to grow a bunch of these trees. Go around planting them in random spots and let nature take its course. In a matter of years we could have millions of free apples and pears each year.
Or, maybe that's just a wistful daydream...
Time To Cull
Well, a little secret game I played upon planting these two was that they were now they fighting to live.
Seems we have a winner of this little hidden game that they didn't even know they were playing.
I have a small tin beside the incubator. My plan is to wait until the other one sprouts, build a little fire, and burn it in front of the winner.
The reason for waiting until the plant sprouts is simply to let it know how good life is before I smite it. That'll teach the others not to displease me.
Nice ! But I'm going to plead for mercy for the smaller one. Sometimes, the one which starts slowest grows the strongest in the long run.
Instead of killing it, nurture it and repot it until it's as big as you are able to look after. Then find somewhere to plant it where it can grow and flourish. Perhaps deep in a secret sunny patch in a nearby wood, or as a gift for a friend buying their first house with a garden big enough for a pear tree (with the promise that they'll make you a pear crumble each year as a gesture of thanks).
Our cherry tree came from something like this.
The first month after buying our house, we went to look at some furniture for it. The furniture was awful, but the industrial estate had a row of old cherry trees. I picked one, ate it, dropped the stone in the car's drink holder and forgot about it for a while. Then I remembered it, put it in a flowerpot in the greenhouse and forgot it again. In the spring, it made two leaves. So I watered it, re-potted it when it got too big, and again when it outgrew that one.
Finally I put it in the ground, and now it's a beautiful 40 feet high tree full of birds and bees. With amazing blossoms every spring.
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