Do these little guys stand a chance

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Posted by kenzo 6 (My Page) on

Mon, Jun 23, 14 at 12:50

This year I had a slurry of volunteers come up in my garden - mostly in places where they could not remain - unable to resist the "mystery" I removed some of them and transferred to small nursery pots where they developed slowly but fairly stably - this weekend I transferred the last to "permanent" homes in containers. I am not sure of variety but presume likelihood of cherry type - if needs are met is it early enough that these guys will fruit - I know I wont get a full season but at least hope for something. They are going in a more ornamental public location outside of the main garden but I hope to get some fruiting. Will I or are they just too little too late?

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Posted by seysonn 7b WA/HZ 1 (My Page) on
Mon, Jun 23, 14 at 23:22

I like your dog. He was more thirsty that those plants. Reminded me of my German Sheppard.

About you question:
I would look at it this way. Say they have a DTM of 75 days. Then you should expect some ripe fruit roughly in September.
Today I just pulled several of them but mine were much smaller.

But if you have space, it should be fun to experiment.

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Posted by kenzo 6 (My Page) on
Tue, Jun 24, 14 at 10:29

thanks for your reply

I never really can figure out the DTM thing as opposed to when the plant actually started to grow - when it comes to volunteer or seed starts vs market bought. even after transplant they seem to be in a holding pattern until they decide "game on" and grow and some click sooner than others.

I pulled my last harvest around oct 20 last year so hopefully I will get something out of them - I just want to know what they are - there are at least four varieties of volunteers that came up. I don't know if they are from my last years plants or from the foreign compost I used in my potting mix or some of both. The ones I did not move are quite a bit ahead of the transplants.

I have always had a few volunteers but this year was crazy - they popped up everywhere.

they are just and experiment I am putting the pots out in front of the house - curious to see how they fare out there.

The dog is my watering buddy - cant do anything with water without him on it - he is obsessed - kindler and gentler with the watering can than the hose which he attacks.

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