Growing Valencia Orange From Seeds - 1st batch

Bought some very juicy organic oranges from store. Chose 3 plumb seeds from 2 oranges. Rinsed it under the tap and planted straight into some all purpose potting mix around late Dec 2018 (defo after Christmas).


3 weeks - nothing happened.

4 weeks - still nothing sprouted. So decided to dig them up to see if the seeds were bad. And surprise surprise the first seed I dug up (gently) had a root! Should have taken a picture.  Covered the seed up and left it alone.

4 weeks plus - 2 green stalks sprouted out from 1 of the seeds. 2 remained the same.



5 weeks - another seed sprouted with 2 stalks. Decided to pot the oranges into individual pots.

6 weeks (5 Feb 2019) - All 3 seeds sprouted. The last one to sprout only had 1 stalk!


 Double stalks
single stalk

Note: citrus seeds are polyembryonic. So they can produce up to 7 seedlings in 1 seed.

22 Feb 2019 - separate the twins into their own pots. One pair given to a friend.

Remaining twins


Single

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