As some of you probably know a while ago I asked for advice about my baby avocado tree. Well, thanks for all responses although it finally died :( Anyway I was thinking that perhaps growing another fruit tree would heal my broken heart.

I want a fruit tree that I can keep indoors and that would not require a lot of sun. If this is not possible I would really appreciate any advice about "growing light" that I might need to buy for it.

The important thing is, I want to grow my tree from seed. I've read on the web that this is possible for citrus trees but they need lots of light. Also I read that sour cherry trees don't need much light but I wonder how big they will grow.

So can you please let me know which fruit tree (miniature type) do you think would be the most suitable one for me. Also can you please also give me some references and links to read about it.

But unless you are doing it to learn and not to be productive, I would buy a seedling. Yeah, they will cost $15-20 each, but you will have more than that in seeds, potting mix, lights and time, especially since the plants you buy are already a year or two old.

As stated above, most fruit trees need to chill for a while - not because they have been bad boys, it's just their nature.

I'm planning on growing two types of cherries plus apples and peach trees this year. Even though I'll be buying saplings, it will be at least 2012 before I get any fruit to speak of and probably 2014 before a huge harvest.

Mike

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1468525/how_to_grow_a_dwarf_fruit_tree_from.html?cat=30

but it doesn't give much detail. Like how I should treat the seeds before planting them or would I still need to use a grapefruit hull if the fruit tree I want to grow is not citrus.

Guys I will try to post my progress but I would need a lot of help on the way. If anyone has experience with lemon, apple and avocado trees please give me some tips. I thank everybody in advance.

wish me luck ;)

I will definitely look for kumquats. As for the lemon trees, did you wash, dry, keep cold or do anything else with the seeds before planting?

It had two seed. I washed them a little and kept them in wet paper towel untill today. Both had developed a kind of gel like thing on them today and I planted one in a cup size flower pot. The drainage of the soil I suppose is good enough. The PH is 5 - 6 which is acidic and good for a citrus tree I guess. Any way, on the package of the potting soil it says that its good for flowers and it gives the PH - that's all I understand because it's not in English. I'm planning to buy distilled water to water it with since the tap water here is rather hard.

The other seed I wrapped in a paper towel and put in a glass with a little water so that the towel around it is damp all the time but it's not directly in the water.

I live in Munich and I'm not good at Duetsch so it's rather difficult for me to communicate with the people I want to buy soil and stuff from.

Thanks everyone for your replies. I will try to write here whatever I do with each seed and if you think I'm doing something wrong please tell me.

Good luck to all.

I'm not sure but the kumquat was rather oval instead of round. I took off the skin of another two seeds. One partially which I planted in soil. The other I took the whole outer skin off and left it in a wet paper towel. we'll see which one of these four does better in the end. Thanks so much for the link.

In January I grew lemons, apples and kumquats as I said I would. They are all doing rather well. I have a couple of questions.

1-Lemons
I planted some lemon seeds a month ago in Jiffy Easy pellets. I hope you all know what they are - small soil packs. I have kept them indoors in a light windowsill. Now they have grown very nicely, they are around 5-7 cm tall and have nice healthy looking leaves. The thing is their roots have started to come out of the bottom of the soil pellet. I want to make bonsai out of these trees. should I cut off the roots as they come out? Should I just let it be? Or should I transplant them quickly into a pot. The roots which have come out seem to be drying out.

2-Kumquats
The Kumquats were planted in January too. Some I started in Jiffy easy pellets and some in wet paper towel. All of them are now transplanted in Jiffy easy pots, which are pots made of some sort of cardboard it seems, with potting soil. The baby trees look as if they can't stand their own weight even tho they are so small still. Should I put a stick or something to support them? And how? I want to keep these trees as small as possible too. What do you suggest?

3- Apples
I started some of the apple seeds in January and some a little later after being kept in the fridge for a while. They are all growing nicely except for three of them which I kept outside in the cold and snow and they are sprouting but on the soil, I see a kind of white colored fungus (mold) growing. should I throw them away. The rest of them are OK. some have even grown another set of leaves. In order to dwarf them should I be pinching out the new set of leaves?

Thank you all in advance for your help.

Cheers