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PostPosted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 2:20 pm 
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Furthering my theory that nothing grows in Alsip but desperation and the distance between pants pockets.

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I grew an arm from a pit.

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I grew an arm from a pit.


This was so stupid but I still laughed.

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Furthering my theory that nothing grows in Alsip but desperation and the distance between pants pockets.


:lol:

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Hank Scorpio wrote:
A7X wrote:
I grew an arm from a pit.


This was so stupid but I still laughed.


I know. :lol: For a fleeting moment I knew what it felt like to be Harry Teinowitz.

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you need specific growing conditions. Like six weeks of freezing followed by specific warmth. I grew an avocado from a pit once. That's pretty easy. Wife threw it out though. A lot of those fruits are only grown commerically from cuttings that are grafted onto different root stock.

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you need specific growing conditions. Like six weeks of freezing followed by specific warmth. I grew an avocado from a pit once. That's pretty easy. Wife threw it out though. A lot of those fruits are only grown commerically from cuttings that are grafted onto different root stock.

Dude, I don't mean to pry, but your wife doesn't seem to want you to know even a glint of happiness.

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you need specific growing conditions. Like six weeks of freezing followed by specific warmth. I grew an avocado from a pit once. That's pretty easy. Wife threw it out though. A lot of those fruits are only grown commerically from cuttings that are grafted onto different root stock.

Dude, I don't mean to pry, but your wife doesn't seem to want you to know even a glint of happiness.


I grew my love an avocado. It had no seeds.

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Dude, I don't mean to pry, but your wife doesn't seem to want you to know even a glint of happiness.


Oh I give her a bad rap. She probably said, "are you going to plant this thing in a pot or else I'm going to throw it away." Of course I never did anything with it but let it grow in glass on the kitchen windowsill.

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I grew a pilot's boner when I visited the cockpit.

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See, I was trying to figure out why you'd want to grow anything out of a quarry.

I would think the pit would prefer having its fruit. Initial food and moisture...

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Q.Bovifs wrote:
This question has vexed me since I was a kid.

I remember I used to try to plant a peach pit, cherry pit, orange seeds, etc., and nothing ever grew. I was probably doing it wrong,. and I guess I should have germinated it or scored it or whatever, but I figured nature would take care of that - and it never did. . . or not that I know of.

These days, I think I read somewhere that, in most cases, the seed companies do genetic tinkering to make the seeds infertile (so the farmer has to buy more next time), but has anyone nonetheless nurtured a pit properly into a fruit?


I once tried to grow a rainbow w/ a bag of Skittles. All I got was ants.


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Green beans, actually a lot.
Once as a kid managed to get a coffee bean to sprout up and grow, but it died in a few weeks. Climate, soil, and moisture were probably not quite what they should be for these things to do well.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 11:35 pm 
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here you go:www.michiganpeach.org/facts/pit.html

I continue to find unsprouted peach pits in some of our grape rows- my Grandfather removed the peaches and expanded the vineyard there in the late 1960s.


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