How to grow alien crops from seeds (Part 2)
As against indoor plants, only small amount of exotic fruit has pottery cultures and recommendations on their maintenance within the year, the others are grown by flower growers-experimenters by trial and error. The knowledge of natural growth conditions helps in successful cultivation of exotic plants in the house.
Seeds, after extraction from exotic fruits, are washed out in running water, dried for some hours, processed in growth-promoting factor, sowed in a pot and watered. We know well, the depth for habitual to us seeds. However seeds of tropical fruits have their germination features which should be taken into account: for example, large avocado’s stone are not planted deeply; some seeds are steeped before planting to swell within several days (date stone).
To create high humidity in a pot with the planted seeds some construct “mini- hothouse”, as warming of a pot or its location in a warm place will speed up germination of seeds.
You should be ready that some seeds of exotic fruits (especially trees or palm trees) need a lot of time to come up (weeks and even months) and do not despair. The spring is optimum time for seeds with fast germinating capacity and rootage of fruits’ vegetative parts.
Seeds of unripe fruits will not come up, as well as mechanically damaged seeds, frozen seeds (from the fruits, which were in the frozen condition for a long time).