Mango seed update 2

Did you know that I've been germinating some mango seeds? I've posted about this a couple of times before (here, and here), and it's time for another update. As a quick recap, I wrapped the giant seeds in wet paper towels, put them into ziploc bags, and placed them in a warm place: on top of my grow light fixture.

Then I pretty much forget about them for a few weeks at a time. Since it's been a few weeks since I last looked at them (with one exception), today I took a close look.

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One of the plants has been out of the plastic bag for a couple of weeks. I've left it wrapped in its now-starting-to-disintegrate paper towel, and it's been sitting in a container with a small amount of water in it to keep it moist.

It's doing pretty well, but needs to get into some soil!

This is what the bagged seeds look like:

Today was the first day I unwrapped all of the other seeds in quite a while, and this is what I found:

Yahoo!

This is what each wrapped seed looks like:

Not too promising, until you look at it from the right direction:

So they're all doing great! Well, except for this one:

This one looks way too dark compared to all of the others.

As you can see, it has not germinated, and in fact is quite moldy:

Straight into the garbage with that one, but I think four small mango plants is plenty for me:

Especially since I'll have to grow these as houseplants.

Actually, four is more than plenty -- it's too many! If all of them survive, I'm going to have to give away a few of them for sure. Maybe I'll make them part of a plant trade...

In any case, I'm excited about my new little mango plants!

If you're interested in trying this, it's super simple. Here's my post on what I did.

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