What's your funniest propagation experience

joydie1 Hamilton, Canada Feb 20, 2003

Here's mine...DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME...lol.

Only a dummy would do this 101
Propagating mango seeds
#1 Don't buy unripe fruit and think it will ripen indoors, not even if its on the discount tray!
#2 Don't put the unripe fruit in a plastic bowl where you can not see it inside through the plastic.
#3 NEVER put the plastic bowl on top of the refrigerator, chances are you will forget about it since the bowl is not at eye level.
#4 After going through all the trouble to scrape,and then dry a "trial seed", do not put the rounded end into water-nothing will happen even if you wait a life time! You have to cut the pointed end and GENTLY crack the seed pod ever so slightly, then put the rounded end into water.
#5. When discovering a curious fermented odor in the kitchen, check on top of the fridge to find the rest of the mangoes you totally forgot about. Ahh hah, there's the source of the odor!
#6. Now after ages of nothing happening with your "trial seed", go and surf the web and find the proper way to do it!
#7 When carefully following the proper instructions that you should have looked up in the first place, use too much force when trying to gently open the seed. Seed coat opens up completely because the darn fruit is fermented. By accident you look inside only to find that the darn thing is sprouting already!
#8 Spend the next half hour pulling out your fridge to disinfect the top of the fridge, see now there is some spring cleaning done!