it's been a long day for a multitude of reasons, so pardon me if i am brief...some of the seeds from the bag of michigan apples have progressed to the point of planting ( three to be exact) more areapproaching that time...but not yet...by the end of the week i imagine...enough time to run to the garden store and invest in some more peat pots...i prepared a soil mixture using regular potting mix along with some of my home-made compost and some spahgmum moss to retain some moisture in the pots...i watered the mix down thoroughly and in went the seedlings, covering the nacent root up to the seedcoat and i put them under the grow light...the second of the original trees has me a bit worried about its continued survival...it doesn't show up well in th ephoto but the large leaves (leafs?) are beginning ot discolor around the edges much as the other one did before it keeled over...distressing, but as i think about it, one of the reasons plants produce so many seeds ( or bulbs or tubers...once again, odd how the ammount of sugars or starches we utilize a sfoods form any given plant depends on how it reproduces...tuberous perennial, lots of starch, rhyzocarpous perennial, nor so much...think jerusalem artichokes versus chinese yams) is because not all of them are going to make it...safety in numbers for a new generation...imagine if every acorn grew to an adult oak...no lumber shortage...so if my original trees don't survive i have dozens of apple seeds, a box of baggies, many paper towels ( although i had to go to a janitorial supply store to find unbleached ones)water, and patience ( if i don't run the batteries down on other things) i will plant and try to nurtue until there are ( more) trees in the yard no matter how many apples i have to eat...it seems to be the way biology works...i will not panic...just regroup.
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