Five months ago, I conducted and experiment about growing chestnuts my way. You can read about it in this post. How are they now?
Chestnuts are supposed to be grown by letting them go through stratification so they say but I have learned from my grandparents that the best way to grow any seed is to plant them right after you eat or harvested them. That's exactly what I did here.
I found these on this hotel's parking space, took them home, peeled them up and planted them right away. If I follow the stratification method it would take quite some time and I will have to put them peel and all in the fridge. As you can see, one of them is even wrinkled so had I done that it would have grown mildew.
I let them grow outside and had no results - two months should have been enough but it was winter and we had a cold age effect so after nearly three months, I checked them out in the pots and saw they're actually growing. As you can see, their main seed coat is still on the cotyledons but they're rooting.
I transplanted them in a pot of loam soil and covered its top with sand so flies won't manage to hatch from however many eggs there are in the loam soil. I placed the pot on top of the heating in the kitchen, watered every 4 days and after 10 days - probably at dawn - a baby chestnut plant broke through the sand. I took this picture on the 11th day.
Two days later, there were two and they're growing faster. I've always used the teaspoon on the picture to check the rate of their growth.
Fifteen days later they've doubled in height.
Fifteen days more and here they are now. Very bushy and ready for transplanting in individual pots. I haven't decided which part of the backyard they should be and hub really isn't a fan of having them so for now they'll stay in separate pots till I get him convinced to let go of the conifers on the fence next to the parking lot and grow these two as thick bushes there and some bananas instead. Besides, those conifers don't really give us much.
I promised to post the result of this experiment but I kept forgetting. Anyway, to conclude, it's possible to grow chestnuts in pots without letting it go through stratification. I actually think that their leaves are these healthy because they were grown indoors and are not prone to scorching from the sun. They are pretty sensitive so I will have to find a shady part in the garden to place them later.
Have you ever grown chestnuts from seeds?
How did you do it? Please share below.
I took some of the pictures with my Samsung Galaxy A3 2016 .
You don't really expect me to put sources do you? This is a result of my very own experiment.
Here you can find how to grow chestnuts from seed different to how I did it.
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