Yesterday I wanted to get some pictures of the seedlings with their numbers showing. So here they are. (It occurs to me that some aspects of this blog would be completely unnecessary to me, psychologically, if that bean I planted as a long-ago kindergarten activity would have just sprouted...)
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| Developments with the two seeds I got from the smallest pawpaw of September 2015: A1 sprouted and A2 can't be roused from its torpor, yet. |
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| Developments with the three seeds I got from the second smallest pawpaw of September 2015: They've each sprouted. Interestingly, B2 was one of the very first to show its stalk among all of the seeds, but it still can't get its leaves out of the ground. B1's stalk showed up later than B2's, but it quickly passed B2. And B3--it didn't hear spring fire its gun so it lingered behind the starting line long after the race started, but just this week it proved itself a phenomenal sprinter: in the evening there was no sign of the stalk, the next morning the stalk was showing, and by the time I got home from work its small leaves were showing. |
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| Developments with the five seeds I got from the third smallest (second biggest) pawpaw of September 2015: Every seed has germinated, but C2 and C3 have been very slow to get their leaves out of the ground. They were two of the first to germinate, but they've been stuck for weeks with their heads in the ground, with C1, C3, and C4 passing them up. You can see that C2 is showing some leaf that's still underground. |
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| Developments with the ten seeds I got from the fourth smallest (the biggest) pawpaw of September 2015: For D1 to D5, three out of five have germinated. |
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| Developments with the ten seeds I got from the fourth smallest (the biggest) pawpaw of September 2015, continued: For D6 to D10, only one seed has germinated. (If you're paying more attention to these pictures than is reasonable, you'll see I've stuffed a couple dryer sheets in among the seedlings. I've noticed that a lot of small gnats are hanging around, and I wanted to see if dryer sheets would drive them away. But it doesn't work.) |
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| Looking at the trees, NJ pointed out some water droplets on a cluster of pawpaws. |
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| After we looked at the trees and NJ went inside, W came home and pointed out the two buck mule deer lounging in our next door neighbors' backyard. When they weren't lounging, they were eating the neighbors' green apricots. Glad they know to stay away from pawpaws. |
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| This morning I stopped by and saw that C2 and C3 were starting to get their leafy heads out of the dirt. |
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| C3 from another angle |
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| C2 from some other angles |
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