How to Make Potted Plants from Fruit Seeds? Never Buy Potted Plants Again for Your Home Garden
If you're still buying potted plants, you're behind the times! Longan, lemon, dragon fruit, pomelo - the leftover fruit seeds you'd normally throw away can all be turned into potted plants. Now follow along step by step!
Longan Forest
Longan is actually very easy to grow. When eating longan, why not save the seeds and give it a try. Before soaking the longan seeds in water, you need to clean off the flesh and white soft tissue from the top, otherwise they will easily attract bugs later on.
1. After soaking longan seeds in water for two days, the outer shell gradually cracks open; you need to change the water every day.
2. After about one week of soaking, plant them in a pot with the sprouting point facing up, arranged from the outside inward.
3. Spray water twice a day, and after one week they will start to sprout. After about ten days, the little sprouts start to "compete in height." After about a month, a small forest has grown. Can you connect it with the longan you ate?
The greatest ornamental appeal of a longan potted plant is its color-changing leaves: new leaves are red, then turn yellow, and then turn green.
Dragon Fruit Forest
A single ripe dragon fruit contains about a thousand seeds; just a little bit of dragon fruit flesh with separated seeds is enough to grow a potted plant.
1. Cut the dragon fruit in half, and use a stainless steel spoon to gently scrape the flesh into a container. Add water to dilute the flesh, then gently rub with your fingers to separate the flesh from the seeds as much as possible.
2. Then pour the mushy flesh into a short stocking and continue rubbing a few more times, then soak in water for 1 day. Do not soak for more than two days, otherwise they will sprout. The next day, continue rubbing to squeeze out all the flesh, leaving only the black seeds, which look a bit like black sesame seeds.
4. Lift the stocking to drain the water, then use toilet paper to blot the water off the seeds. Take out the seeds and spread them flat on a plate, use an electric fan to gently blow on them until the seeds are completely dry and separated individually, and then you can start planting.
5. Choose a suitable pot without drainage holes, or fill in the drainage hole of a pot that has one. Put in sterile potting soil, about nine-tenths full, and spray some water to make the surface soil very moist, then evenly scatter the seeds onto the potting soil.
6. After spraying water on the seeds a few times, cover with plastic wrap to keep the surface moist, then uncover it once a day to spray water until new sprouts appear, after which you can fully uncover it.
Once grown, the dragon fruit seedlings fill the whole pot with thriving, lush green growth, and the yellow-green color is super cute.
Pomelo Forest
Soak the pomelo seeds in water for a while, then peel off the hard outer shell.
2. Fill a pot with loose soil, and place the seeds evenly in the soil with the small end facing up.
3. Gently cover the seeds with soil, and you can also sprinkle a thin layer of pretty, sparkling pebbles on top. Water once every two or three days, and after about three weeks, they will sprout.
Have you learned such a simple and practical trick? Action is better than just wishing!