• endlesseden@pyfedi.deep-rose.org
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    3 hours ago

    friendly reminder, if the veggie is Monsanto seeds, it’s a crime to plant them and they will actively seek you out if they find out.

    and yes, they sell (fake) “organic” seeds. (they are still GMO)

  • harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    DO NOT GROW PLANTS FROM COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE PRODUCE!!! They are diseased af, will ruin your garden. Get some seed packs. You can reuse seeds from your own garden just fine.

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    10 hours ago

    If you want seeds that are ripe enough to grow, spend a little more to get the red bell pepper. It’s the same fruit but fully ripe.

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          7 hours ago

          Oh, there are a few differently colored varieties that are hot like hell. As a matter of fact, Pepper X, the currently hottest pepper on record, is yellow. Red just happens to be the default color for capsicum so most of the hottest ones are red.

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    11 hours ago

    Well why won’t the watermelons, bananas, grapes, cherries, or oranges even grow then?

    Seedless fruits… Big corporate hoarding all the seeds that actually grow…

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      10 hours ago

      Cherry trees (and other tree fruits) are usually a hardy root stock that doesn’t make good fruit, grafted with stems that grow nice cherries but aren’t strong healthy trees. So you can try planting the pits but you’ll probably get a spindly bush.

      Watermelon seeds will grow if they are ripe black ones, look for an overripe melon.

      Tomatoes often grow well, I’ve had success just smooshing the softest guy from a pack of them into some soil and watering. Especially “grape tomatoes.” Be sure to give them a cage to climb.

      A planted strawberry will grow lots of little sprouts, you should cut it up a bit to spread them out. Again, you want the one that’s a bit overripe.

      Which is why you don’t plant the green bell pepper, you plant the red one.

        • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
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          10 hours ago

          Around here they don’t fruit until the fall, but they’re starting to bud now!

          They also grow really well from starts, so you could just show up with some trimmers and lop off a runner to plant. Please, they’re eating my side yard.

  • harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    The peppers from my garden are 10x more aromatic and flavorful. My entire house smells of them when I chop them.