Thursday, September 8, 2011

How to Grow Yellow Plums

Place the cleaned plum seeds in a mix of equal parts of damp sand and dampened peat moss in a plastic bag. Store the bag in the back of a vegetable drawer in the refrigerator for 90 days to break the dormancy of the seed.

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Prepare seed pots by filling 8 ounce plant pots with a mixture of regular potting soil, peat moss and sand. Bury the seeds about 2 inches down in the mix, and drizzle water over it to settle the soil in around the seeds. Put the plant pots in a warm, sunny spot where the seeds should germinate within two to four weeks. Keep the soil moist at all times until the seeds sprout.


Transplant the seedlings to gallon-sized containers when they get to be about 10 inches tall, and use the same potting soil mixture, keeping the soil around the roots. Fill the pot halfway with the planting mixture, and then place the roots of the plum seedling into the soil. Fill the pot the rest of the way up around the roots and tamp it down slightly. Add enough water so that it drains from the bottom. Place in full sun until the temperature warms enough to plant them outside permanently.