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Seedy Subjects! => Grow From Seed => Topic started by: Catwheazle on November 21, 2013, 08:05:02 AM

Title: mistletoe in my garden?
Post by: Catwheazle on November 21, 2013, 08:05:02 AM

Hi,
... is perhaps a little insane ..... but someone of you has ever tried to settle mistletoe?

Now that it's approaching Christmas you see them more often and I wonder if that could
grow on the pear or apple trees in my whips.
greetings
Bernd

Title: Re: mistletoe in my garden?
Post by: pehe on November 21, 2013, 11:31:59 AM

Hi,

Not insane at all, people here grows all kind of plants.

Many years ago I placed some mistletoe seed from a Christmas mistletoe in different trees in my garden.
I did that 3 years in a row and finally some of them germinated and I got (and still have) plants in apple, sorbus and acer trees.
To get successful germination fresh seeds is needed. If interested I can send you some berries in the spring.

Poul

Title: Re: mistletoe in my garden?
Post by: Maggi Young on November 21, 2013, 11:42:52 AM

Some other posts aboutmistletoe ( Viscum album) in the forum....

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9853.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9853.0)

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6490.msg277262#msg277262 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6490.msg277262#msg277262)

A forum search will show other comments about rather smart red and orange types in New Zealand  etc as well! such as...http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5636.msg157628#msg157628 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=5636.msg157628#msg157628)

Title: Re: mistletoe in my garden?
Post by: Catwheazle on November 21, 2013, 12:09:50 PM

Shame on me! To the search function, I should have thought :-(
@ Poul: I really wanted to steal from Christmas which;-)


Bernd