Miracle Fruit Experiment Part 3: Fail
Miracle Fruit needs warmth and humidity to grow (so I’m told). My apartment is sunny, but when I started trying to grow Miracle Fruit I didn’t think it would be warm enough to get the seeds started. So, I decided that it might be a good idea to set the seeds out on the windowsill, where it was nice and sunny and warm. I had been doing that for about 2 weeks now, without any trouble.
Unfortunately, it was too good to last. When I came home tonight my roommate told me, with a look of sadness, that something had happened to my seeds. Somehow, my mini green houses had fallen off the windowsill and onto the deck, spilling the seeds and the soil all over the place. By the time I came home my roommate and cleaned up the mess. A lot of the soil was gone and it appeared that the seeds had blown into a hole where no one can escape.
Miracle Fail
To be continued…?
August 5th, 2008 at 9:50 am
May be too late, but I would say throw soil down into the hole after ‘em. These suckers are too rare to give up on too easily…
I just got some tall peat pots and some “Cactus potting mix” and will try to germinate 20 seeds I bought. This mix is peat and perlite, with some sand for drainage. Tall potlets because I hear the root goes straight down for a while when it sprouts.
August 5th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Ah, it’s too late, unfortunately. As soon as I can get my hands on a plant I think I’m just going to buy one. The weather here doesn’t seem very hospitable for Miracle Fruit seeds. Good luck with your plants. I hear that gibberellic acid is also supposed to help with growing. I will probably buy some if I ever try to grow the seeds again.