Wow! Check this out! So much growth, these are the manuka seedlings that I potted up not so long ago. And now they look like bona fide trees, that would not look out of place in a garden centre. They have been lovingly watered and fertilised by the resident waterer, so maybe that is the secret? Or maybe it is just time, spring time and the right time for growing. A bit of both probably.
We did a bit of an experiment, and have decided that the trees that were from cuttings have done so much better than the ones that were from seeds. Seeds seem easier, but by the time you have pricked them out (fiddly picking all the tiny plants and putting them into small pots) you have spent the same amount of effort anyway. And cuttings may have saved us a whole year, in the plant's growth cycle.
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