Growing Mango From Seed - Wairarapa - Update 2
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The root has sub-roots, and the shoot is almost trying its hand at leaves. I've promoted the water jar to a larger water pyrex dish, with a loose plan to actually plant it into dirt this weekend.
I'm a little bit more reluctant to have a pot of dirt sitting on the plate rack over my stove than I am a dish of water, mainly from a potential bugs and mess perspective. But I'll still do it anyway. I just might have to workshop a cloche of some sort that isn't made of plastic in case it touches the chimney and melts. Might see if I can find a squat glass bowl to invert over the pot, so it keeps everything contained, glasshouse style.
I've also got a good number of Kesar seeds drying out on the windowsill from my mango adventure to Yogijis in Petone, as well as another Kent seed from the supermarket last week because it was $3 ea. The Kent mango was a far less satisfying mango to eat after the almost full dozen Kesar mangoes I've eaten in the last fortnight. There's still two Kesar left, I intend to demolish them for #girldinner tonight.
I did just try to cut open one of the Kesar seed husks, and it was a much harder task than the first Kent husk had been, so I'm thinking a bit of gentle hammering might be on the cards when I want to germinate them. I'll also need to work out scaling up the water jar system, because the stove plate rack isn't enormous.