Don’t place them in direct sunlight: too much heat can burn seedling leaves and cause plants to fail. Place the seeds in the pot at a slight angle, and at a depth of 5- 10cm. Mix a handful of vermiculite into the soil to help to improve nutrient and moisture retention. Fill the Planter with Fresh Compost jokevanderleij8 / PixabayĪ good, general purpose potting compost will be fine. If there are no drainage holes in your pot, you’ll need to drill some into the bottom. Cashew tree seedlings are prone to phytophthora root rot. This means that they shouldn’t be allowed to sit in overly wet soil. The pot should be clean and have drainage holes in the bottom. Weaker seedlings can be thinned out later on. Sowing more than one seed increases ther chances of producing a healthy cashew tree. Sow cashew seeds either into smaller individual pots or into one larger pot.
You can sow seeds into pots at any time of year, as they’ll will grow happily in pots until they’re ready to be planted out. By doing this, you can give them a bit of extra attention and protection. Start cashew seeds in pots, instead of planting them straight into the ground. Dry fresh seeds in the sun for three days before sowing. (A cashew seed is the cashew nut still inside the kernel.) The seed should be no more than four months old-any older and it won’t germinate. Germination is an easy process: just make sure that you use fresh cashew seeds. Growing a Cashew Tree from Seed suhasrawool / Pixabay It’ll take up to seven years before your trees can produce their optimum yield. A quicker method is to purchase a grafted cashew tree: these tend to bear fruit within 18 months. Trees grown from seed will take up to three years to bear fruit. Cold weather protection can help to protect them against cold snaps, but a deep freeze will kill them off. They can be grown in cooler climates, but ideally, the temperature shouldn’t regularly drop below 50☏. They do best in areas where the daytime temperature averages about 77☏.
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How to Grow a Cashew Tree sarangib / PixabayĬashew trees, categorized in the USDA Zones 10-11, are native to tropical, warm areas. Perfectly edible, the apple is rich in vitamin C, containing around 5 times more than an orange, as well as iron, vitamin B1, and calcium. The pear-shaped pedicel is the swollen stem of the fruit, commonly known as the cashew apple. The shell houses the familiar cashew nut.
If you look at the fruit of a cashew tree, you’ll see a pear-shaped fruit with a kidney-shaped shell attached to it. Interestingly, both are part of the same fruit. You may know the cashew tree for its nuts, but it also produces the cashew apple. Interested in growing your own? Read on! sarangib / Pixabay Introduced into India in the first half of the 16th century to aid afforestation efforts, these distinctive trees produce clusters of fragrant, rose-coloured flowers that grow into edible fruit. The Cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) is an attractive, flowering evergreen that native to Brazil.
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