Where can I buy tangerine (or other citrus fruits, but pref. tangerine/orange) bonsai tree seeds?
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I would try to suggest that you try a yahoo search for heirloom seed citrus, but I only came up with citrus flavored tomatoes. I would say heirloom seeds because the current trend for citrus is hybrids of great fruit grafted to strong roots of a different variety. You can't get that from seed, you need to start with a plant. Hybrids will not produce seed that are the same as the parent. The seed production of the plant tends to revert to something closer to the way the great-grandparents of the plant were. What grows from seed may not be very tasty or productive or disease resistant.
bonsai do not come true from seed. they are created from regular seed
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Bonsai is a process of stunting plant growth to produce a miniature plant. There are no "bonsai seeds".
Buy a tangerene, eat it, collect seeds, plant them. I have several saplings. They take a week to sprout.
To grow any citrus from seed, get the fruit at your local store, take out the seeds, air-dry them, and plant them. I have started several nice trees this way. You may want to look at a couple of the orange trees on my website that were begun from seed:
http://www.american-bonsai.com
Just do a search in the 'quick find' field at the lower left of my home page.
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